| 6/4/2008 |
Federal Judge Grants Injunction on Immigration Law
Court Delays Enforcement of Oklahoma Immigration Law Judge says "substantially likely" immigration law is unconstitutional U.S. Chamber of Commerce News - June 4, 2008 A U.S. District Court judge postponed enforcement of employer-related portions of an Oklahoma immigration law because it is "substantially likely" that the provisions of the law unconstitutionally interfere with federal regulation of the employment of unauthorized workers.
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| 6/3/2008 |
The Great Immigration Panic
Someday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don't mean dollars, though those are being squandered by the billions. The true cost is to the national identity: the sense of who we are and what we value. It will hit us once the enforcement fever breaks, when we look at what has been done and no longer recognize the country that did it.
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| 5/21/2008 |
Enforcement-without-Reform: Success or Failure? 12 Million Reasons to be Skeptical of Deportation-Only Policies
On Thursday, May 22, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism will hold a hearing on "The Border Security Challenge: Recent Developments and Legislative Proposals."
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| 5/20/2008 |
They May Be Illegal But We Still Need Them
The market is telling us something that many of us don't want to hear. It whispers it in the numbers that filter, largely overlooked, through the immigration debate. Consider the most basic: In Texas, we have an estimated 1.1 million undocumented workers, compared with 450,000 people listed as unemployed.
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| 5/11/2008 |
Jacoby sets up ImmigrationWorks USA to educate public on benefits of immigration
A former fellow of the Manhattan Institute who has advised the Texas Border Coalition on immigration issues in the past has set up a new national organization to promote comprehensive immigration reform.
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| 5/11/2008 |
Business of reform: America's employers finally speak out for sound immigration policy
The failure to pass a comprehensive immigration reform package last year was a bad piece of business. It left more than 12 million illegal workers in limbo; continued a ludicrous visa system that leaves out low-skilled workers; and showed that a noisy minority could drown out the majority of Americans, who consistently backed the reform bill's main goals.
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| 5/8/2008 |
Stop Making Employers the Immigration Enemy
The recent raid of the Shipley Donut factory here has brought the immigration debate back to our doorstep. During the first six months of this fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained more than 2,700 illegal immigrants in its work-site operations, putting it on pace to significantly top the more than 3,600 apprehensions made for all of fiscal 2006.
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