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Cleaning Firm Used Illegal Workers at Chertoff Home

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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.

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

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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. ...

Texas-based Pilgrim’s Pride seeks bankruptcy protection

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Federal immigration officials in April arrested more than 280 workers at Pilgrim’s Pride plants in five states, charging them with identity theft to obtain employment. Pilgrim’s Pride was not charged in the case.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6141828.html

By R.G. Ratcliffe, Houston Chronicle

Va. Panel on Immigration Steps Back From Hard Line

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Virginia, known for some of the nation's toughest policies on illegal immigration, appears to be abandoning its hard-line approach as state officials consider proposals to help foreign-born residents assimilate, including increasing the number of English classes.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112302477.html?hpid=moreheadlines

By Anita Kumar, Washington Post

Overpopulation and Over-Immigration Threaten Water Supply, Says Ad Campaign

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A Census Bureau report indicates that the U.S. population will rise to 439 million by 2050, or 135 million more than today. More than 80 percent of U.S. population growth will continue to be a direct result of immigration and births to immigrants. In California -- where the population increases by a half million per year -- that immigration component accounts for virtually 100 percent of the growth.

Day Laborer Jobs Dwindle

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More than 50 day laborers stood, bored, anxious and mostly silent, in the sun-blasted parking lot of a Home Depot here last week, tracking the ebb and flow of customers and hoping for work. The hours crawled by. Six, maybe seven men scored jobs. The rest just waited.

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