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Majority of migrants at New Mexico center released
The World - The Associated Press
December 23, 2014
Tags:
border, enforcement, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) — The majority of an estimated 1,200 Central American immigrants held at a southeastern New Mexico detention center over the last six months have been released, authorities said Monday...

Those more than 800 people face follow-up court appointments before an immigration judge. An additional 370 immigrants were deported, and 15 remaining people will be relocated to a new family detention center in Karnes, Texas, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.

American Civil Liberties Union officials in New Mexico say most of the immigrants plan to seek asylum,...

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Oregon nonprofits authorized to help with federal immigration issues
George Rede
OregonLive.com
December 18, 2014
Tags:
amnesty, illegal aliens, taxes, Oregon

These nonprofit organizations in nine Oregon communities are accredited to represent individuals in proceedings before federal immigration authorities, including the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Department of Homeland Security or both.

For the complete list click here.

Corvallis
Acorn Outreach
1740 NW Division St.
Corvallis, OR 97330
541-224-6590

Hood River
Hood River Valley Legalization Project
205 Oak St.
Suite 15
Hood River, OR 97031
541-386-3433

McMinnville
Lutheran Community Services...

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District court declares Obama immigration action unconstitutional
Jonathan H. Adler
Washington Post
December 16, 2014
Tags:
jobs, Homeland Security, amnesty, deferred action, illegal aliens

Earlier Tuesday, a federal court in Pennsylvania declared aspects of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration policy unconstitutional.

According to the opinion by Judge Arthur Schwab, the president’s policy goes “beyond prosecutorial discretion” in that it provides a relatively rigid framework for considering applications for deferred action, thus obviating any meaningful case-by-case determination as prosecutorial discretion requires, and provides substantive rights to applicable individuals. As a consequence, Schwab concluded, the action exceeds the scope of executive...

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Should Oregon police issue commands in Spanish when facing a suspect at gunpoint?
Laura Gunderson
OregonLive.com
December 16, 2014
Tags:
crime, English, illegal aliens

Three McMinnville police officers faced off with Juventino Bermudez-Arenas as he held the large blade he'd just used to kill a 20-year-old Linfield College student.

Officers pulled their guns. One, who spoke Spanish, reached for her Taser but dropped it and grabbed her pistol as Bermudez-Arenas lowered his head and his hands and appeared to move forward.

Seconds before they fatally shot the 33-year-old Mexican man, police yelled, "Get on the ground," and, "Drop the knife," again and again.

They yelled their commands in English, the dominant language in the U.S......

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'Cromnibus' Spending Bill Passes, Just Hours Before Deadline
Bill Chapell
December 11, 2014
Tags:
border, amnesty, illegal aliens, Congress, national legislation
Post updated at 9:38 p.m. ET.

A massive federal spending bill finally won the House's approval Thursday night, less than 3 hours before a midnight deadline that threatened a federal shutdown. The measure's fate had been in doubt after it narrowly survived a rules vote earlier in the day. The final tally was 219-206.

Faced with uncertainty over Congress meeting its deadline to approve a bill, the House's leadership scheduled a vote on both the long-term spending bill and a stop-gap continuing resolution. It passed a two-day resolution in order to give the Senate time to...

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Conservatives Express Anger That Amnesty Not Defunded In Omnibus - The Fix Is In
Caroline May
Breitbart
December 11, 2014
Tags:
jobs, amnesty, illegal aliens, Congress, national legislation

Conservatives who had wanted to see language to block President Obama’s executive actions inserted into the massive, must-pass government funding bill are expressing frustration and anger at House Republican leadership’s lack of an appetite to fight amnesty now.

“The fix is in, which I’ve been saying all along,” Rep. Matt Salmon said after leaving the GOP’s conference meeting Wednesday morning.

Tuesday night the House Appropriations Committee posted its $1.1 trillion spending package. The measure is expected to receive a vote Thursday. If no funding bill is passed by...

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Republican leadership is already dropping the ball on immigration
Dan Stein
Daily Caller
December 10, 2014
Tags:
enforcement, illegal immigration, amnesty, Congress
The president is all-in with his amnesty memos. He claims resources don't permit him to enforce immigration law, so he's bypassing Congress and the constitutional limits of his office by giving over 4 million illegal aliens work documents with the intention of making it politically impossible to ever return them home. No doubt this is not the end – there is more to come over the next two years.   Can't get what you want through Congress? Just change the law by yourself.   Aside from the obvious adverse economic impacts of adding over 4 million new people to the work-authorized labor...
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Obama Admits Amnesty Is For Many More Than 5 Million
Neil Munro
The Daily Caller
December 9, 2014
Tags:
jobs, enforcement, illegal immigration, amnesty, illegal aliens, Congress

President Barack Obama told a group of illegal immigrants in Tennessee that his immigration-law rewrite means “you’re not going to be deported.”

Obama’s admission acknowledged that his Nov. 21 declaration provides a de facto amnesty for the 12 million illegals living in the United States.

The confession contradicts his many suggestions, and many media reports, that his Nov. 21 amnesty covers only five million illegal immigrants whose children have citizenship or green cards.

In practice, the president is allowing all 12 million illegals who have not committed...

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US judge ruling on Obama immigration changes criticized gov't leniency on kids crossing border
Alicia A. Caldwell
The Register Guard
December 9, 2014
Tags:
border, enforcement, Homeland Security, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

WASHINGTON — The federal judge assigned to rule in the lawsuit over President Barack Obama's changes to immigration rules last year accused the Obama administration of participating in criminal conspiracies to smuggle children into the country by reuniting them with parents living here illegally.

... Homeland Security Department should be arresting parents living in the U.S. illegally who induce their children to cross the border illegally...

"DHS has simply chosen not to enforce the United States' border security laws," the judge wrote. ...

Hanen was assigned...

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GOP Spending Bill Gives Nearly $1 Billion To Aid Border Migrants
Neil Munro
THE DAILY CALLER
December 9, 2014
Tags:
border, enforcement, Homeland Security, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, Congress

The GOP’s draft 2015 “omnibus” spending bill reportedly includes $948 million to help poor and unskilled Central American migrants establish themselves in the United States, but includes no effective restrictions on President Barack Obama’s plan to provide work permits and tax payments to millions of resident illegal immigrants.

That new spending works out to $16,928 for each of the 56,000 youths, young adults and children who crossed the border during the 12 months up to October 2014.

Prior to October, Obama’s officials sent only 1,901 of the migrants back home to Honduras...

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