Earth Day Texas 2014
NumbersUSA had a booth at Earth Day Texas 2014 in Dallas to help promote the 2014 updated study on Urban Sprawl, "Vanishing Open Spaces". You can download the study here.
NumbersUSA had a booth at Earth Day Texas 2014 in Dallas to help promote the 2014 updated study on Urban Sprawl, "Vanishing Open Spaces". You can download the study here.
A survey conducted in 2013 of E-Verify has found that an overwhelming number of users had a positive experience when using the system. According to the survey, 92 percent of users found E-Verify to be effective and 89 percent found it to be highly accurate.
Other key findings in the survey include:
Boston Herald -- Joe Battenfeld, Hillary Chabot
The Patrick administration has informed Homeland Security officials the state “will have the ability” to dole out special driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants as part of its plan to comply with a tougher federal ID law.
The Center for Immigration Studies has issued a new report based on a recent DHS document that shows a decline in interior immigration enforcement in 2014 and, more disturbingly, that 167,000 convicted criminal aliens whose deportations have been ordered are still at-large in the U.S. The report by the Center's director of policy studies, Jessica Vaughan, found that deportations from the interior of the country are down 34% from 2013 and 58% from 2009.
The Arizona Republic -- Michael Kiefer
Another of Arizona's immigration laws was struck down Wednesday when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unconstitutional a law denying bond to undocumented immigrants charged with "serious" crimes.
The law, known as Proposition 100, was passed by voters in November 2006, during the height of anti-immigrant sentiment in the state.
A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston shows that "for every foreign-born nurse that migrates to a U.S. city there are between one and two fewer native RNs observed working in the city."
Breitbart -- Caroline May
The immigration reduction group Numbers USA has launched a new ad campaign in a number of states with tight Senate races highlighting the loss of jobs to immigrants.
Numbers USA’s ad asks simply, who should get the jobs: citizens and legal immigrants already here or new immigrants? It encourages people to see where their senator stands on the issue.
Fox News Latino -- Associated Press
An appeals court on Wednesday struck down a voter-approved law in Arizona that denies bail to immigrants who are in the country illegally and have been charged with a range of felonies that include shoplifting, aggravated identity theft, sexual assault and murder.
An 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law violates due-process rights by imposing punishment before trial.
The Daily Caller -- Neil Munro
The government-facilitated inflow of Central American migrant children and youths into U.S. schools and workplaces is at least 50 percent larger than has been reported by most establishment media outlets.
The media has copied President Barack Obama’s focus on 68,000 so-called “unaccompanied children,” but has mostly ignored the equally large inflow of 68,000 parents and minors who crossed the border in so-called “family units.”
At a Town Hall meeting on Thursday, Pres. Obama said it would be political "suicide" for Republicans not to embrace a mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, and he reinforced plans to move forward with a large-scale executive action that would grant amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal aliens after the November elections.