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LA County Now Spending $1.6 Billion a Year on Just 3 Illegal Immigration Costs

The Los Angeles Times reports that Los Angeles County is now spending $1.6 billion a year on only three illegal immigration items:

$600 million a year for welfare and food stamps for children of US citizenship being raised by parents who are illegal aliens $500 million a year on healthcare for illegals [...]

Voters Support SB 1070’s Controversial Points

Phoenix Business Journal:  “A new poll shows that even the most controversial parts of Arizona’s new immigration law are seeing support from a majority of state voters.”

Arizona Asks for 3,000 National Guard Troops, but Gets 30 & 15 Signs Warning People of Drug Cartels & Human Trafficking

CNSNews:  ““We have a whopping 30 [National Guard troops] this week that are showing up,. . . .  But the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has placed 15 signs along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 that links San Diego with Phoenix and Tucson warning travelers of drug cartels and human [...]

U.S. Files New Lawsuit on Arizona Immigration Issue

Washington Post:  “The Justice Department filed another lawsuit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities [Phoenix area community colleges], saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.”

Can it get more bizarre?  The federal [...]

Arizona Sheriff Says Mexican Drug Cartels Control Parts of Arizona

Washington Times:  Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says,  “”Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona . . . , “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement.  They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as [...]

Buz Mills Raising Funds for Sheriffs’ SB 1070 Defense

Arizona Republic:  “Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate and millionaire businessman Buz Mills is taking on a new challenge.  He’s focusing his fundraising efforts on helping two Arizona sheriffs defend themselves against lawsuits challenging Arizona’s controversial immigration law.”

Santa Monica Cancels $3 Million Contract with Cavco because of SB 1070

Arizona Republic:  “The Santa Monica, Calif., City Council has canceled a $3 million contract with a Phoenix-based maker of manufactured homes [Cavco Industries Inc.] to protest Arizona’s new immigration law, even though it will likely cost the city more money.”

US to Ignore Federal Immigration Law & Drop Deportation of Thousands of Illegal Immigrants

Arizona Republic:  “The Obama administration is moving to throw out deportation cases against thousands of illegal immigrants if the immigrants have a potential path to legal residency.  The move could affect as many as 17,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas, including some who are currently being detained [...]

Feds Dismissing Deportation Cases Creates Backdoor Amnesty

Houston Chronicle:  “The Department of Homeland Security is systematically reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious criminal records, according to several sources familiar with the efforts.  Culling the immigration court system dockets of noncriminals started in earnest in Houston [...]

Confused SB1070 Critics Boycott Budweiser, Hensley for No Apparent Reason

Phoenix Business Journal:   “A Hispanic group opposed to Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 immigration measure has launched a boycott of Budweiser beer and the Phoenix-based Anheuser-Busch distributorship headed by Cindy Hensley McCain.”

Company Audits Up, Illegal Worker Arrests Way Down Since 2008

Fox News:  “Under Obama, employer audits are up 50 percent . . . . But under President Obama, the numbers of arrests and deportations of illegals taken into custody at work sites plummeted by more than 80 percent from the last year of the Bush administration. In the current fiscal year 2010, which [...]

Why Wasn’t United States v. Arizona Filed in the Supreme Court from the Outset?

The Volokh Conspiracy:  “Several readers asked me why United States v. Arizona — the case in which the U.S. is challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s law dealing with illegal immigrants — hasn’t been filed from the outset before the United States Supreme Court.”

See “Update and Correction on “Why Wasn’t [...]

August 16, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Investors Business Daily:  “Media Miss Cartels’ War In U.S.”

“Los Angeles and its suburbs are in grave danger of becoming outposts for Mexican drug- and immigrant-smuggling cartels, according to local law enforcement officials.”

This article says that the Los Angeles police department and the FBI say that they know [...]

Illegals Going to Three States to Get Drivers Licenses

Washington, Utah and New Mexico do not check citizenship before issuing a drivers license.  Given that a drivers license is one form if ID that can prove lawful presence in the U.S., guess where illegal immigrants are going to get drivers licenses.  That’s right – Washington, Utah and New Mexico.

August 10, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Hot Air:  “Congress passed law in 1996 that contradicts pre-emption argument”

“The federal law that has been on the books for more than decade … empowers state and local law enforcement to impose immigration law. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than 60 jurisdictions in states across the country have taken advantage of [...]

July 31, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Fox News:  “Arizona Appeal of Immigration Ruling Set For November”

2.  Wall St. Journal:  “Young Illegals Out Themselves, Daring To Be Deported”

3.  Fox News:  “94 Days to Decide: Arizona Law Thrusts Immigration to Forefront of 2010 Races”

4.  Las Angeles Times:  “Supreme Court leery of broad challenges to yet-to-take-effect state laws”

July 30, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Phoenix Business Journal:  “Brewer files fast-track appeal of ruling on immigration law”

2.  New York Post:  “Joke’s on Arizona – Judicial gymnastics on immigration law”

3.  New York Post:  “Looming threat from illegals: terror”

4.  USA Today:  “Immigration heats up the desert”

5.  USA Today:  “Our view on Arizona law: Myths mar efforts [...]

An Immigration Lawyer’s Advice: What to do if Detained in Arizona

New American Media:  “In recent weeks, immigration attorneys in Arizona and other states have been flooded with questions from anxious residents about how to avoid getting detained by immigration authorities and what to do if they or a loved one does get caught. Here’s some advice from Margarita Silva, an immigration lawyer [...]

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s Statement about Court Order Staying Enactment of Arizona’s

Here is the text of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s press release of July 28, 2010, about federal district Judge Susan Bolton’s order staying parts of SB 1070, Arizona’s illegal immigration law:

“I am disappointed by Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling enjoining several provisions of “The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” [...]

July 29, 2010, Articles on the Court Ruling Staying Portions of Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  New York Times:  “Showdown in Arizona”

2.  New York Times:  “Ruling Against Arizona Is a Warning for Other States”

3.  National Review:  “Detaining Arizona”

4.  Politico:  “Poll: 55% favor Ariz. law”

5.  Phoenix Business Journal:  “Pearce: Much of immigration law holds up”

6.  Phoenix Business Journal:  “Obama administration, DOJ welcome judge blocking SB1070, [...]

Text of Judge Susan Bolton’s Preliminary Injunction in US vs. Arizona

Those of you who want go delve into the finer points of law regarding United States District Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling of July 28, 2010, in the matter of U.S. vs. State of Arizona that stays the enforcement of parts of Arizona’s illegal immigration law known as SB 1070, should read the [...]

Federal Judge Stays Enforcement of Arizona’s Immigration Law – SB 1070

1. Investors Business Daily:  “Judging Arizona”

“If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: The federal government has no intent of enforcing the laws against rampant and brazen illegal immigration. Indeed, it will punish those states that try, leaving them at the mercy of the kidnappers, terrorists, gangsters, drug dealers and human [...]

July 28, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

Tomorrow is the day that Arizona’s illegal immigration law goes into effect, unless the start date is stayed by the federal district court.

1.  Arizona Republic:  “Arizona’s immigration law has little impact on Arizona’s tourism”

“The state’s strict new immigration law, passed in late April, had no noticeable impact on hotel-industry indicators in greater [...]

July 23, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Phoenix Business Journal:  “Quinnipac poll: Majority oppose immigration lawsuit challenging Arizona law”

2.  Phoenix Business Journal:  “State department warns Mexico travelers”

3.  Phoenix Business Journal:  “Arpaio setting aside space at Tent City to enforce SB1070”

4.  Arizona Republic:  “Federal judge won’t block all of Arizona’s immigration law”

5.  Arizona Republic:  “Hispanic GOP group [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder is Lying

Washington Examiner:  Attorney General Eric “Holder claimed “that the Arizona law allowing local police to inquire about the immigration status of those reasonably suspected of being illegal immigrants is ‘inconsistent with our federal Constitution.’  When Holder says SB 1070 is “inconsistent with” and ‘pre-empted by’ federal law, either he doesn’t know what [...]

July 19, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Michelle Malkin:  “Illegal Alien Gets Taxpayer Funded Penis Pump“

“A man in the country illegally who committed a $27,000 identity-theft crime in Scott County was able to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in governmental medical assistance, including surgery for an inflatable penis pump.”

2.  Wall St. [...]

July 16, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Phoenix Business Journal:  “Arizona sheriffs could countersue Obama administration over immigration law”

2.  Washington Examiner:  “Holder should drop the Arizona suit”

“The injury is the time and money Holder is wasting by suing a state for passing a statute that repeats, almost word for word, existing federal law — on the [...]

July 15, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  National Review:  “The Radicalism of the Anti-Arizona Suit“

“To make the case that the Arizona immigration law conflicts with, and therefore is preempted by, federal law, the Justice Department has to make an extraordinary claim — that the federal laws as written don’t matter so much.”

2.  [...]

July 14, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  The Daily Caller:  “Florida may have Arizona-like anti-illegal immigration law by August”

2.  Arizona Republic: “Lawsuit to limit human-smuggling prosecutions revived”

3.  Ann Althouse:  Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney’s jail policy is to report to ICE every new inmate who cannot produce proof he or she is a legal resident.

4.  Arizona Republic:  [...]

July 13, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1.  Wall St. Journal:  “Obama’s Immigration Fakery”

“In 2007, then-Sen. Obama helped derail an immigration bill he claimed to support. He’s no more serious about a bipartisan bill today.”

2.  Arizona Republic:  “Mich. AG’s brief to support Arizona immigration law”

3.  Arizona Republic:  “Mesa prepares to enforce Arizona immigration law”

4.  Arizona Republic:  “Arizona [...]

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