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Most Americans Favor Citizenship for U.S.-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile Americans still favor strong measures to crack down on illegal immigration, they oppose proposals to change the Constitution so that children born here to illegal immigrants would not automatically become citizens, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Feb. 2-7. Proposals to deny citizenship to what immigration hardliners call "anchor babies" born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents are unpopular with the public. Fifty-seven percent oppose changing the Constitution's 14th amendment that grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on American soil. Thirty-nine percent ...
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Raises Stakes in Immigration Fight With Obama
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAs the nation watches Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' inspiring recovery from an assassination attempt, the border state's bitter struggle to enforce immigration laws might seem like yesterday's headlines, far removed from the life-and-death drama of the deadly shootings in Tucson last month. But the immigration issue, or rather illegal immigration issue, never went away. It is still front and center for state officials -- "by far the number one issue," Gov. Jan Brewer said in announcing this week that Arizona would countersue the federal government for the right to police its border with ...
Tiffany Hartley: Falcon Lake Is a 'War Zone'
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Oct. 26) -- The woman who said her husband was fatally shot by Mexican pirates is speaking out on the issue of border violence, saying people need to pay attention to the "war" that's taking place. "We need to wake up to what's going on in our backyard," the woman, Tiffany Hartley, said on NBC's "Today" show. "We need to focus on what's going on over there." She and her husband, David Hartley, were riding Jet Skis while sightseeing on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake on Sept. 30, when she reported that pirates shot him in the head. His body hasn't been found. Texas authorities have warned ...
Conservative Activists Not Sold on GOP 'Pledge to America'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs House Minority Leader John Boehner unveiled the GOP's "Pledge to America" at the Tart Lumber Company in Virginia on Thursday, conservative activists around the country listened intently to find out if House Republicans had included their issues on the GOP's priority list for the near future. Although Erick Erickson at RedState.com blasted the pledge as "full of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity," other conservative activists praised the pledge as a good start, but just that -- a start. The document is heavy on economic themes, pledging to keep the ...
Sen. Mark Pryor Prods Janet Napolitano for Answers on Border Corruption
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) may be getting tired of prodding Department of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano. He's been dealing with her bureaucracy since spring on the issue of Mexican border security. On Thursday, Pryor nudged again. As chairman of a subcommittee of the Department of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Pryor sent Napolitano a letter requesting she answer a series of questions surrounding corruption of U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) agents. In July, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed Pryor's legislation, the ...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer: Nobody Does It Better
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Report: Illegal Immigration in US Sees Big Drop
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- With immigration as a hot-button issue ahead of this year's midterm elections, a new report shows that the number of illegal immigrants to the U.S. fell last year in its first and biggest drop in two decades. There were 11.1 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally in March 2009, down from a peak of 12 million two years earlier, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a report issued Wednesday. From 2007 to 2009, the number of illegals entering the country shrank to about 300,000 per year, down by nearly two-thirds from the estimated 850,000 per year from March 2000 to March ...
What $600M in Border Security Spending Buys
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- President Barack Obama is set to sign a $600 million border security bill today. The legislation was approved by the Senate Thursday and by the House on Tuesday in special August sessions. The money will be raised in part through increased visa fees for foreign personnel companies that bring skilled foreign workers to the U.S. -- with hikes from $320 to as high as $2,750 each, according to the Los Angeles Times. (India is not happy.) The fees will be levied on companies that hire 50 or more foreign workers or have half or more than half of their staff on foreign visas. Here's ...
Obama Signs Border Security Bill, Beefing Up Surveillance
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Obama signed into law a $600 billion border security bill Friday that will beef up surveillance on the U.S.- Mexico border. In a statement released Thursday, the president said the bill will make "an important difference" as his administration "continues to work with Congress toward bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform to secure our borders, and restore responsibility and accountability to our broken immigration system." In a press briefing on Friday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano hailed the bipartisan support for the bill and said the new law "demonstrates ...
Americans Split on Immigration Reform Priorities
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama last week renewed a call to make a priority of immigration reform that would tighten border security while providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. A USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted before that speech but released Tuesday, finds Americans split between which of those two goals of reform is more important. Fifty percent say halting the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. should take priority while 45 percent want emphasis on developing a plan to deal with immigrants now in the country illegally, according to the survey conducted June 11-13. Five percent ...
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