Archive for March, 2010

• Mexican flag has no place in an immigration march

  Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

  Let’s get this out of the way: I am the daughter of immigrants who fled Cuba in 1960. They arrived in this country with the blessing of the U.S. government, which generously offered people like my parents refuge from Castro’s regime. My parents became fluent in English, became citizens as soon [...]

• Broad coalition packs Mall to urge overhaul of immigration laws

  Monday, March 22nd, 2010

  Si se puede
  Tens of thousands of immigrants and their supporters from across the United States packed the Mall on Sunday in a last-ditch effort to spur Congress and the White House to overhaul the nation’s immigration system and offer its 10.8 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship this year against [...]

• The Slaughter on the Southern Border

  Monday, March 22nd, 2010

  At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last year, President Obama vowed to make ending border violence a “top priority.” How’s that hope and change working out? Drug-related crime is out of control, the State Department is warning spring-break vacationers to avoid the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila [...]

• 111 arrested in 2-day Sheriff’s immigration, crime sweep

  Monday, March 22nd, 2010

  Arpaio launches 2-day crime, immigration sweep today
  PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office finished a two-day crime and immigration sweep throughout metropolitan Phoenix Friday night with over 100 arrests.
  It was the 14th such patrol by Sheriff Joe Arpaio within the last two years.
  Four hundred deputies and volunteer posse members fanned out in communities in patrols [...]

• Obama Backs Immigration Plan That Includes Pathway to Citizenship, Biometric Social Security Cards

  Monday, March 22nd, 2010

  Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday “to do everything in my power” to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year.
  Obama said work on an immigration bill should move forward based on an outline released Thursday by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey [...]

• Obama backs plan to legalize illegals

  Monday, March 22nd, 2010

  Senators’ plan ‘promising’
  President Obama gave a thumbs up Thursday to the outline of a plan to legalize illegal immigrants and create a flow of low-skilled foreign workers for the future, saying the immigration bill being worked on by a Republican and a Democrat is “promising.”
  In their broad blueprint, Sens. Charles E. Schumer, [...]

• Drug smugglers use homemade spikes

  Monday, March 22nd, 2010

  Border patrol agents have had spikes thrown at their vehicles 5 times this year
  CORPUS CHRISTI — Authorities have used spike strips for years to stop vehicles they are pursuing. Now drug smugglers are using homemade spikes to evade the law.
  So far this year, border patrol agents have had the spikes thrown at [...]