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August 04, 2008
Illegal Immigrants Voting? It's More Common Than You Think "In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Myers Responds to Catholic Critics of Immigration Raids "The official leading the Bush administration's U.S. Atty., Federal Judge Say ACLU Off-Reservation on Hearing Manuals for Postville "The U.S. attorneys office and a federal judge "Bob Teig, assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, defended the use of the documents and said the ACLU's comments this week were based on a 'lack of accurate information and a misunderstanding of the criminal law process.'" Charlotte Selected As Pilot City for U-Deport Program "Charlotte has been chosen as a pilot city |
Office found that up to 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens. While that may not seem like many, just 3 percent of registered voters would have been more than enough to provide the winning presiden¬tial vote margin in Florida in 2000," notes Hans Spakovsky in The Cutting Edge. "Americans may disagree on many areas of immi¬gration policy, but not on the basic principle that only citizens—and not non-citizens, whether legally present or not—should be able to vote in elections. Unless and until immigrants become citizens, they must respect the laws that bar non-citizen voting."
election-year crackdown on undocumented immigrants got an earful Tuesday from immigrant advocates tied to the Roman Catholic Church who dubbed the effort 'enforcement only.' Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security in charge of immigration and customs enforcement, defended a nine-month campaign that has detained about 4,500 undocumented workers, 111 employers and more than 26,000 illegal immigrants who defied judges' orders to leave the country," the Houston Chronicle writes. "Many participants at a three-day conference convened by the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network criticized the administration's hard-hitting approach. The stepped-up enforcement policy was adopted after Congress failed last year to enact a blend of border enforcement and a pathway to legalization for some 12 million illegal immigrants."
are defending the use of documents, including scripts, that were given to attorneys as well as workers arrested in an Immigration raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant. Chief Magistrate Judge Paul A. Zoss for the Northern District of Iowa led the hearings in Waterloo after the raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville on May 12. He said he doesn't understand the American Civil Liberties Union's recent criticism of materials provided at the hearings," the AP reports. "'In our district, we have always made available to the lawyers 'scripts' for our routine hearings in criminal cases,' he said in a statement provided to The Associated Press. 'This practice has not been limited to Immigration cases, but has been used in all cases.' Zoss said the 'manual' handed out after the Postville raids was 'a compendium of these scripts and some of the commonly used district forms.'"
for a federal "self-deport" program to encourage fugitive illegal immigrants to turn themselves in. Illegal immigrants who have previously been ordered to leave the country have from Tuesday to Aug. 22 to report to U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement offices in Charlotte or risk being tracked down at their home or work and jailed," the Charlotte Observer reports. "Under "Operation Scheduled Departure," ICE spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said, nonviolent illegal immigrants who do not have criminal records will have up to 90 days to pull together money and make arrangements with family to return to their home countries. Amnesty would not be offered as an incentive, she said, and volunteers might have to wear electronic tracking devices until they leave the country."