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September 08, 2005 House Panel Approves Bill to Abolish Diversity Lottery FAIR was there
This morning, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration successfully marked up legislation, In his opening statement, echoed by several Republican members, Chairman John Hostettler (R-IN) laid out the case against the visa lottery by pointing to the widespread abuse of the program by terrorists, illegal aliens and others who fraudulently enter the lottery. Both Jackson-Lee and Lofgren complained that the subcommittee’s action was a waste of time given the more pressing need for relief in the storm-battered gulf states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Rep. Lofgren stated it was absurd to link the visa lottery program to terrorist activity and Rep. Jackson-Lee stated that not one of the 9/11 hijackers benefited from the program. The bill will now go to the full Judiciary Committee Paul Egan, Director of Government Relations for FAIR
Minutemen Ready Patrol Along Canadian Border "Civilian border patrols, like those that have generated fierce debate in Mexico
DOJ Memo On Local Immigration Enforcement Released "A government memo released by the American Civil Liberties Union Mexico
DHS Suspends Employer Sanctions Due to Katrina for 45 Days "The Department of Homeland Security temporarily won't sanction Mexico
Mexican Army Convoy Heads for San Antonio "For the first time in nearly a century, the Mexican Army is advancing Mexico
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H.R. 1219, a bill introduced by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to repeal the diversity visa lottery program. All nine Republican subcommittee members supported the bill and the two Democrats that showed up for the markup, Reps. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) opposed.
the Southwest, are planned to start along New York's border with Canada on October 1. . .The leader of the Minuteman Civilian Defense Corps, Chris Simcox, will be keynote speaker at a four-hour meeting planned for Saturday in Babylon, on Long Island," the New York Sun reports. "The Minuteman organization is a civilian group that describes its mission as helping law enforcement authorities prevent illegal entry to the country. Members patrol the frontier to look for potential criminal activity."
says the Justice Department believes state and local police have the right to enforce federal immigration laws. The A-C-L-U says the government opinion makes the 'sweeping and unprecedented' legal argument that state and local law enforcement officers can arrest anyone who violates a federal law," writes the AP. "The 2002 opinion reversed a 1996 letter of advice from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which said that state and local police could enforce only criminal immigration violations such as sneaking across a border." The 
employers for hiring people who can't prove they're eligible to work in the U-S. The agency today announced the move because many Hurricane Katrina victims lost their proper documents -- or fled without them. The suspension of those rules is for 45 days," the AP reports. 
on American soil, although this time it is for a good cause - the convoy of soldiers and medical personnel is heading to San Antonio to help Hurricane Katrina victims sheltered there. It is expected that the convoy will cross the Solidarity Bridge in Colombia, Nuevo Leon, early this morning. The soldiers spent the night at a temporary camp they set up on the south side of the Rio Grande near the bridge," says the Laredo Morning Times. "Master Sgt. Christopher Allbright, spokesman for the Fifth U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston, said Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and U.S. Army officers will escort the Mexican convoy's march through South Texas." 
