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Arizona employer sanctions law goes mostly unused

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Thu, Dec 11^th 2008 @ 3:36 pm EST

The ballyhooed Arizona employer sanctions law that went into effect on Jan. 1 has been largely unused, a new University of Arizona study found.

The 27,617 firms signed up for E-Verify is up from nearly 19,000 in July 2007, but still represents only 5.6 percent of the estimated number of total firms in the state, Gans found.http://www.azstarnet.com/news/271160

By Brady McCombs Arizona Daily Star

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COMMENTARY: Napolitano will help enforce the border

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Thu, Dec 11^th 2008 @ 11:48 am EST

COMMENTARY: With the president-elect's most recent and most effective appointment - that of no-nonsense Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to be head of the Department of Homeland Security - we can finally hope that something intelligent will be done on immigration.

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Cleaning Firm Used Illegal Workers at Chertoff Home

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Thu, Dec 11^th 2008 @ 11:45 am EST

Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service screened the IDs of employees for a Maryland cleaning company before they entered the house of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation's top immigration official.

The company's owner says the workers sailed through the checks -- although some of them turned out to be illegal immigrants.

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Official Accused of Hiring Illegal Immigrants

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Wed, Dec 10^th 2008 @ 4:26 pm EST

A federal official with the job of overseeing immigration enforcement in three New England States was charged last week for hiring three illegal aliens to clean her Massachusetts home. Lorraine Henderson is the Boston area port director for the Department of Homeland Security and was caught counseling her housekeeper on how to evade deportation, but the housekeeper was bugged.

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Some of the alleged illegal immigrants were deported before

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Fri, Dec 5^th 2008 @ 3:47 pm EST

Homeland Security offers a free online program called E-Verify, where companies can validate employment eligibility. The site that might have been useful in this case, because as it turns out, ICE discovered three of the men arrested were deported before.

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The GOP and the Hispanic Voter - Full throttle on wrong track

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Fri, Dec 5^th 2008 @ 3:43 pm EST

In December 2005, Dennis Hastert, then House speaker, pandering to the hard right of the GOP, allowed Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) to push through the House a truly draconian piece of legislation that would have turned all undocumented immigrants and the priests and nuns who serve them into felons. ...

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Understanding the 67% hispanic vote for Obama

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Wed, Dec 10^th 2008 @ 3:40 pm EST

As part of conservatives' sober assessment of the 2008 election, we need to take a close look at the so-called "Hispanic vote." I offer the following observations, which are based on the latest available exit poll data and respected voter surveys. The real problem goes much deeper than John McCain's inept campaign.

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Economy may trump Obama's pledge on immigration

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Wed, Dec 10^th 2008 @ 3:37 pm EST

The combination of toughening workplace enforcement through an electronic program known as E-Verify and barring legalization could force illegal immigrants to "self deport," restrictionists say.

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Alabama City to Target Contractors who Hire Undocumented Workers

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Wed, Dec 10^th 2008 @ 10:20 am EST

The Albertville City Council in Northeastern Alabama approved a measure that will require contractors with three or more employees to use E-Verify. The city ordinance looks to ensure that contractors who provide services for the city hire employees that are legal to work in the United States.

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Leading Capitol Hill Publication Features NumbersUSA Call to Suspend Most Legal Immigration

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Tue, Dec 9^th 2008 @ 2:27 pm EST

The Washington-based publication Congressional Quarterly featured NumbersUSA's call to suspend most legal migration in light of recent U.S. employment statistics. In Roy Beck's blog from December 5, he called for "limiting immigration mostly to nuclear families and our fair share of internationally recognized special needs refugees" as a logical response to declining economic numbers.