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October 26, 2007
Wisconsin Atty. General Says State Should Pull Professional Licenses of Illegal Aliens "The Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing should verify Guatemalan Immigrant Caught Setting Another Brush Fire in California "The FBI has launched arson investigations into some of the most serious Contractor Who Hired Illegals Sues Missouri Gov. Over Firing "A state janitorial contractor that was fired over allegations it Remittances Sent to Mexico Level Off "For years, millions of Mexican migrants working in the United States have |
the immigration status of all applicants because federal law prohibits states from issuing professional licenses to illegal immigrants, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in a legal opinion issued Thursday. The opinion was requested by the department. Van Hollen wrote that asking applicants for their immigration status would be consistent with existing state practice of asking for other kinds of evidence when someone applies for a license or credential," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes. "Van Hollen recommended that the department implement a process for checking an applicant's immigration status."
fires that have destroyed more than 1,500 homes and done more than $1 billion in damage . . . Earlier in Los Angeles, outraged West Hills residents saw a 41-year-old man set a fire and chased him to a restaurant where they held him until cops arrived. Catalino Pineda, a Guatemalan immigrant on probation for making excessive false emergency reports to law enforcement, was arrested and charged with arson, police said," the New York Daily News reported.
employed illegal immigrants sued the state Thursday, accusing Gov. Matt Blunt of racial discrimination and abuse of power. Blunt called the lawsuit 'ludicrous' and defended his decision to cancel the contract of Sam's Janitorial Services and bar the company from state work," the AP writes. "About 25 company employees were arrested in a March 6 sting at a Jefferson City state office building by federal and state law enforcement officers, according to the lawsuit. The owner of Sam's Janitorial, K. Asamoah-Boadu, claims Blunt exceeded his gubernatorial powers when he terminated the contract and disqualified the company from future state work. Asamoah-Boadu wants nine canceled contracts reinstated, the company's ban from state work reversed and an unspecified amount of money for damages, according to the lawsuit filed in Cole County Circuit Court."
sent money back home to villages like this one, money that allows families to pay medical bills and school fees, build houses and buy clothes or, if they save enough, maybe start a tiny business. But after years of strong increases, the amount of migrant money flowing to Mexico has stagnated. From 2000 to 2006, remittances grew to nearly $24 billion a year from $6.6 billion, rising more than 20 percent some years. In 2007, the increase so far has been less than 2 percent," the New York Times reports. "Like Mr. Rivera, some of the men who went to work in the United States illegally have returned discouraged. And less work means less money to send home — particularly from the southern United States and other areas where Mexican migrants are a more recent presence . . . Now, the construction slump — along with a year-old crackdown on illegal immigration at the border and in the workplace, and mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in places — has made it even harder for Mexican migrants to reach the United States and land well-paying jobs."