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1. CIS report: Wages rise following raids
2. GOP Rep. lashes out at House Speaker
3. E-verify funding secure through Sept.
4. CA jail to expand detention space
5. NC comm. college board study Read more...

Also authored by James R. Edwards Jr.

This program, known as 287(g), allows police, sheriffs, and other local law enforcement agencies to provide direct assistance to federal agents in identifying illegal alien criminals and putting them on the path to removal from the country. By expediting the removal of foreign lawbreakers, 287(g) saves taxpayers money. Read more...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has a new word for terrorism: "man-caused disasters." Not only that, but in her March 16, 2009, interview with German press, she states that her job is to help prepare for risks from man-caused disasters.

So let me get this straight.

The Department of Homeland Security is tasked by the law that created it with a "primary mission to: Read more...

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1. Wages rose in wake of workplace raids
2. Obama promises 'reform' in 2009
3. AZ BP sector reports criminal illegals
4. BP employing X-Ray technology
5. Parents neglected at schools Read more...

From the New York Times

The first thing to note about workers in low-wage jobs that require relatively little education is that the overwhelming majority are born in the United States. For example, the 2007 American Community Survey by the Census Bureau showed that 65 percent of meatpackers, 68 percent of construction laborers, 73 percent of dishwashers and 74 percent of janitors were U.S.-born. Of course, the immigrant share (legal and illegal) of any occupation varies enormously from city to city. But it’s clear from this data that Americans are willing to do this work. Read more...

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1. Obama resists calls for Haitian TPS
2. Republican Senator gears up for amnesty
3. Caucus urges immigration 'reform'
4. Reports criticize detainee health care
5. AR Senate to discuss tuition bill Read more...

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the Illinois Democrat who is touring the country to drum up support for "comprehensive immigration reform," is pressuring President Obama to join the effort. Gutierrez said on the weekly Spanish-language Univision television program "Al Punto" that he's looking for Obama to signal his commitment to the effort by ordering a halt to worksite raids by immigration authorities. Read more...

The Obama Administration's somewhat skittish approach to border security is unfounded. According to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, 79 percent of U.S. voters now say the military should be used along the U.S.-Mexico border to protect American citizens if drug-related violence continues to escalate in that area. Read more...

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1. Drug violence moves well beyond border
2. Localities receive funds for detentions
3. Activists protest enforcement efforts
4. Activists bash health care Read more...

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1. DHS targets border violence
2. Decline in naturalization applicants
3. Republican coalition presses Obama
4. WA employers using E-verify
5. Activists fret language limitations Read more...

I'd alluded earlier to reports that Thomas Saenz, MALDEF's former top attorney, had been tapped to head the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. Read more...

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1. E-verify sustained through September
2. Congress passes religious, refugee visa bills
3. Experts debate immigration policies
4. Feds probing death at RI detention center
5. Mexico extradites BP agents Read more...

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1. President mulls troops for border
2. BP reports WA arrests up
3. Congress to probe AZ sheriff
4. AZ Gov. asks for troops
5. Mexican immigration reversing Read more...

The latest chapter in the Alice in Wonderland story of the H-1B visa program for cheap foreign labor surrounds provisions applied to employers receiving money from the Troubled Assets Recovery Program ("TARP"). Read more...

John Miano, a Center fellow, participated in a CNBC debate. The debate topic, which can be viewed in the video below, covered the issue of silicon valley employers firing native born employees while holding onto foreign employees on H-1B visas. Read more...

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1. 75 Reps. called for stimulus E-Verify
2. Stimulus likely to give illegals jobs
3. Officials warn of radicalization
4. DOJ to probe AZ sheriff's efforts
5. Rep. wants focus on security Read more...

Already published from this series:
Part I, Part II, and Part IV.

Don’t Mess With Texas

State and local governments (and their constituents!) have long been saddled with the economic and public safety consequences of inadequate federal efforts to control the border. In Texas in 2006, the situation was getting out of hand – Mexican organized crime organizations were smuggling drugs and people into and through the state with near impunity, leading to violence and other public safety problems there and elsewhere in the country. Gov. Rick Perry decided he’d seen enough, and launched a series of state-led operations to “take back the border.” In partnership with the Border Patrol and other federal agencies, they have largely succeeded. But the Mexican organized crime groups have not gone away; if anything, they are more determined, and this state effort deserves federal funding for expansion and possible replication elsewhere. Read more...

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1. E-verify currently in expired status
2. Stimulus to generate jobs for illegals
3. NC co. sheriff stands by 287(g)
4. Activists protest against 287(g)
5. Stimulus bans foreign bank hires Read more...

The US watches the once longest undefended border with drone aircraft
Adapted from a report in the Munich newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2009

Canadians have long been proud of the "longest undefended border in the world" between their country and the United States, 8,891 kilometers across the entire continent from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. Those days, however, are over, say some Canadians, for the United States is beefing up its surveillance along a 370 kilometer stretch of the border between Manitoba and North Dakota using unmanned aircraft equipped with infrastructure cameras and optical sensors. Read more...

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1. Apprehensions reach record low level
2. Latino lawmakers pressure Obama
3. Illegals to get stimulus jobs
4. Illegal minors fret future
5. RI illegals seek tuition aid Read more...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data from the first seven weeks of 2009 suggest that by the end of this year, E-Verify use will have grown 442 percent since 2007.

Employers send queries to the free, online E-Verify system to determine the work-eligibility of new hires. As of the third week in February, online queries for 2009 were already approaching 3 million, almost half the 6.6 million queries for all of 2008, a number that was itself more than double the 2007 use of E-Verify. Read more...

Twenty-eight illegal aliens were detained during a workplace enforcement effort undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Bellingham, Wash., last week in what was the first workplace enforcement since President Obama took office. It was part of a gang investigation, and it likely took dangerous individuals off the streets. In a recent Center for Immigration Studies report on gangs, we explained how workplace enforcement is an important component of anti-gang efforts because of the fact that many illegal alien gang members hold jobs during the day, saving their violence for the dark of night. Much of this violence is directed at the immigrant community. Read more...

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1. GAO report questions 287(g)
2. Feds praise TN outreach program
3. AZ co. to resist changes to 287(g)
4. NJ town to move with 287(g)
5. VA activists to protest Read more...

David Sands’ piece in Monday’s Washington Times entitled “Hispanics Wary of Future in GOP” has this nut graf:

Leading Hispanic Republican strategists say the natural attraction the party should enjoy with churchgoing, socially conservative Latino voters is being overwhelmed by a single issue: the party’s hard-line stance on illegal immigration.

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1. Panel hears testimony on 287(g)
2. Schools tell of demographic shift
3. BP deploys rescue beacons in TX
4. UT comm. approves 'strike force' Read more...

The D.C. Police Department announced today that illegal alien Ingmar Guandique will be charged for the May 2001 murder of 24-year-old congressional intern Chandra Levy. Since the media has focused largely on the relationship between Levy and then-Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.), the possible immigration connection went largely unnoticed. Even now news agencies from CBS to Fox News refuse to acknowledge that Guandique is in the country illegally. Read more...

Already published from this series: Part I

Holding the Line

El Paso is proud of its ranking as the 3rd safest city of its size (after San Jose and Honolulu and just ahead of New York City), and the safest border city. Considering that its Siamese twin Ciudad Juarez is probably the most dangerous city in the world, this is some achievement. One key factor in that status has to be the large Border Patrol presence and the fence. Over the last 15 years, through a combination of increased personnel, completion of the fence, technology to support agents in the field, and inventive policies, the El Paso Border Patrol sector has proven that indeed the border can be controlled. There are still some holes (literal and figurative), but it can be done. Their continued success will help keep El Paso safe and the rest of us, too. Read more...

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1. GAO report criticizes enforcement
2. Figures reveal rise in border deaths
3. Mexican violence yields refugees
4. CO tuition bill changed by author
5. ACLU critical of detention death Read more...

Jorge Ramos, the Univision television news anchor named by Time Magazine as one of the nation's 25 most influential Hispanics, has become a fervent advocate of "comprehensive immigration reform" and the sweeping legalization it would offer to the nation's population of illegal immigrants. His news program reports almost every night on the fight for legalization. Those reports seldom give voice to those concerned about the negative effects that massive illegal immigration has on legal immigrants or on the country as a whole. Read more...

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1. DOD believes cartels are 1000,000 strong
2. Hispanics fret future with Republican Party
3. Study finds Indian, Chinese repatriating
4. CA to stop detaining certain illegals
5. Latinos want Hispanic Archbishop Read more...