The DeMint Amendment to de-fund the federal lawsuit against Arizona was defeated last week by a 55-43 procedural vote, with no debate or final vote on the amendment allowed.
Hundreds of illegal alien students staged a protest near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. last week demanding Congress grant them amnesty.
Last Wednesday, the ACLU and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed separate lawsuits in Omaha’s U.S. District Court seeking an immediate injunction of the city of Fremont’s new immigration ordinance.
Senior Homeland Security officials announced last week that the 1,200 National Guard Troops President Obama agreed to send to the U.S.-Mexico border would begin arriving August 1st.
Eighty-one Members of Congress filed an amicus brief last week in U.S.A. v. Arizona to voice their support for Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law, SB 1070.
Illegal immigration costs federal and local taxpayers $113 billion a year. That is an average cost to native-headed households of $1,117 a year. This pioneering study brings together data and estimates of the fiscal cost resulting from federal, state and local expenditures on illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children. Separate estimates are available for each state.
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law on April 23, 2010. The legislative intent of the bill, set forth in Section 1, declares that the intent of the law is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona.
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The Environmentalist’s Guide to a Sensible Immigration Policy makes the connection between one of the most important issues facing Americans in their everyday lives — urban sprawl — and its principal cause: immigration-related population growth. All too often, so-called environmentalists pretend as if this connection does not exist.
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Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, known more commonly as Senate Bill (SB) 1070, was signed into law on April 23, 2010 by Governor Jan Brewer... A federal court has allowed some parts of the law to go into effect while higher courts decide on the constitutionality of other parts...
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