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
A BROKEN IMMIGRATION COURT SYSTEM
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 […]
$2.7M of pot in Casa Grande, $569M found Oct-May
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
Thousands brave blistering heat to support the rule of law
BY LINDA BENTLEY
The 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
Phoenix Rising: Bikers for border security
“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
Feds want hiring bill repealed
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 […]
Expensive Aliens: How Much Do Illegal Immigrants Really Cost?
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
Unemployment Solution
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
Arizona: more economics than race
Currently, about 460,000 illegal aliens from Mexico and points south are in Arizona. Arizonans contend the illegal aliens are adversely impacting their standard of living. Is this simply an Anglo vs. Hispanic conflict? Or, is the underlying problem one of economics? Recently, Washington Post columnist George Will observed the United
Arizona deputy shot; illegals suspected
A veteran sheriff’s deputy was shot and wounded Friday after encountering a group of suspected illegals who apparently had been hauling bales of marijuana along a major smuggling corridor in the Arizona desert — a violent episode that comes amid a heated national debate over immigration.
State and federal law enforcement agencies deployed helicopters and scores