Illegals Today

DebbieSchlussel.com has learned that Robert Schoch, the Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Los Angeles, is under investigation for alleged embezzlement and/or misuse of ICE funds used in undercover operations. Read the story at her web site.

But not in the west.

Seen at the web site of William H. Frey.

Labels: demographic groups, population

"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she is pursuing plans to remove some captured illegal aliens from “prison-like or jail-like circumstances” and put them in converted hotels and nursing homes . . . Our detention system has some who have committed crimes, others whose crimes under federal law is a misdemeanor, others who have as I said before not committed a crime at all,” Napolitano said, apparently not including being arrested from breaking federal immigration law as a crime." CNS News

Labels: Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano

Just browse this web site devoted to sanctuary cities.

" Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday that the claim by some conservative activists that illegal immigration is to blame for all of the state’s fiscal problems is ignorant and bigoted.

I've never seen anyone conservative or not, activist or slug, blame illegal immigration for ALL of California's problems, have you?

From the Middletown Journal, September 22, 2009.

As immigration reform has languished on the national stage, Sen. Gary Cates, R-West Chester Twp., said southwest Ohio has seen “a flood of illegal aliens” that “has put an undue burden on local law enforcement and impacted the stability of local services.”

The bill introduced by Cates would allow county sheriffs, upon request from federal officials, to investigate and apprehend illegal immigrants for breaking immigration laws.

Current law only allows deputies to arrest immigrants who commit some other crime. Because deportation matters fall under civil law, they are enforced by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The bill also would allow county commissioners to direct local sheriffs to hold people being detained for deportation or charged with civil violations of immigration law.

“(This bill) would give sheriffs and county commissioners — the men and women who have seen firsthand the effect illegal immigration has had on public safety and social services — much-needed flexibility to help federal authorities pursue and apprehend illegal aliens,” Cates said.

Cates’ testimony, backed by Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones, came in committee Tuesday, Sept. 22.

The bill mirrors legislation Cates put forth last year, which passed unanimously in the Senate but stalled in the Ohio House.

Last year’s bill drew sharp opposition from minority rights groups, which argued this could distract deputies from other duties and breed mistrust in immigrant communities." Link

Labels: Ohio

"Democrats are right that uncompensated emergency care for the uninsured is driving up costs. What they don't say is it's illegal immigrants who are bankrupting ERs, and the federal government is encouraging them."

"Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, hospitals can't even ask for a patient's immigration status or ability to pay prior to delivering treatment."

IBD

Labels: emergency rooms, EMTALA, health care, illegal immigrants, uninsured

Read the whole story here--Republicans, Democrats and Independents are all tougher on immigration than in 2008.

Gallup finds Americans less favorable toward immigration than they were a year ago. Half (50%) say immigration should be decreased, up from 39% last year. A third (32%) say immigration levels should be kept the same, down from 39%, and 14% say they should be increased, down from 18%.

Labels: 2009, Gallup Poll

"On the thorniest of political issues, President Obama has embraced the enforcement-first position on immigration that he criticized during last year's presidential campaign, and he now says he can't move forward with the type of comprehensive bill he wants until voters are convinced that the borders can be enforced.

Having already backed off his pledge to have an immigration bill this year, Mr. Obama boosted his commitment to enforcement in the budget released Thursday. The spending blueprint calls for extra money to build an employee-verification system and to pay for more personnel and equipment to patrol the border." Story in the Washington Times

Labels: Barack Obama, border

[March 31, 2009] Hundreds of migrants from Africa are missing and believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean over the weekend.

More than 30,000 migrants are believed to have crossed the Mediterranean in 2008, a 75 percent increase on 2007. The majority end up in detention centers, and are eventually deported. In Libya, there are between 1 million and 1.5 million African irregular migrants, drawn by the need for unskilled labor and hoping to move on to Europe. Story here

Labels: 2008, Africa, Italy, Libya, Mediterranean