OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma House committee has approved anti-illegal immigrant legislation that would give Oklahoma law enforcement officials new authority to assess the immigration status of motorists.
The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill Monday and sent it to the full House for action.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Monday, March 14, 2011
New AZ Bill Requires Hospitals to Check Citizenship
The Arizona Republic reports:
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing today on a bill that would require hospitals to check patients’ immigration status.
It’s called sb1405, and here are a few highlights:
1. It would require hospitals to confirm an individual is a legal resident before admitting him or her for non-emergency care.
2. The hospital would have to notify federal immigration officers if the individual was not in the country legally.
3. It would allow hospitals to provide emergency care to illegal immigrants, but it would require them to report the individuals once the care was completed.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing today on a bill that would require hospitals to check patients’ immigration status.
It’s called sb1405, and here are a few highlights:
1. It would require hospitals to confirm an individual is a legal resident before admitting him or her for non-emergency care.
2. The hospital would have to notify federal immigration officers if the individual was not in the country legally.
3. It would allow hospitals to provide emergency care to illegal immigrants, but it would require them to report the individuals once the care was completed.
for more, click here
[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Colorado Lawmaker Kills His Own AZ-type Immigration Bill
Here’s a new twist in the plot where immigration meets reform and the courts.
In Colorado an Arizona-type immigration bill was scuttled because the bill’s sponsor figured it would cost too much to defend it in court.
According to the Denver Post Rep. Randy Baumgardner withdrew the bill he introduced that
would have required all local police to attempt to determine whether a person being questioned was in the country illegally. The bill also would have criminalized acts such as stopping to hire an illegal street worker or knowingly concealing an illegal alien.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
In Colorado an Arizona-type immigration bill was scuttled because the bill’s sponsor figured it would cost too much to defend it in court.
According to the Denver Post Rep. Randy Baumgardner withdrew the bill he introduced that
would have required all local police to attempt to determine whether a person being questioned was in the country illegally. The bill also would have criminalized acts such as stopping to hire an illegal street worker or knowingly concealing an illegal alien.
for more, click here
[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
The Truth About the Immigration Side-Show
We at News http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifTaco have been wondering how all of these state level immigration laws were going to happen. What with budget shortfalls, unemployment, redistricting and such, what is the enforcement of these laws going to look like?
My inclination has been to think that it’s a matter of side-show politics taking center stage. State legislators have been lining up to propose and debate Arizona-type immigration bills (in 19 states at last count) because they made campaign promises and because it’s the kind of issue that politicians like. Newt Gingrich famously said that conservative politicians should find issues with 80 percent approval, stand next to them and wave. And Lamar Smith, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, recently called immigration a 70 percent issue. They’re playing the odds.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
My inclination has been to think that it’s a matter of side-show politics taking center stage. State legislators have been lining up to propose and debate Arizona-type immigration bills (in 19 states at last count) because they made campaign promises and because it’s the kind of issue that politicians like. Newt Gingrich famously said that conservative politicians should find issues with 80 percent approval, stand next to them and wave. And Lamar Smith, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, recently called immigration a 70 percent issue. They’re playing the odds.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Few Immigrants Cross Border to Give Birth
The vast majority of illegal immigrants who had children in the United States in 2010 had entered the country several years earlier, according to a new report.
The report in question was done by the Pew Hispanic Center and here’s why it matters. Those immigrants who have babies in this country do so, by and large, several years after coming here, and that throws the “anchor baby” logic out the porthole.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
The report in question was done by the Pew Hispanic Center and here’s why it matters. Those immigrants who have babies in this country do so, by and large, several years after coming here, and that throws the “anchor baby” logic out the porthole.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Racial Profiling Feared in New Mexico
One of the first things that Susana Martinez, the newly elected and installed Republican Governor of New Mexico, did was undo what her predecessor had done. Five years ago then governor Bill Richardson, a Democrat, issued a resolution that barred state law enforcement officials from asking people about their immigration status. Gov. Martinez has signed an order of her own obligating state police to do the opposite. Its a red flag on the place where rights and discrimination intersect with immigration for Latinos.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
How Latinos Are Redefining America
A correction I find myself making often, especially to those who don’t agree with my particular point of view, is that the term Latino does not refer to a race. Some people like to say that Latino is an ethnicity, but I’ve settled on calling it a culture – it just makes more sense to me that way.
Most Latinos understand the vagueness of it all. We’re brown, black, native, white, Asian, as well as wonderful mixtures of everything in between. We know that what binds us is culture with many varying traditions. It’s really not a problem for us. Researchers, though, are having fits at putting us in their empirical boxes. They need to define us before they can track us and project us into the future. Good luck to them.
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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
Most Latinos understand the vagueness of it all. We’re brown, black, native, white, Asian, as well as wonderful mixtures of everything in between. We know that what binds us is culture with many varying traditions. It’s really not a problem for us. Researchers, though, are having fits at putting us in their empirical boxes. They need to define us before they can track us and project us into the future. Good luck to them.
For full article, click here
[posted by Sylvia Lopez]
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