1. PA upstart threatens incumbent
2. CA suit challenges tuition
3. Many SF juveniles actually adults
4. LAPD to discipline, fire officers
5. VA Republicans to hold rally
6. ACLU criticizes RI program
7. Ex- official pleads guilty
8. Congressman's son arrested Read more...

Yesterday, a Rhode Island judge rejected a request from the ACLU and three others to halt the state’s implementation of Governor Don Carcieri’s Executive Order requiring all state contractors, vendors, and grantees to use E-Verify, or lose their government contracts. Read more...

A friend in suburban Houston writes about the aftermath of Ike:

In my very spoiled town, the locals had no problem opening side streets (with chain saws), clearing driveways (ditto), and cleaning lawns on their own.

Sugar Land is normally the quintessential suburb where most lawn work is done by illegals.

The local citizenry had no problem rising to the occasion when the need arose.

1. McCain camp airs Spanish ad
2. Court backs RI verification order
3. CA court to hear tuition suit
4. Activists sue TX city
5. Unemployment drives illegals home
6. Gangs linked to execution Read more...

1. Case highlights security weakness
2. ICE struggles to prosecute employers
3. 17k Iraqi refugees to enter in 2009
4. Marianas sue Feds over immigration law
5. Judge halts TX city ban on renting
6. Issue may resurface during debates
7. Activists fret domestic violence link
8. Activists work against raids
9. Schools recruiting foreign teachers
10. Enforcement efforts working
11. Children granted asylum Read more...

I still think Mickey Kaus is right that a President McCain would be more likely to succeed in pushing amnesty through Congress than a President Obama, but reader Patrick has an interesting, opposite perspective:

The best thing to happen to anti-amnesty Republicans in Congress is the rise of McCain/Palin bringing back the GOP 'brand' and the increasing the generic GOP ballot.

Evidence that the attrition-through-enforcement strategy is working continues to mount. Smithfield Foods, the focus of two ICE workplace enforcement measures last year, has joined the voluntary “ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers” (IMAGE) program which, among other things, requires businesses to enroll in E-Verify. Read more...

1. ICE announces 'hurricane amnesty'
2. Small business lobbies for renewals
3. Bishops demand end to workplace raids
4. Worker woes continue for meatpacker
5. FL city crackdown raises concerns
6. FDA warns use of imported formula
7. TX guardsman dealt two year sentence
8. Man pleads guilty to smuggling Read more...

As we remember the lives of those lost seven years ago today, it is important to reflect upon our security failures in the context of immigration so that we may prevent future acts of terrorism.

The Center has produced extensive research on the nexus between immigration and terrorism. All of our national security-related publications are available on-line.

1. Fence will not meet deadline
2. Employers able to 'self-police'
3. Obama addresses policies
4. Candidates largely avoid issue
5. Palin fails to garner confidence
6. VA city drops case against billboard
7. Catholic bishops condemn raids
8. Pro-illegal advocates protest
9. BP closes informal crossing Read more...

1. Fees deter some from naturalizing
2. OECD reports 4m arrived in past year
3. CO Gov. dubs system 'broken'
4. RI to release cons early for expulsion
5. Indiana legislators eyeball policy
6. TX police reps. lobby Congress
7. Most in VA co. happy with enforcement
8. VA co. arrests find few illegals Read more...

Oceans of ink will spill before AgriProcessors ceases to be red meat for news and commentary. Before the recent ICE raid at the Howard Industries transformer plant in Laurel, MS, that led to the arrest of some 600 illegal aliens – making it the largest workplace immigration enforcement action in US history – the ICE raid at the slaughterhouse in Postville, IA, had the dubious distinction of holding first place. Read more...

1. Law prevents SSN cross checks
2. More security on northern border
3. GOP punts on issue at convention
4. Obama for 'streamlining' H-2Bs
5. Senate race debates in-state tuition
6. Hearing on RI measure delayed
7. PA town's law back in court
8. TX city's law challanged Read more...

1. Dems drop child health care debate
2. Report: court measures ineffective
3. Crimes committed after re-entry
4. Dems seek to re-frame debate
5. Illegals less likely to commit crime
6. MA fund provides bond money Read more...

U.S. District Judge Frank Montalvo, a G.W. Bush appointee, recently denied a preliminary injunction request aimed at preventing the construction of the Department of Homeland Security’s planned border fence that will stretch approximately 100 miles from Columbus, New Mexico, to Fort Hancock, Texas. Read more...

1. Fed. Reserve official pushes policy
2. McCain stance may win Hispanics
3. San Fran. universal ID program on hold
4. AZ city task force presents recomendations
5. Raids apprehend illegals in CA Read more...

1. Fence construction to continue
2. Palin's record largely unknown
3. Republicans likely to avoid issue
4. CIS report on carbon emissions
5. TX city ban challenged in court
6. NJ accused of illegal inquiries Read more...

Senator John McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin for vice president surprised most of the punditry, who are now chortling with glee over what they perceive as her lack of sophistication. What they actually deride is what the McCain camp is gambling will be her greatest strength—a life deeply rooted in a community far away from the corruption of Washington. Far from a liability, such localism is what has defined America and what most Americans embrace. And Senator McCain is hoping she can embody this sentiment. Read more...

1. Pols avoid topic at nat'l conventions
2. GOP want only legal residents counted
3. McCain struggles to maintain Hispanic support
4. ACLU accuses NJ schools of status checks
5. NV schools see foreign enrollment grow 300%
6. Employment opportunities shrinking
7. Illegals stay put during hurricane
8. Illegal sues USBP after being hit Read more...

In his Washington Post op-ed today on the implications of the Census Bureau's new population projections, the Center's Director of Research, Steve Camarota, briefly touched on an issue that doesn't get enough attention in the right. Read more...

1. Cases reach record high in SoCal.
2. Funding for medical care expires
3. Illegals driven to self deportation
4. RI gov's "gaffe" commended
5. Petition to recall AZ city mayor fails
6. AZ sheriff accused of racial profiling
7. Council can be difficult to obtain Read more...

1. VA schools up scores in ESL
2. Cape Cod businesses struggle
3. Probe on detainee death continues
4. Exec. pleads guilty to charges Read more...

Whatever Joe Biden does or doesn't contribute to the Democratic ticket by way of gravitas on foreign policy or appeal to white working-class Catholic voters, he's no asset when it comes to immigration policy. He's exhibited neither knowledge nor understanding of the issue – not even of the most basic facts – let alone judgment on policy or comprehension about how to work the issue politically. Read more...

1. GOP platform draft opposes amnesty
2. Raid needed despite E-Verify
3. TX county to communicate with ICE
4. Police group asks for action in AZ
5. Issue taken with focus of reporting
6. Illegal's death to be probed Read more...

The Los Angeles City Council has recently approved an ordinance that requires all new home improvement stores in their jurisdiction to construct day laborer centers on their private property as a prerequisite for a business license. The stores will be required to provide shelter, drinking water, bathrooms, and trash cans for any and all day laborers who happen upon the company’s property. Read more...

1. Raid nabs over 500 illegals
2. Sen. addresses strategy
3. GOP clashs over platform
4. Afghan allies hope for visas Read more...

I have been using E Verify for over 3 years. It takes away all of the guess work in determining if documents presented are valid or not. Being close to the border you would be surprised at the amount of fake IDs that look real until they are run through the program. For the first time in my 20+ years in HR I am comfortable in knowing that we are hiring only employees who are authorized to work in the United States.
Ginny Priborsky, online comment in response to "E-Verify: Is it about to die?," HR Morning, July 11, 2008

The E-Verify program is well on its way to fixing a 20-year-old problem of determining legal employment eligibility in a manner employers can support. (The quote above is an endorsement from an end-user.) Read more...

1. Candidates to shun immigration debate
2. Fed. raid nabs 350 illegal workers
3. Poll finds western voters divided
4. IN legislative panel to probe policy
5. WA initiative would restrict services
6. IA town worries of possible raid
7. Restrictionist rally fizzles
8. Poultry mogul calls for reform Read more...

This is what happens when nations distort their economy and society through widespread use of foreign labor.

Washington (JTA) -- The immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, the largest kosher plant in the country, caught most American Jews completely off-guard.

Since the raid in May, which resulted in the arrest of nearly 400 illegal workers, additional serious allegations have emerged against the plant owned by the Brooklyn-based Rubashkin family, including inhumane working conditions, egregious violations of child-labor laws, sexual harassment of female workers and multiple workplace safety infractions. Read more...