PHOENIX — Federal immigration officials and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office signed an agreement Monday to allow trained deputies to enforce immigration laws.
Under the agreement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will begin training 160 Maricopa County deputies Tuesday to be authorized to detain and arrest suspected illegal immigrants both in the county jail and on the streets.
Deputies will go through a four-week course to learn about nationality and immigration laws in depth. The trained officers will have authority to determine whether someone is an illegal immigrant and will be able to designate that immigration removal proceedings begin.
February 26, 2007
KVOA News
Topics: Maricopa County Sheriffs Office, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement of Immigration Laws, Deportations, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens,
A U.S. congressman who chairs a House Judiciary subcommittee says Congress could pass an immigration reform bill by July, including lifting the limit on how many high-tech engineers can come to the U.S. for jobs.
Representative Howard Berman, a Democrat from California, made the prediction while speaking at the first ever Tech Industry Summit in San Jose, California.
"It could pass both houses by July, go to conference and could be on the president’s desk by September," Berman said.
Immigration reform deals largely with the 12 million illegal immigrants living and working in the U.S., but another provision of the bill affects technology companies in particular.
IDG News Service 2/26/07
Robert Mullins, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau
Topics: Immigration Reform Bill, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, Technology Jobs, Technology Companies, H1-B Visas, Guest Worker Program,
Let me be clear up front, I could care less about Al Gore and his politics. This isn’t an attack because he is a leftie, it is an attack on his hypocrisy. The ultimate in hypocrisy. Al Gore has been…
A North Carolina group against illegal immigration is leading a boycott of Bank of America for testing a credit-card program allegedly catering to people living unlawfully in this country.
The Raleigh-based political action committee, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, is urging Bank of America customers who are opposed to illegal immigration to sever their financial ties with the banking behemoth based in Charlotte.
ALIPAC says it has enlisted about 100 like-minded groups and attracted more than 15,000 signatures on a petition protesting the bank’s pilot program in Los Angeles and all companies that help people break immigration laws.
"If what they’re doing isn’t illegal, then it should be," said William Gheen, president of the group. "We are fed up with these large, multinational banks and corporations. They have two standards: one for Americans, one for illegal aliens."
Topics: Illegal immigration, boycott, Bank of America, ALIPAC, William Gheen, petition, Los Angeles, banks, corporations