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• Minority births on track to outnumber white births
  Mar 10, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  The Census Bureau is running public service announcements this week to improve its tally of young children, particularly minorities, who are most often missed in the once-a-decade head count.
• Employers face audit on illegal workers
  Mar 9, 2010 — Chattanooga Times/Free Press
  ...penalize employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers and also to deter employers from hiring illegal immigrants. But Mr. Olsen, also chairman of the Tennessee Bar Association immigration law section, said the audits can have a negative impact on the economy. "I think right now it can actually deter international business and companies from hiring," he said. Mr. Olsen said that, after speaking to several employers, many were wary of hiring workers who seemed foreign...
• Idaho committee kills immigration bill
  Mar 9, 2010 — The Spokesman-Review
  Phil Hart, R-Athol, also aimed at penalizing employers who knowingly employ undocumented workers.
• Immigrant rights group slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bill
  Mar 9, 2010 — Washington Post
  No reelection," Emma Lozano, executive director of the Chicago-based Centro Sin Fronteras, told reporters.White House officials said the president will be meeting soon with Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) to discuss the bipartisan immigration bill. But since then our president, our Congress members, have been in a deep sleep.
• Panel kills immigration legislation
  Mar 9, 2010 — The Spokesman-Review
  Phil Hart, R-Athol, also aimed at penalizing employers who knowingly employ undocumented workers.
• Whip Check Time
  Mar 9, 2010 — Politico
  Obama and the Democrats are bold efforts to put people back to work. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.).”SPEAKING OF EMERSON AND TANNER …Retiring Democratic Rep. Tanner contributed $2,000 from his PAC to Republican Rep.
• Obama looking to give new life to immigration reform
  Mar 5, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  Citizenship would not be granted lightly, the White House said.
• Rangel Reduced
  Mar 3, 2010 — Politico
  Martin Kady IIDEMS GATHER VOTES: Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu are on board with reconciliation, and Pelosi is picking up new support in the House. Neither issue can be addressed under a reconciliation bill because stringent rules governing such bills require provisions to have a direct budgetary impact. ‘This is not an immigration bill. The Bachmann family of Minnesota will be counted in the 2010 Census, despite previous protestations.
• AZ may criminalize presence of illegal immigrants
  Mar 2, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  Jan Brewer, said the governor doesn't comment on pending legislation but generally supports pragmatic immigration laws. The bill would let any person file a lawsuit to challenge the polices.
• Dodd, Corker regulatory offer gets cool reception
  Mar 2, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  The House bill called for a freestanding Consumer Financial Protection Agency with the power to regulate and enforce its regulations. Before enacting rules, however, it would have to consult with bank regulators. Those details remained in flux as Dodd and Corker continued to seek support. Shelby blessing that bill," Johanns said. Democrats on the committee, many of them critics of the Fed's past performance on consumer protections, also reacted coolly.
• SB251
  Mar 2, 2010 — The Salt Lake Tribune
  I know that if the E-Verify system ever gets to the point where it does what it is supposed to do, you wouldn't have to require our members to use it. Others have balked at mandating use of the system. Illinois -- Lawmakers recently moved to bar employers from using the system, saying its accuracy remains in question.
• Firm says system to identify illegals wrong half of time
  Feb 26, 2010 — Arkansas Democrat Gazette
  Immigration officials have been taking steps to improve such inaccuracies. Westat reported that 93 percent of the cases checked were legal workers who were accurately identified on the first try.
• Hiring illegal immigrants may lead to jail in Utah
  Feb 26, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  ...penalties. In Mississippi, employers who hire illegal immigrants can lose their business license, but illegal immigrants found working there are eligible for a one-year prison sentence. Under the Utah bill, employers who fail to comply could face a class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Bill supporters said enacting the measure would stop identity theft and encourage illegal immigrants to leave Utah. "It's not a total panacea,...
• Increasing use of temps no longer signals more permanent hiring
  Feb 26, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  Companies have hired more temps for four straight months. DeCapua says demand for temporary workers has surged. By September, employers were adding permanent jobs each month.
• Our overloaded immigration courts
  Feb 23, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  Rather, judges are employees of the attorney general.) In 2008, for example, 231 judges completed an average of 1,200 proceedings each, and the numbers keep climbing. At times the outcome of removal proceedings depends less on the facts of an immigrant's case than on which judge hears the case, the report says. That's lamentable because the best way to ease the burden on the court system would be to see reform accomplished.
• Bottom Line
  Feb 22, 2010 — The Hill
  Maurice Kurland, a former legislative aide to Rep. Missy Edwards Strategies has registered to lobby for Genentech, a biotechnology company, on the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill along with both healthcare reform bills. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).NIC Inc., an electronic government services company, has hired Peck, Madigan, Jones & Stewart to lobby for government contracts.
• EDITORIAL
  Feb 22, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  Rather, judges are employees of the attorney general.) In 2008, for example, 231 judges completed an average of 1,200 proceedings each, and the numbers keep climbing. At times the outcome of removal proceedings depends less on the facts of an immigrant's case than on which judge hears the case, the report says. That's lamentable because the best way to ease the burden on the court system would be to see reform accomplished.
• Los Angeles Times Hector Tobar column
  Feb 22, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  In all, some 6,000 people have died crossing the Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California borders with Mexico since 1994, according to human-rights groups. But Frey's hyperbole is understandable. "Maybe it's because I've seen the bodies," he tells me. Frey's film contains gruesome images and heart-breaking stories. People really should be angry about what's happening on the border.
• Clyburn
  Feb 21, 2010 — El Paso Times
  He was arrested several times in South Carolina after organizing sit-in protests.
• Faith leaders pray for immigration reform
  Feb 20, 2010 — The Miami Herald
  People of faith want immigration reform enacted into law this year," says the Rev. Bede Episcopal Chapel in Coral Gables. Corbishly is a member of South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice, a coalition that includes Muslim, Christian and Jewish clergy. In an unusual effort at reform, the organization helped organize a recent 17-day fast on the grounds of St.
• Finding farmworkers: New federal rules are a step in the right direction
  Feb 19, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  For two decades, growers had maintained that those requirements, attached to H-2A visas for guest workers, had hindered their ability to keep a steady, reliable flow of workers in their fields and orchards. Under the Bush rules, foreign farmworkers often found themselves earning less than state and federal minimum wage; under the new regulations, that won't be the case.
• Census workers who did no work were paid
  Feb 17, 2010 — Washington Post
  Federal mileage reimbursement rates were set at 58.5 cents per mile in August 2008 but dropped to 55 cents Jan. 1, 2009. Roughly 10,200 of the temporary hires did no work but earned a combined $3.4 million for attending training. Agency officials have said that any publicity, good or bad, should help increase overall participation in the census.
• Audit finds US census preparations wasted millions
  Feb 16, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  Cost: $3 million. --Another 5,000 employees collected $300 for the same training, and then worked a single day or less.
• Millions wasted on census as head count approaches
  Feb 16, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  By HOPE YENWASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2010 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) -- Were those pricey Super Bowl ads a waste? Cost: $3 million. --Another 5,000 employees collected $300 for the same training but worked a single day or less.
• Proposed cuts would end state assistance for most new legal immigrants
  Feb 16, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  In 1996, Congress denied access to welfare for most legal immigrants who weren't citizens. The proposed cuts include: * Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, serving about 8,500 low-income elderly and disabled people. Cho is so worried that he has considered returning to Korea.
• Use of temps may no longer signal permanent hiring
  Feb 15, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  That's what Chris DeCapua, owner of employment firm Dawson Careers in Columbus, Ohio, is hearing from clients. DeCapua says corporate demand for temporary workers has surged. CEO Harry Griendling says in normal times he would have hired two permanent employees. But Griendling has doubts about the strength of the recovery. And after the 2001 recession, temporary hiring rose for three straight months in the summer of 2003.
• Group works to increase Latino college rolls
  Feb 14, 2010 — Houston Chronicle
  In Houston, that includes UH-Downtown, where more than 36 percent of students are Hispanic, as well as Houston Community College, San Jacinto College and the University of St. Schools designated as Hispanic-serving institutions, where at least 25 percent of students are Hispanic, qualify for additional federal funding.
• McCain faces toughest re-election challenge
  Feb 12, 2010 — Associated Press Online
  Former running mate Sarah Palin and newly elected Republican Sen. In the past decade McCain has worked with Sen. Hayworth said his campaign is approaching $100,000 in contributions. McCain is also no stranger to challenges from the right.