"The director of the state agency responsible for enforcing South Carolina's mammoth new immigration law says her department doesn't have the money needed to fully enforce it.
Adrienne Youmans, director of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, wrote a four-page letter to Sen. Larry Martin of Pickens on Friday explaining that while her agency can provide a "scaled-back start-up" of immigration enforcement this summer, it won't have the funds necessary to prepare for full enforcement under the budget now being debated.
"Unauthorized border crossings by Mexican authorities such as soldiers and police spiked more than threefold in 2008, according to an annual report the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency sought to keep secret.
Now that the report is public, the result of a lawsuit by a public-interest group, the agency is attempting to downplay its significance."
"Some border county sheriffs want Arizona schools to start asking students whether they're in this country legally.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik originated the idea and said millions of dollars in Arizona taxes go to teach English to children who have no legal right to be here. He also said there's a link involving illegal immigration, social problems and gangs.
The arrest of an undocumented immigrant returning last week from his LDS mission has sparked discussion at the highest levels of the church about how to limit such exposure in the future.
"With the known realization that those risks exist, then we want to do better, or at least learn more," LDS apostle Jeffrey R. Holland, said Friday during an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune . "We want to be more precise, if we can, about how to help, how to make [a mission] the calmest, most spiritually rewarding experience for everybody...."
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano echoed the warning and called it "very likely that we will see more serious presentations of illness and some deaths as we go through this flu cycle."
"In a normal seasonal influenza cycle, we would anticipate, across the United States, 35,000 deaths," Ms. Napolitano said. "Of course, this is not a seasonal flu, but I think it would not be unexpected that there will be some more severe illness and some deaths as we proceed forward...."
"A former FBI agent and William and Mary student has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after admitting she entered a sham marriage to gain U.S. citizenship more than seven years ago.
Yue Cheng, 26, of Williamsburg was sentenced to a year in prison by Judge Henry Coke Morgan, said Dana J. Boente, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Cheng pleaded guilty on Dec. 4 to five federal offenses, including marriage fraud and unlawfully claiming U.S. citizenship."
