Arizona Targets Automatic U.S. Citizenship

"Arizona is again leading the nation in anti-illegal immigration initiatives.

The desert state's lawmakers this week introduced a bill that aims to take away automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of people who are in the country illegally."

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Posted by Izabel Pintor

Mississippi’s Senate Passes Anti-Immigration Law

Thought the SB 1070 bill was only popular in Arizona? Guess again.

Mississippi has created it’s own version of the bill, the SB 2179, which was passed in the state’s Senate on Tuesday. The measure permits law enforcement officers to check an individual’s immigration status during a traffic stop or while enforcing other laws if they feel that the person is reasonably suspicious.


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published by Sylvia Lopez

Tackling the shortage of Latinos in math, science

By DAVID OLSON
The Press-Enterprise

Matt Valdez graduated with honors in June from UC Riverside's undergraduate biochemistry program. He is now doing what he loves: Spending hours in a UCR lab in pursuit of a Ph.D. in neuroscience.

But the Moreno Valley man would not be on track toward a career in academia if he hadn't benefited from federally funded programs aimed at boosting Latino representation in science- and math-related fields.

"If it wasn't for the financial assistance, I wouldn't be in graduate school," he said.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/highereducation/stories/PE_News_Local_D_latinoscience02.e3f43e.html

Republicans want a return to workplace immigration raids

Reporting from Washington —

Deportations of illegal immigrants have reached new heights for two years running under President Obama, statistics show, but Republicans say they'll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status.

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Posted by Perla Parra

Arizona bill targets citizenship for children of illegal immigrants

PHOENIX —

— Arizona lawmakers are again diving into the national debate over illegal immigration, proposing a bill that challenges automatic U.S. citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.

The proposal Thursday comes after Arizona last year enacted one of the nation's toughest local laws on illegal immigration. Much of it has been suspended by the courts.

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[Posted by Perla Parra]

Feds estimate deportation costs $12,500 per person

WASHINGTON—A high-level immigration official says it costs $12,500 to arrest, detain and deport each person removed from the U.S.
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Posted by Elizabeth Vargas

Immigration and Emigration (need for reform)

Immigration and Emigration

From the time of the nation's founding, immigration has been crucial to the United States' growth and a periodic source of conflict. In recent decades, the country has experienced another great wave of immigration, the largest since the 1920s. However, for the first time, illegal immigrants outnumbered legal ones. The number of illegal immigrants peaked at an estimated 11.9 million in 2008, and a 2010 study shows that the figure dropped to about 11.1 million in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades.

Republicans and Democrats have agreed for years on the need for sweeping changes in the federal immigration laws. President George W. Bush for three years pushed for a bipartisan bill before giving up in 2007 after an outcry from voters opposed to any path to legal status for illegal aliens. Since then the issue had in effect been dormant, as both parties were wary of the divisive passions it can arouse. But immigration reform came back to life in April 2010 after the passage of a new Arizona statute that is the nation's toughest on illegal immigration.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration-and-emigration/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=immigration%20reform&st=cse

One Border, Many Sides

President Obama, appearing on Wednesday with Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, denounced Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration as “a misdirected expression of frustration over our broken immigration system.” Though the law is new, the frustration is most certainly not.

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Right Wing is Winning Immigration Debate

January 15, 2011

'Nativist Lobby' is Winning on Immigration

By Mort Kondracke

The failure of Congress and two presidents to enact immigration reform is plunging the nation into an ugly future.

Call it the Arizonification of America.

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[posted by Prof. Montejano]