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September 04, 2008
S.F. Delays ID Card due to FAIR Legal Group Lawsuit "Mayor Gavin Newsom has delayed a program The delay also comes as City Attorney Dennis Herrera late last week filed the city's response to a lawsuit challenging the program's legality under state and federal law. A San Francisco Superior Court judge will hear arguments in that lawsuit later this month. [ . . . ] The lawsuit, filed by the Immigration Reform Law Institute of Washington, D.C., states that city officials approved the program in November without accounting for the environmental impacts of what the institute predicts to be a large influx of illegal immigrants." ACLU Sues R.I. Governor To Stop Hiring Rules "A civil rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday Pearce Wins AZ. State Senate Primary "Rep. Russell Pearce won the Republican nomination ACLU Goes After NJ Schools That Ask About Residency "The American Civil Liberties Union says at least Why The GOP Should Tout Immigration Enforcement "It's a strange election year when one of the most important |
to offer identification cards to all city residents regardless of their immigration status as city officials review the sanctuary policy for illegal immigrants. 'We've delayed it till we garner enough facts about our current sanctuary city and move forward with changing the policy,' Newsom said Wednesday," the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
for an open Senate seat in a race that saw foes pour money and mud into their efforts to oust the Arizona Legislature’s most ardent foe of illegal immigration," the AP reports. "Pearce drew opposition from business interests for his stance on the immigration issue as farmers and others poured money into the race. In turn, Republican Party activists rallied behind him. Democrat Judah Nativio ran unopposed for his party’s nomination, but the winner of the GOP primary enjoys a big edge in the heavily Republican district."
one-fifth of New Jersey's school districts are asking students their immigration status as they register for school. The ACLU says it violates state and federal law to ask. Compliance in the ACLU's survey this year was little better than two years ago, after which the state Department of Education warned districts not to ask about students' immigration status," the Fort Mill Times writes.
issues for voters is avoided by both presidential candidates. But that is exactly what has happened in 2008 with illegal immigration. Recently, some people have suggested that the Republican Party Platform should be similarly silent, or at least equivocal, on the issue. They are dead wrong," says Kris Kobach in Human Events. "Overwhelming majorities of voters support vigorous enforcement of our immigration laws and reject amnesty. Fully 70 percent of voters (including 75 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Independents) say enforcement of our immigration laws has been 'grossly inadequate.' Similarly, 69 percent of voters (including 81 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of Independents) want to see tougher immigration laws on the books."