15 Dec 05 The Occupational Status and Mobility of Hispanics

A research report sponsored by the Pew Hispanic Center finds a worsening in the occupational status of Hispanics and a growing gap with respect to whites during the 1990s. That is surprising because the decade was witness to the longest economic expansion in recent U.S. history. But even as unemployment was on the decline for all racial and ethnic groups, structural shifts in employment across industries contributed to a greater division in the occupational status of Hispanics and whites. The occupations in which Hispanics are concentrated rank low in wages, educational requirements and other indicators of socioeconomic status.

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06 Dec 05 Survey of Mexican Migrants, Part Three

This study analyzes the employment experience of migrants before they left Mexico, their transition into the U.S. labor market, and their economic status in their new jobs. It uses the Pew Hispanic CenterÂ’s Survey of Mexican Migrants, which interviewed 4,836 migrants, mostly believed to be undocumented, as they were applying for identity cards issued by Mexican consulates. The vast majority were gainfully employed before they left for the U.S. Failure to find work at home does not seem to be the primary reason that the estimated 6.3 million undocumented migrants from Mexico have come to the U.S.

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01 Nov 05 The High Schools Hispanics Attend

A report on the characteristics of high schools attended by different racial and ethnic groups finds that Hispanic teens are more likely than blacks and whites to attend the nationÂ’s largest public high schools.

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01 Nov 05 The Higher Drop-Out Rate of Foreign-Born Teens

A report on high school enrollment points to the importance of schooling abroad in understanding the dropout problem for immigrant teens, finding that those teens have often fallen behind in their education before reaching the United States.

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01 Nov 05 Recent Changes in the Entry of Hispanic and White Youth into College

A report on college enrollment finds that the number of young Hispanics going to college is increasing.

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25 Oct 05 The GOP (Republican Party) wants you to take an online survey about Immigration

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25 Oct 05 Immigrants will face rise in fees

“It will cost more to become a U.S. citizen or a legal immigrant starting Wednesday.

Immigrants will pay an average 4 percent more in fees associated with the filing, processing and resolution of their cases. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will use the extra money to reduce backlogs and fund operations.”

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25 Oct 05 Fuentes cites contributions of migrants, urges altruism Pilgrims were undocumented aliens, he says

“The United States stands to benefit from Hispanic migrants if this country treats the newcomers as workers, not as criminals, Mexican novelist and former diplomat Carlos Fuentes said Monday evening.

â€œNo policy of social development,â€? Fuentes said toward the beginning of his speech, â€œno project for a new world economic order can exclude protection of the migrant worker â€” who is precisely that, a worker, not a criminal.â€?”

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25 Oct 05 Some considerations for immigration policy

“It was the spring of 1985. I was headed back to Fort Worth from a weeklong trip through West Texas.

Just outside Ballinger, northeast of San Angelo, a toad-drowner of a rain began to fall. Squinting through the downpour, I spotted a man walking on the highway’s edge. I’ve rarely picked up hitchhikers, but this wiry little Hispanic man looked so thoroughly soaked, miserable and harmless that I offered him a lift.”

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24 Oct 05 Richmond backs off issuing IDs for illegal immigrants. Kentucky

Just like in Connecticut

“RICHMOND – The city has put on hold a controversial plan to issue identification cards to immigrants amid what the city manager called “a misunderstanding” between city officials and the local migrant outreach program.

“We were under the impression it was for legal residents,” City Manager David Evans said today. “The Hispanic outreach office wanted it to be offered to everyone.”"

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24 Oct 05 County Officials Want Crackdown On Undocumented Immigrants. Ohio

“HAMILTON, Ohio — Butler County officials said they’re going to start cracking down on undocumented workers in the area.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones, County Commissioner Michael Fox, and State Rep. Courtney Combs held a joint news conference Friday morning to discuss their plans to encourage lawmakers to make it a crime, and possibly a deportable act, for an illegal immigrant to be anywhere in Ohio.”

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24 Oct 05 For Mexican mom, a visa was just the first obstacle to new start

“Flor has reason to be content. For nearly two years, she’s maneuvered through an obstacle course of credit checks, teacher accreditations and immigration documentations â€“ all of it to make her life legally here, north of the Rio Grande.

She’s part of an unprecedented migration to North Texas, a region not known as an immigrant gateway. And yet, today nearly one in six residents in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is foreign-born”

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24 Oct 05 Immigration battle seizes Colorado tax referendums

“DENVER — The issue of illegal immigration has emerged as the October surprise in Colorado’s hard-fought campaign over ballot measures that would suspend the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.
With the Nov. 1 election locked in a dead heat, opponents of the initiatives, called Referendums C and D, launched a full-court press last week aimed at connecting the proposed state funding increase to the high cost of illegal immigration. “

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22 Oct 05 Richmond to offer ID cards to immigrants. Kentucky

“The city of Richmond next week will begin offering identification cards to immigrants, regardless of whether they entered the country legally or not.

The move could make the Madison County seat the first city in the country to issue such immigrant IDs — and draw Richmond into the large and sometimes fierce national debate over immigration reform.”

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21 Oct 05 Murders of immigrants help prompt lawsuit against Homeland Security

“The recent murders of six Mexican workers in Georgia underline various social issues facing immigrants, including inadequate housing and a lack of trust of financial institutions and local authorities.

Responding to these and other atrocities, a class action lawsuit was filed Oct 18 in Los Angeles on behalf of hundreds of undocumented immigrants living throughout the United States. The suit was directed at Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, pressing them to issue visas to immigrant victims of violent crimes who have cooperated with investigations or prosecutions of such crimes.”

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20 Oct 05 Latina Lista: White House Guest Worker Program May Appease Party Conservatives But Doesnâ€™t Deal With Reality

“Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff explained the guest-worker program to the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Source: The Washington Post)

Now, that Bush’s stump-man for the guest-worker program, Karl Rove, is occupied elsewhere these days, the White House is unleashing everyone in its arsenal to talk up the advantages of their version of the immigration solution.”

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20 Oct 05 Timâ€™s El Salvador Blog: US deporting an increasing number of Salvadorans

“The report in El Diario de Hoy calls it an “avalanche” of deportations. US Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff directed that at least two deportation flights depart for El Salvador each week. The United States plans to deport 892 Salvadorans over the next two months. 356 of the deportees have criminal records. “

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20 Oct 05 Mexican economyâ€™s woes donâ€™t push people north, study indicates

“The U.S. economy seems to be a more important “pull” for immigrants to come to the United States legally and illegally than the Mexican economy is a “push.”

Researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center crunched immigration numbers and unemployment numbers for the past 12 years and found that immigration grew sharply during the rapid U.S. economic and job expansion of the 1990s and then declined as the economy went into a downturn after 2001.”

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19 Oct 05 Illegal immigrants can get workersâ€™ compensation, LA court rules

“Illegal immigrants who are hurt on the job are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, a state appeals court ruled.

The 2nd District Court of Appeal made the finding in a case involving Torrance-based coffee roaster Farmer Bros. Co., which had tried to deny workers’ comp benefits to an employee who was in the country illegally.”

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19 Oct 05 Deporting illegal immigrants wonâ€™t work, McCain says

“As the Bush administration began promoting a guest worker program for immigrants, Sens. John McCain and Edward Kennedy urged Congress to include provisions for illegal immigrants to stay in the country.

Speaking at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum on immigration Tuesday, McCain and Kennedy said Congress must realize that businesses rely on immigrant labor and that many immigrants have children born in the United States, who are citizens.”

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19 Oct 05 Colorado Minuteman Sent Home After Helping Illegal Immigrants

“A Colorado man has been sent packing by organizers of a security watch along the Mexican border in southern New Mexico after he apparently picked up two hitchhiking immigrants.

Organizers of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps project asked the volunteer, who was in his 50s, to leave about two weeks ago. He was not identified.”

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19 Oct 05 Immigration Bills Closely Watched in Nevada

“Las Vegas has become a draw to illegal immigrants who enter through California, but come to Nevada because of the many service-industry and construction jobs, said Keith Schwer, director of UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research.

In a 2003 report, Schwer concluded that non-native Hispanic workers help drive the Las Vegas economy, generating $15.5 billion in spending and contributing $829 million in state and local taxes.”

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19 Oct 05 Mexico calls Bush immigration proposals â€œsignificantâ€?

“Mexico described as “significant” the immigration-reform positions laid out by the Bush administration yesterday.
But a statement by Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department says any U-S plan would have to “recognize the contributions of migrants” and consider those already living north of the border.”

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19 Oct 05 Immigrant crime victims seek visas

“Lawyers for undocumented immigrants who’ve been victims of violent crimes filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Homeland Security for failing to issue protective visas Congress created five years ago.

The 2000 law approved visas for victims of violent crimes who cooperate with law enforcement investigations or prosecution of crimes. The visas allowed them to remain in the United States and apply for permanent residency after three years. But regulations detailing how to apply for the U-visa were never published, and no visas have been issued.”

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19 Oct 05 The US Hispanic Market Blog Â» Poll finds Republican Voters favor Comprehensive Immigration Reform

“This new public opinion data indicates that Republican voters do not think it is possible to deport the illegal immigrants already in the country and do not favor an enforcement-only approach often preached by hard-line conservatives. On the contrary, the rank and file want realistic solutions to deal with future immigrants and the millions of undocumented workers already here.

Although hardliners dominate cable television and conservative talk radio with calls to seal the border, the majority of Republican voters believe in sensible, practical immigration reform that includes an earned legalization process and increased border security, according to this new poll.”

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19 Oct 05 A New Jersey town, a Brazilian deluge, diverging hopes

“They’re immigrants from Brazil. And over the last five years, as many as 5,000 of them have flooded in and around Riverside’s 1.5 square miles, catching off guard the town and its 8,000 souls.

Most of the newcomers are young men and have come here illegally to take jobs as carpenters. Many of the pioneers came on tourist visas and stayed. The most recent arrivals snuck across the Mexican border.”

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19 Oct 05 Bush pushes for guest worker plan

“President Bush sought support Tuesday for his guest worker plan for foreigners, hoping to win over skeptical conservatives with a pledge to clamp down on illegal immigration – one of a growing number of issues causing friction between the White House and fellow Republicans.”

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18 Oct 05 Two Bush administration officials promote guest worker program

“Beefing up border patrols alone won’t stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country, administration officials said Tuesday in promoting President George W. Bush’s proposal to set up a temporary worker program for foreign nationals.

“We’re going to need more than just brute enforcement,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “We’re going to need a temporary worker program as well.”"

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18 Oct 05 The Visa Maze

“Every year, Michael Rhodes’s $2 million business, Commercial Landscapers in Kansas City, Kan., butts heads with the nation’s scrambled immigration system.

Rhodes’s 18 employees are mostly foreign nationals with H2B visas that allow them to work in the U.S. for just 12 months. So each year, Rhodes tackles the paperwork to try to keep them on for another year — and starts shelling out cash to his immigration lawyer. It costs about $5,000 to renew his workers’ visas or, if that fails, file applications to hire new employees. “It’s not guaranteed you’ll get your workers, and you still have to pay,” says Rhodes. Some years he winds up understaffed.”

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18 Oct 05 Dean Slams Bushâ€™s Policies on Mexico

“Howard Dean traveled south of the border to meet with Mexico’s presidential contenders Monday, and lashed out at the Bush administration’s policies on Mexico.

Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, claimed President Bush “turned his back on Mexico” after it refused to support the Iraq war.”

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18 Oct 05 Will immigration reform drain labor pool?

“Suzanne Powell has not seen a labor shortage at her Coachella farm, but she is concerned that new immigration restrictions could reduce the pool of workers available.

“The labor issue is going to have to be fixed,” said Powell, senior vice president of Peter Rabbit Farms, which grows carrots, lettuce and grapes. “There’s got to be a compromise that people can be here and legally have a job.”"

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18 Oct 05 Hispanics cool to policeâ€™s illegal immigrant plan. Alabama

“A proposal to get Huntsville police officers federally trained to investigate illegal immigrants in the city has been greeted with a less-than-enthusiastic response by local Hispanic advocates.

Huntsville Police Chief Rex Reynolds said he made the request to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sept. 20, less than a month after the fatal shooting of officer Daniel Golden by illegal immigrant Benito Albarran.”

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17 Oct 05 What Happens to Illegal Immigrants?

“Monongalia County Sheriff’s deputies detained almost two dozen men this week, when they couldn’t prove they were American citizens. Some of the men claimed to be working at a local construction site. And although it seems like these men would be heading home, they’re not.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, from Pittsburgh responded to the situation. ICE says the immigrants are illegal. They were fingerprinted and then let go.”

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17 Oct 05 Most illegal immigrants detained in Iowa since 2000

“Records show police detained 449 illegal immigrants during fiscal 2005. That’s the most in five years, when close to 600 were detained.”

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17 Oct 05 Cuban exile from Miami chosen for Immigration job

“Emilio T. GonzÃ¡lez was 4 years old when he fled his Cuban homeland with his family in 1961. At age 9, he, his older sister and his parents became U.S. citizens.
…

On Tuesday, GonzÃ¡lez, 48, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing after President Bush nominated him to head the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.”

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17 Oct 05 THE IMMIGRATION EQUATION: The economy

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Today’s installment addresses this question: Are undocumented immigrants a burden or boon for the economy? The answer: It’s hard to say. They drive down wages and take away at least some jobs from Americans, but they also pay taxes, make purchases and fill jobs that otherwise might go unfilled, keeping inflation down and Arizona’s economy humming.”

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17 Oct 05 Full jails a boon for non-Mexicans eyeing border

“Now plotting his next move, the 26-year-old displaced factory worker sits on the steps of a Reynosa church and worries aloud that, if the Border Patrol catches him, he’ll be deported and his hopes of finding a job in Houston will be dashed.

What he may or may not realize is that he would likely be freed in Texas, even after American agents stop him, because there isn’t enough jail space to hold him.”

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16 Oct 05 Journalist follows new immigrants across U.S.

“”Translation Nation” by Hector Tobar (Riverhead Books, $24.95) examines the complexities and contradictions of the immigration process. Tobar shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize with a Los Angeles Times writing team for reporting the L.A. riots. He sees the diverse Latino population as unique to the history of immigration, primarily because Latinos are revising the notion of what it means to be American. His accomplishment is making clear how the growing demographics of Latinos is not just about numbers, but also about how a new identity is affecting society.

Tobar’s extensive reporting leaves the reader with a powerful sense of how change is complex. Los Angeles has become a sending-off point, just as New York was earlier for European immigrants. But Latinos leaving Los Angeles to find their place in America seem to be going to places readers might not imagine.”

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16 Oct 05 Illegal immigrants living in a cash society become easy prey

“Illegal immigrants, unaware that there are no legal barriers to opening bank accounts, traditionally stash wages in their homes or end up carrying large amounts of cash, leaving them vulnerable to street crimes and break-ins.

In Fair Haven, home to a burgeoning Hispanic immigrant community, itâ€™s a long-recognized problem that city police and advocate groups are working to correct.”

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16 Oct 05 Families sink roots in Arizona

“It’s not easy to get a handle on the swirling debate over border security and illegal immigration when the headlines jerk you from one direction to another. Every day, the debate becomes more twisted, blurred, lost. Instead of clarity, we are left with sound bites and stereotypes, especially around election time: images of day laborers on street corners; of immigrants straining schools and hospital emergency rooms; of endless waves of Latinos threatening ”American” culture. The truth is illegal immigration is not a one-dimensional issue. It is enormously complex. Beginning today, The Arizona Republic in a four-day series takes a snapshot of immigration issues by examining who is coming over the border, what role immigrants play in the economy, their impact on Arizona’s culture and proposals for stemming illegal immigration. Today’s installment looks at the new norm for undocumented immigrants.”

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16 Oct 05 The nativist backlash on immigration is back

“The results of the recent special election in Californiaâ€™s 48th Congressional District are a sober wakeup call to economic conservatives who believe in the free movement of goods, capital, and labor. Self-appointed, vigilante immigration restrictionist Jim Gilchrist received a sizeable 14.4 percent of the vote for Congress on a single-issue, immigrant-bashing platform. Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, who endorsed Gilchrist, is trying, with some success, to raise immigrant-bashing to a top-tier issue in the 2008 elections.

Anti-immigration sentiment is one symptom of a larger neo-Mercantilist disease that is also threatening the globalization of trade and capital flows. Unless true free-market conservatives tame these emotional arguments with the force of logic, much of the economic progress of the past century could be reversed.”

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16 Oct 05 We might ask Latinos

“A political storm soon will erupt in Washington when debate resumes on the various immigration reform bills. After celebrating the so-called discovery of America by Christopher Columbus that unleashed centuries of foreigners coming to the new lands, the House of Representatives will take up the tempest issue.

Bush has boldly laid his immigration cards on the political table. His plan for a temporary guest worker program with a requirement for workers to return to their native countries has drawn the support and ire of many. If spectators thought that the president’s selection of Harriet Miers to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was controversial, wait until he pushes his immigration reform bill to center stage.”

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16 Oct 05 Guest worker plan being shelved

“President Bush’s ambitious plan to give millions of undocumented immigrants a shot at legal temporary work in the United States is dead in Congress.

Two hurricanes, two Supreme Court nominees, Republican in-fighting and the president’s own slump in the polls have put Bush’s “guest worker” initiative on the shelf for this year.”

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16 Oct 05 Anti-illegal immigration measure in early stages in San Bernardino

“SAN BERNARDINO – The San Bernardino resident who founded a state-wide anti-illegal immigration group is now pushing for a far-reaching city ballot measure that would make city-funded day laborer centers illegal and impose stiff penalties on landlords who rent to people in the country illegally.

Joseph Turner, who founded Save Our State in 2004, said he hopes to collect enough signatures to put the measure before voters by June if not February, when there could be a mayoral run-off.”

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16 Oct 05 The GOPâ€™s border war – Los Angeles Times

“THE HEARTLAND is red; New York and California are blue. Democrats are softies who care about civil rights and minorities (including immigrants), while Republicans are fixated on law and order (and would be happy to seal the borders and deport millions of illegal immigrants). Right?

That’s the conventional wisdom. But in fact, like most conventional wisdom, it’s a poor guide to reality â€” particularly to the politics of immigration playing out in Washington and across the country, where likely congressional candidates are already laying the groundwork for the 2006 midterm elections.”

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16 Oct 05 Illegal immigration is a problem in Stafford, too.

“People are talking more and more about illegal immigration these days.

During recent slug rides I have spoken to three people who fled to Stafford from Arlington, Springfield and Dumfries because their neighborhoods and schools had changed for the worse because of the presence of Central American gangs.”

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16 Oct 05 Immigration â€˜mockumentaryâ€™

“That is the premise of the satirical film â€” a mockumentary â€” called A Day Without a Mexican, which in a limited release this year succeeded in offending people on all sides of the immigration issue. Some Latinos called it racist. Some activists called it a simplistic distortion or a misguided fable. Still others didn’t know what to make of it. But it would be hard to find someone who didn’t consider it thought-provoking.

For less than $2 million, first-time director Sergio Arau and his co-writer, wife Yareli Arizmendi, made a surreal movie with a real statement: Without its Latino population, California can’t open for business in the morning.”

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14 Oct 05 Martinez announces bill, attacks restrictions on immigrant rights

“CHAMBLEE, Ga. – Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., the first Cuban-American elected to the U.S. Senate, announced that he and Sen. Barak Obama, D-Ill., the Senate’s only black member, will present within two weeks a new immigration bill that would address both the economy’s need for labor and the nation’s need for more secure borders.”

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14 Oct 05 Immigration costs more than thought

“But now, a renowned University of Florida economist who is admittedly pro-immigration in his personal politics has found that its net financial cost to taxpayers is much larger than anyone had been able to quantify previously.

UF economist David Denslow found a net cost of $1,800 per year to the state per immigrant family, which will provide ammunition for the anti-immigration folks.”

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14 Oct 05 Immigration status can cost teens their dreams

“Approximately 65,000 illegal immigrants graduate from American high schools each year. With few options, most of these students end up working illegally in a country they didn’t choose as their home, giving up on further education and dreams of a better life.
…

Two young friends, recent graduates of Dudley and Smith high schools, are among those trying to find a future in a country that feels like home but legally isn’t. The News & Record is not identifying them because of their illegal status.”

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14 Oct 05 Time to Fix Immigration – New York Times

“In Connecticut, one mayor is thinking about identification cards to help illegal immigrants, while another mayor is trying to arrest day workers on street corners. In Burbank, Calif., local officials have required Home Depot to build a shelter for the large numbers of immigrant laborers waiting outside the store for work.

In bits and pieces, communities all over the country are trying desperately to deal with what is really an immense national problem. Only Washington can untangle an immigration mess that draws a growing number of illegal immigrants across the nation’s borders every year. Labeled criminals or even “invaders” by a few in President Bush’s own party, many of these immigrants are actually risking their lives to take on the jobs that many Americans have chosen to avoid. One contractor recently told The Los Angeles Times that if officials began cracking down on illegal immigrants, “who will rebuild New Orleans?”"

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14 Oct 05 Survey: Mexican immigrants less likely to visit emergency rooms

“Mexicans who recently arrive in the United States â€“ many illegally â€“ are far less likely to visit hospital emergency rooms than long-term Mexican immigrants or people born in the United States, a report said Thursday.

Researchers at Mexico’s National Population Council and the University of California found that only 9.8 percent of Mexican adult migrants living in the United States 10 years or less visited an emergency room in the past year. That’s less than half the rate among people born in the United States â€“ 19.9 percent for people of Mexican ancestry born in the United States and 20 percent for U.S.-born whites.”

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13 Oct 05 Film blows lid off illegal immigration caldron

“Instead of loading up on heavy-handed opinion, Levine and Van Soest let everyone else have their say: The vigilante border groups; Chicano activists; humanitarian volunteers; politicians and a rancher who came under an AK-47 barrage from Mexican drug traffickers as he stood in his kitchen – he drove them off with his own rifle shots.
The result is a film rich in complexity and stark in presentation that brings a sprawling and largely ignored issue into tight focus – an effort that won Best Humanitarian Documentary honors at the Ohne Kohle International Film Festival in Germany and Austria this summer. “

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13 Oct 05 Council supports migrant measure

“ESCONDIDO â€“ A divided council threw its support yesterday behind a state proposal to create a police agency dedicated to tracking down illegal immigrants.

The City Council voted 3-2 to support the measure, called the California Border Police Act, which would authorize construction of prisons to house illegal immigrants and create a police agency devoted to enforcing immigration laws at the U.S.-Mexico border and across the state.”

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13 Oct 05 Chat transcript: Delia Rodriguez-Masjoan, an immigration expert

“Frank the moderator: Welcome. The Web site of The Providence Journal â€“ projo.com – will host a series of Internet â€œchatsâ€? this week, on topics of interest to Rhode Islandâ€™s burgeoning Hispanic population.

Tonight at 7 p.m. our guest will be Delia Rodriguez-Masjoan, an immigration expert, answering questions on immigration law.
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13 Oct 05 Latino community invisible no more

“More than half of all Latinos in America come from Mexico too, a trend that Mississippi echoes.

In Mississippi, there are around 40,000 Latinos, representing about 1.5 percent of the total population.”

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13 Oct 05 USATODAY.com – Katrinaâ€™s next expos: Immigration woes

“I predictably didn’t see many Latinos amid the news coverage of Hurricane Katrina. After all, New Orleans has never had a large Hispanic population. Not only might this soon change, Katrina’s aftermath might also become an immigration issue.

To stimulate relief efforts, President Bush suspended portions of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that construction workers on federal projects be paid the prevailing local wage. Then the Department of Homeland Security said it would not penalize employers who hired illegal workers. While the idea behind these actions is to lower costs, cut red tape and accelerate rebuilding, the reality is that contractors will have free rein to hire undocumented workers.”

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12 Oct 05 Faulty immigration reform

“In the Bush White House, immigration reform has long been on hold. Now all indications are that it is about to become a second-term priority.

It’s about time. It’s been nearly two years since President Bush suggested, in January 2004, that the country needed a guest-worker program to match foreign workers with American employers to “do jobs that Americans won’t do” â€” at least not for the wages that American employers have grown accustomed to paying.”

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12 Oct 05 Lectures to overview Latino immigration

“Dr. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, associate professor of economics at San Diego State University, will kick off the 2005-06 Werner Sichel Lecture-Seminar series today at Western Michigan University.

Amuedo-Dorantes, WMU alumna, will speak on â€œDifferences in Remittance Patterns Among Latino Immigrants in the United States,â€? at 3 p.m. in room 3508 of Knauss Hall.”

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11 Oct 05 Marginal Revolution: More evidence on immigration and wages

“The best of current investigations continue to support the conclusion that immigration does not hurt American real wages.”

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11 Oct 05 Migrant learns a bitter lesson

“The dream of getting an education ended for a Guatemalan man who now faces deportation for posing as a teenager and attending high school in Florida.”

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11 Oct 05 Stop anti-immigrant violence

“Our current broken immigration system has fueled, among other things, violence against contributing members of our community.

I am referring to the recent murders, beatings and rape of Latino agricultural farm workers in South Georgia. Has our society gotten to the point that labels such as “illegal” connote “otherness” to such a degree that our immigrant brothers and sisters are beaten to death as a matter of course?”

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11 Oct 05 Vigilantes on the Border

“I was appalled by the Oct. 2 news story “Volunteer Border Patrols Broaden Reach; Women, Hispanics Joining Campaign to Halt Illegal Immigration From Mexico.” This one-sided article misrepresented what has thus far been the failure of such vigilante groups to garner the support they claim to have”

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10 Oct 05 New findings add fuel to the immigration debate

“LAST week’s immigration report from the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center will be more fodder for partisans on both sides of the debate.

Although the report was clear enough, even the media couldn’t agree on its major conclusion. “Decline is Seen in Immigration,” said the front-page headline in the New York Times; “Illegal Migration Up in U.S, Study Finds,” said the Associated Press wire story.”

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10 Oct 05 More Cubans Striking Out Across the Sea – Los Angeles Times

“The Coast Guard says it intercepted 1,499 Cubans before they could reach U.S. shores last year. Already this year, it has halted 2,251 Cubans at sea.

During the fiscal year that ended Friday, the Coast Guard intercepted 2,712 Cubans, or more than double the 1,225 stopped in fiscal year 2004. “

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10 Oct 05 On Patrol: Jumping border is a huge attraction

“Thousands risk everything to seek better lives in U.S.”

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10 Oct 05 Barriers keep immigrants from driving legally

“Each day thousands of Kentuckians break the law when they drop their children off at school or drive to work.

They drive without a recognized driver’s license not because they are scofflaws, but because state law says they can’t have one. That’s the case for thousands of undocumented immigrants who work at horse farms, factories and businesses in Lexington and throughout the Bluegrass.”

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10 Oct 05 Border fence campaign another sign of frustration

“A 2,000-mile tableau from the Pacific to the Gulf, the nation’s southern border spans six Mexican and four U.S. states, snaking through arid deserts, rugged mountains, urban areas and remote, dangerous terrain.

Despite an unprecedented build-up in border enforcement during the past decade, much of the battle against illegal immigration still is being lost there.”

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10 Oct 05 An interesting crease in the immigrant debate: Someone thinks that yes, we have too many illegal immigrants in Georgia â€” but that we also have too many uneducated dolts

“You had to pardon the giddiness that flowed from Lauren Weathers’ phone call.

She’s with the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and had just uncovered evidence that Republicans aren’t in lockstep when it comes to making her state a barren wasteland for illegal aliens, undocumented workers â€” whatever the pleasure of your parlance.”

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09 Oct 05 Undocumented: Emotions run high, but Utah tacitly approves of illegals

“They are dairy farmers, truck drivers, students, business owners and construction workers. They pick the fruit we love this fall. They clean our offices. They make our restaurant meals and change our hotel sheets.

Officials estimate about 85,000 residents of Utah are in this country illegally, and there is no more controversial discussion than the one that centers on the right of these residents to be in the United States.”

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09 Oct 05 Old life drives new role

“Former Buena Park resident challenges assumptions of Windom, Minn., neighbors about Latino immigration.”

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09 Oct 05 George F. Will: Pull no punches on immigration

“Around 1900, at age 11 or so, Tom Tancredo’s grandfather, an orphan, sailed, unaccompanied, from Italy to New York with a note pinned to his shirt, asking that he be directed to Iowa. In Manhattan he was told that, the ocean being in one direction, Iowa must be in the other direction, so he began to work his way west. More than two years later, having rather overshot Iowa, he arrived in Denver. Eight decades later he recalled seeing the Rocky Mountains and thinking, “If Iowa is past that, the hell with it.”

Today, grandson Tom is a congressman representing Denver suburbs and voicing the sentiments of many Americans who are incandescent with anger about illegal immigration. Hence he is giving Republican Party officials nightmares about a boisterous Tancredo presentation of those sentiments in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries.”

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09 Oct 05 Latinos seek safety in their own community

This is from/about the Latinos in the community in Georgia where the immigrants were killed last week.

“TIFTON â€” They pay hundreds of dollars for battered, stinking trailers where the doors don’t lock, often with six or more piled in together.

They toil six-day weeks in the sun, making $50 a day at backbreaking work nobody else will do. They live quiet, desperate lives on the fringes of society, complaining only among themselves, trying not to make ripples.”

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08 Oct 05 As immigration debate rages, kids approach uncertain future

“There are several dimensions to the growth of the Latino population in Georgia, from the impact on education to the reliance on Latino labor in the manufacturing, agricultural, construction and landscaping industries.

There is ongoing debate at the local, state and federal levels regarding this paradox â€” a U.S. and local economy built with the help of undocumented workers but a public that perceives them as a liability. Put simply: What do we do now?”

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08 Oct 05 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday vetoed legislation allowing illegal immigrants to obtain special driverâ€™s licenses, saying he feared the measure could hurt national security and conflict with federal regulations.

“The decision was one of 210 the governor announced Friday as he wrapped up legislative business for the year, two days before the bill signing deadline.”

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07 Oct 05 Homeland Security bill funds more Border Patrol, immigration agents

“A Homeland Security spending bill passed by Congress includes about five-point-six (B) billion dollars for border controls.
The Senate passed the bill by voice vote today after the House passed it yesterday, 374-to-70.”

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07 Oct 05 Senate Panel Approves Immigration Nominee

“A Republican-run Senate committee voted Friday to approve President Bush’s nominee to head the Homeland Security Department’s immigration agency after dismissing criticism that she lacked management experience.

Concerns were raised about Julie L. Myers in the wake of former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown’s resignation. Brown, who left amid widespread criticism over his handling of Hurricane Katrina, was faulted for having little previous emergency management experience.”

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07 Oct 05 Latino Issues, A Latino Conservative Blog: Immigrants are Patriots Too

“Many thanks to Adam’s Blog for his comments, and his perspective on the subject of immigration. I must be clear–I don’t pretend to understand the whole issue, and I don’t know all the elements that relate to the challenge of immigration. As Colson says, this at times seems like a no-win problem.”

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07 Oct 05 A week of healthy ideas for immigrant community

“It’s easy to whine about how the skyrocketing cost of health care means low-income people can’t afford it. It’s harder to do something about it.

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department, working in conjunction with the Mexican Consulate of San Jose, is taking a big step in that direction by jointly sponsoring Binational Health Week. The weeklong effort, which is open to all, kicks off today at the county government center and continues with a range of events and activities aimed at improving the health of Latino immigrants.”

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07 Oct 05 Latinos, migrants face clash of cultures

“Wearing a designer belt and gold rosary, Mexican immigrant JosÃ© Gutierrez describes his problem: “racisto Latinos Americanos,” or racist American Latinos. They should be happy for the immigrants who are living the American dream. Instead, “they are jealous of the people who come here for jobs, homes and cars,” the 28-year-old said. “

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07 Oct 05 Illegal immigrant turned millionaire fighting to change border laws

“His story could be that of any number of Salvadorans in suburban Northern Virginia today, waiting in the morning at a 7-Eleven for a construction job. Except that Carlos Castro is now a millionaire who dines with politicians and sits on various civic boards mainly through the success of his brainchild: Todos Supermarkets.

These two sprawling suburban emporiums stock ethnic foods and clothing; cash checks for customers; and sell insurance. One includes a quick-service restaurant specializing in pupusas and gorditas.”

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07 Oct 05 Immigrants drive the housing market and change the industry

“Immigrants who came to the U.S. during the 1990s wave have started buying homes and that is forcing real estate professionals â€” including lenders, developers and bankers â€” to adapt.

”If you look at the next wave of consumers, they are it,” said Frances Martinez Myers, chairwoman of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals in San Diego. ”There is now a whole campaign around ‘What do I need to do inside my shop to reach out?’ ‘”

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04 Oct 05 Hispanic PR Wire – Migration Information Source Releases Data on Migrants in Gulf Region

More than 150,000 people who were born outside the United States lived in the counties affected by Hurricane Katrina. In the October Issue of the Migration Information Source, MPI’s award-winning online resource for migration data and analysis at http://www.migrationinformation.org , MPI Policy Analyst Jeanne Batalova uses 2000 census data to take a detailed look at the foreign-born population in the areas impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and outlines the unique challenges facing non-citizens.

Almost a quarter of all foreign-born in the Katrina area were born in Vietnam or Mexico, and 55 percent of all foreign born who lived in the Rita area came from Mexico. Together with persons born in El Salvador, Vietnam, India and Honduras, these five countries account for 69 percent of all foreign born affected by the storms.

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04 Oct 05 Latina Lista: The White Houseâ€™s Guest Worker Program Lacks Novel Solution

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03 Oct 05 Marginal Revolution: The Unreported Mexican Immigration Story

This is an interest read and well I need to think about it a bit more. What do you think?

Contrary to economic intuition, it is often the poorest migrants who leave last. If I think about the Mexican village where I hang out and buy art, only in the last twenty years has anyone had enough money to catch a bus to the border, much less pay the “coyote” fees to cross. Mexican immigration also works as a chain. One person crosses the border, finds a job, and sends money back so that brothers and friends can cross as well. For all these reasons the flood is, for better or worse, now much harder to stop. As Mexico gets richer, more people are coming

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02 Oct 05 Immigration reform helped Latinos, Asians â€” not blacks

THERE is a deja vu quality to the nation’s post-Katrina interest in race and poverty. It brings to mind the call-to-conscience of the Kerner Commission, named by President Johnson in the wake of the urban riots of the 1960s, and its warning of an America “moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.”

But of course, America is not black and white anymore, thanks to another legacy of that era â€” the Hart-Cellar Immigration Act, which Johnson signed into law Oct. 3, 1965. Infused with the civil rights spirit of the day, Hart-Cellar eliminated national origin quotas designed to keep the United States a mostly Northern European nation, ushering in an era of mass immigration, mostly from Latin America and Asia. It would transform America’s racial and ethnic makeup more than any legislation in history.

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02 Oct 05 Ga. Slayings Terrify Mexican Immigrants

Pedro Bemol stayed awake most of the night, swapping lookout shifts in the dark with the five other Mexican immigrants who share a ragged mobile home with no electricity and a front door that won’t close because of a broken latch.

“Right now, we’re afraid to go to sleep all of us are restless,” the 36-year-old said Saturday outside his home, two doors down from the trailer where robbers killed two of his neighbors. “We don’t know if they’ll come in and get us in the night, break in while we’re asleep.”

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30 Sep 05 Anti-immigration group â€˜MexDonaldâ€™ author hit by pie

The co-founder of an anti-immigration group in Connecticut demanded Wednesday that government officials investigate the “disproportionate” hiring of “Hispanics” at McDonald’s restaurants after presenting what he had privately described to group members as his “MexDonald’s” study.

Paul F. Streitz, a marketing consultant and author from Darien, issued his call after recovering from being hit in the head with a cream pie thrown by an unidentified white man, who immediately ran from the room Streitz had rented in the West Hartford Public Library.

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30 Sep 05 Alaska : Young immigrants to city face a difficult job market

Now this is north of the border

ISER director Fran Ulmer and Anchorage School District Superintendent Carol Comeau discussed a report on the changing demographics of Anchorage and how it’s affecting the community at a Diversity Week lunchtime presentation Thursday.

They spoke to a standing-room-only, mostly white and middle-aged crowd in a conference room at City Hall. An exception was Guadalupe Marroquin, a city employee who is from Michigan and has Mexican parents.

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30 Sep 05 Increase in immigrants challenge schools. North Carolina

“Those two forces are colliding,” said Randy Capps, lead author of the “The New Demography of America’s Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act.”

Hispanics, who make up 12 percent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools population, account for most of the immigrant growth in the district. Nearly 2,500 more Hispanic students reported on the first day of school this year.

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29 Sep 05 Borders drawing new kind of illegal immigrant

The number of non-Mexicans who are illegally crossing America’s southern border has more than tripled over the past three years and is on pace this year to soar even higher.

A congressional study has found that only about 37,300 illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico were caught breaching the border in 2002. This year, through early July, the number has mushroomed to more than 119,000 – mostly from Latin American nations – a surge so far of more than 58 percent.

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29 Sep 05 Undocumented Mexican workers arrested in Big Sky, Montana

Seventeen illegal aliens from Mexico were arrested in Big Sky Tuesday, according to an immigration official with the Department of Homeland Security in Helena.
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All of them had been working in the construction trade in Big Sky, Monique Hirko, a federal official who interviewed the men, said. They had been earning salaries ranging from $8 to $22 an hour.

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29 Sep 05 Latina Lista: Illegal Immigrants are Asking for Help

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29 Sep 05 FAIR Responds to Pew Hispanic Center Report – â€˜So-Calledâ€™ Decline in Immigration Proves Misleading

Washington, DC-Findings from a new report estimating a recent â€˜so-calledâ€™ decline in immigration by the Pew Hispanic Center are inconclusive and misleading, cautions the Federation for American Immigration Reform. While the report indicates overall immigration is lower than it was in the late 1990â€™s, the nationâ€™s legal and illegal immigration are once again on the rise, observes FAIR.

The decline in legal immigration to the United States in recent years is not an indication that fewer people are arriving in this country. A more accurate estimate should include the millions of additional foreign-born nationals who are waiting for green cards or other legal status, not included in the reportâ€™s findings.

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29 Sep 05 Pew Hispanic Center Report Underscores Need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

The Pew Hispanic Center reported Tuesday that the number of illegal immigrants entering the country is increasing despite tighter border security. “The Pew Center report highlights in concrete terms what has become glaringly apparent — the U.S. immigration system is fundamentally broken,” said Deborah Notkin, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

AILA believes the only way to effectively control our borders and enhance our security, is to reform our immigration laws in a comprehensive way — so that legality is the norm, so that employers can legally employ the workers they need, so that families are not forced to remain separated for years on end, and so that immigrants who work hard and pay taxes can earn their way to lawful permanent status.

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28 Sep 05 A Soft Right for Talk Radio on Kilgore and Immigration

Linda Chavez, backed by 50,000 watts, was beaming forth the day’s headlines to Washington’s drive-time listeners: hurricanes, Cindy Sheehan, the vice president’s knees.

From her elegant pine-log retreat in a part of Loudoun County first cleared by Native Americans for their buffalo, she whetted the conservative commuter’s appetite with a promise of an Ann Coulter appearance later in the WMET-AM radio show.

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28 Sep 05 Sen. Nelson wants to stem illegal immigrants. Nebraska

Responding to what he identified as a major constituent concern, Sen. Ben Nelson said Tuesday he will propose a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Nelson will introduce legislation designed to help secure U.S. borders by increasing border patrol agents and improving surveillance.

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28 Sep 05 Hundreds of migrants swarm Spanish outpost

Immigration is not only an issue in this country

Hundreds of Africans using makeshift ladders tried to scale a razor wire barrier into a Spanish enclave in Morocco in the second mass assault on the border in 24 hours, the government said on Wednesday.

Spainâ€™s North African enclave of Melilla asked the army for help after 400 migrants tried to scramble into its territory on Tuesday night. Some 200 succeeded, adding to the 100 or more who entered during a bid by 500 people before dawn on Tuesday

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28 Sep 05 Mexican Consular ID cards stir immigration protests in Oregon

INDEPENDENCE, Ore. – On Saturday, undocumented immigrants had to move past protestors who were angry about Mexican identification cards being issued to people they say use the cards to get driver’s licenses and social services.

A group of protestors singing songs and holding anti-illegal immigration signs gathered outside an Independence school where Mexican Consular identification cards were being distributed.

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28 Sep 05 NY no longer immigrantsâ€™ port

Another take on yesterdays’ Pew Hispanic Report

The rate of immigration to New York State plummeted from 1990 to 2004, as new arrivals increasingly bypassed the home of the Statue of Liberty for more jobs and better housing in the South and Midwest, a Hispanic think tank announced yesterday.

And during the shift away from America’s historic port of entry, the number of immigrants who are in the country legally nearly has been surpassed by the number who are in the country illegally.

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