| After Last-Minute Negotiations, Indiana Passes Immigration Enforcement Bill  In a last-minute rush, the Indiana Legislature acted Friday to pass SB 590, significant immigration enforcement legislation. (Inside Indiana Business, May 2, 2011) Although Senator Mike Delph had introduced the bill in January, differing amendments in the House and Senate forced legislators into a conference committee to reach an agreement on final language as time ran out on the 2011 session.
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Obama Hosts Celebrity Amnesty Meeting; Continues to Push DREAM Act  Last Thursday, President Obama held a meeting in the White House’s Roosevelt Room with celebrities from the Hispanic community to discuss “comprehensive immigration reform.” (Washington Post, Apr. 28, 2011) Notable attendees included actresses Eva Longoria and America Ferrera, television hosts Jose Diaz-Balart of Telemundo (the brother of U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)) and Maria Elena Salinas of Univision, Emilio Estefan (husband to singer Gloria Estefan), and Voto Latino Executive Director Maria Teresa Kumar. (Los Angeles Times, Apr. 28, 2011; Politico, Apr. 28, 2011) Senior White House aides Valerie Jarrett and David Plouffe also attended the meeting.
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Utah Takes Center-Stage at Annual DC Immigration Conference  The Migration Policy Institute and Catholic Legal Immigration Network co-sponsored their Eighth Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference last week at Georgetown University Law Center. Featuring an array of open-border lobby panelists, the Conference began with opening remarks—entitled “The Utah Experience”—from Utah’s pro-amnesty Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff. Calling on the federal government to develop a Utah-inspired “America’s Compact,” Shurtleff described the U.S. as the world’s “golden door” and demanded that lawmakers deal with the problem of illegal immigration in a way that is “uniquely American.” He denounced current efforts by state legislators to enforce provisions in the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 that prohibit states from granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens, saying that it “takes the hope away” from the children of those here illegally. (See 8 U.S.C. § 1623) He also called for amnesty to bring illegal aliens out of the dark so that they do not have to steal the identities of others.
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