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Monthly Archive: February 2009
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Feb 13
House Judiciary Committee Calls For Federal Investigation of Sheriff Arpaio’s Abuses
The House Judiciary Committee released a letter today calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct a federal investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s enforcement tactics in Maricopa County (AZ). Arpaio has transformed his police department into an immigration-enforcement agency, gaining international notoriety in the process. Armed with a 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/13/house-judiciary-committee-federal-investigation-arpaio/
Feb 12
H-1B Restrictions Harm, Not Help Economy
Photo from flickr. Everyone agrees that we urgently need to fix the economy, but there are many different ideas about how to do it. In the latest Congressional debate over the stimulus bill, restricting immigration came up as a way to protect U.S. workers. While the final language of the bill is still in flux, …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/12/everify-h1b-protectionist-restrictions-harm-economy/
Feb 11
Communities Across the Nation Rethink Hard-Line Immigration Laws
Photo by jvoves. Amidst a deep economic recession and a growing climate of fear and alienation within immigrant communities, many states, cities and counties that “plunged into the immigration debate are having second thoughts,” reports USA Today. In states like Texas, Alabama and elsewhere, hard-line immigration legislation has been repealed or modified by lawmakers that …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/11/communities-rethink-hard-line-immigration-laws-287g/
Feb 10
Prince William County Crusader Hangs Up Anti-Immigration Hat
Photo by bullish. Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman, Corey Stewart, has been at the forefront of an anti-immigrant crusade, setting the gold standard for local law enforcement “crackdowns” on the immigrant community in the last few years. Recent shifts in the political wind, however, have conveniently blown this Virginia Republican away from his …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/10/prince-william-county-crusader-hangs-up-anti-immigration-hat/
Feb 09
Steele Rewords, not Redefines GOP’s Immigration Stance
New RNC Chairman, Michael Steele declared in his acceptance speech that it’s “time for something completely different.” Yet when it comes to immigration, Steele is side-stepping pragmatic politics and choosing to stick with the same hard-line position that soured Latino and immigrant voters and contributed to the GOP’s devastating losses this past election year. When …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/09/steele-rewords-not-redefines-gop%e2%80%99s-immigration-stance/
Feb 06
ICE’s Costly Net Catches Non-Fugitives, Misses Violent Criminals
Photo by remuz. The Bush Administration’s increased interior enforcement measures were originally billed as necessary for national security and public safety. But it appears that very few terrorists or violent criminals have been caught. A new report by the Migration Policy Institute entitled “Collateral Damage: An Examination of ICE’s Fugitive Operations Program” finds that as …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/06/ice%e2%80%99s-costly-net-catches-non-fugitives-misses-violent-criminals/
Feb 05
Unemployed Americans Are Just Collateral Damage in War on Immigrants
Photo by le Haricot. It would seem that the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and the Heritage Foundation regard unemployed Americans as little more than collateral damage in their endless war against immigrants. Both groups have concocted a new and predictably anti-immigrant argument against passage of the economic stimulus bill now under consideration in the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/05/economic-recovery-everify-stimulus-package-immigration/
Feb 04
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Stages Immigrant-Degradation March for the Cameras
Video by America’s Voice. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Phoenix, Arizona, seems to have an appetite for publicity so insatiable that it overrides both rationality and morality. His latest stunt—announced yesterday in an official press release, no less—comes today, when he will order “approximately 200 illegal aliens to be chained and marched” from the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/04/sheriff-joe-arpaio-stages-immigrant-degradation-march-for-the-cameras/
Feb 04
Arpaio Orders Move of Hundreds of Detained Immigrants to Tent City
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Phoenix, AZ will chain together hundreds of detained immigrants tomorrow and force them to march out of a detention facility and into a “Tent City”. More information coming up…
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/02/04/arpaio-orders-move-undocumented-immigrants-tent-city/
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