May 26, 2009
AZ Charter School Educating Mexican Children
Arizona taxpayers may have paid at least $300,000 to educate nonresident students from Mexico attending a public charter school in Douglas, AZ. A videotape - posted on the Arizona Department of Education's Web site - shows students who live in Agua Prieta, Mexico, being driven to the Omega Alpha Academy charter school across the border in Douglas. There were previous denials from the school. Get the whole story from KFYI in Tucson, AZ.
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Effects of Illegal Immigration on California Becoming Clearer
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to ignore the budget-busting cost of illegal immigration even while recently acknowledging that it is costing taxpayers $6 billion a year. Andy Arnold of Examiner.com thinks that instead of coming to Washington with his hat in hand, Governor Schwarzenegger should be looking for a bailout in places like Mexico City, Managua, and San Jose. Read today's eye-opening article.
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287-G Effective at the Local Level
While recent hearings on Capitol Hill have tried to paint the 287-G program as too expensive and ineffective, results at the local level seem to say otherwise. Recently, a rountine check of an illegal alien in North Carolina revealed that he was wanted for rape in Kentucky. Read this brief story from WHKP in Hendersonville, NC.
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Native American Tribe Wants Stricter Control on Immigration
A former tribal council member of the Yakama Indian reservation outside of Seattle wants to introduce a program to fingerprint and photograph all nontribal workers on the reservation in order to clamp down on migrants workers. SeattlePI.com gives the details of this interesting case.
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Will Georgia End "Birthright Citizenship"?
While automatic birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a Georgia candidate for governor has proposed changing the long-standing federal policy that automatically grants citizenship to any baby born on U.S. soil. Read today's story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal's push to end "birthright citizenship."
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