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cleared in a lawsuit alleging they trespassed on a monastery's ranch to detain immigrants. Roger, Barbara and Donald Barnett were sued by the caretaker of the ranch for a 2003 incident where they detained 30 men, women and children immigrants at a well," the AP reports. In the case that ended Friday, the Barnetts argued they had been welcome guests on the monastery property, wore civilian clothing, and led the migrants to the well because they were dehydrated and needed water. 'It turned out the way I thought it would, although sometimes there are doubts when a jury is involved,' said Roger Barnett, 63. 'But our attorneys did a really good job.'"
of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers _ places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated. Already, activists say, far too many nonthreatening people are held for too long in demoralizing conditions," the AP wrote. "The Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent agency, says it needs 35,000 more detention beds to hold all the illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. As of Dec. 30, there were 544,000 such people who had absconded; ICE blamed the bed shortage for fueling 'an unofficial mini-amnesty' for high-risk aliens. Detainees, as non-citizens, have no automatic right to legal counsel. The majority, who are indigent and without local connections, depend on scarce pro bono assistance or do without, reducing their odds of winning appeals."
came to the U.S. on a J-1 "cultural exchange" visa and now expects to jump to the head of the line for residency. "Most foreigners who marry U.S. citizens while on a visitor visa can adjust their status without leaving the country. But if they overstay a J-1 visa -- the three-year kind Chamorro has -- they must leave the United States to apply for a family member visa even if they marry a citizen, said Michael Defensor, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services," the paper says. "Chamorro came to the United States through the North Carolina-based Visiting International Faculty Program, which brings teachers from around the world to work in U.S. schools for up to three years. Teachers with the program sign a pledge to return to their country for at least two years afterward."
Tucson church battling an investigation into whether it smuggled illegal immigrants into the United States from Central America. In 1990, a federal appeals court ruled the Immigration and Naturalization Service could not send undercover informants into the Southside Presbyterian Church services on mere fishing expeditions to try to gather intelligence," the Washington Post reports. "Over the next 20 years, Napolitano served as U.S. attorney for Arizona, as the state's attorney general and, since 2002, as governor. Now Napolitano's old clients view her as a defector, in the words of John Fife, the former pastor of Southside Presbyterian, who led what was called the sanctuary movement for illegal immigrants." According to the paper, "Among the nation's top Democrats, Napolitano has developed some of the toughest policies against illegal immigration. She was one of the first major politicians to call for deployment of the National Guard along the border and declared a state of emergency in her state's counties nearest Mexico . . . Her Republican critics here, however, say she has not gone nearly far enough and has routinely blocked legislative efforts against illegal immigration."
United States down the road to a much better immigration system. But it's not finished. In its broad outlines, I support the comprehensive approach that the Senate bill takes. History has taught us that immigration reform measures cannot work in isolation. Simply strengthening physical border security or beginning a guest worker program will not fix the deep, underlying problems in America's immigration system," says Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) in an op-ed. "As the House of Representatives conducts public hearings on immigration this summer, I believe it should aim to produce legislation that preserves the Senate's comprehensive approach while remedying certain flaws in the Senate bill. The Senate's legislation, I believe, is a mixed bag: It contains some good provisions, some that need work and some that have no place in a final bill."
and it's a good bet the milestone baby _ or immigrant _ will be Hispanic. No one will know for sure because the date and time will be just an estimate. But Latinos _ immigrants and those born in this country _ are driving the population growth. They accounted for almost half the increase last year, more than any other ethnic or racial group. White non-Hispanics, who make up about two-thirds of the population, accounted for less than one-fifth of the increase," the AP reports. "When the population reached 200 million in 1967, there was no accurate tally of U.S. Hispanics. The first effort to count Hispanics came in the 1970 census, and the results were dubious. The Census Bureau counted about 9.6 million Latinos, a little less than 5 percent of the population. The bureau acknowledged that the figure was inflated in the Midwest and South because some people who checked the box saying they were 'Central or South American' thought that designation meant they were from the central or southern United States."
