The Los Angeles City Council has recently approved an ordinance that requires all new home improvement stores in their jurisdiction to construct day laborer centers on their private property as a prerequisite for a business license. The stores will be required to provide shelter, drinking water, bathrooms, and trash cans for any and all day laborers who happen upon the company’s property. Read more »

The Promise of Home is a website providing video interviews of many experts in the field of immigration, including several from the Center. Below is a list of links to the interviews of Center staff and Board members and their bio pages. Read more »

1. Raid nabs over 500 illegals
2. Sen. addresses strategy
3. GOP clashs over platform
4. Afghan allies hope for visas Read more »

I have been using E Verify for over 3 years. It takes away all of the guess work in determining if documents presented are valid or not. Being close to the border you would be surprised at the amount of fake IDs that look real until they are run through the program. For the first time in my 20+ years in HR I am comfortable in knowing that we are hiring only employees who are authorized to work in the United States.
Ginny Priborsky, online comment in response to "E-Verify: Is it about to die?," HR Morning, July 11, 2008

The E-Verify program is well on its way to fixing a 20-year-old problem of determining legal employment eligibility in a manner employers can support. (The quote above is an endorsement from an end-user.) Read more »

1. Candidates to shun immigration debate
2. Fed. raid nabs 350 illegal workers
3. Poll finds western voters divided
4. IN legislative panel to probe policy
5. WA initiative would restrict services
6. IA town worries of possible raid
7. Restrictionist rally fizzles
8. Poultry mogul calls for reform Read more »

This is what happens when nations distort their economy and society through widespread use of foreign labor.

Washington (JTA) -- The immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, the largest kosher plant in the country, caught most American Jews completely off-guard.

Since the raid in May, which resulted in the arrest of nearly 400 illegal workers, additional serious allegations have emerged against the plant owned by the Brooklyn-based Rubashkin family, including inhumane working conditions, egregious violations of child-labor laws, sexual harassment of female workers and multiple workplace safety infractions. Read more »

1. ICE vows to ramp enforcement
2. New rules sought for attorneys
3. DOJ finds vetted judges more stringent
4. ICE silent on raid strategies
5. Illegals continue to re-patriate
6. Illegal alien remains in church Read more »

1. ICE scraps self deport policy
2. Report links immigration, emissions
3. AZ mayor blasts Congress
4. FL illegal to attend college Read more »

1. Another San Fran. youth arrested
2. Phoenix mayor lobbies congress
3. CA city, Feds launch gang crackdown
4. AZ county enforcement criticized
5. Immigrant group split on sports Read more »

1. TX GOP consults with AG
2. More charges stem from raid
3. Hospital 'deports' immigrant
4. Detention contractor sued
5. Son of illegal wins gold Read more »

1. E-verify avioded in New England
2. McCain aid has Mexican ties
3. Obama tackles border policy
4. Study: CA leads immigrant births
5. San Fran. panel defends policy
6. CT capital mayor signs bill
7. NJ county mulls jail checks
8. NC community colleges okay ban
9. Three PA teens to stand trial Read more »

Below is a debate, hosted by Bloggingheads.tv, between the Center's Mark Krikorian and the Reason Foundation's Shikha Dalmia. Read more »

1. Mexican police in TX hospital
2. Report: Immigration and pollution
3. States seek integration policy
4. Governors seek to expedite entry
5. Federal contractors oppose E-verify
6. Houston developer targets investor
7. Factory struggles to find workers Read more »

1. TPS extended for Sudanese
2. Six to use self-deportation
3. Passport card good for I-9s
4. Judge shoots down H-1b lawsuit
5. GOP candidates differ in NH
6. Teenager refuses to leave U.S.
7. SC Latino residents increasing
8. IA still focused on immigration
9. Mexican consulate visits UT
10. Man to reunite with family Read more »

While the Census Bureau’s press release accompanying its new population projections emphasizes the importance of the country’s changing racial composition, this is almost certainly not the most important finding. The new report shows a U.S. population in 2050 that is 135 million larger than it is today. This could have profound implications for the environment and quality of life in the United States in the future. Immigration policy is the primary factor driving population growth. Read more »

1. Census projects 135 million more
2. L.A. adopts shelter regulations
3. Enforcement driving illegals home
4. Former 'slaves' gain citizenship Read more »

Breaking news from the Houston Chronicle:

While many view the contentious border fence as a government fiasco, an animal rights group sees a rare opportunity.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans today to announce an unusual marketing pitch to the U.S. government: Rent us space on the fence for billboards warning illegal border crossers there is more to fear than the Border Patrol. Read more »

If Hartford mayor Eddie Perez signs an ordinance sent to him by the city council, the Connecticut state capital will be the latest to join the list of cities that are obstructing the identification of criminal aliens, and almost certainly endangering their residents in the process. (See .) The ordinance forbids city police from arresting illegal aliens they encounter who are the subject of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) administrative warrant. Read more »

1. Attn'y. Gen. declines charges
2. Report: Hispanics lack health care
3. Report: Illegals drop by 11%
4. TX university opens border center
5. Activists bail out nabbed illegals
6. Georgian ex-pats anxious over war
7. Cancer ridden detainee dies
8. Woman sentenced for bribe Read more »

1. USCIS aims to clear applications
2. CT capital embraces santuary
3. Raids prompt reconsideration
4. Fund to provide bond for detainees
5. Latino gays find asylum difficult Read more »

1. Repeat illegal entry offenses rise
2. Study reports 11% drop in illegals
3. VA exec. presses enforcement Read more »

Last week I wrote about the top ten reasons why a heist of 3,000 blank UK e-passports matters. In that piece, I laid out the many reasons why this heist is a concern to the US, mostly stemming from how these e-passports – even assuming the blank chips that hold biographical and biometric data are not susceptible to counterfeit – still present multiple opportunities for undercover terrorist travel and identity theft. Read more »

Once a business is permitted to violate immigration laws in the workplace, there’s no telling how many more laws will fall by the wayside.

ICE’s recent workplace enforcement at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa uncovered the fact that the company was employing hundreds of illegal aliens. ICE has called this “the largest criminal worksite enforcement operation ever in the United States.” Read more »

1. TX Sen. criticizes USBP policy
2. Candidate outlines amnesty agenda
3. Growth in DC youth fueled by influx
4. TN region Hispanic pop. expanding
5. TX to execute another criminal alien
6. Africans struggle to find work in IL
7. Illegals leaving New York region
8. Latinos avoiding OR DMV Read more »

A recent study published in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine finds that immigrant children are less likely to be physically active than their native-born peers. Close to 20 percent of foreign-born children get no physical exercise and 56 percent do not participate in organized sports. The results vary significantly among ethnic groups. Read more »

How about replacing Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" contest (which you'd think I would have won by now because of my book) with the "Worst Person in the Congress." I know there's a lot of competition, but my nomination for today would be Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.). Read more »

1. DHS self-deport program begins
2. Texas executes Mexican murderer
3. Requirements of SC law are vague
4. TN poultry plant cancels Labor Day
5. IA plant faces child labor charges
6. Four immigrants play ping-pong Read more »

1.Voting record not a good test
2.Immigrant kids even less active
3.VA city enforcement causes exodus
4.PA murder case shows tensions
5.Mistreating HIV detainees alleged
6.Factory embodies immigration debate
7.Tribesman accused of fraud Read more »

The union at Tyson's Shelbyville, Tenn., chicken plant has negotiated a new contract that adds Eid al Fitr as a paid holiday for all employees, and drops Labor Day. A few observations: First, just complaining about illegal immigration won't do — this change was made to accommodate Somali and other Muslim (legally admitted) refugees, sought out by Tyson (and other meatpackers) as an alternative to illegal Hispanic workers. Read more »