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Bad Employer Bailout? Reform Could Fund Health Care for Illegal Workers Health care reform could end up bailing out employers who hire illegal immigrants and skimp on their health benefits. Under the legislation being considered on Capitol Hill, undocumented workers would technically not be covered. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said as much in an interview Sunday. Obama loses immigration allies Three years after President Obama marched alongside Hispanic and immigrant rights activists, they took to the streets Wednesday to march against him, saying he has betrayed them by embracing George W. Bush administration efforts to stem illegal immigration. Official: Wal-Mart Wants Health Plan to Cover Illegal Aliens A top Wal-Mart executive visiting Chicago says the retail giant wants health-care reform to cover immigrants who lack authorization to be in the United States. Wal-Mart broke from most other big U.S. companies last month by announcing support for requiring employers to provide a medical plan to workers. That’s a key component of President Barack Obama’s planned health-care overhaul. ObamaCare Set To Offer Illegal Aliens Health Benefits The powerful House committee that decides and controls the nation's tax policy has essentially voted to give illegal immigrants health benefits under President Obama's proposed multi trillion-dollar government plan. On the heels of a national poll revealing that most Americans want illegal aliens excluded from national health coverage, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Ways and Means defeated a measure designed to reduce taxpayers' liability by ensuring that undocumented immigrants don't qualify for the benefits. California slashes budget; illegal immigration ignored Details of California’s 26.3 billion dollar budget deficit deal, reached Monday after intense negotiations during a period where the state issued IOU’s, reveals a significant reduction in across the board state services. The state K-12 school system and community colleges will suffer the most severe cuts, with reductions of 6 billion over two years, while the University of California and the California State University systems will see their budgets reduced by 3 billion. Savings of 1.3 billion will come from cuts in programs for health care for the poor. The state will save another 1.3 billion by forcing state workers to take 3 unpaid furlough days per month, and another 1.2 billion will be saved by releasing 27,000 prisoners. Senators, institute warn of loophole in E-Verify immigration system Some illegal immigrants with stolen Social Security numbers can gain clearance for legal employment in the United States through the federal government’s online E-Verify system, senators and the Migration Policy Institute warned Tuesday. The senators, led by Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, and the nonpartisan think tank said the loophole must be closed before Congress undertakes comprehensive immigration reform and before the Homeland Security Department requires federal contractors and recipients of economic stimulus funds to use the employment verification system. Oklahoma illegal immigrant inmates to be deported Nearly two dozen illegal immigrants who were convicted in Oklahoma courts will be released from a state prison on Thursday and turned over to federal agents for deportation — even though some may have served only a third of their sentence, corrections officials confirmed Wednesday. The 22 inmates mark the largest group scheduled to be deported under a new state law intended to save money. It allows the release of illegal immigrants who are deemed nonviolent offenders and have served at least one-third of their prison sentence. Malkin: Obamacare for Illegal Aliens Big Nanny Democrats want to ration health care for everyone in America -- except those who break our immigration laws. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee defeated an amendment that would have prevented illegal aliens from using the so-called "public health insurance option." Every Democrat on the panel voted against the measure. Nevada GOP Rep. Dean Heller's measure would have enforced income, eligibility and immigration verification screening on all Obamacare patients. Unlike most everything else stuffed into the House Democrats' plan, the citizenship vetting process would not have required building a new bureaucracy. Heller proposed using existing state and federal databases created years ago to root out entitlement fraud. Lawyer Leads an Immigration Fight On a recent morning, Kris W. Kobach, a conservative law professor, rushed late into a federal courtroom here with his suit slightly rumpled and little more than a laptop under his arm. His mission was to persuade the judge to uphold an ordinance adopted by a Dallas suburb that would bar landlords from renting housing to illegal immigrants. A team of lawyers from a Latino advocacy group had set up early at the opposing table, fortified with legal assistants and stacks of case documents. Unfazed, Mr. Kobach unleashed a cascade of constitutional arguments. Case names and precedents spilled out so rapidly that the judge had to order Mr. Kobach several times to slow down. Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama. Some Latinos, angry at Obama and Congress, threatening to boycott census The Senate this week confirmed Robert Groves, a former census official and sociology professor at the University of Michigan, to run the Census Bureau. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke pronounced him "a respected social scientist who will run the Census Bureau with integrity and independence."The appointment will hardly still controversy over the 2010 census. Illegal Aliens Get Millions In Monthly Welfare Checks On the verge of going bankrupt with an astounding $26.3 billion deficit, the nation’s most populous state is considering saving hundreds of millions of dollars annually by cutting monthly welfare payments to illegal immigrants. The savings doesn’t even include the billions of dollars that California spends annually to educate, incarcerate and medically treat the 2.7 million illegal aliens (7% of the state’s population) who live in the state that has so generously offered them sanctuary for decades. Illegal immigrants, their children target of California ballot measure In a stretch of desert just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, men and women in khakis and red, white and blue recently gathered at a border watch post they call Camp Vigilance. Their topic: the next offensive in the nation's immigration wars. The target: Illegal immigrants and their U.S.-citizen children who receive public benefits. The tool: A California ballot initiative that would end public benefits for illegal immigrants, cut off welfare payments for their children who are citizens and impose new rules for birth certificates. Goehring: 40% of My Hires are Illegal Aliens "EVERYBODY has an opinion, although most people think food comes from Safeway," muses Ken Hajek. A dentist three days a week, Hajek offers me his opinion as a peach grower the other four days. We are talking as he stands near his white pickup on 25 acres in Lodi, where he grows peaches in an orchard tucked behind a house and a yard full of cars. James Walsh: Obama on Immigration: 'Wait and See' “Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room but for one flag, the American flag...We have room but for one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” ––Theodore Roosevelt, 1907. Strong words on immigration from Teddy Roosevelt, not the kind we hear much of today. On the contrary, recent U.S. presidents have found themselves on the horns of an immigration dilemma ... Obama Revives Bush Idea to Catch Illegal Workers President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday. Instead, Obama will mandate that federal contractors confirm the identities of 4 million workers against federal databases beginning in September, pushing ahead under pressure from Senate Republicans with another long-stalled Bush administration initiative. Amnesty Bill for Illegals by Labor Day The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate said Wednesday that he expects to have a bill ready by Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers than those who are lower skilled and is tough on future waves of illegal immigration. During an interview with The Associated Press, Sen. Chuck Schumer said an immigration bill can be done by the end of the year or early next year that works out disagreements between labor and business interests on the flow of legal foreign workers. Border plants to be killed to reveal smugglers The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants. If successful, the $2.1 million pilot project could later be duplicated along as many as 130 miles of river in the patrol’s Laredo Sector, as well as other parts of the U.S.-Mexico border. Supremes refuse to hear Ramos, Compean case, Border Patrol agents still have chance to clear their names After serving two years in federal prison in solitary confinement for shooting a fleeing Mexican drug smuggler who had brought 750 pounds of marijuana into the U.S., Ramos and Compean were released from prison a month ago, with home confinement until March 20 ordered by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The former agents still carry the felony conviction, although President Bush commuted their sentences on the last full day of his presidency. Immigration: 1 2 |
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