| U.S. Immigration Agent Gunned Down in Mexico  A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer was murdered and a second was injured in last week while working to help fight drug cartels in Mexico. Special Agent Jaime Zapata was gunned down on a well-traveled federal, four-lane highway 23 miles north of downtown Mexico City while traveling for routine work after meeting with other U.S. personnel. The second ICE agent who was wounded in the same attack was released from a U.S. hospital.
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Representatives Offer Immigration Amendments to House Spending Bill  Representatives offered four immigration-related amendments to the House spending bill (H.R.1) last week. FAIR supported two of the amendments: #199 offered by Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) and #225 offered by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). FAIR also opposed two of the amendments: #188 offered by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) and #277 offered by Rep. David Price (D-NC).
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Subcommittee: Less than Half of Southern Border Under Operational Control  This week the House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security held its first hearing of the 112th Congress to focus on the government’s failure to control the southern border. In her opening statement Subcommittee Chairman Candice Miller (R-MI) underscored the urgency of the situation: “The American people rightly expect and demand that we do achieve ‘operational control’ of the border . . . We cannot continue to cede U.S. sovereign territory to drug cartels, human traffickers, smugglers, and potential terrorists.”
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Utah Lawmakers Receive Death Threats over Immigration Legislation  Utah police are investigating possible death threats sent to Utah legislators last week in outrage over the lawmakers’ support for an Arizona-style immigration bill in Utah. Rep. Stephen Sandstrom (R-Orem) and Rep. Chris Herrod (R-Provo) each received a threatening two-page letter complete with images of an AK-47 and Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara. The threat claims to be from United Front for Defense of Immigrants, but the group’s Chicago-based spokesman denied that his organization sent the letters.
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