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Napolitano lists Canadian border a top security priority

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"The northern border of the United States has become, since 9/11, important to our national security," Miss Napolitano wrote in an action directive issued Friday.

"As we have designed programs to afford greater protection against unlawful entry, members of Congress and homeland security experts have called for increased attention to the Canadian border," the directive said.

Day laborers face hard choice

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More and more, day laborers in the metro area are finding it hard if not impossible to find steady work, a stark turnaround from recent years, when the housing boom and a bustling economy provided regular jobs.

Now, with the competition for jobs increased by workers laid off from full-time jobs, they face the hard choice of returning to their native countries or toughing it out herehttp://www.kansascity.com/105/story/998749.html

By Malcolm Garcia - The Kansas City Star

Nebraska Egg Plant Accused of Hiring Undocumented Workers

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A former employee of Henningsen Foods in David City, Neb. has filed a suit against the company charging that they knowingly hired undocumented workers and gave them preferential treatment. The former worker was fired from the plant in 2007 and the charges are part of a wrongful-termination lawsuit against the plant.

Bush right on Ramos and Compean

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This page believes that the agents committed serious felonies and were rightly prosecuted. But the sentences they received were also too long. As we have argued in the past, taking discretion away from judges by imposing mandatory sentencing rules is almost never a good idea. By granting a commutation rather than a full pardon, Bush said -- rightly -- that the agents' punishment should be reduced but that the underlying conviction should remain on the books.

5-Year Sentence for Africa-To-U.S. Smuggler

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A Ghanaian man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to smuggling East African economic refugees into the United States via Latin America. Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim, 27, was known as ''Silk the Shocker'' when he lived in Mexico in 2007 operating what U.S. government officials said was a major smuggling pipeline.http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/22/washington/AP-Smuggling-Sentence.html?_r=1

The Associated Press

New Sen. Gillibrand May Be NY's Top Democratic Champion for the Unemployed (supports keeping illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs)

Updated: January 29th, 2009, 5:14 pm

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  by  Roy Beck

No Democrat in New York's large congressional delegation has shown more promise in truly bringing relief to the unemployed, especially in her approach to immigration issues. After only one term in the U.S. House, we still have a lot to learn about Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). On many immigration issues related to the welfare of American workers, she did not take a stand. But when she did take a stand, it was generally good -- earning her a respectable B Immigration-Reduction Grade from NumbersUSA. 

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