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AG agrees with IRLI’s brief condemning the practice of administrative closure

Brian Lonergan

IRLI - Immigration Reform Law Institute

2018-05-19

Tags:

immigration, visa overstay, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, national legislation, national security

WASHINGTON Attorney General Jeff Sessionss has ordered an end to a longstanding practice of immigration judges (IJs): administratively closing cases to make them disappear from the docket. Immigration judges did this so often in past administrations that the procedure amounted to a vast amnesty-by-stealth for deportable aliens. When an alien’s case is administratively closed, the alien gets to stay in the United States until the case is reopened—and most such cases, once closed, are never reopened.

The Attorney General noted that out of fourteen briefs he received from various...

Sanctuary City Battle in Indiana Heats Up

State enters fight to get alien criminals out of our communities

Immigration Reform Law Institute

2018-05-07

Tags:

crime, economy, enforcement, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

WASHINGTON - Today the State of Indiana joined the fight against lawless sanctuary cities by intervening in a lawsuit brought by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) and The Bopp Law Firm. The suit seeks to overturn an ordinance that the City of Gary, Indiana, enacted to protect illegal aliens.

IRLI and The Bopp Law Firm challenged Gary’s ordinance last December, arguing that the ordinance violates an Indiana statute prohibiting governmental bodies in the state from refusing to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement. This statute requires local jurisdictions to...

Opposition to immigrant sanctuary spreading in California

Amy Taxin

T tuson.com

2018-04-16

Tags:

economy, jobs, enforcement, Homeland Security, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, ORS 181A.820

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — More local governments in California are resisting the state's efforts to resist the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, and political experts see politics at play as Republicans try to fire up voters in a state where the GOP has grown weak.

Since the Jeff Sessions-led Department of Justice sued California last month over its so-called "sanctuary state" law limiting police collaboration with immigration agents, at least a dozen local governments have voted to either join or support the lawsuit or for resolutions opposing the state's position....

How Barack Obama's DACA Encouraged Identity Theft by Illegal Aliens

Most undocumented immigrants try to get fake or stolen Social Security numbers, and federal gov't punished such crime — but that ended in 20122

Dale L. Wilcox

Polizette

2018-04-15

Tags:

border, crime, voter registration, illegal immigration, DACA, driver's license, illegal aliens

As the dilemma of what to do about the illegal alien participants in former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has dominated the immigration debate for more than a year, a new investigation has revealed the lengths to which the previous chief executive facilitated the program.

They did so by, among other things, ignoring widespread identity theft by illegal aliens and keeping Americans in the dark about being cut off from their Social Security benefits. The findings show how DACA is not the act of benevolence that is portrayed in the...

Number of Illegal Aliens Granted California Driver’s Licenses Passes One Million

Warren Mass

The New American

2018-04-06

Tags:

fraud, illegal immigration, driver's license, illegal aliens, election

California newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee, reported that the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced on April 4 that more than one million “undocumented immigrants” — illegal aliens — have received driver’s licenses. Those who are in this country illegally have been allowed to receive driver’s licenses since 2015, when Assembly Bill 60, which required California DMV offices to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens as long as they can prove their identity and residence within the state, took effect.

AB 60 was authored by former...

Grassley charges 'colleges' selling visas to foreigners

Companies pose as educational institutions

Bob Unruh

2018-03-31

Tags:

economy, jobs, enforcement, Homeland Security, immigration, visa waiver

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is confronting the Department of Homeland Security about a special program under which groups “pose as education institutions in order to secure visas for tuition-paying foreign students.”

The students, the senator points out, are then able to obtain three-year work permits and are exempted from payroll-tax requirements.

“Visa mills are those marginal educational institutions that provide visas and work permits to foreign students, but little in the way of actual schooling,” explains the Center for Immigration Studies.

The work permits...

The Dangerous Myth That Sanctuary City Policies Encourage Victims and Witnesses to Cooperate with Local Law Enforcement

Matt O'Brien

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM

2018-03-30

Tags:

crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, sovereignty

Introduction

Since the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States, hundreds of cities and municipalities across the country have declared themselves "sanctuary cities." A sanctuary city is a municipality, or other state/local subdivision, that, by law or policy, prohibits local officials from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.1 In other words, it's a case of American cities blatantly violating federal statutes against harboring illegal aliens.2

Proponents of these policies claim that they do not interfere with federal law enforcement...

MS-13 Resurgence: Immigration Enforcement Needed to Take Back Our Streets

Jessica M. Vaughan

2018-02-21

Tags:

crime, enforcement, Homeland Security, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

The Trump administration has declared war on MS-13, the notoriously brutal gang based in El Salvador. A similar initiative launched by the Bush administration in 2005 stifled the gang's activity after several years, but the gang has been able to rebuild itself here since 2012.

Center researchers reviewed more than 500 cases of MS-13 gang members arrested nationwide since 2012. We conclude that this resurgence represents a very serious threat to public safety in communities where MS-13 has rebuilt itself. The resurgence is directly connected to the illegal arrival and resettlement...

Senate rejects Trump immigration plan

Jordain Carney

The Hill

2018-02-15

Tags:

border, jobs, Homeland Security, ICE, DACA, illegal aliens, President

The Senate rejected legislation based on President Trump's framework for an immigration deal in a 39-60 vote on Thursday, leaving an uncertain path forward for Congress with nearly a million immigrants sheltered by an Obama-era program facing the prospect of deportation.

The measure spearheaded by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) needed 60 votes to clear a filibuster, but failed to meet the mark.

It was the fourth proposal in a row rejected by the Senate ...

The Grassley measure provided a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million immigrants brought to the country...

Dick Durbin: It's unlikely we'll reach a DACA deal, but 'I don't see a government shutdown coming'

Josh Siegel

Washington Examiner

2018-02-04

Tags:

legal immigration, illegal immigration, DACA, Dream act, Congress, national legislation, President

Sen. Dick Durbin said Sunday senators are unlikely to reach an immigration deal before government funding expires later this week, and there won’t be another partial government shutdown over the issue.

“There is not likely to be a DACA deal, though we're working every single day on telephone calls and person to person to try to reach this bipartisan agreement,” said Durbin, D-Ill., the second-ranked Democrat, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union." "I don't see a government shutdown coming.”

Durbin said he is encouraged about negotiations occurring between moderate...

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