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| Illegal sues for higher pay – and wins! |
| Outraged at his low pay and uncompensated overtime, an illegal alien in Boston filed a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general's office against a supermarket -- and won his case. The illegal alien from Guatemala spoke to the Boston Globe anonymously because he feared deportation. "I was just collecting what was rightfully owed to me," he said in Spanish. "They already pay us a miserable amount of money. Why do they have to rob us?" The alien spent years at a Super 88 supermarket seafood counter earning $6 an hour instead of the state's $8 an hour minimum wage. He grew frustrated as the supermarket did not compensate him for his overtime work. |
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| Panel: Feds should help Colorado ID illegal immigrants |
| The federal government should open its fingerprint records to Colorado authorities to help them catch illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes, a state panel said today. The recommendation came four months after a suspected illegal immigrant with a long Colorado rap sheet was accused of causing a crash that killed a 3-year-old boy and two women in suburban Denver. The suspect, Guatemala-born Francis M. Hernandez, had more than a dozen prior arrests in Colorado but managed to stay off immigration officials' radar. Authorities say he used 12 aliases and two dates of birth. |
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| Couple charged in Seattle with gay immigration fraud |
| A federal grand jury in Seattle has charged two people in an alleged immigration fraud conspiracy, saying they advised straight immigrants to claim homosexuality in applying for political asylum. Steven Mahoney and his wife, Helena, were arrested today and scheduled to make initial appearances at U.S. District Court in Seattle in the afternoon. Prosecutors say Steve Mahoney ran Mahoney and Associates in Kent, and held himself out as an expert in immigration affairs. They say the point was to make money by advising immigrants on how to stay in the U.S. |
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| ICE insider seeks pardon for Ramos and Compean |
| EL PASO -- A candidate for assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement urged President Bush in an open letter to pardon ex-Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Miguel Contreras, a retired federal investigative official, said he wrote the letter in hope the president will grant the two El Pasoans a pardon or reduce their sentences. "I reviewed everything I could find related to their cases, and based on my extensive experience, Compean and Ramos should be released and reinstated to their former jobs," said Contreras, who lives in Yuma, Ariz., and retired as a federal supervisory criminal investigator. "I have not received a response." |
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| Subcontractor banned from Good Shepherd site |
| ENDWELL - A subcontractor that allegedly employed illegal immigrants has been banned from returning to work at the construction site of a new retirement community in Endwell. The unidentified company has been removed from the site pending an investigation, according to a statement from LeCesse Construction, the construction manager overseeing work at Good Shepherd Village on Farm To Market Road. "Good Shepherd Village at Endwell is an important project for the Binghamton area, and we are committed to building a premier, state-of-the-art facility," said Andrew Hislop, LeCesse president and CEO. "We will not tolerate non-compliance with United States immigration laws." |
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| Who's Lobbying on Immigration and Why? New Report Details Extensive Corporate Lobbying for Increased Immigration |
| A new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that over the past three years dozens of well-known American corporations, representing virtually every sector of the economy, have committed extensive resources lobbying for increased immigration, more foreign guest-workers, and amnesty for illegal aliens. Many of these same corporations that have pressured Congress to provide them a cheap labor supply have recently been pink-slipping their existing workers and seeking federal taxpayer bailouts. The report, Immigration Lobbying: A Window into the World of Special Interests, is the first and only study of lobbying on immigration policy and reveals a scope of influence previously unknown. |
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| Illegal Immigrants in Jail = Costly |
| YAKIMA -- Illegal immigrants are taking up space the Yakima County Jail, and taxpayers are paying for it. From July 2006 to June 2007, Yakima Jail housed 381 illegal immigrants, costing taxpayers two-million dollars for that year alone. Department of Corrections Director Steve Robertson says it has been that way for awhile now. Yakima County isn't the only place with that problem. That is why getting refunded for the costs is not easy. "You fill out the application, you put it in, whatever is available, it's divided up between all those that apply and we gave out the two-million request. We ended up with $180,000," explains Robertson. It is a challenge for the budget, and Robertson says many criminals pretend they are citizens. |
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| Deputy attacked while responding to Bay Point dispute |
| BAY POINT -- A Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy was punched in the face while responding to a domestic dispute over the weekend but was not seriously injured, the sheriff's office said. The man suspected of striking the deputy was arrested and taken to County Jail in Martinez, where he is being held without bail pending a hold placed by federal immigration authorities. A sheriff's deputy was responding to a call of a domestic dispute about 10 p.m. Friday involving an intoxicated woman fighting with her intoxicated boyfriend, said sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hebel. By the time the deputy arrived, a crowd had gathered in front of the home in the 200 block of Bailey Road. As the deputy got out of his car, the man involved in the dispute pushed his way through the group and shoved the deputy, Hebel said. |
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| Man held for deportation tossed cigarette, deputies say |
| A 19-year-old man was arrested Sunday and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for automatic deportation, according to an arrest report. His crime - tossing a lit cigarette into the bushes. Yony Donery Canales, who lives on Washington Lane in Golden Gate, was charged with possession of an incendiary device to set fire. Around 2:45 a.m. a patrolling Collier County sheriff's deputy saw three people being removed from a restaurant on Collier Boulevard, and stopped to help, reports said. All three were given "no trespass" warnings. |
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| Authorities capture 14 immigrants |
| BOYNTON BEACH, FL -- More than a dozen illegal immigrants are now in custody, after their failed attempt to land on U.S. soil without being captured. It was a busy day on the water, with boats heading in all directions of the Boynton Beach Inlet. One of them was a 28-footer, now confiscated by authorities. Some folks on land say the boat drew suspicion because it was packed with people. They contacted the Coast Guard, who asked for help from other law enforcement agencies. |
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| Lawmakers want to punish Texas companies for hiring undocumented workers |
| DALLAS (AP) - Some state lawmakers want to revive immigration discussions by proposing more than a dozen bills that among other things would punish employers for hiring unauthorized workers, challenge the U.S. citizenship of immigrants' U.S-born children and reverse a Texas law that allows undocumented college students to pay in-state tuition. Other bills filed for the 2009 Legislature would require public schools to maintain records on students' immigration status, impose a fee on money wired to Latin America, require identification from voters at the polls, prohibit parole for illegal immigrants and create a state criminal trespassing charge for illegal immigrants enforced by local police. |
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| California Supreme Court to take on state law granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants |
| California's highest court is poised to be the next battleground in the debate over benefits for illegal immigrants as the justices have agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of a state law allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. The decision could affect hundreds of illegal immigrant students who attend community colleges, Cal State and UC campuses and who say they would not be able to afford a higher education if required to pay out-of-state tuition, which can cost more than triple the amount that residents pay. |
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| Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures |
| California Rep. Joe Baca has long pushed legislation he said would "open the doors to the American Dream" for first-time home buyers in his largely Hispanic district. For many of them, those doors have slammed shut, quickly and painfully. Mortgage lenders flooded Mr. Baca's San Bernardino, Calif., district with loans that often didn't require down payments, solid credit ratings or documentation of employment. Now, many of the Hispanics who became homeowners find themselves mired in the national housing mess. Nearly 9,200 families in his district have lost their homes to foreclosure. For years, immigrants to the U.S. have viewed buying a home as the ultimate benchmark of success. Between 2000 and 2007, as the Hispanic population increased, Hispanic homeownership grew even faster, increasing by 47%, to 6.1 million from 4.1 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Over that same period, homeownership nationally grew by 8%. In 2005 alone, mortgages to Hispanics jumped by 29%, with expensive nonprime mortgages soaring 169%, according to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. |
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| Evictions loom in Postville as emergency aid proves ineffective |
| POSTVILLE --- Despite an emergency rental assistance program approved more than a month ago, evictions still loom in Postville, landlords and city officials say. The city received a $698,000 federal grant in late November to help prevent a wave of evictions, and along with it, a collapse of the town's rental-housing market. But applications have trickled in slowly, and the two remaining major landlords say the money is not enough to keep people in their properties and their businesses afloat... Mary Ann Humpal, the agency's executive director, said she thinks bre-bones shifts at Agriprocessors and illegal immigrants living in town have resulted in low numbers of applicants. |
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| Shelter Opens For Deported Illegal Immigrants |
| SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- A resource center in Naco, Mexico that helps illegal immigrants who are deported from Arizona has now opened a shelter where migrants can rest for the night. The Migrant Resource Center opened a year ago to offer food, drinks, clothing and advice to migrants freshly dropped off at the border by the U.S. immigration agents. The new building that opened in early December was needed because deportees are often dropped off late at night and need to quickly find a place to stay, said Cecile Lumer, director of the Migrant Resource Center. Others arrive during the day and don't have a place to sleep. |
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