Harris N. Miller, the talented immigration lobbyist, the man who expanded the H-1B program to new, huge dimensions and helped create immigration breaks for the Irish, has a (relatively) new job. Read more

Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group, sent a video camera to yesterday's CIS press conference, where we introduced our new report: "Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Invented a Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped its Donors." Read more

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1. DHS ends fence funding
2. Dept. to assist with U Visa
3. Amnesty groups mobilizing
4. TX senators invite Obama
5. CA Gov. for more BP agents Read more

The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offered no help at all yesterday regarding the influx of nonimmigrant workers vis-a-vis the current high levels of unemployment in the United States. Read more

The evening newscast on Univision last night included an advertisement calling on Latinos to come to immigration march in Washington this Sunday.

In the 30-second spot a young man says he will march because "I don't want them to separate me from my family." A middle-aged man says he'll march "so that Obama and the Congress fulfill their promise." A middle-aged woman says she'll march "because without immigration reform the suffering will continue." Read more

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1. DHS to freeze fence funds
2. Bill may face NCLR opposition
3. Poll finds allegiance to Mexico
4. CA co. to screen inmates
5. Detainees bemoan transfer Read more

One would not know that there were swirling immigration controversies from the content of yesterday's hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on the proposed 2011 budget of USCIS. Read more

The Transborder Immigrant Tool, a cell phone GPS app developed by university professors with taxpayer monies, has been touted as essentially guiding illegal migrants more safely across the desert, helping them find water and avoid the Border Patrol. The app is available to anyone for free, thus encouraging illegal entry while aiding and abetting violations of immigration and criminal law. Drug dealers, smugglers, traffickers, MS-13 gangs and potential terrorists also are being provided a free technology gateway into America. Read more

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1. Labor unions take stand
2. Haitians ignore TPS offer
3. Census targets "hard to reach"
4. Immigrants avoid large cities
5. Ex-official arrested Read more

Things aren't quite spinning out of control yet in Mexico, but it's not looking good, as seen in this weekend's murder of three people associated with our consulate in Juarez, right across the river from El Paso — three among 100 people killed over the weekend in what has turned into a war against the state itself. Read more

There was an interesting exchange yesterday between White House senior adviser David Axelrod and reporter Candy Crowley on CNN's program, "State of the Union." (See it here, starting at 1:55.) It begins with a question from Crowley about a statement from Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois: Read more

The in-house immigration appeals agency in the Department of Homeland Security, the Administrative Appeals Office, does not provide statistics on what it does. Read more

The immigration issue could put health reform at risk once again, as it did last fall. Then, President Obama had to do some fancy footwork after an unceremonious challenge during his speech to a joint session of Congress. Rep. Joe Wilson was right, and the House bill held gaping loopholes that pretty much guaranteed illegal aliens would benefit under health reform. Read more

A Nebraska Appeals Court late last year decided that an illegal alien who was hurt while working in a meat plant should get workers' compensation benefits, according to an article in the Lincoln Journal Star.

From the point of view of restrictionists, is that the right call? Read more

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1. Obama reiterates support
2. Health care hurts amnesty
3. Sen. Cornyn targeted
4. CBC skips immigration
5. Activists to DC rally Read more

Statistics recently released by the Harris County (Texas) Sheriff's Office provide an interesting point of comparison for two of ICE's programs that identify and flag criminal aliens for removal – Secure Communities and 287(g). Read more

DHS Secretary Napolitano decided earlier this week to allow Greece to join the Visa Waiver program, so beloved by our tourist industry and other Open Borders types.

As one consular official (who will remain unnamed) e-mailed: "Let me get this straight. In the middle of the biggest financial meltdown to hit a European country in decades, we have added them to visa waiver?" Read more

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1. Amnesty push seen in Senate
2. Issue threatens health care
3. CA Congressman blasts GPS
4. NE legislature mulls care
5. Activists to descend upon DC

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Immigration Reform Effort Re-Emerges With New Senate Bill Read more

This past week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a rather unusual bust using a new spin on visa fraud. This time it was not a fraudulent school masquerading as legitimate and siphoning money for student visas for a curriculum that did not exist, as was the March 4, 2010, bust of a Miami language school that resulted in arrests of 81 student violators and $2.4 million forfeited in illicit cash received. Nor was it referencing the three counterfeit document rings taken out in the last few days. Read more

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1. Sen Graham: step up on amnesty
2. White Americans to be a minority
3. Weakness in tracking students
4. Poll: illegals burden budgets
5. First AZ sanctions bust Read more

In addition to the prominent immigration policy decision-makers – the president, the chairs of the congressional committees and the presidential appointees in the Executive Branch – there are many other sets of less obvious policy players, located deep in the federal bureaucracy.

Today I learned of a group whose leanings were known to me, but for whom I had no name. They are the quietly Open Borders officials within the State Department, termed the "Black Dragons" in a recent article. Read more

I was disappointed with Reihan Salam's Forbes column on "what we can and can't do to raise wages": Read more

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1. Obama to meet on amnesty
2. ICE targets employers
3. ESL programs access reviewed
4. NY Gov. pardons immigrant
5. FL leaders mull crackdown Read more

President Obama is due to meet today with the two senators who have been trying to plot a legislative course to an immigration reform bill, and the National Council of La Raza is impatient for clear signs of movement.

"If the meeting is just to 'hear more,' it's not going to cut it," Clarissa Martinez of La Raza said in Huffington Post. Martinez wants a clear sign of movement from Obama's meeting with Sens. Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham. Read more

The Social Security Administration, along with the Department of Homeland Security, operates the E-Verify screening program to identify potential illegal alien workers.

But, according to the SSA's own Inspector General, in a recent report the SSA, as a large employer, did not fully use the E-Verify system to screen it own employees.

The federal government encourages all employers to use the system, and insists on it for some of its contractors, but apparently the HR types in SSA did not get the message. Read more

Today's New York Times carries a story about a private-for-profit language school in Florida that "was a front for the sale of fraudulent applications for student visas."

A total of 80 people, including the managers of the Florida Language Institute in Miami, were arrested, the Times reported.

According to ICE, the agency in charge of the arrests, the students "rarely, if ever, attended classes". Read more

Sources inside and outside ICE are reporting that the agency leadership intends to install an embattled ex-police chief known for his obstruction of immigration law enforcement as its liaison to the local law enforcement community. Former Houston police chief Harold Hurtt is reportedly the top candidate to lead the agency’s Office of State and Local Coordination. Read more

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1. Obama weighing amnesty
2. Online visa process emerges
3. Quick app. urged for USCBP
4. Gov't assures Census privacy
5. FL politician seeks security Read more

President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are working hard to line up enough votes and plot a path to get their version of health reform across the goal line. Though immigration hasn't been raised as much as other bubbling controversies like abortion, this issue remains alive. Read more

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1. Gov't facing criticism
2. Sen. Graham terror deal
3. CO Senate kills bill
4. CA co. mulls on detainees
5. MD hawks want debate Read more