Tomorrow the House will vote on a union-backed bill containing an ill-advised provision that enhances the primary motivator of illegal immigration – working in the United States. H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act upends federal labor law to reward illegal aliens while making it next to impossible for businesses to fire illegal aliens with union status. ...
All Issues and News
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Immigrationreform.com
February 5, 2020
FAIR
February 1, 2020
On Wednesday, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Representative Ken Buck (R-CO) introduced legislation that would block grant funding from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to local law enforcement in sanctuary states with policies that permit illegal aliens to obtain drivers’ licenses. . .
Return to Order
February 1, 2020
What Saint Thomas Aquinas Says About Immigration:
January 31, 2020
OFIR has fought long and hard against issuing driver licenses to illegal aliens and in favor of Oregon becoming compliant with the Real ID Act.
“The REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005, enacted the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the Federal Government set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver's licenses. The Act established minimum security standards for license issuance and production and prohibits Federal agencies from accepting for certain purposes driver’s licenses and identification cards from states not meeting the Act’s minimum...
‘The U.S. Supreme Court is fed up with these national injunctions by judges who are trying to impose their policy preferences…‘
IRLI
January 27, 2020
(Liberty Headlines) The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents
Awareness of sex trafficking has risen while labor trafficking crimes have gone unprosecuted. The attorney general's new task force seeks to change that.
Pamplin Media
January 23, 2020
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has launched a new task force intended to address the overlooked issue of forced labor.
In 2007, lawmakers passed a bill creating the crime of involuntary servitude, where a person forces, threatens or coerces another person into performing labor or services for little or no pay. The law also made it illegal to traffic people with the aim of forcing them into labor.
But despite the bill's passage, there have been no prosecutions of labor trafficking anywhere in the state, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. ...
January 22, 2020
Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on December 1, 2019 that 124 of the 837 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were incarcerated for homicidal crimes (various degrees of murder and manslaughter) — 14.81 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The number of criminal aliens incarcerated for homicidal crimes in DOC prisons does not necessarily equal the number of Oregon residents killed by alien homicidal violence).
Using DOC U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainer...
January 20, 2020
Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on December 1, 2019 that 675 of the 837 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were Mexican nationals — 80.65 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The number of Mexican nationals incarcerated in DOC prisons does not necessarily equal the number of Oregon residents victimized by this specific group of criminal aliens).
Using DOC U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total number criminal...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
January 18, 2020
The announcement below describes ICE’s latest endeavor to protect the safety of citizens.
Thanks for this development go to new DHS policies under the Trump administration.
We’ve added bold font to some parts of the news release.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – News release, January 18, 2020
ICE ISSUES SUBPOENAS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION REFUSED UNDER NY SANCTUARY POLICIES
ICE begins using longstanding legal authority to demand information regarding criminal aliens
...January 17, 2020
Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on December 1, 2019 that 752 of the 837 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system self-declared their countries of origin as being located in the Americas — North, Central and South America and the West Indies — 89.84 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The United States of America (USA) and USA territories are excluded from this report.):
- North America (Mexico and Canada) had 680 criminal aliens — 90.43. percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;...
