Houston Chronicle

Petition aims to protect illegal Mexican immigrants

Effort launched in U.S. would bar deportations due to drug violence

It’s a potentially explosive idea being circulated on petitions in Houston’s Latino supermarkets, lobbied for in Chicago’s Hispanic neighborhoods and now is landing on the front pages of the Spanish-language press. — With more than 30,000 dead in the last four years from drug violence in Mexico, some [pro-illegal alien] advocates are starting to lobby the U.S. government…

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Marietta Daily Journal

Zebra Construction vacates courthouse job

…Zebra Construction came under fire early this year for possibly hiring illegal immigrant workers. Members of the watchdog group Jobs for Georgians went before the Cobb Board of Commissioners in February and presented claims that Zebra hired illegal

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HispanicTrending: The Coming Latino Revolt

juantornoe.blogs.com

December 2, 2010 By Bryan Curtis The Senate is set to vote on a controversial immigration bill. If it fails, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez tells Bryan Curtis he’s prepared to ditch Obama and the Democrats—and take the movement to the streets. It’s zero hour for the DREAM Act, a bit of immigration legislation …

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See Luis Gutiérrez HERE and the real agenda HERE.

“I have only one loyalty and that’s to the immigrant community. We cannot be a slave to the legislative process that’s what we’ve done, and it hasn’t served us very well.” U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez. (D-IL) on amnesty-again legislation, in Newsweek, “Keeping Obama to his word” – November 29, 2010
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Associated Press

Leaked US cable: Mexico feared it could lose parts of the country to cartels

A Mexican Cabinet minister told U.S. officials late last year that he had a “real concern” that Mexico would lose control of parts of the country to drug traffickers, according to a U.S. State Department cable released Thursday by WikiLeaks. — Undersecretary for the Interior Geronimo Gutierrez Fernandez, who oversees domestic security, “expressed a real concern…”

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“This shell game makes it nearly impossible for members of this body, and their constituents, to properly review and consider the legislation prior to a vote,”

Politico

Jeff Sessions: DREAM Act needs vetting

By SCOTT WONG

Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions urged his Senate colleagues Thursday to block a lame-duck attempt to pass the DREAM Act, warning that new versions of the immigration bill haven’t received proper scrutiny.

In the “Dear Colleague” letter obtained by POLITICO, Sessions lamented that Democratic leaders have rolled out three Senate versions of the bill in the past two weeks, bringing the total to four. A fifth was included in a sweeping immigration reform bill sponsored by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the chamber’s only Hispanic member.

None of the bills has been reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee or undergone a cost analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, wrote Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee.

“This shell game makes it nearly impossible for members of this body, and their constituents, to properly review and consider the legislation prior to a vote,” he said. “It is an abuse of the process and on that basis alone members ought to oppose cloture.”

The legislation is “poorly drafted, filled with loopholes, and, by rewarding illegal behavior, will encourage future illegal immigration,” he added.

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White House Steps up DREAM Pressure; Focuses on Key Republican Senators

Updated: Friday, December 3, 2010, 3:49 PM

The White House is reaching out to fence-sitting Republican Senators trying to earn their vote on the DREAM Act. A new report from the National Journal says that members of the President’s cabinet are targeting Sens. Collins and Snowe from Maine, Sen. LeMieux of Florida, and Sen. Hutchison of Texas. Call the Capitol Switchboard NOW and urge these Senators and your Members of Congress to oppose the DREAM Act Amnesty — 202-224-3121. In the last few days, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecelia Munoz, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have all tried to lure “yes” votes out of key Senators.

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Reuters

Mexican troops find 18 bodies near U.S. border

Cd. Juarez, Chih., Mex. — Mexican soldiers found 18 bodies buried on a ranch near the Texas border Monday, and gunmen killed a female police chief in the latest bout of unrelenting violence in northern Mexico. — Troops acting on information obtained from several captured drug hitmen dug out 18 bodies from 11 graves in the town of Palomas in Chihuahua state, just across from the Big Bend National Park in Texas, police said…

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Austin American-Statesman

27 accused of falsely using IDs to get jobs

More than two dozen Pflugerville nursing home workers have been accused of misusing Social Security numbers to obtain employment in one of the biggest immigration-related workplace busts in Central Texas in recent years. — The arrests last month were prompted by a unique set of circumstances and do not appear to signal a more aggressive federal attack on local workers who are in the country illegally…

Newt Gingrich wants conservatives to hablar espanol, or at least show they care about Latinos
By David Montgomery

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 1, 2010; 11:22 PM

Mid-morning on a recent Sunday, pausing between the studios of C-SPAN and Mass at the National Shrine, Newt Gingrich is in mental overdrive, as usual, merrily riffing on a not-so-usual theme: all things Latino.

He segues from what to do with 11 million illegal immigrants – “We’re not going to deport all of them,” he says – to security in Mexico, identity in Brazil, the economy in Argentina and back to the state of Hispanic America.

Almost as edgy as speaking Spanish on YouTube, at a time when Republican lawmakers have abandoned immigration reform, Gingrich’s Latino agenda includes . . . immigration reform. He favors “a path to legality” for many illegal immigrants. “People who have been here obeying every law except immigration,” and have put down roots, “you’re not going to send them home,” he says.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120108440_pf.html