| 12/9/2007 |
Illegal immigration set-to is why we hold elections
In retrospect, my grandparents had it easy. They sailed here in steerage from Denmark at the turn of the last century, carrying little money and a squalling infant who much later became my mother. But they were legal, welcomed by a government that had enticed them to come with exaggerated claims of Western glories and jobs, jobs, jobs. Denmark was then, as was much of Europe, in a deep depression and the high unemployment rate was staggering.
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| 12/7/2007 |
Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the injunction against the No-Match Rule in San Francisco, California.
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| 12/6/2007 |
Kidding Ourselves About Immigration
What you are supposed to say about immigration--what most of the presidential candidates say, what the radio talk jocks say--is that you are not against immigration. Not at all. You salute the hard work and noble aspirations of those who are lining up at American consulates around the world. But that is legal immigration. What you oppose is illegal immigration.
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| 11/26/2007 |
Businesses encourage employees to learn Spanish
These days, many businessmen and women work with customers, suppliers or assistants who speak another language. Communication in frequently difficult, if not impossible.
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| 11/26/2007 |
Immigrants contribute $229B to NY economy
Immigrants make up more than a third of upstate New York's physicians and other physical scientists, but about 45,000 immigrants are also undocumented, according to a report released Monday.
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| 11/26/2007 |
Court Stays Proceedings in No-Match Litigation
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted DHS' motion to stay proceedings until 3/1/08, pending a new rulemaking effort that DHS maintains will address the court's concerns with its regulation on SSA no-match letters.
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| 11/19/2007 |
SSA Decides It Will Not Issue Employer "No-Match" Letters This Year
The Social Security Administration will not be sending out no-match letters to employers this year because of the lawsuit challenging the Homeland Security Department's worksite enforcement regulations, an SSA spokesman told BNA Nov. 13.
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| 10/14/2007 |
Judge Suspends Key Bush Effort in Immigration
A federal judge in San Francisco ordered an indefinite delay yesterday of a central measure of the Bush administration’s new strategy to curb illegal immigration. The judge, Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California, said the government had failed to follow proper procedures for issuing a new rule that would have forced employers to fire workers if their Social Security numbers could not be verified within three months.
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| 10/10/2007 |
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Press Statement Chamber Applauds Court Ruling in DHS "Social Security No-Match" Regulation
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce applauded today's ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to prevent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from issuing the so-called 'Social Security No-Match" letters pending a final judgment on the merits.
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| 10/10/2007 |
Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on the No-Match Regulation Ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Although the Judge rejected many of the plaintiff's legal challenges to the department's no-match regulation, we are disappointed by the district court's decision today that temporarily continued the injunction against the regulation. We are reviewing the decision with the Justice Department and will examine all of our options, including appeal.
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| 10/9/2007 |
Letter to Sen. John Cornyn Regarding Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Attached is a letter from Kevin Camarata, a masonry contractor, to Senator John Cornyn.
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| 10/5/2007 |
Chaos Coming
HAVING FAILED at comprehensive immigration reform, the Bush administration is on its way to failing at piecemeal immigration reform. Its new get-tough approach, unveiled in the summer, aims to deter unlawful entry to the country by forcing employers to fire illegal immigrants on their payrolls. The policy is a prescription for social, economic and bureaucratic mayhem masquerading as muscular enforcement. No wonder it has succeeded in uniting labor, business and civil rights groups in opposition
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| 11/1/2007 |
Immigrants in Arkansas: Illegal, but useful
THIS week executives from some of Arkansas's principal companies—Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat processor, Alltel, a wireless company, and Stephens, one of the biggest investment firms outside Wall Street—joined ministers, civic leaders and the local American Civil Liberties Union to form the Arkansas Friendship Coalition. The group, led by Steve Copley, a Methodist minister, stresses that states should abide by federal immigration laws rather than try to make their own.
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| 10/1/2007 |
Firms Brace for Crackdown on Illegal Labor
As a crucial hearing looms on a planned government crackdown on illegal immigrants in the workplace, many businesses are scrambling to figure out how they will cope with an expected loss of illegal labor.
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| 9/18/2007 |
Impact of the "No Match" Rule on Small Business
A letter from Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy to Michael Chertoff.
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| 9/1/2007 |
Judge stays rule requiring employers to fire illegal immigrants
A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Bush administration Friday from imposing a rule requiring employers to fire workers identified as illegal immigrants in government records or face possible prosecution.
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| 8/17/2007 |
New "No Match" Rule Creates Millions of New "Independent Contractors"
DHS and ICE are changing the rules and making a bad situation worse.
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| 6/20/2007 |
A report by the President's Council of Economic Advisers that confirms the research report by Nestor Rodriguez and Paula Pipes
"Our review of economic research finds immigrants not only help fuel the Nation's economic growth, but also have an overall positive effect on the income of native-born workers." - Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Edward P. Lazear
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| 2/5/2007 |
ABC Fights Amendments Bringing Immigration Debate to Minimum Wage Bill
In a Jan. 25 letter, ABC urged U.S. Senators to oppose amendments offered by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 (H.R. 2) that would bar federal contractors from receiving further federal government contracts if they employ undocumented workers, asserting that “the amendments would be better suited for the upcoming immigration reform debate.”
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| 2/1/2007 |
Senator John Cornyn and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee Send Joint Letter On Immigration
Every member of Congress will soon receive an unprecedented joint letter signed by Senator John Cornyn and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. The letter will introduce and be sent with a video on DVD produced by a group called Texans for Sensible Immigration Policy (“TxSIP”).
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| 1/29/2007 |
Labor Groups Both Target Sessions Amendment
Both business and union lobbyists are angling to have an illegal immigration amendment sponsored by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., removed from a minimum wage increase bill before it goes to the president. The amendment, which was hastily and unexpectedly approved 94-0 last week, would bar employers from seeking federal contracts for seven to 10 years if they are found to have employed illegal workers.
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| 12/15/2006 |
Our nation has a no-win policy on immigrant labor
At dawn on Tuesday more than a thousand Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on six plants owned by Swift & Co., one of the country's largest meat processors. Some 1,300 workers were arrested, and operations at all six slaughterhouses were suspended.
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| 11/21/2006 |
Most Americans favor guest-worker program: poll
Most Americans believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to become guest workers and eventually U.S. citizens, but Congress should do more to close the border to stop more illegals entering the country, according to a new poll published on Tuesday.
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| 11/21/2006 |
Let Illegal Immigrants Become Citizens, U.S. Voters Tell Quinnipiac University National Poll
By a 69 - 27 percent margin, American voters say illegal immigrants should be allowed into a guest worker program with the ability to work toward citizenship over a period of several years, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Immigration Nation
The United States is far less divided on immigration than the current debate would suggest. An overwhelming majority of Americans want a combination of tougher enforcement and earned citizenship for the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. Washington's challenge is to translate this consensus into sound legislation that will start to repair the nation's broken immigration system.
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| 10/19/2006 |
Point of View: The Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
There is little disagreement that our present immigration system doesn’t work. Efforts to tighten border control and compel employers to verify documents have had little effect.
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| 9/25/2006 |
TXSIP September 2006 Legislative Summary
On September 14, 2006, the House passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (H.R. 6061) authorizing the first in a series of border security initiatives House leaders intend to push through before the November elections.
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| 9/22/2006 |
Pickers Are Few, and Growers Blame Congress
The pear growers here in Lake County waited decades for a crop of shapely fruit like the one that adorned their orchards last month. Now harvest time has passed and tons of pears have ripened to mush on their branches.
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| 9/15/2006 |
Immigration raid cripples Georgia town
This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become little more than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants. The sweep has had the unintended effect of underscoring just how vital the illegal immigrants were to the local economy.
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| 9/6/2006 |
Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Do Not Let Politics Trump Sound Policy, Get Your Message to Congress! This week, Congress returns to Washington, DC for the last few weeks before the November elections. Immigration reform remains a top issue and House and Senate staffers still report that for every call/letter they receive backing a comprehensive solution they receive 100 anti-immigrant calls.
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| 9/1/2006 |
Undocumented Gains
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on immigration reform in July, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his city's economy would collapse if its undocumented immigrants were deported and suggested the same holds true for the nation.
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| 8/31/2006 |
Houston Chronicle: Immigration politics get more brutal
Called Texans for a Sensible Immigration Policy, the group had its third organizational meeting yesterday. Their message will be a practical one. Not only would mass deportation cripple key sectors of the economy, but fixing it means being able to tax it.
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