ICE Raids in San Francisco and Chicago
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made raids in the San Francisco area and in Chicago. Both raids resulted in the arrest of 21 suspected illegal aliens.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made raids in the San Francisco area and in Chicago. Both raids resulted in the arrest of 21 suspected illegal aliens.
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week upheld an Arizona law that requires businesses to use E-Verify to check worker eligibility and revokes the business licenses of those who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
A California court has ruled that a law granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens is unconstitutional and ordered the state to start charging 80,000 out-of-state students the lower in-state rates. This ruling can be used to challenge similar laws in nine other states.
A Rhode Island Superior court judge has rejected the ACLU's attempts to prevent Gov. Don Carcieri from requiring businesses who serve as state contractors to use the E-Verify employment verification system.
The global population is skyrocketing and depending more and more on the United States to help provide a stable source of food as it has done for over one-hundred years. However, due to America's increasing population (due in large part to out-of-control immigration), the United States is unable to fulfill this role.
Francisco Santillan Arellano, a self-proclaimed "Godfather," pleaded guilty to identity theft Friday in federal court in Atlanta. Arellano admitted to selling more than 90 sets of fraudulent documents per week. He faces up to 12 years in prison and a $750,000 fine.
An immigration attorney and restaurateur from Hartford, Conn. was sentenced this week to one year in Federal prison for knowingly falsifying and filing paperwork for a woman in Poland to begin the citizenship process without her knowledge or consent, the Hartford Courant reports. Jose del Castillo had pled guilty earlier this year to one count of federal document fraud after having been indicted in late 2006 on 23 counts of falsely filing immigration forms with state and Federal officials.
The ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (IMAGE) program was initiated in 2007 to help businesses reduce unauthorized employment by illegal aliens and the related use of fraudulent identity documents. This week, 26 additional companies joined IMAGE as full members, plus 10 companies and one association signed on as associate members, an ICE press release reports.
Hundreds of local residents are queuing up to work at the Howard Industries plant that was raided two weeks ago in Laurel, Mississippi. Additionally, the plant may be forced to close for one year if it is found to have knowingly hired illegal aliens.