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Immigrant Unemployment Highest Since 1994

April 26th, 2009 · No Comments

I guess you know things are bad when illegal immigrant unemployment numbers are rising.  And they are.
According to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, unemployment among both legal and illegal immigrants was higher in the first quarter of 2009 than at any time since 1994, when immigrants were first separated out in [...]

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Cole Calls on Bush to Pardon Border Partrol Agents

December 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) sent a letter to President George W. Bush late yesterday asking him to commute the sentences and issue pardons for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.
In October 2006, Ramos and Compean were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison after shooting an illegal immigrant who was believed [...]

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Rudy Walks in Shoes of an Illegal Immigrant

December 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Rudy Giuliani checked himself into a St. Louis hospital last night after complaining of flu-like symptoms, according to an AP report. I, for one, suspect the Republican presidential candidate will attempt to take advantage of his opportune illness — genuine or concocted — to convey the image of a presidential candidate who knows what [...]

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Illegal Immigrant Charged in St. Louis Crash

October 27th, 2007 · 10 Comments

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the man who crashed his SUV into a Clayton, Mo., restaurant last month (see the BMW posts Illegal Immigrant Crashes Into Diners in $50K SUV and Illegal Immigrant Repeat Crash Offender) has been indicted on charges of violating immigration law.
The newspaper reported today that U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway charged 23-year-old [...]

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Statistics Show Slowdown in Deportation Efforts

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Bernard, at A Certain Slant of Light, published an insightful post yesterday on the subject of immigration and the way the topic is treated by decision-makers on the staff of a newspaper in one of the nation’s largest cities, Houston. Take a look at how it begins:
James Pinkerton, who normally gets front-page coverage in [...]

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