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Candidate information available for May 15 primary

2018-04-26

Tags:

election, immigration, Oregon Legislature

Ballots for the May 15, 2018 primary election are arriving in the mailboxes of Oregon’s registered voters.

OFIR has now posted information on the immigration positions of many candidates running in the primary. Please take a moment to look over the information before you fill out your ballot.

The offices for which informational reports are available on the OFIR website are:

Governor

Commissioner of Labor and Industries

Congressional candidates

Oregon House candidates (HD 09, HD 18, HD 19, HD 20, HD 23, HD 26)

Oregon Senate...

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...

Oregon’s Marion County First in Foreign National Crime in February 2018

David Olen Cross

2018-04-11

Tags:

border, crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal aliens, taxes

On February 1, 2018 Oregon’s Marion County had 235 of the 975 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) prison system; the county was first in foreign national crime in the state with 24.10 percent of the criminal aliens in DOC prisons.

The following table reveals how Marion County residents were harmed or victimized by the 235 criminal aliens incarcerated on February 1st in the DOC prison system with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ICE detainers.

OREGON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS...

Oregon’s Washington County Second in Foreign National Crime in February 2018

David Olen Cross

2018-04-09

Tags:

crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, taxes, ORS 181A.820

On February 1, 2018 Oregon’s Washington County had 205 of the 975 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) prison system; the county was second in foreign national crime in the state with 21.03 percent of the criminal aliens in DOC prisons.

The following table reveals how Washington County residents were harmed or victimized by the 205 criminal aliens incarcerated on February 1st in the DOC prison system with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ICE detainers.

OREGON...

Oregon’s Multnomah County Third in Foreign National Crime in February 2018

By David Olen Cross

2018-04-06

Tags:

crime, enforcement, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, ORS 181A.820

On February 1, 2018 Oregon’s Multnomah County had 200 of the 975 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) prison system; the county was third in foreign national crime in the state with 20.51 percent of the criminal aliens in DOC prisons.

The following table reveals how Multnomah County residents were harmed or victimized by the 200 criminal aliens incarcerated on February 1st in the DOC prison system with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ICE detainers.

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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...

U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons: Criminal Alien Report February 2018

David Olen Cross

2018-04-02

Tags:

crime, drugs, sex crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal aliens, taxes

The United States having a significant foreign national population residing within the nations boundaries, be they legally or illegally present in the country, unfortunately includes those who commit crimes.

The extent and impact of foreign national crime on the U.S. citizens and residents of this country is explicitly revealed by a simple search on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmates statistics website under the heading of inmate citizenship.

Here are the countries of origin, moreover, the number and percentage of those countries citizens recently incarcerated...

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...

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