A Falfurrias woman is dead after police say a vehicle full of
illegal immigrants drove through her house. Family members identify that woman
as 70-year-old Bertha Gonzalez.
Police say Gonzalez was asleep when a Chevy Suburban crashed through her
bedroom around 2:00 Saturday morning. They say the driver of that car and his
seven passengers are all illegal immigrants.
NumbersUSA, which advocates for low levels of immigration, recently gave
Perry a D- grade for his various policy stances. While the grade
actually puts him in the middle of the pack among presidential
contenders (only Michele Bachmann is in "B" territory), Perry's close
association with the border guarantee that he'll receive plenty more
attention. According to the group's president, Roy Beck, the biggest
knock on Perry is his opposition to mandating the use of E-Verify, a
federal electronic system for checking prospective workers' immigration
The Department of Homeland Security has told the nation's governors that
the agency doesn't need their approval to run Secure Communities in
their states. Secure Communities is a program managed by DHS that
identifies criminal illegal aliens who have been booked into state and
local prisons.
Our call for replacement-level immigration (a reduction in annual numbers by perhaps 80%) has just received a huge boost of validity in a new book -- Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife -- by Dave Foreman. Over the last four decades, few people have been more true and highly-publicized in their championing of the U.S. environment than Foreman. Essentially, he concludes that wildlife in the U.S. face a dismal future without deep cuts in immigration.
Sixteen countries, including Mexico, have filed briefs supporting the
Department of Justice's lawsuit against Alabama's recently passed
immigration enforcement law. In June, the Alabama legislature passed a
bill that many believe is tougher than Arizona's SB1070 bill that also
drew a lawsuit from federal prosecutors last year. According to the
attorney who filed the briefs, the 16 countries "want one immigration
law and not 50."
The "labor shortage" claim is an old lobbying gambit that reporters still haven't caught onto. Mass-immigration activists learned decades ago that the press loves a scary story about shortages, whether it is true or not. In 2007, just before the recession Michael S. Teitelbaum, Vice President of the Sloan Foundation testified before Congress and noted that interest groups have a right to promote their own interests. His testimony rings as true in this jobless recovery as it did four years ago before the recession.
San Bernardino County has implemented a policy to require all contractors that do business with the County to use the federal government’s E-Verify system to ensure that their employees are legally authorized to work in the United States. http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/required-29134-san-bernardino.html
A federal appellate court reversed its original ruling that found
Hazleton's local ordinance requiring businesses to use E-Verify was
unconstitutional. The court was instructed by the Supreme Court to
revisit its ruling after upholding Arizona's statewide law earlier this
year.
In June of 2011, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed into law
restrictions against illegal immigration, considered by many political
analysts as the toughest in the nation. Governor Bentley labeled the law
as the “strongest immigration bill in the country.”
However, as seen in most instances, church groups in Alabama are coming
out publicly against the law and pushing for open-border measures. The
President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Mark Tooley,
described the church’s belief as, “Any border enforcement is commonly
derided as ‘militarization.’ And illegal immigrants are routinely
likened to the Holy Family fleeing to Egypt, or Abraham searching for
the Promised Land.”
Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.) has joined NumbersUSA's 5-for-5 Club after cosponsoring Rep. Bob Goodlatte's SAFE for America Act that would end the Visa Lottery. Rep. Miller has cosponsored at least one bill in each category of our "5 Great Immigration Solutions". Rep. Miller is a long-time champion for lower immigration levels, and in the previous Congress, he joined Reps. Sue Myrick and Lamar Smith in forming the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus in Congress.