Migration Flow is Stabilized

Totaled 11.2 million illegal immigrants in 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. - "No significant changes. " So described, the Pew Hispanic Center, on Tuesday, the number of undocumented immigrants in 2010, a new report. There are a total of 11.2 million.



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Posted by Mariana Verdin

Arizona Sheriff Amid Controversy

Hundreds were in favor and against the Arizona sheriff who said he was mecca of prejudice

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) .- Hundreds of people demonstrated today outside the offices of the Pima County Sheriff in favor and against official said Arizona had become the "Mecca" of prejudice and intolerance in the United States .



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Hispanic Republicans tone down immigration talk

AUSTIN, Texas — As a Republican, Rep. Aaron Pena is expected to take a hard line on immigration. But as a Latino who represents a heavily Hispanic district along the U.S.-Mexico border, the South Texas lawyer finds some of the anti-immigrant proposals in the Legislature to be unfair and unnecessarily harsh.

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Study finds jump in immigration prosecutions

New government data shows the Obama administration has sharply increased immigration prosecutions and has stepped up cases against white-collar crimes, drug violations, organized crime and official corruption.

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11.2 Million Illegal Immigrants in U.S. in 2010, Report Says; No Change From ’09

About 11.2 million illegal immigrants were living in the United States in 2010, a number essentially unchanged from the previous year, according to a report published Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research organization in Washington.

Despite continuing high unemployment among American workers, record deportations by the Obama administration and expanding efforts by states to crack down, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the work force — about eight million — was also unchanged, the Pew report found. Those workers were about 5 percent of the American work force.

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Posted by Perla Parra

HATE CRIME

3 Ex-Officers on Trial in Obstruction Case

Three former Pennsylvania police officers went on trial Thursday on charges of obstructing justice in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant in 2008, a prosecution that Hispanics have come to view as a national test case for treatment of Latinos

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/us/14trial.htmlscp=1&sq=mexican+hate+crime&st=nyt

Report: Immigration law not enforced consistently

ATLANTA—Some local law enforcement agencies, particularly in the Southeast, are turning over illegal immigrants who commit even minor offenses to federal authorities for deportation, while others are focused on deporting more violent criminals, according to a report released Monday.

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Posted by Elizabeth Vargas