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1. Feds pull detainees from RI center
2. DHS Sec.-select outlines policies
3. Fed. judge upholds Bush's changes
4. Survey looks at Hispanics' priorities
5. Illegals found held hostage Read more...

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1. House approves extending benefits
2. U.S. DNA collection draws ire
3. Visa waiver program draws protests
4. DHS Sec.-select faces questions
5. Fed. judge dismisses suit Read more...

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1. Congress considers extending benefits
2. Secretary-select's record questioned
3. MI appoints 'migrant affairs' director
4. NC co. rejects federal program
5. AZ det. centers face accusations Read more...

It's always been obvious that immigration lobbying has been lopsided, with the bulk of the money and groups on the expansionist side. But someone's now gone and quantified it, using House and Senate lobbying reports, and it's even worse than I thought. Fully 98 percent of the organizations lobbying on immigration are pushing Congress for some combination of amnesty, loose enforcement, and higher numbers. The fact we have any immigration limits or enforcement at all is a testament to the depth and breadth of public opposition to the open-borders agenda. Read more...

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1. Congress prepared to extend benefits
2. Bush admin. pressed for prosecutions
3. New rules require e-registration
4. Feds probing rash of NY crimes
5. Obama meets Calderon in DC Read more...

Janice Kephart, the Center's Director of National Security Policy, was featured on Lou Dobbs in an interview about E-Verify. Read more...

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1. Bush warns against appearing 'anti-immigrant'
2. Feds place emphasis on prosecutions
3. Obama talking with Mex. Pres.
4. Economy may delay Obama response
5. TX legislators consider policies Read more...

Beaufort County has made great strides in creating a lawful employment environment in the South Carolina Low Country by implementing a creative and pioneering auditing program to help local businesses achieve compliance with immigration laws while exposing problems with fraudulent documents that enable illegal workers to get jobs. The effectiveness of this effort is further enhanced by strong state laws on illegal hiring and the county’s participation in the 287(g) program. These enable local law enforcement agencies to prosecute violators and have illegal workers removed. Local officials report signs that the illegal alien population in Beaufort County has been noticeably reduced. Read more...

From today's LA Times:

Religious and labor leaders called upon Congress and President-elect Obama to pass a comprehensive immigration package this year and said that the U.S. economy could not be restored without legalizing the nation's undocumented immigrants.

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1. Collection of DNA begins
2. AG rules on counsel
3. AZ co. sheriff planning sweep
4. Activists trade barbs on economy
5. Advocates press for amnesty Read more...

The Dems in the Senate introduced shell legislation yesterday, marked with early bill numbers, to highlight their priorities. Bill number S.1, for instance, is going to be the stimulus package, S.4 health care, S.5 climate change. Read more...

The 100,000th business has signed up for E-Verify, the free program that enables employers to check electronically whether new hires are authorized to work. Read more...

from National Review Online, January 8, 2009

As the 111th Congress convenes, Republicans need to rethink their immigration policy.

This isn’t because of the supposed lessons of last November’s elections. Despite his herculean efforts at passing Ted Kennedy’s amnesty bill, Sen. McCain’s share of the Hispanic vote was in the usual range for Republicans — though lower than the Republican share in 2004, just like among every other category of voter. He did lose, after all. And if no Hispanics at all had voted, Sen. Obama would still have won. Read more...

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1. Experts expect cut in enforcement
2. SC Dept. presses use of E-verify
3. MD hawk to run for state legislature
4. Seattle hotline helps victims
5. Illegal jailed for DUI charges Read more...

Tattooed gang members, drug smugglers, human traffickers, and people emitting radiation from their bodies. These are just a few of the types to cross paths with DHS officials in ABC’s new reality series, “Homeland Security: USA.” In the same way that Fox’s long-running COPS has highlighted the day-to-day drama facing local law enforcement, this series promises to provide Americans a sobering look at the constant assault on our nation’s ports and borders. Read more...

The website Change.org includes the following quote at the top of its homepage:

“I will open the doors of government and ask you to be involved in your own democracy again.” – President-elect Barack Obama

Launched in 2007, the site claims to be aimed at “empowering movements for social change,” and is partnered with a variety of open-border groups such as LaRaza and the SEIU. It apparently is not officially affiliated with Obama’s Change.gov website. Read more...

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1. Richardson flop a blow to Dems
2. Secretary-select to face challenge
3. AZ co. chair's ascent called victory
4. NY Italian population decreasing
5. Firm to pay record fine Read more...

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1. Potential appointee for BP agents' pardon
2. OH city sanctuary policies moving forward
3. Vatican denounces U.S. immigration policy
4. Program yields deportations from NV jails
5. Probe of WA Minuteman assault continues
6. Program melds ESL, job seeking Read more...

In their quest for open borders, many politicians still fail to understand the link between immigration and the growth of gangs.

The latest example is chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) – who happens to have one of the worst records on immigration enforcement. In the next Congress, Baca plans to introduce an initiative to fight gangs. It sounds like a great idea, but if his past efforts are a guide, it’s likely that this initiative will focus only on prevention programs akin to the anti-drug program known as D.A.R.E. Read more...

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1. Gov't 'plugs' CA canyon
2. TX legislators mull legislation
3. CA SC to consider tuition
4. NJ panel considers privileges
5. Advocates hopeful in '09 Read more...

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1. IA report on 'independent contractors'
2. WA gov. wants criminals deported
3. NC has tight license, enforcement laws
4. GA co. to deport illegal criminals
5. CT Brazilians repatriating Read more...

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Last week saw a big win for prosecutors and the FBI with the conviction of three illegal immigrant brothers and two permanent legal residents for the plot to commit a terrorist attack against military personnel at Fort Dix. The convictions for conspiring to kill military personnel (but acquitted of attempted murder) indicate that aggressive pursuit of terrorist plots before they happen can result in convictions. Yet no one is talking about the fact that informants were able to infiltrate the group of five in part because they were able to present the conspirators with something most of them didn’t have – a legal form of U.S. identification. Read more...

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1. Population to breach 305.5m by 2009
2. FBI extends discourse with Somalis
3. DHS reveals threat expectation
4. NE city mulls special referendum
5. Church looks overseas for priests Read more...

So now severe weather is to be added as a grounds for being declared a refugee? Unbelievable.

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1. Feds target staffing agencies
2. Feds curtail sedation of deportees
3. Task force urges better integration
4. MA illegals benefit from law
5. Activists pushing against fence Read more...

A look back at the annual report on US-VISIT, the automated entry (and hopefully someday exit) screening program, provides stark reminders of both the value of the program and of how much work still remains to be done. The program is doing a good job finding needles, but is working in only part of the haystack. The incoming Obama administration could establish some credibility on its commitment to homeland security by making the completion of the entry-exit system at land, air and sea ports a top priority.

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1. Bush approves law targeting fraud
2. BP garners both praise, criticism
3. Salvadorans urged to renew TPS
4. FBI suspects Somalis joining jihad
5. NE governor wants E-Verify bill
6. AZ co. raid relied on faulty affidavit
7. TX co. extends detention contract
8. OH city mulls amending rules Read more...

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1. DHS expanding biometric data
2. Illegals crowded out of market
3. Poll shows support for SCHIP
4. MA funding for Census count
5. CNMI asks for hiring preference
6. NY co. to face Fed. probe Read more...

A new map (here in pdf) shows progress on the fence along the southern border. You need to blow it up a little to get a better look, but the fence is finished or under construction along almost all the border from the Pacific to El Paso, though in some places it's a vehicle barrier that prevents smuggling vans from crossing but not people from relatively easily hopping over. And I'm not sure if any of the places marked as completed have a "virtual fence" as opposed to an actual one. Read more...