Arpaio said Reza was arrested for violating the terms of his release. Reza had been arrested a day prior during Thursday’s SB 1070 demonstrations in front of the Fourth Avenue Jail. Protestors remained planted across from the sheriff’s training facility Friday afternoon and evening, calling Reza’s arrest a blatant violation of civil rights. “Standing on …
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U.S. immigration officials are exploring ways to allow certain illegal aliens to stay in the country legally through administrative actions rather than the logjammed legislative process, including potentially tens of thousands of students. The memo explicitly states that deferring removal actions against an unrestricted number of illegal aliens, allowing them to stay here legally, “would …
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Despite a state law requiring businesses to verify that all new employees are legal workers, only about half of new hires in Arizona have been vetted by a federal system that checks their status.Only about a third of the state’s estimated 100,000 employers have even signed up for the E-Verify program. Penalizing
We all know how bad the federal government is at controlling our border, but we face the same problem in the system set up to handle immigration cases. Many people do not realize that illegal aliens who are caught end up in immigration courts that are part of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for […]
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than 3,300 pounds of marijuana from a vehicle hidden in brush in southern Arizona. On Monday morning, agents from the Casa Grande Station were responding to suspected illegal activity in the area south of the Federal Route 15 checkpoint when they spotted vehicle tracks leading off
BY LINDA BENTLEYThe heat was brutal in downtown Phoenix on Saturday, but that didn’t keep a couple of thousand citizens from all over the country, including people from as far away as New Jersey, from attending the Phoenix Rising rally at Wesley Bolin Park to show their support for Arizona, passage
“Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”– Barbara Jordan
The Obama administration wants the U.S. Supreme Court to void Arizona’s 2-year-old law designed to punish companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers.In legal papers filed Friday, Department of Justice attorneys argue that the law illegally infringes on the exclusive rights of the federal government. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said it specifically runs afoul of …
It’s all about money.That’s what it seems to come down to in the most recent flare-up of the immigration debate. Policy makers and pundits who want tougher policies against illegal immigrants argue that they cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. Those on the other side of the debate counter that illegal immigrants create demand and
Several days ago I wrote a piece on Unemployment and the disparities existing between upper and lower income workers. In that piece, I mentioned the negative impact that illegal aliens have on wages and job opportunities for those that are already suffering in this economy. Several folks took offense that I would