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February 15, 2005 Mexican Consulate Stopped From Handing out Matriculas at GA State Building In a victory for immigration reformers, the Mexican Consulate in Georgia was stopped from using a state building to hand out consular ID cards to illegal aliens. As D.A. King of The American Resistance Foundation says, "Until Thursday afternoon, the Georgia Department of Labor building in rural Valdosta Georgia was to have been the location for hundreds of illegal aliens from all over the area to apply to the government of Mexico for the issuance of its Matricula Consular ID on Saturday, February 12." According to King, his group "[M]ade state lawmakers aware of the planned assistance to illegal aliens and were successful in forcing the mobile Mexican Consulate to postpone the mobile consular’s visit to an alternate location in Valdosta until March 5, 2005."
Utah Legislators Hear About Risks of In-State Tuition Bill "A Kansas City professor told lawmakers that a Utah law allowing children of undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition violates the U.S. Constitution and could put the state in financial jeopardy," the Salt Lake Tribune writes. "That was the message that Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, delivered Friday to the House Education Committee. He supports House Bill 239, which would reverse a law that allows in-state tuition rates for resident undocumented students at state-owned colleges and universities."
NY Times Editors Oppose REAL ID Bill "In the name of foiling potential terrorists, the House has passed a misbegotten immigration control bill that would make it harder for persecuted immigrants to get political asylum in this country," write the New York Times editors. "It would require political asylum applicants to offer greater evidence of persecution and give judges less power to reverse asylum denials by immigration officials."
Border Agents Increasingly Targeted  "Federal agents working along Arizona's bustling 350-mile border with Mexico have reported a sharp increase in assaults in the past three months. Since the start of the fiscal year Oct. 1, agents in the Tucson sector, the busiest in the nation, have reported more than one assault every two days. With 90 assaults already this year, including nine shootings, the agency is set to surpass the 118 reported in all of last year," the Arizona Republic reports. "Prosecutors and law enforcement officials say the assaults are symptomatic of a larger problem: the increasing ruthlessness of smugglers. The money involved, now about $1,000 a head for a trip from the border to Phoenix, means higher stakes for smugglers. Law enforcement officials say more smugglers are carrying guns, fighting and fleeing law enforcement."
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