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State and Local Round-up

June 27, 2008 · 1 Comment

AZ: 28 Arrested in Mesa Sweep: More than 230 law officers swarmed the streets of Mesa on Thursday, with Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies looking for criminals and undocumented immigrants while local police monitored the deputies. Click here for full story.

TX: Employer Arrests Could Follow Immigration Raid: Speculations that Action Rags USA (the company raided) could be subjected to a criminal investigation. The article also contains some criticisms of the raid. Click here for full story.

VA: Loudon County Enters into 287(g) Agreement: The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office announced last Tuesday that they have entered into a formal agreement with ICE under section 287(g). Click here for full story.

Categories: Local Immigrant's Rights · Raids · State Level Immigrant's Rights · immigration news
Tagged: 287(g), Action Rags USA, arizona, houston, ICE raids, loudon county, maricopa county, Mesa, state and local immigration, Texas Raid

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Don’t Enshrine Discrimination in Health Care Reform July 9, 2009

From Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director of the Center for Community Change. Originally posted at the Huffington Post. Finally, the country seems serious about reforming health care. But with discussions about a public option, cost control and competition raging, one aspect of achieving true universal coverage is being left out: what to do about immigrant […]

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Council on Foreign Relations: The US needs an overhaul of its immigration laws July 8, 2009

Today, amid a mixed bag of news from Congress and the administration, an indpendent Council on Foreign Relations panel – co-chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) and former Clinton White House chief of staff Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty III – publicly called for comprehensive immigration reform. “The stakes are too high to fail […]

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ACTION: Tell your Senator to Oppose E-Verify NOW July 8, 2009

Senator Sessions has introduced an amendment to the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2010 that would make E-Verify mandatory for all federal contractors. If implemented, it would affect almost 4 million workers. The amendment would: Make the notoriously flawed E-verify program permanent. Require all federal contractors and subcontractors to […]

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Honest Language and Immigration Reform: Truth in Advertising July 7, 2009

Another guest post from Robert Gittelson: Much has been made recently of the statements recently made by Senator Chuck Schumer at the Migration Policy Institute, in which he called for a more honest dialogue in our national debate on immigration reform. The Washington Examiner made the following observations about Senator Schumer’s speech: “Illegal i […]

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Immigrants: The Pride of America July 6, 2009

The Carnegie Corporation ran this great ad in Saturday’s New York Times. This is the 4th year in a row the organization has run an ad celebrating the contributions of immigrants on the 4th of July. The ad reads: Andrew Carnegie, who founded Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911, was an immigrant from Scotland. We at [...]

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