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The Denver Channel

Illegal alien involved in Baskin Robbins deaths in court

Centennial, Colo. — A man accused of causing a crash that killed three people, including a child in an ice cream shop, is returning to court for a hearing. — Francis M. Hernandez was scheduled to appear in Arapahoe District Court Thursday on 19 charges…

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Arizona Daily Star — Tucson

No new trial for Border Patrol agent who shot illegal alien

The Cochise County Attorney’s office won’t try U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett for a third time in the shooting death of an illegal [alien]. — Chief Criminal Deputy County Attorney Doyle Johnstun says his office will be moving to dismiss charges against agent Nicholas Corbett without prejudice…

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Washington Post

Cleaning firm used illegal workers at Chertoff home

Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service screened the IDs of employees for a Maryland cleaning company before they entered the house of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation’s top immigration official…

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KGAN-TV — Cedar Rapids, Iowa

December 10, 2008

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A former human resources employee at a northeast Iowa kosher slaughterhouse has pleaded guilty to a federal charge for helping hire illegal immigrants to work at the plant.

Karina Pilar Freund, who worked in the human resources department at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, had faced charges of conspiracy to harbor undocumented immigrants and harboring and aiding and abetting the harboring of undocumented immigrants for profit,

During a hearing this afternoon, the 29-year-old from Fayette pleaded guilty under an agreement with prosecutors to a misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting a pattern or practice of hiring undocumented immigrants. She faces up to six months in prison and some fines.

The U.S. attorney’s office says Freund is free on bond pending sentencing. A sentencing date will be scheduled after a presentence report is prepared.

Today’s hearing wasn’t the last of Freund’s legal troubles involving Agriprocessors. She and other company officials are scheduled to go to trial in April on more than 9,000 charges alleging child labor violations at the plant.

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Federation for American Immigration Reform

Study: Illegal immigration costs Colorado nearly $1.1 billion annually

A report prepared by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that illegal immigration costs Colorado about $1.1 billion a year, or about $612 for every native-born household in the state. The report, The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Coloradans, looks at just three essential state provided services…

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Houston Chronicle

Study: Illegals’ care costs Texas $677 million

The state of Texas and local hospital districts spent an estimated $677 million to provide health care to illegal immigrants in a year, a new study says. — The survey, issued by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said that most of the money — $597 million — was spent by local hospital districts…

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Illegal Immigration Costs Georgia $1.6 Billion Annually, Finds New Report by FAIR

WASHINGTON, Oct 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — A new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) demonstrates why Georgia has taken a lead in adopting state-based policies to control the costs of illegal immigration. According to the new study, The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Georgians, the state currently spends about $1.6 billion a year to provide three basic services to illegal aliens and their dependents — K-12 education, publi health care, and incarceration of criminals.

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Try working – or protesting in – Mexico as an illegal alien

Jackson Free Press

Si Se Pueda’

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A group of protestors marched on the Capitol Thursday in protest of Senate Bill 2988, which makes it illegal for undocumented workers to be employed in the state.by Adam Lynch
December 10, 2008

Protestors, some of them children, marched on the state Capitol last Thursday, holding signs reading “Working should not be a crime,” “Raids tear families apart,” and “Si se pueda” (“Yes we can”). About 50 immigrants and immigrant-rights advocates protested recent raids on undocumented workers at a factory in Laurel and the passage of Senate Bill 2988, a new law making it illegal for undocumented workers to be employed in the state.

Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance Executive Director Bill Chandler called the law, known as the Mississippi Employment Protection Act, the “ethnic cleansing act.”

“The largest raid in U.S. history happened in Laurel, Miss.,” Chandler said at the rally. “Some 595 Latino workers were arrested for working, tearing families apart by sending them to jail and deporting them for the crime of struggling to support their families.”

Sen. Giles Ward, R-Louisville, said he supported the bill not for any philosophical reason, such as preserving jobs for Mississippians over immigrants. Instead, he said he needed no reason beyond the vehement demand of his constituents.

“The constituents that I serve in District 18 certainly contacted me when the bill was in debate and impressed upon me how concerned they were, and I was simply trying to reflect the will of my voters of my district,” Ward said.

Chandler called upon the “new federal government,” under President-elect Barack Obama—who drew tremendous applause at the mention of his name—to end the raids and repeal SB 2988.

Frank Curiel, vice-president of the Laborers International Union, summed up both the raids and the Mississippi law as products of racial discrimination.

“It discriminates because we don’t look like the governor; we don’t look like most of the Republicans who voted for this bill, but I tell you this much: I’m a veteran; my brothers are veterans. I grew up in a house full of veterans,” Curiel said. “We served this country. We pay more than our due, yet when times get hard, what do they do? They give us the raids.”

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According to a news release from U.S. Attorney Joe Stecher, Wortman was also ordered Wednesday to pay back $437,632, the total of the illegal transactions he is charged with making.

Grand Island (Nebraska) Independent

Employer of illegals gets 30-month sentence

The owner of Cloudburst Lawn and Sprinkler Systems was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison on federal charges of hiring illegal immigrant workers. — David E. Wortman, 50, of Grand Island pleaded guilty in October 2007 in U.S. District Court to harboring illegal [aliens] for commercial advantage…

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