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Arizona law helps Va. GOP find its voice in immigration dispute again

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Virginia Republicans who had backed away from the hot-button topic of illegal immigration the past couple of years, concerned that the hard-line approach could backfire at the ballot box, are embracing the issue once again.

Republicans were emboldened after Arizona legislators passed a tough new law, even more so when the Obama administration, in a rare move, sued to prevent the most controversial sections from taking effect.

Annals of executive overreach

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Last week, a draft memo surfaced from the Department of Homeland Security suggesting ways to administratively circumvent existing law to allow several categories of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and, indeed, for some to be granted permanent residency. Most disturbing was the stated rationale.

Terrorist Smuggling Into U.S. a Real Concern

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Richard Stana, the Government Accounting Office’s (GAO) Director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues, testified before a congressional subcommittee on July 22 that “alien smuggling along the southwest border is an increasing threat to the security of the United States and Mexico as well as to the safety of both law enforcement and smuggled aliens.”http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4180-terrorist-smugglin

By Joe Wolverton -- The New American

Unions Stand to Gain Strength From Legalization Efforts

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For most of their history, labor unions opposed attempts at loosening immigration laws and often threw their weight behind restrictionist measures. During the most recent overhaul effort in 2007, a schism among unions cracked an otherwise willing liberal coalition and helped defeat the reform bill. But now, in the wake of Arizona’s strict and highly controversial new immigration law, labor has united to support immigration reform with unprecedented vigor.

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