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Jan Brewer: White House 'Snubbed' Me

Arizona guv would have appreciated invite to immigration reform meeting

(Newser) - The White House must've, er, forgotten to invite Jan Brewer—champion of Arizona's controversial immigration law—to its roundtable on immigration reform yesterday, and she considers that "truly a snub." Said Brewer last night on Fox News: "You would have thought one of the governors...

Georgia Passes Arizona-Style Immigration Bill

Governor Nathan Deal noncommittal about signing

(Newser) - Georgia lawmakers passed a bill in the mold of Arizona’s controversial illegal immigration measure yesterday, over strident objections from immigration advocates and the state’s powerful agriculture industry. The bill will force employers with 10 or more workers to check new hires’ immigration status, and give police the power...

Ariz. Sheriff: Border Patrol Told Not to Make Arrests

Border patrol commander vigorously denies rumor

(Newser) - Are US Border Patrol agents intentionally avoiding arresting illegal immigrants on orders from higher-ups? That’s the rumor being spread by Arizona sheriff Larry Denver, who tells Fox News that he heard it from a top Border Patrol official. “The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their...

GOP Wants Plan to Stop Every Illegal Immigrant

They want more fencing, agents, and drones as part of 5-year strategy

(Newser) - Congressional Republicans are working on a hardline anti-immigration bill that would call for more border fencing, more sensors, more border patrol agents, and aerial drones in an all-out attempt to prevent all illegal entry into the country. The bill is unlikely to pass the Senate, the LA Times observes, so...

Iowa Plans Terror Drill With Immigrant-Hating Gunmen

Anti-illegal immigration groups say exercise builds prejudice

(Newser) - Anti-illegal immigration groups are furious over an anti-terrorism exercise planned in Iowa that will pit Pottawattamie County's finest against a pair of teenage white supremacists. The drill, which is scheduled for tomorrow, is built around a fictional scenario in which an 18-year-old, angered by the influx of minorities—both citizens...

Arizona Senate Shoots Down Immigration Bills

Lawmakers reject 'anchor baby' bill

(Newser) - The Arizona Senate has rejected a package of controversial immigration bills , including measures aimed at forcing the US Supreme Court to rule against granting birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. Other rejected measures would have made it a crime for illegal immigrants to drive a vehicle, and would...

Proposed Texas Bill: No Hiring Illegal Immigrants ... Unless They're House Workers or Yard Workers
Proposed Texas Bill:
No Hiring Illegals, Unless...
GAPING LOOPHOLES
Mar 3, 2011 7:38 AM CST

Proposed Texas Bill: No Hiring Illegals, Unless...

One big exception is getting attention in Texas

(Newser) - Under House Bill 1202, one of a number of proposed Texas bills that addresses illegal immigration, anyone who "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly" hires an illegal immigrant would face up to two years in jail and a fine as high as $10,000 ... unless, of course, he or she is...

Ariz. Bills Would Bar Illegals From Driving, Marriage

Committee also peels back 'birthright' citizenship

(Newser) - An Arizona Senate committee passed a new immigration bill yesterday that would prevent illegal immigrants from driving or buying a car, getting married, or sending their children to school. They also passed a bill ending “birthright citizenship,” in defiance of the 14th Amendment. Under that bill, Arizona will...

Why Arizona Is 'Crazy Town' on Immigration

Senate President Russell Pearce now has big clout

(Newser) - Last year, Arizona made waves with its law requiring immigrants to carry documentation with them everywhere; now, a raft of new immigration measures in the state’s legislature may be even more controversial. What is it about Arizona that drives such “extreme legislation”? asks Eliza Gray in the...

Arizona's 'Anchor Baby' Bill Is Childish, Dumb
Arizona's 'Anchor Baby' Bill
Is Childish, Dumb
OPINION
Feb 11, 2011 11:55 AM CST

Arizona's 'Anchor Baby' Bill Is Childish, Dumb

Leonard Pitts: The problem exists in their 'fevered imaginations'

(Newser) - This week, Arizona lawmakers began debating a bill that would save them from the dreaded menace of anchor babies — “a ‘problem’ that exists largely in their fevered imaginations,” writes Leonard Pitts Jr. in the Detroit Free Press . These delusional lawmakers envision “armies of pregnant Mexican...

Arizona Suing Feds Over Lax Border Security

Suit accuses government of failing to prevent 'invasion'

(Newser) - Arizona is taking the federal government to court for poor border security, alleging that it hasn't done enough to stop illegal immigration law, and protect the state from "invasion." The suit was filed as a counter suit to the federal government's legal challenge to the state's controversial immigration...

SC Lawmaker Under Fire for 'Brothers' Remark

Jokes that we need immigrants because blacks, whites don't work hard enough

(Newser) - A black state senator in South Carolina has caused a ruckus with his argument against a law curbing illegal immigration. The US needs these immigrants, said Robert Ford, because they're willing to do hard work that ordinary Americans won't. Except he used far more colorful language: "I know brothers—...

Texas Hospital Under Fire for Booting Illegal Immigrant

Woman with life-threatening tumor told to seek treatment in Mexico

(Newser) - A Texas hospital has sparked a debate on medical ethics after allegedly ejecting a woman who had been admitted for surgery over the fact that she was an illegal immigrant. Maria Sanchez says she had been at the hospital for six days and was being prepared for surgery to remove...

Ala. Lawmaker: 'Empty the Clip' on Immigration

Scott Beason says remark was taken out of context, not violent

(Newser) - An Alabama state senator being slammed for using incendiary gun rhetoric says he wasn't advocating violence when he told a Republican audience that the party needs to "empty the clip" on illegal immigration. Scott Beason says his remarks were taken out of context and he wasn't thinking of the...

US Still Home to 11.2M Illegal Immigrants

Deportations, unemployment doesn't diminish numbers

(Newser) - Despite shaky economic conditions and record deportations from the Obama administration, the number of illegal immigrants in the US remained essentially unchanged in 2010, according to a new study from the Pew Hispanic Center. “We just don’t see indications that enforcement is pushing people to leave the US,...

Arizona Bills Target Birthright Citizenship

GOP lawmakers aim to trigger review of 14th Amendment

(Newser) - Arizona Republicans introduced four bills yesterday aimed at denying US citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. The lawmakers hope to provoke a Supreme Court review of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof...

GOP to Obama: Step Up Immigration Raids

And they oppose any path to legal status for illegals

(Newser) - Republicans are pressing President Obama to resume the large-scale workplace immigration raids that were a hallmark of the George W. Bush administration. Though deportations have soared under Obama, his administration has focused its crackdown efforts on employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants; arrests from worksite raids for immigration-related offenses have...

Feds to Put Screws to Employers of Illegals

New ICE branch will pour over I-9s looking for illegals

(Newser) - The Obama administration plans to intensify its crackdown on businesses that hire illegal immigrants, creating a new office within Immigration and Customs Enforcement dedicated to auditing company employment records. Dubbed the Employment Compliance Inspection Center, this new branch will “address a need to conduct audits even of the largest...

8 Busted In Disguised Flyer Plot
8 Busted in
Disguised Flier Plot
Jan 13, 2011 4:12 AM CST

8 Busted in Disguised Flier Plot

Masked man was aided by Hong Kong airport worker

(Newser) - The young Chinese passenger who boarded a flight to Canada disguised as an elderly man had some help on the inside, authorities in Hong Kong say. An investigation into the case exposed a people-smuggling network believed to have sneaked at least eight others into Canada, authorities say. Eight suspects, including...

States Take Up Fight Against 'Anchor Babies'

At least five will try to deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants

(Newser) - Starting this week, at least five states including Arizona, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Pennsylvania will begin to fight against granting automatic US citizenship to children born, in America, to illegal immigrants. As frustration with the federal government’s inaction rises, the immigration battle is coming to the states, the New York ...

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