Posts Tagged ‘ immigration ’

"Utah won national attention this year for promoting a gentler approach to immigration when it passed a law essentially allowing illegal immigrants [sic] to remain in the state if they work and don't commit crimes. Yet on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center filed a federal lawsuit to stop the implementation next week of another Utah immigration law, one modeled on a controversial Arizona law that enlists local police to help root out illegal immigrants [sic]." (05/04/11)

"In the first move by a state to extend legal recognition to illegal immigrant [sic] laborers, the Utah Legislature has passed immigration bills that include a guest worker program that would allow unauthorized foreigners to work legally in the state. With the immigration package, passed in both chambers of the Republican-controlled Legislature late Friday, Utah made a sharp break with the hard-line trend in state immigration legislation that has been led by Arizona, which passed a strict enforcement law last April." (03/06/11)

"When it comes to border security, House Republicans have been outspoken and unambiguous. They say more resources are needed to stop illegal [sic] flows of immigrants, drugs and weapons entering the U.S., and insist the Obama administration has not acted aggressively enough to bolster border security. ... But even as GOP lawmakers demand tighter border enforcement as a prerequisite for comprehensive immigration reform legislation, Republicans in the House have approved a 2012 budget that seems to undermine that goal." (02/21/11)

"In state legislatures across the country, most of the immigration bills being debated aim to crack down on illegal immigration [sic]. Legislators are trying to cut off illegal immigrants [sic] from receiving public benefits, deny their U.S.-born children citizenship and force them out of states by granting local police the power to enforce immigration laws." (02/15/11)

"Arizona’s get-tough approach to illegal [sic] immigration has sparked court challenges likely to take years to resolve. Randy Terrill, a Republican state lawmaker from Oklahoma, won’t be waiting to see what judges decide. Terrill is among dozens of state legislators drafting measures that match or go further than the Arizona law, which requires police to check the immigration status of people stopped for questioning." (12/29/10)

"[Shahed] Hossain lived in the United States with his family for more than a decade, and had he carried his green card to Mexico that day, he would now be a citizen, like the rest of his immediate family. Instead, a confused run-in with a border guard landed him with a charge that leads directly to deportation — under one of a batch of laws Congress has written in recent years that have built a massive deportation dragnet. Hossain was among 319,000 people deported in fiscal year 2007; last fiscal year, the Obama administration deported a record number of people — more than 390,000." [hat tip -- JO] (12/15/10)