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FLORIDA INDEPENDENT: New ICE Rules Stop Deportation Of Immigrants Trying To Gain Legal Status

September 02, 2010

The Obama Administration shifted Bush-era immigration enforcement policy from job site raids and sweeps to deporting undocumented immigrants. In 2009, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportedabout 390,000 undocumented immigrants. Spanish-language TV Univision news reported on Thursday that the U.S. government has issued new rules aimed at halting the deportation of undocumented migrants who are in the process of legalizing their immigration status, if they have a family member who is a ...

ARIZONA REPUBLIC: Arizona Migrant Numbers Drop 21%

September 02, 2010

by Dennis Wagner - Sept. 2, 2010 12:00 AM Arizona‘s illegal-immigrant population appears to be shrinking, according to a new demographic study issued Wednesday. The study by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center puts Arizona’s undocumented population at 375,000 in March 2009, down 100,000, or 21 percent, in one year. Researchers cautioned that those statistics are merely suggestive of a decline because the study data were so limited there was a broad margin of error.   Because the study was ...

ABC NEWS: Study: Illegal Immigrant Population Shrinks, Crossings Down Sharply

September 02, 2010

Decline in Illegal Immigration Marks Break From Steady Growth Over Two Decades By DEVIN DWYER WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2010— The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has begun to shrink, ending two decades of steady growth, according to a new study by the Pew Hispanic Center. An estimated 11.1 million illegal immigrants lived across the United States as of March 2009, down nearly 8 percent from a peak of 12 million in 2007. Still, theunauthorized population remains a third larger than ...

FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS: New shift in US immigration policy could halt deportation of thousands

August 27, 2010

08/27/2010 - 13:05 Length: 3:28 minutes (3.17 MB) Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR) In a shift in immigration policy, federal authorities say they won’t deport some immigrants who are eligible to be granted legal status. The new rule by the Department of Homeland Security could affect an estimated 17,000 people who are married or related to a legal resident or US citizen – but who are also facing deportation. Tanya Snyder has the ...

POLITICO: Looking past McCain on immigration

August 26, 2010

By: Scott Wong August 26, 2010 12:04 PM EDT     Few expect John McCain to pick up the torch again for immigration reform, especially since the Arizona senator took such a hard right turn on the issue to beat back a conservative primary challenge from J.D. Hayworth this week.   But Hispanic- and immigration-rights activists say McCain isn’t the only senator who could serve as the Republican standard-bearer for immigration reform.   For one, they haven’t given up on Sen. Lindsey Graham ...

LA OPINION: Seguridad fronteriza

August 25, 2010

Alberto Ampuero | 2010-08-18   El presidente Obama cedió ante los llamados de los gobernadores y legisladores más conservadores y firmó una ley de 600 millones de dólares para endurecer la vigilancia en la frontera con México caracterizada como una zona al borde de ser invadida por una creciente ola de violencia, crimen, drogas e indocumentados. La que en los hechos no existe. De acuerdo con los datos oficiales, la región fronteriza está lejos de ser la que pintan en el Capitolio y la Casa ...

ABC NEWS: Immigration Impasse: Frustration as Comprehensive Reform Legislation Stalled

August 16, 2010

Senate Passes Border Security Bill, Immigrant Groups Disillusioned on Other Elements of Reform By DEVIN DWYER WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/immigration-senate-passes-border-security-bill-comprehensive-immigration/story?id=11388404 The Senate passed a $600 million measure Thursday to beef up U.S. border security in a rare bipartisan effort on immigration reform. It came during an equally rare special August session, held after most lawmakers have left Washington for ...

LA OPINION: Pronostica más deportaciones

August 16, 2010

Napolitano: nuevo contingente llegará a la frontera sólo en ocho meses Antonieta Cádiz   2010-08-14   WASHINGTON, D.C.— Ocho meses es el tiempo que la Secretaria de Seguridad Interna Janet Napolitano, estima para la llegada de los nuevos 1,500 efectivos a la frontera, tras la promulgación de la ley H.R. 6080, realizada ayer. Con ésta y una serie de medidas incluidas en la legislación, Napolitano aseguró que las deportaciones se incrementarán. Cerca de las 11 de la mañana el Presidente Barack ...

USA TODAY: Report: 5% of kids in U.S. born to illegal immigrants

August 11, 2010

By Alan Gomez   Four million children in the U.S. were born of illegal immigrant parents but were granted U.S. citizenship because they were born on American soil, according to a report released today. Those children represented about 5% of all the children in the U.S. under the age of 18 in 2009, according to the report from the Pew Hispanic Center. That percentage will increase in the future, however, as an estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008 — about 8% — came ...

THE HILL: House Democrats return from brief recess for unfinished business

August 11, 2010

By Jared Allen and Russell Berman - 08/09/10 09:00 PM ET   House Democrats are set to approve $26 billion in emergency state aid, fight off a lame-duck lockout and pass a border-security bill before they wrap up their work period Tuesday and repack their bags for home. The unusual August work session was prompted by the Senate’s surprise passage last week — after the House had recessed until mid-September — of a $26 billion package of teacher and Medicaid funding for states.   A second surprise ...

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