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Monday, June 13, 2011
Big Business Takes a Look at Troubled Border
On June 8, 2011 the North Carolina House passed mandatory E-Verify legislation by a vote of 68 to 43. House Bill 36 requires the use of E-Verify by private employers with 25 or more employees, public contractors and subcontractors, counties, municipalities and state agencies.
Mexico and thirteen Latin American countries signed onto an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief filed June 2, 2011, asking a federal judge to strike down Utah’s new immigration enforcement law, HB 497.
In an attempt to prevent further backlash, Utah State Senator Curt Bramble (R-Provo) announced last week that he plans to introduce amendments next session to Utah’s controversial guest worker amnesty law, HB 116.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the nation’s largest business lobbies, released a report last week detailing its recommended “Steps to a 21st Century U.S.- Mexico Border.” The report addresses border issues that most affect the Chamber’s members and recommends action on topics such as trade, security, travel and immigration.
On June 6, 2011, the United States Supreme Court reviewed Lozano v. City of Hazleton, a decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down Hazleton’s immigration enforcement ordinance, and sent the case back for reconsideration.
The Supreme Court last week let California’s law giving in-state tuition to illegal aliens stand by refusing to consider the plaintiffs’ appeal of the decision rendered by the California Supreme Court.
Despite Congress’s repeated rejection of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, the California Legislature is moving forward with its own version.
Friday, June 10, 2011
FAIR Enews Update -- Brookings: 70 Percent of Foreign Workers Not Highly Skilled
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  Incoming DNC Chair: Republicans Believe Illegal Immigration Should be a Crime |  Most Read Stories From the Stein Report blog: 
 Battle Continues in Texas -- Anti-sanctuary bill up for debate in special session. Read more. FAIR Media Immigration Update New York and Massachusetts Latest to Pull Out of Secure Communities -- Governors Andrew Cuomo and Deval Patrick, of New York and Massachusetts announced they wanted to opt-out. Read more. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear California In-State Tuition -- Governors Andrew Cuomo and Deval Patrick, of New York and Massachusetts announced they wanted to opt-out. Read more. New Hope for Hazleton Illegal Alien Laws -- The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a re-hearing on Hazleton's immigration ordinance. Read more. | ||||
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Incoming DNC Chair: Republicans Believe Illegal Immigration Should be a Crime
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On Thursday, June 2, the Alabama Legislature passed arguably the toughest state immigration bill in the United States. House Bill 56, much like Arizona’s SB 1070, covers a wide array of immigration matters including employment, voting, education, and enforcement. HB 56 requires that all employers in the state use E-Verify (Sections 9 & 15). It also requires law enforcement officers to verify the immigration status of a person lawfully stopped for a violation of state or local law when the officer has reasonable suspicion the person is unlawfully present in the U.S.
In the latest effort by amnesty advocates to thwart immigration enforcement, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week he was suspending the State’s cooperation with Secure Communities because of its impact on families, immigrant communities and law enforcement. (CNN, June 1, 2011) In a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Counsel to Governor Cuomo, Mylan L. Denerstein wrote “The heart of concern is that the program, conceived of as a method of targeting those who pose the greatest threat in our communities, is in fact having the opposite effect and compromising public safety by deterring witnesses to crime and others from working with law enforcement.” 
The House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security passed three border security bills last week, sending them to the full Homeland Security Committee for consideration. (Subcommittee Markup, June 2, 2011) The House panel also stood firm and rejected three amendments offered by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) which would have stated every border town is not dangerous; required protection of all rights of persons (including illegal aliens) encountered along the U.S. border; and required safety provisions given to all persons (including illegal aliens) found to be enduring treacherous weather conditions and terrain along the border.
The House on Thursday passed with 231 votes a Homeland Security appropriations bill, H.R. 2017, that would provide the agency with $40.6 billion for fiscal year 2012. Key programs funded by the bill include E-Verify at $132 million, 287(g) at $5.4 million, and over $5 billion for border security fencing, infrastructure, and technology. 
Last Tuesday, Maryland true immigration reform activists turned in 62,496 signatures in a first step to preventing in-state tuition rates for illegal aliens. The group needs just over 55,000 signatures to force a vote on the measure providing tuition breaks to aliens in Maryland illegally. In order to continue the fight against illegal immigration, one-third of the total number of needed signatures had to be submitted by May 31 at midnight. Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley, signed a bill into law earlier this legislative session that allowed illegal alien students who have attended Maryland high schools for three years to receive in-state tuition at Maryland colleges.
At a recent Christian Science Monitor breakfast, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-FL) denounced Republicans for thinking that illegal immigration should “in fact be a crime.” The incoming chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee told listeners that Democrats want “comprehensive immigration reform” and that the 12 million illegal aliens currently in the U.S. are “a necessity” for the economy. She then said that the general “Republican solution … in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries and that in fact it should be a crime and we should arrest them all." That, she said, is what Rep. Sensenbrenner’s 2005 legislation proposed.
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