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| FOR THE WEEK OF October 11, 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Administration Officials Deny Granting Back-Door Amnesty The House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security held a hearing Tuesday to examine the impact that recent Obama Administration policies are having on border security. At issue were a series of memos issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton encouraging agents to ignore certain categories of illegal aliens and the Homeland Security Department's (DHS) August announcement it would begin reviewing deportation proceedings on a case-by-case basis and releasing those illegal aliens it does not consider a "priority." Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . California Governor Signs DREAM Act and anti-E-Verify Bill into Law Over the weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the second installment of the California DREAM Act (AB 131) and a sweeping anti-E-Verify bill (AB 1236). Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Immigration Subcommittee Debates whether Foreign Students Should Stay in the U.S. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement held a hearing on whether the U.S. should grant more visas and/or green cards to foreign students who earn a graduate degree from an American University in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feinstein Promises to Introduce New AgJOBS Bill In a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) announced she will introduce a new version of her AgJOBS legislation this week. Her announcement came during a hearing on the current "agricultural labor crisis," in which agribusiness lobbyists urged Congress to take action to provide them a steady supply of cheap labor. Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Border Patrol Gets Closer to Gaining Access to the Border Taking a step to help the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secure the border, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 1505 last week by a vote of 26-17. H.R. 1505, authored by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), would prevent the Departments of Interior and Agriculture from impeding or restricting activities of the Border Patrol on federal lands undertaken to achieve operational control of the border. Read the full article | | | |
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