WASHINGTON, DC (September 18, 2012) – A new Center for Immigration Studies’ (CIS) Backgrounder examines efforts by state electoral officials to verify the accuracy of voter registration lists and the federal government to deny state access to information allowing ineligible non-citizen voters to be identified. The report...
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Recommendations to Ensure the Integrity of Elections Outlined
Center for Immigration Studies
September 18, 2012
Global Footprint Network
September 18, 2012
Every year, Global Footprint Network continues to improve the methodology for calculating the Ecological Footprint. The most recent Calculation Method paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Ecological Indicators: Integrating Sciences for Monitoring, Assessment and Management.
The paper documents the...
The Denver Post
September 16, 2012
... earlier this month, Gessler, a Republican, announced that his office had found only 141 people who were noncitizens registered to vote out of 1,416 names run through a federal database, and of those 141, only 35 who had cast ballots.
... his search process so far has been limited, looking only at people who...
9 News/AP
September 12, 2012
Just three weeks after the Obama administration started accepting applications from young illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation and get a work permit, the government already has approved some of the roughly 72,000 applications the government has received.
According to the DHS document, it could cost between...
AP
September 11, 2012
The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona's deserts, a money-saving move that follows a seven-year experiment that cost taxpayers nearly $100 million.
More than 125,000 passengers were flown deep into Mexico for free since...
No Plan To Challenge Voter Status
The Denver Channel
September 7, 2012
Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler says 141 non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in Colorado but he's backed off from a divisive plan to hold hearings to challenge their status before November.
Gessler announced Friday he's sending the names of those registered voters to county clerks so they're...
FAIR - Federation for American Immigration Reform
September 6, 2012
CAIRCO does not support any political party per se. However, we are obligated to expose the shenanigans of any party or candidate that espouses subverting the rule of law in America.
Press release from FAIR - Federation for American Immigration Reform (not affiliated with CAIRCO), September 4, 2012
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KTAR, Arizona
September 5, 2012
A federal judge has ruled that Arizona authorities can enforce the most contentious section of the state's immigration law, which critics have dubbed the "show me your papers'" provision.
"With this provision, Arizona makes a clear statement that it will not tolerate sanctuary city policies, and will now have...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 1, 2012
The GOP finalized its immigration platform last week in Tampa at the party’s national convention but not a single speaker took on the issue in their prominent prime-time speeches.
The party platform is based on the ideas of legal immigration, enforcement and self-deportation....
FAIR
August 30, 2012
For several years, those following immigration policy have been perplexed by seemingly contradictory events. While President Obama has been dismantling most immigration enforcement and putting into place a massive amnesty for two million illegal aliens, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been claiming that...
Huffington Post
August 29, 2012
Hidden on private property in Wilmington, North Carolina, Federal agents found a plot of 2,400 marijuana plants in June 2009... the site had a gasoline-powered generator and an irrigation system that brought in water from a nearby river...
As reported by CNN, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents staked out the...
Californians for Population Stabilization
August 29, 2012
A disturbing news report aired on CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley on August 23, 2012 began:
(CBS News) CHICAGO – Gun violence is out of control in Chicago. Just last night, there were eight shootings, two of them deadly.
That pushes the total so far in 2012 to 351 shooting deaths — up 30 percent from...
Fox News
August 21, 2012
They Come to America by Dennis Michael Lynch is a new documentary on the illegal alien invasion.
"The film focuses on the human and financial costs of illegal immigration. We filmed over the span of 14-months (Oct 2010 - Nov 2011) and journeyed through many states including but not limited to Arizona...
9 News (AP)
August 16, 2012
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has mailed letters to nearly 4,000 registered voters asking them to verify they are naturalized citizens, or voluntarily withdraw their voter registrations.
... the letters went to people who presented non-citizen documents like a green card when they applied for driver's...
National Rifle Association of America - Institute for Legislative Action
August 10, 2012
... a U.S. government report has disclosed that Mexican drug cartel operatives used a firearm from the infamous scheme in a failed attempt to assassinate a high-ranking Mexican law enforcement official.
An August 6, El Paso Times article gives further details:
The firearm was found Feb. 25, 2010, during an...
Boulder Weekly
August 2, 2012
A group of immigration activists who protested at the state Capitol this week and Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle have something in common.
They both want Colorado’s version of Arizona’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants overturned.
SB 90, passed by the state legislature in 2006, requires police...
FAIR
July 24, 2012
From the Introduction - President Obama’s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement:
...This report details how the Obama Administration has carried out a policy of de facto amnesty for millions of illegal aliens through executive policy decisions. Since 2009, the Obama Administration has systematically gutted...
La Times
July 22, 2012
After remaining stable for most of human history, the world's population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries...
PolitiFact
July 17, 2012
Republican U.S. Senate hopeful David Dewhurst, saying the U.S.-Mexico border is dangerously porous, said in a July 17, 2012, debate in Dallas that he has even witnessed suspicious signs.
"I’ve seen the Border Patrol signs that are now in English, Spanish and Chinese," Dewhurst said in the debate with Ted...
Colorado Observer
July 17, 2012
DENVER–The Obama administration finally blinked Monday in its years-long stand-off with state elections officials by agreeing to cooperate with efforts to identify illegal voters in Colorado and other states.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced Monday that a Homeland Security official had agreed to...
The Denver Post
July 16, 2012
The Department of Homeland Security agreed Monday to let Colorado and other states access a DHS database to verify the citizenship of some registered voters — news that was hailed as a win for Secretary of State Scott Gessler and other Republican election officials but had their critics on high alert.
The...
Channel 2 WSBTV
July 1, 2012
Chanel 2 Action News has obtained evidence that terrorists are crossing the southwest border from Mexico. In May, we revealed how thousands of illegals from nations that sponsor terror - like Yemen - are being caught entering... Still in June, Homeland Security said there's no credible information terrorists are operating at...
Obama’s amnesty by fiat is politically cynical and constitutionally suspect
National Review Online
June 28, 2012
President Obama recently issued an edict exempting an estimated 800,000 to 1 million illegal aliens from the consequences of federal immigration law. Ostensibly that blanket amnesty applies to those who arrived before the age of 16 and are younger than 30; who are in, or graduated from, high school or have served in the...
TIME
June 26, 2012
Formerly a lawyer in John Ashcroft’s Justice Department, Kris Kobach has spent the last decade laying the legal framework for stricter immigration laws at the state and local level. He helped craft Arizona’s SB1070, which the Supreme Court partially blocked on Monday, and other legislation like it that’s taking root across...
NumbersUSA.com
June 25, 2012
In all the analysis of whether Arizona or Pres. Obama came out on top in the Supreme Court’s ruling on S.B. 1070 today, the key question is: how well did unemployed Americans fare?
And the answer is: Very well.
Combined with another Court ruling on an Arizona law last year, states now have all...
Arizona Daily Star
June 25, 2012
Homeland Security will not send its officers to pick up suspected illegal immigrants snared by local police in Arizona unless the person meets the agency’s priority criteria.
In a move that is a direct shot back at the state following’s today’s Supreme Court ruling regarding SB1070, senior officials at the Department...
a victory for the rule of law
State of Arizona
June 25, 2012
Press Release from the State of Arizona, Office of the Governor
June 25, 2012
Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is a victory for the rule of law. It is also a victory for the 10th Amendment and all Americans who believe in the inherent right and responsibility of states to defend their citizens....
Wall Street Journal
June 25, 2012
The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona's tough-immigration law but struck down others as intrusions on federal sovereignty, ...
The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status of people they stop...
That section was one of four at issue before...
June 25, 2012
The Supreme Court today invalidated three of the four provisions of Arizona’s SB 1070 law before the court. In a 5-3 opinion in Arizona, et. al. v. United States, the Justices upheld, for now, Section 2(B) of the law which requires police, after a lawful stop, to check the immigration status of a suspected illegal alien....
The Coloradoan
June 23, 2012
Colorado, once known for uncrowded open spaces, scenic vistas, clean air and a high quality of life, is suffering from the negative impacts of our addiction to exponential population and economic growth. It’s projected that the North Front Range population will jump to 1.1 million by 2040, while the state adds 3 million...
Colorado Department of Human Services
June 17, 2012
Who is a refugee?
A refugee is a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of...
FoxNews.com
June 15, 2012
President Obama thwarted the will of Congress and shunned the 20 million under-employed and unemployed Americans by announcing he will grant work permits to 2 million to 3 million illegal immigrants.
This appears to be an unconstitutional fiat that not only usurps congressional authority to set immigration policy but...
Long Beach Post
June 14, 2012
On May 23, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an alteration in the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) that will prohibit SCAAP funds from being used to reimburse localities for certain criminal aliens, or foreign-born criminals.
The funds will specifically exclude what are called "unknown" inmates...
The Arizona Republic
June 13, 2012
...Overseas forgers from as far away as China are shipping fake driver's license and other IDs to the United States that can bypass even the newest electronic digital security systems, according to document security experts and the Secret Service.
The new IDs are "an affront to the very sovereignty and dignity of the...
Fresh Fruit Portal - The Voice of the Southern Hemisphere
June 13, 2012
U.S. secretary of labor Hilda Solis has signed worker rights letters of arrangement with the ambassadors of Honduras, the Philippines, Peru and Ecuador.
Under the agreements, regional enforcement offices of Department of Labor (DOL) agencies – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and its Wage and Hour...
Investors Business Daily
June 13, 2012
The Law: A House committee has announced a June 20 vote on whether Attorney General Eric Holder is in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the "Fast and Furious" scandal. It can't happen soon enough.
For more than a year, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has labored to find out the...
June 12, 2012
While many climate change studies focus on the physical and ecological processes that drive greenhouse gas emissions, a new study published this week focuses on the societal forces that could cause global warming.
In a report published Sunday in Nature Climate Change, Michigan State University professor Tom Dietz...
CNN
June 10, 2012
Columbus, New Mexico (CNN) -- Mayor Nicole Lawson is only 37, but her hair is already turning white as she tries to keep this border town corrupted more than a year ago by Mexican cartels from falling deeper into financial ruin.
Lawson runs the village by day and works as a town emergency medical technician by night...
Tancredo, other opponents see politics driving the issue
Colorado Statesman
June 8, 2012
Proponents of a ballot proposal that would offer Colorado driver’s licenses to all residents of the state whether they are a legal resident or an undocumented immigrant are busy gathering signatures despite cries that the initiative would legitimize illegal behavior.
The petition specifications for Initiative 52 have...
The Examiner
June 7, 2012
On Thursday, the Metro State College of Denver’s board of trustees approved a plan that will give illegal aliens a 58 percent discount on their tuition. The move passed with a 7-1 vote.
Under the special rate, illegal aliens will pay $6,716.60 per year, while out-of-state students will pay $15,985 per year. In-state...
The Denver Post
June 7, 2012
The Metropolitan State College of Denver Board of Trustees voted 7-1 this morning to pass a new tuition rate for illegal immigrant students.
The rate of $3,358.30 per semester — greater than that paid by in-state students but more than 50 percent less than the cost for out-of-state students — will take effect this...
Fox News
March 8, 2012
A federal appeals court says illegal immigrants don't have a right to own firearms under the U.S. Constitution...
The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Monday that illegal immigrants have only limited protection under the Constitution.
The Social Contract
June 21, 2011
In the early morning hours of Mother’s Day 2005, Denver Police Detective Donny Young was assassinated in cold blood by an illegal alien. Young was working off duty in uniform with Detective John Bishop at the Solano Ocampo Hall to earn extra income to support his wife and two young daughters. Illegal alien Raul Gomez-Garcia...
A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs
Center for Immigration Studies
April 2, 2011
...In 2009 (based on data collected in 2010), 57 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children...
A large share of the welfare used by immigrant households with children is...
Denver Post
March 25, 2011
Latinos accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the past decade, exceeding estimates in most states as they crossed a new census milestone: 50 million, or 1 in 6 Americans.
Meanwhile, more than 9 million Americans checked two or more race categories on their 2010 census forms, up 32 percent...
FAIR - Federation for American Immigration Reform
July 1, 2010
illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level. the bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments.
The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost u.s. taxpayers is an annual amount per native-headed household of nearly $1,000...
Tucson Citizen
March 5, 2009
A pair of emergency beacons have been placed in South Texas to help stranded illegal immigrants [aliens] as they try to head north from the border along a popular desert trail, the U.S. Border Patrol said...
The two-story tall red steel posts are solar powered, with mirrors affixed to make them more visible during...
The Independent
October 11, 2006
The population of the United States will pass 300 million today, or tomorrow. No one knows exactly where, no one know precisely when. It is a milestone for sure but is this a cause for celebration or anxiety?
Some American commentators are already saying the landmark is a chance to note the US is perhaps the only...
Christian Science Monitor
July 6, 2006
Fifty-three years ago [in 1954], when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond....
Defend Colorado Now Says Cost Is $1 Billion; Others Say Numbers Not Accurate
7 News
March 28, 2006
DENVER -- A new study spells out some of the costs of illegal immigration here in Colorado.
The report was put out Tuesday by a group that wants to put a measure limiting state services to illegal immigrants on the November ballot....
The group's data claims that Colorado taxpayers spent $64 million a year...
VDare.com
October 1, 2004
...over a 10-mile stretch of the border near San Diego, arrests of illegal immigrants have plummeted from about 25,000 per year three years ago to 3,000 per year today. Violent crimes have virtually come to a halt in that area, according to the San Diego PD. [Valerie Alvord, "Border fence plan runs into a barrier," USA...
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