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Regents Tackle Immigration

Martha Dalton (2010-10-12)

ATLANTA (WABE) – The board of Regents will consider a policy reform which would limit the enrollment of undocumented student at state colleges and universities. The American Civil Liberties Union has written a letter to the board, asking them to reject the proposal. WABE’s Martha Dalton has more.

The new policy would deny undocumented students admission to Georgia colleges that turned away academically qualified students in the last two years. The proposal would also require each school to verify the legal status of every student applying for in-state tuition.

Azadeh Shahshahani focuses on immigration rights at the ACLU of Georgia. She says undocumented students shouldn’t be punished for circumstances that may be beyond their control:
“Many of them, you know, came here at a young age. This was not a choice that they made, a choice that was made by their parents. They’ve gone to school here, they’ve graduated from Georgia high schools. Many of them are academically high-achieving students.”

D.A. King is the president of the Dustin Inman Society, which he describes as a pro-enforcement immigration control group. King says he’s sympathetic toward those students, but:
“Neither should we punish real, legal immigrant students for what their parents did not do, and that is bring them into the country illegally and violate our immigration and employment laws.”

Shahshanhani says keeping undocumented students out of the most competitive public colleges isn’t good for Georgia: Why would we not want to capitalize on the potential of these brightest students and deny them education?”

But King argues that legal residents should get priority when it comes to higher education: “If we allow one illegal alien to take the classroom seat of one immigrant who obeyed the rules or one hopeful American citizen, it’s too many for most Americans.”

The board is expected to vote on the proposed policy Wednesday

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Jim Galloway — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Illegals and the Georgia gubernatorial race

Republican nominee Nathan Deal has decided to make sure illegal immigration plays a major role in the last few weeks of the governor’s race — with a new TV attack using remarks that Democrat Roy Barnes once made on a trade visit to Mexico during his single term as governor…

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Rasmussen Reports — September 27

Rasmussen poll
Majority of Americans now believe feds are encouraging illegal immigration

While the headlines have cooled a bit in recent weeks, voters feel more strongly than ever that the federal government is encouraging illegal immigration and that states like Arizona have the answer to the problem.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the policies and practices of the federal government encourage people to enter the United States illegally, up six points from October of last year. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Only 23% disagree and think the federal government is not encouraging illegal immigration, but another 16% are not sure.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters now favor passage of an immigration law like Arizona’s in their own state, despite the U.S. Justice Department’s highly-publicized lawsuit challenging the law in court. That’s a four-point increase from late July. Twenty-six percent (26%) oppose such a law in their state.
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DHS Trumpets New Deportation Statistics, but Ignores Job-Stealing Illegal Aliens

October 7, 2010, posted on NumbersUSA

The Department of Homeland Security set a new record for illegal alien deportations in fiscal year 2010, removing nearly 400,000 illegal aliens. About half, 195,000, were convicted criminals, which amounts to a 70 percent increase from 2008, but the Administration continues to ignore the millions of illegal aliens who hold jobs in the United States.

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Houston Chronicle

4 charged in neighbor’s rape appear in court Monday

Four men accused in connection with the kidnapping and rape of a north Houston woman are expected to appear in court Monday morning on the charges. — Officials issued a bail of $100,000 in the cases because the men, including a 17-year-old, may be in the United States illegally…

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AJC

Regents consider new policies concerning illegal immigrants, engineering degrees

The State Board of Regents this week will consider banning illegal immigrants from any public college that can’t admit all academically qualified applicants.

The recommendation is one of four the board will vote on Wednesday concerning illegal immigrants. Another of the recommendations, if approved, would require all 35 colleges in the University System of Georgia to verify that every admitted student seeking in-state tuition is in the country legally.

The other recommendations ask students to declare if, to the best of their knowledge, they are entitled to in-state tuition rates and warn them they could face a fine, jail and dismissal from the college if they provide false information on the application…

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Clarion- LedgerState laws on immigration vital
October 11, 2010

Here’s hoping that there is more to come on the story headlined “Don’t ban workers, senators warned: Miss. ag industry dependent on immigrants” ( Sept. 29).

Americans from all over the country are reading this online and wondering if the fact that hiring black-market labor is already a federal felony is fully understood. Or if passing a state law that aids enforcement of our immigration laws is not only common sense, but proven effective in cutting the numbers of illegals that saves millions in taxpayer-funded services.

Arizona has fewer illegals because of simply passing its latest pro-American law.

The USA has a longstanding agricultural visa in place called “H2A” that allows for the legal importation of an unlimited number of temporary workers to help where Americans aren’t working. The problem with the H2A for the growers is that they are required to pay a decent wage and provide First-World living quarters to the temporary workers. You know, they can’t be treated like 21st-century slaves.

The problem for the anti-enforcement, ethnic-oriented left is that it is very difficult to create an “oppressed” political constituency from the legally imported workers, as they must leave the country after extending their one-year visa a maximum of three times. Identity politics loses out when the law is enforced.

The senators debating whether to help protect America and our rule of law as well as the general public deserve a complete and accurate picture.

Raise your hand if you think the growers care about anything but the greenback.

Progress would be to pass a law that forces as enthusiastic an immigration enforcement as … Mexico’s.

D.A. King

President

Dustin Inman Society

Marietta, Ga.
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Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs – Updated 2010

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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 9/18/10

Nicaraguan Navy captures six Hondurans

Units of the Nicaraguan Navy arrested six Hondurans after a gun battle seven miles off the coast in the Caribbean. One Honduran and one Nicaraguan military were wounded in the operation. The Hondurans were confronted in a fast boat and presumed to be transporting narcotics. [There was no mention of seizures except firearms.]

http://www.elheraldo.hn/Sucesos/Ediciones/2010/09/18/Noticias/Naval-nicaragueense-captura-a-seis-hondurenos

FACT SHEET: Top ICE enforcement priorities yield record results in FY 2010

October 6, 2010

More criminal aliens removed, more employers charged in worksite enforcement investigations

Today, ICE announced record-breaking enforcement results in fiscal year 2010, including the removal of more criminal aliens and the arrest of more employers of undocumented aliens than in any previous year in the agency’s history. Below is a look at how the numbers break down.

Criminal Alien Enforcement

ICE attributes its increase in the removal of criminal aliens to the success of targeted enforcement programs such as Secure Communities and the Criminal Alien Program which focus on removing aliens who have been arrested or convicted of a crime, rather than releasing them back into the community. In particular, expansion of the Secure Communities program – which shares fingerprint information of individuals arrested in local custody with ICE – has contributed to ICE’s enforcement record. In fact, 666 jurisdictions in 33 states now have this beneficial law enforcement information sharing capability.

In FY 2010:

ICE removed more than 392,000 individuals
ICE removed more than 195,000 convicted criminal aliens
50 percent of the aliens ICE removed are convicted criminal aliens. Non-criminal aliens removed include recent border entrants and immigration fugitives.
33 percent of the criminal aliens removed are considered the most serious offenders (Level 1) with rap sheets including murder, rape and major drug crimes.
Aliens with other serious offenses like robbery or drug crimes (Level 2) accounted for 44 percent of convicted criminal alien removals.
Convicted criminal removals include:
More than 1,000 aliens convicted of homicide
Nearly 6,000 aliens convicted of sex offenses
Nearly than 45,000 aliens convicted for drugs offenses
Nearly 28,000 aliens convicted for driving under the influence

Worksite Enforcement

In April 2009, Secretary Napolitano announced changes to ICE’s worksite enforcement strategy – which reduced the need for large-scale immigration enforcement actions where employees were arrested and instead focused on finding evidence to criminally charge employers and to increase the use of tools like I-9 audits, fines and debarment.

This year, ICE criminally charged a record-breaking 180 owners, employers, managers and/or supervisors – up from 135 in FY 2008 and 114 in FY 2009.
ICE conducted more than 2,200 I-9 audits – up from more than 1,400 in FY 2009.
Since January 2009, ICE has imposed approximately $50 million in financial sanctions.
ICE debarred 97 business and 49 individuals in FY 2010, up from 30 and 53, respectively, in FY 2009.
What Others Are Saying About ICE Enforcement Programs

“As the proud product of a family that immigrated to Houston, I am certainly sensitive to the immigration issue. At the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, we leave it to other arms of government to decide who is illegal and who is not. But when someone is brought to my jail accused of committing a crime against the state of Texas, they should be subjected to all the laws. We use 287(g) and Secure Committees in tandem to find out which inmates need to have their immigration status looked at by ICE as soon as their local criminal case is over. The removal of illegal immigrants who come to the Houston area and commit local crimes keeps our community safer. We’re not just the place where 287(g) was first put into action, but we’re also a national model for how the program works smoothly at high volume and less than a day’s drive from a national border.”

— Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Adrian Garcia

“Secure Communities is an excellent program that promotes information sharing between local law enforcement and ICE. The program identifies individuals who are here in our country illegally and commit serious crimes, without profiling or enforcement of federal immigration laws by our deputies. There’s no additional workload for our staff and does not cost a dime to Fairfax County or to our residents.”

— Fairfax County Sheriff Stan Barry