Cherokee Tribune

County granted access to citizenship database
07/02/2009

The Cherokee County government now has access to a federal database to ensure people receiving public benefits are in the country legally.

The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act requires local government agencies that administer “public benefits” collect an affidavit from applicants swearing to either U.S. citizenship or lawful alien status. The agency then is to use the SAVE database to verify the immigration status of alien applicants…

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Connecticut Post.

Restaurant owner pleads guilty to employing illegals

The owner of Senor Pancho’s, a popular Mexican restaurant with locations in Monroe, Southbury, Prospect and Litchfield, admitted in federal court Tuesday that his chain employed at least 10 illegal aliens in the past year. — Andrew Adames waived his right to a grand jury indictment and pleaded guilty to unlawful employment of aliens…

Reuters

Probe fingers 1,800 American Apparel workers

A U.S. federal probe has found that about a third of American Apparel’s factory workers in the Los Angeles area had supplied suspect or invalid records and were not authorized to work in the United States. — The findings, from a January 2008 federal investigation, may deal a blow to the corporation’s image as a proponent of immigration reform [aka amnesty]… HERE

Associated Press

80 gang members arrested in Texas sweep

Federal immigration agents arrested dozens of gang members, including members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, during days-long sweeps throughout Texas. — Eighty street gang members were arrested during a five-day sweep through Houston, Beaumont, and Corpus Christi…

Irish Central — New York s

‘No chance’ of deal for undocumented Irish in America

There’s little hope for a bi-lateral deal between Ireland and the U.S. for the approximately 50,000 [illegal alien] Irish workers in the States, according to a leading American congresswoman in Dublin Tuesday. — In talks between the “Friends of Ireland” congressional group and Ceann Comhairle…

Director Blue

RED ALERT — La Raza: “If the American people found out…”

…And someone from Menendez’ office [Ed.: Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ] promised that he would make sure that “the useless barriers of citizenship would not be in this bill” and that he would make sure that they would use keywords like “streamline”….

And then they would say things like “you must go out into your communities, use words like ’streamline’, use phrases like ‘all workers’ and ‘all families’,” because they said — and I quote — “If the American people find out that this bill is about giving health care to non-citizens, they will rise up against it.”

Washington Times
Phil Kent

Supreme Court sends a signal - in English

Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Horne v. Flores drives another nail into the coffin of bilingual education, the teaching theory in which immigrant children are segregated by language and taught primarily in their native language while being taught English on the side…

Bilingual education is a documented failure in school systems across the country, and the 5-4 decision, written by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., involving Arizona’s Nogales Unified School District emphasizes this failure with a stark conclusion: Teach English. Specifically, the high court recognizes the demonstrated effectiveness of structured English immersion (SEI) methods for teaching English language learners (ELL).

CNBC

Mounting jobless claims force states to borrow funds

The government checks keeping Candy Czernicki afloat are fast running out. The reason? U.S. states obligated to pay benefits to the swelling ranks of jobless Americans are piling debt onto strained budgets. — Fifteen states have depleted their unemployment insurance funds so far, forcing them to borrow from the U.S. Treasury….

Jerry Kammer — Center for Immigration Studies

Schumer’s marketing lesson for “comprehensive reform”

A powerful Senate advocate of “comprehensive immigration reform” legislation Wednesday offered some marketing advice to those who want to help him get the bill passed: Call illegal immigration by its name. — “When we use phrases like ‘undocumented workers,’ we convey a message to the American people that …”

Federation for American Immigration Reform

FAIR responds to Sen. Schumer’s seven-point plan

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Refugees, yesterday issued a seven-point plan for reforming America’s immigration policies. FAIR has issued the following response to Sen. Schumer’s plan highlighting how it is short on details…