Republicans ratified a Party platform this week that reversed the pro-amnesty plank President Bush laid out in the 2004 platform. The platform states that the GOP opposes amnesty, supports border security, and calls for a phased-in requirement for employers to use E-Verify to check workplace eligibility.
The California Legislature has passed a bill that would force the DMV to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens. The bill currently sits on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk.
Arizona state Rep. Russell Pearce won his primary battle to run as the Republican candidate for Arizona's 18th district Senate seat. Pearce is famous for spearheading an Arizona law that sanctioned businesses that hired illegal aliens.
Recent employment figures show that California's day labor population is dropping due to a decrease in the number of construction jobs caused by America's recent economic downturn and the increased vigilance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The president and three managers of the Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Company were charged last week with various immigration violations, including knowingly hiring illegal aliens and felonious conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens. The charges against the Houston-based company arose from a criminal investigation ICE initiated early this year that resulted in the administrative arrests of 27 illegal aliens in April.
During a speech yesterday before a Hispanic caucus at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaled that if elected her husband would attempt to grant amnesty to every illegal alien in the United States.
In dissecting the Postville raids, many news stories, and even the Governor of Iowa, Chet Culver, have likened the working conditions in the Agriprocessors plant to those depicted in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Having recently reread The Jungle, I find it unfortunate that none of the news stories I have read touched on an obvious and important message of the revolutionary tome: that an influx of too many immigrants is the biggest contributor to such unspeakable working conditions. There were too many people for too few jobs.
Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fl.) plans to introduce the Officer Andrew Widman Criminal Alien Enforcement Act of 2008. This bill comes in the wake of the violent murder of a Florida police officer by a criminal illegal alien on bail.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 600 suspected illegal workers in a raid on an electronics plant Monday in Laurel, Mississippi. As of Monday evening "dozens of workers had been 'identified, fingerprinted, interviewed, photographed and processed for removal from the U.S.'"