| FBI Uncovers Largest Human-Trafficking Case in U.S. History  On September 2, a federal grand jury indicted six alleged smugglers in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking case in U.S. history. In the indictment, the government alleges that the defendants, four of whom are employees of the Los Angeles-based labor recruiting firm, Global Horizons Manpower Inc., conspired and devised a scheme to obtain the labor of approximately 400 Thai nationals by enticing them to come to the United States through the H-2A agricultural guest worker program during 2004 and 2005 with false promises of lucrative jobs.
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pew Report: Illegal Immigration Slows in 2009  The rate of illegal immigration to the U.S. has slowed in 2009 according to the latest Pew Hispanic Center report. The report, released on September 1, 2010, revealed that the annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the U.S. was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the annual inflow rate slowed by eight percent:
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAIR Continues to Fight for Arizona  On September 2, 2010, 66 members of Congress—five Senators and 61 Representatives—filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appealing Judge Susan Bolton’s decision in the U.S. Justice Department’s suit against the State of Arizona over SB 1070. The brief, which was drafted with the assistance of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) and the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), was the second amicus brief to be filed by members of Congress who support SB 1070. The first brief was filed on July 20, 2010 before Judge Bolton handed down her decision enjoining several key provisions of the Arizona law, largely adopting the arguments made by the U.S. Justice Department.
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