The theory and practice of community-oriented policing, its history, political vicissitudes and ascendancy are familiar territory for me from past experience. Especially vivid are recollections shared by and with colleagues of advocating its adoption in precincts or police headquarters with the chief, local commanders, detectives, and patrolmen leaning far back in their chairs, maximizing the physical and psychic distance between us; arms crossed over chests like body armor; heads down, faces impassive. Read more...

In late July, the Senate Homeland Security Committee passed out of committee the PASS ID Act, the "repeal and replace REAL ID" legislation promised by DHS Secretary Napolitano to the Nationals Governors Association (NGA), the lobbying shop in which she was extremely active during her tenure as Arizona governor. Read more...

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1. No shortage of workers
2. Feds target absconders
3. Feds disclose more deaths
4. Groups decry administration
5. Groups push for benefits Read more...

Rejecting as a slap in the face last week's statement by President Obama that immigration reform would not advance until next year, Mexican-American activist Nativo Lopez called on illegal immigrants to boycott the 2010 census. Read more...

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1. Feds seek crackdown re-entry
2. Cato advocates guestworkers
3. Illegals abandon CT city
4. NV hospital in debt
5. TX leaders call for probe Read more...

In between Quebecois meals bathed in gravy, or meat pies, or meat pies bathed in gravy, I missed something from a story this week on Obama's latest signal that amnesty's not happening any time soon: Read more...

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1. AZ co. considers costs
2. AZ co. arrests 44
3. CA offers healthcare class
4. WI activists rally
5. Illegal gets life in jail Read more...

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1. No reduction in detention space
2. Prosecutor links crime, illegals
3. MD co. gives illegals to Feds
4. NYC appoints new director
5. Desert activist sentenced Read more...

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1. DHS head talks enforcement
2. Delay in amnesty move risky
3. Obama avoids guestworkers
4. Files to become public
5. GA Rep. calls for 'reform' Read more...

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1. Obama: Amnesty in 2010
2. DHS chief on enforcement
3. CBP vessel targets smuggling
4. Group aids foreigners
5. Visa attracts investors Read more...

While reflecting on a recent Quebec meal of french fries bathed in cheese and gravy (who thought that up, anyway?), I read the Wall Street Journal piece linked in the web briefing about the harmful effects of counting illegal aliens in next year's decennial census for the purposes of congressional (and state legislative) apportionment. Read more...

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1. Obama: 2010 targeted for amnesty
2. Corruption along border increases
3. Feds delinquent in payment
4. DHS chief attends conference
5. GOP to restrict coverage Read more...

Since the July 15, 2009, posting of the Center for Immigration Studies’ video, “Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears, and Trails," a lot has happened. None of it can be claimed to have been caused by the video, but there has been an interesting uptick in events in Washington and on the southeast Arizona border since its posting. While each of the events involving the federal government has acquired a hue of spin or premeditated silence, it does seem that a change is a coming – if the pressure keeps mounting. The Border Patrol is ramping up, the Forest Service has closed off some of the worst illegal layup areas due to potential bear encounters, and Congress is asking a lot of questions. Read more...

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1. Obama to overhaul detentions
2. Republican backs amnesty push
3. USCIS investigates H-1B fraud
4. NC lawmakers punt on enforcement
5. TX parents balk on accusations Read more...

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1. Feds to 'reform' system
2. Napolitano: border is secure
3. Green card petitions down
4. Latino activists slam admin
5. Industry preps for audits Read more...

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1. Obama policies under fire
2. AZ sheriff given choice
3. NY Rep. hosts ICE, police
4. Illegal population declining
5. VA co. operation questioned Read more...

For years, the economy of the north central Mexican state of Zacatecas has grown increasingly dependent on remittances sent home by sons and daughters living in the United States. Many of the migrants boosted the economy by building homes in their native towns. They returned at Christmas time on the feast days of the local patron saint. Many dreamed of retiring to the place where they had grown up. Read more...

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1. Activists irked by policies
2. Support grows for E-Verify
3. IL Dems press for amnesty
4. Illegal population declining
5. Smugglers attacked in CT Read more...

In the midst of the debate over state-run health care comes news that blames the steady influx of immigrants for a rise in Medicare fraud.

A top investigator at the Department of Justice tells the Houston Chronicle, "There's a real problem of health care fraud in recent immigrant communities—we see it every day," the official said. "One of the reasons is you're looking at people who don't come up through the educational system, they're impoverished, they think this country is very rich, and they don't view taking advantage of a government program as a crime." Read more...

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1. Illegal population dropping
2. UT prisons undecided on role
3. Major SC business cleared
4. MA Brazilians repatriating
5. Smuggling law re-interpreted Read more...

Mexican director Amat Escalante says "Los Bastardos," his stunningly violent new movie about two Mexican illegal immigrants in the uncaring world of California, grew out of his own experiences living there as a child.

"The story comes from this uneasiness I have because of living there for a long time, and from wanting to show how these two cultures could come to collide and to break down in some way," Escalante says in today's edition of the Mexico City newspaper Reforma. Read more...

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1. Illegal population declines
2. Plan would insure illegals
3. Border areas damaged
4. Phoenix crime declines
5. Activists to push issue Read more...

Schadenfreude alert: "Obama loses immigration allies; Activists picket, feel betrayed by administration policies." Actually, though, I'm sure Rahm Emanuel chuckles appreciatively anytime the lefties accuse the White House of being too tough on immigration — if I didn't know better, I'd think he put them up to it just to make Obama (falsely) look tough on enforcement.

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1. Illegal population declines
2. Obama alienating allies
3. Illegals' tax health care
4. Mexican immigration declined
5. Sheriff excluded from funds Read more...

The National Council of La Raza has just wrapped up its annual conference in Chicago. While I think Tom Tancredo was engaging in hyperbole when he described La Raza as "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses" (that describes instead MEChA and the Brown Berets), there's more to the comparison than people might realize. Read more...

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1. DHS chief addresses issue
2. Feds reject call for rules
3. Suspected murderer an illegal
4. Gov't revokes Honduran visas
5. Congress mulls REAL ID Read more...

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1. Feds press forward on E-Verify
2. Five detained in BP agents' murder
3. NJ SC overturns deportation
4. La Raza boss frets border hawks
5. FL hospital wins suit Read more...

Jim Robb of Numbers USA has some fun with the notes (taken by a participant who grew a conscience) of a closed-door meeting of open-borders lobbyists. It was organized by amnesty czarina Tamar Jacoby, who's the source of the title of this post. None of it's all that surprising — rope-selling businessmen complaining that even in this econony they need more cheap labor. One thing that was notable was that right after lefty wonk Simon Rosenberg said "Passing CIR [amnesty and increased immigration] will help Democrats lock in the Hispanic vote," Grover Norquist chimed in to agree that we need amnesty and more immigration. Who's side is he on? Read more...

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1. Admin establishing priorities
2. Sotomayor hearings touch issue
3. Caucus seeks health care
4. Harvard grad an illegal alien
5. Arrest in BP agent's murder Read more...

In November 2008, an illegal immigrant facing deportation and running for political office in Rhode Island was prosecuted and found guilty of using her position as a Rhode Island DMV clerk to sell driver's licenses to "out of state" drug dealers with stolen identities. The scam included 11 others. Read more...