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Utahns favor immigration bill by wide margin

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Rep. Stephen Clark, R-Provo, has proposed a bill that will fund a $150,000 study assessing the fiscal impacts of undocumented workers on the state in five, 10 and 25 years. The bill also would delay the implementation of immigration bill SB81.

"We're putting a big burden on the state in implementing this, and on employers," Clark said. "We should know every piece of data that is out there. There is no appetite to rush this."

Mexicans working abroad sent less money home in '08

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The amount of money sent home by Mexican migrants fell in 2008 for the first time on record, part of a worldwide trend that could worsen as emigrants from developing countries lose jobs in the global financial crisis. ... Experts blame a crackdown on illegal immigration, which has stemmed the flow of those heading north to seek work, as well as the U.S.

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

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

Napolitano Pledges Shift In Immigration Focus

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Janet Napolitano, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, vowed yesterday at her Senate confirmation hearing to shift the focus of U.S. immigration enforcement from illegal workers to the prosecution of employers who hire those workers, signaling a clear break with the outgoing Bush administration.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011501542.html

By Spencer S. Hsu - Washington Post

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