12/05 1:24 PM – A six-year-old Colorado law that requires local law enforcement to report suspected illegal immigrants to federal authorities is costing local agencies in the state more than $13 million annually, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Denver Post
5 December 2012
The suit targets an executive order by Gov. Jan Brewer denying the licenses to young immigrants who received work permits under a new Obama administration progr
LA Times
30 November 2012
A contingent of civil and immigrant rights organizations launched a lawsuit Thursday against Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, challenging an executive order she issued that denies driver's licenses to some youths who recently received immigration relief and work permits under a new Obama administration program.
"This...
Researchers say legals and illegals are more mobile than natives in America
The Washington Times
31 October 2012
Two-thirds of those who have found employment under President Obama are immigrants, both legal and illegal [correctly termed illegal aliens], according to an analysis that suggests immigration has soaked up a large portion of what little job growth there has been over the past three years.
The Center for...
Associated Press
23 October 2012
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler says 300 more suspected noncitizens have been found on the state's voter rolls.
They were among more than 3,900 people who received letters in August questioning their citizenship.
Gessler's office previously said another 141 people who received letters appeared...
Los Angeles Times
15 October 2012
The decision last week by federal authorities to classify the Mara Salvatrucha MS-13 gang as a “transnational criminal organization" has some experts hoping the move will put the gang on the run.
In Washington, both officials and experts said the designation shows that the federal government sees MS-13 as a real...
Greeley Tribune
14 October 2012
JBS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials took a positive step last week when they agreed to work to work together to ensure the meatpacking giant’s U.S. workforce stays legal. The move comes more than half a decade after a raid on the meatpacking plant in north Greeley netted 262 suspected illegal workers. The...
Villaraigosa is pushing a plan for an official city identification card that would double as a prepaid ATM card to help undocumented residents get access to ban
Los Angeles Times
13 October 2012
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is pushing a plan to create an official city photo identification card that could double as a prepaid ATM card and help immigrants get access to banking services.
The initiative could reduce crime because fewer people would have to carry cash, but critics say it's another ill-...
FoxNews.com
13 October 2012
Two law professors, including one who served in the Bush Justice Department, have published a paper charging that President Obama violated the Constitution with his directive to law enforcement not to deport illegal aliens.
In the paper entitled, “The Obama Administration, the Dream Act and the Take Care Clause,”...
The Denver Post
10 October 2012
Polls show growing enthusiasm among Latino voters in Colorado as the election nears, but Latino leaders who have been involved with get-out-the-vote campaigns say excitement about the November election has been tempered by little progress on immigration issues.
"We haven't seen the enthusiasm this year. We're...
Police: suspect is Mexican drug cartel leader
7 News/ Scripps Media, Inc
8 October 2012
Mexican authorities say they have detained a drug cartel leader suspected in the 2010 killing of Colorado native David Hartley who was shot while jet skiing on a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexican border.
CNN reported Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo was arrested last week.
He is accused of being a...
Center for Immigration Studies
8 October 2012
A new paper by John Yoo (UC Berkeley School of Law) and Robert J. Delahunty (University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minnesota) raises many questions about President Obama's decision to grant legal status to nearly two million illegal aliens under deferred action and concludes that the president's act "threatens to vest the...
Citing an erosion of trust, the LAPD chief says illegal immigrants arrested in petty crimes won't be held for U.S. officials.
Los Angeles Times
4 October 2012
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck stepped into the national immigration debate Thursday, announcing that hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested by his officers each year in low-level crimes would no longer be turned over to federal authorities for deportation.
The new rules, which are expected to affect about...
KTAR
3 October 2012
...Nicholas Ivie and a colleague were on patrol in the desert near Naco, about 100 miles from Tucson, when gunfire broke out shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Border Patrol.
Ivie, 30, was killed. The other agent, whose name hasn't been released, was hospitalized after being shot in the ankle and...
Center for Individual Freedom
27 September 2012
If this election is a close one, it could well be stolen by what would otherwise be the losing side.
Those weren’t the exact words uttered in a program last Friday at the Heritage Foundation by co-authors of an important new book, but that’s one practical message an attentive listener would take away from the event...
TownHall.com
25 September 2012
Immigration is often portrayed as a complex issue. In reality, it really comes down to two simple questions:
1. How many immigrants should we allow into this country?
2. How should decide how to select those immigrants?
Currently, America accepts over one million permanent legal immigrants and...
Capital Research Center
25 September 2012
... Attorneys Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. founded the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 1971. It bills itself as “a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.” People familiar with the SPLC may describe it...
The Sacramento Bee
24 September 2012
...Shih personifies an immigration trend that can be seen as the mirror opposite of those teens and young adults who came to this country illegally as children and are now trying to secure legal residency.
Eight months pregnant, Shih's mother legally entered the United States on a tourist visa in 1989. Two months...
FAIR
20 September 2012
Fox News Latino reports, "Three months after President Barack Obama announced plans to suspend deportation for some undocumented immigrants, Latinos are giving him higher ratings for his handling of immigration . . . Independent Latinos - who are considered particularly crucial in this presidential election - were evenly...
Recommendations to Ensure the Integrity of Elections Outlined
Center for Immigration Studies
18 September 2012
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...
Global Footprint Network
18 September 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
16 September 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
12 September 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
11 September 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
7 September 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
6 September 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
...
KTAR, Arizona
5 September 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
1 September 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
30 August 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...
Californians for Population Stabilization
29 August 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...
Huffington Post
29 August 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...
Fox News
21 August 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)
16 August 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
10 August 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
2 August 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
24 July 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
22 July 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
17 July 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
17 July 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
16 July 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
1 July 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
28 June 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
26 June 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...
a victory for the rule of law
State of Arizona
25 June 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
25 June 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...
25 June 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....
NumbersUSA.com
25 June 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
25 June 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...
The Coloradoan
23 June 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
17 June 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
15 June 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
14 June 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...
Fresh Fruit Portal - The Voice of the Southern Hemisphere
13 June 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
13 June 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...
The Arizona Republic
13 June 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...
12 June 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
10 June 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
8 June 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 Denver Post
7 June 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...
The Examiner
7 June 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...
Fox News
8 March 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
21 June 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
2 April 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
25 March 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
1 July 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
5 March 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
11 October 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
6 July 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
28 March 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
1 October 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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