| Government Officials Testify on the Accuracy of E-Verify  Last week, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement convened to hear testimony on the progress of the E-verify work authorization program. The hearing, entitled “E-Verify Preserving Jobs for American Workers,” featured testimony from Ms. Theresa Bertucci, an associate director at United States Center for Immigration Services (USCIS), and Mr. Richard Stana, director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senators Graham and Schumer Reunite to Push Amnesty  Recent news reports from Capitol Hill reveal that long-time amnesty supporters, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), are reuniting to push “comprehensive” immigration reform in the Senate. So far the pair has reached out to several organizations in the open-borders lobby including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and numerous evangelical groups. (Id.) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who was one of three Republicans voting in favor of the DREAM Act last session, also confirmed that aides in Sen. Schumer’s office contacted her staff to discuss the issue.
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Last week, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) released a report critical of the 287(g) program, an important program that helps train local law enforcement agencies to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. (Delegation and Divergence: A Study of 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement, Jan. 2011) The MPI report examines the implementation of the 287(g) program in several localities and concludes that certain law enforcement agencies were using the program to remove all illegal aliens instead of only criminal legal aliens. This practice, MPI claims, runs counter to the Obama administration’s enforcement priorities and the claim is the original intent of the program.
On the first day of the 2011 legislative session, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) reintroduced the “National Guard Border Enforcement Act” (H.R.152), a bill that aims to secure the U.S.-Mexico border by increasing the number of National Guard Troops deployed.
Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents searched the Tri-Valley University campus in Pleasanton, CA as part of an investigation into whether the University is being used as a sham to fraudulently admit individuals to the U.S. under the student visa program. The complaint filed by the U.S. District Attorney's Office claims that the University’s President and founder, Susan Su, was part of an elaborate scheme to defraud the government, using false statements and misrepresentations to acquire visas. According to the complaint, “Since its inception . . . Tri-Valley University has been a sham university, which Su, and others, have used to facilitate foreign nationals in illegally acquiring student immigration status that authorizes them to remain in the United States.” (Id.) Su was caught giving F-1 student visas to undercover agents posing as foreign nationals, who told her they wanted to come to the U.S, but had no intention of attending classes. Su and the University have allegedly made millions from the scheme. 
According to a new report issued by the Pew Hispanic Center, illegal aliens gave birth to eight percent of the newborns in the U.S. from March 2009 to March 2010. The report revealed that within the time period studied, 350,000 newborns had at least one illegal alien parent, up 10,000 from the previous year. Of the illegal aliens having babies in 2009-2010, nine percent had arrived in the U.S. in 2008 or later. Thirty percent of the illegal aliens arrived in the U.S. between 2004 and 2007, with the remaining illegal aliens having arrived sometime before 2004. The report also revealed that 17 percent of newborns had parents who are legal immigrants, meaning that 26 percent of those born in the U.S. this last year were to non-natives.