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Thursday, April 28, 2011

An Honest Day's Pay, For an Honesty Day's Work

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Obama Hosts Amnesty Summit at White House

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Obama Hosts Amnesty Summit at White House

email imageOnly days after launching his 2012 re-election bid, President Obama revived the issue of immigration reform with a meeting at the White House last Tuesday. There, the President hosted approximately 70 guests including former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti, Rev. Al Sharpton and former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. (Ventura County Star, April 19, 2011) Although the White House press release on the meeting stated that the President planned to discuss how to “build a bipartisan consensus in Congress” on immigration reform, the White House neither invited any Members of Congress nor law enforcement representatives.

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Obama Administration Granted Deferred Action to Over 12,000 Illegal Aliens in 2010

email imageAccording to data U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sent to Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) granted “deferred action” to 12,338 illegal aliens residing in the U.S. in Fiscal Year 2010. The number provided most recently to Senator Grassley is a dramatic increase from the figure DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano provided during last month’s Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing (there she testified the number of deferred action grantees was less than 900). (See FAIR Legislative Update, Mar. 14, 2011) The authority to grant deferred action status is a discretionary power, not found in statutes or subject to review by the courts. (Id.) Three agencies within DHS—USCIS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)—have the authority to grant deferred action status when each decides in its own discretion not to remove an illegal alien from the country.

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GAO: Criminal Aliens Continue to Burden Taxpayers

email imageOn Thursday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report detailing the fiscal and social costs that criminal aliens bear on the American people. (GAO-11-187, Mar. 2011) According to the report, the federal government spent at least $1.5 to $1.6 billion annually from fiscal years 2005 to 2009 to incarcerate criminal aliens. (Id. at 34) Criminal aliens are aliens who are in the U.S. legally or illegally and have been convicted of a crime.

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Majority of Americans Believe in True Immigration Reform

email imageAccording to two separate polls released by Rasmussen last week, a majority of Americans continue to believe that the U.S. needs true immigration reform—not another amnesty. In one of the polls, nearly two-thirds of voters—63 percent—said they believe gaining control of the border is more important than granting amnesty to illegal aliens in the United States. Only 30 percent of those polled said they believed that giving illegal aliens a pathway to citizenship should take precedent over border security. In the other poll conducted by Rasmussen, 61 percent of voters said they believe that a child born in the United States to a woman who is here illegally should not automatically become a U.S. citizen. More information regarding both polls may be viewed here.

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Indiana House Waters Down Immigration Bill

email imageLast Thursday, the Indiana House of Representatives passed an immigration enforcement bill which originally was modeled on Arizona’s S.B.1070. (SB 590) Unfortunately, before passing the bill, authored by Senator Mike Delph, the House amended the legislation to dilute the power of the bill. One important change the House made to the bill was to eliminate the discretionary authority of policemen to use “reasonable suspicion” as grounds for checking an individual’s immigration status.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

April 2011 Immigration Report Online Edition

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Napolitano Claims Southern Border Is More Secure than Ever

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano used a trip to El Paso, Texas, as an opportunity to claim that the border with Mexico is “better now than it ever has been.” Her assertion is just the latest effort to convince the American people that they take border enforcement seriously.
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“Birth Tourism” Reignites Debate about Birthright Citizenship | The discovery of a makeshift maternity ward in a Los Angeles suburb in March has sparked new interest in the issue of whether the United States should continue to grant automatic citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil.
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DHS Launches E-Verify “Self-Check” | Advocates for illegal aliens have long argued against making the use of E-Verify mandatory for employers in the United States on the grounds that a tiny percentage of eligible workers are incorrectly identified as being ineligible to work.
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