[Liz]

Senate This Week Passes Sessions’ E-Verify Amendment; Senate Adopts DeMint Border Fence Amendment; Senate Adopts Vitter and Grassley Amendments — And immigration-reduction.

ANOTHER SHOCKER Local law enforcement officers will be able to act as immigration agents under an agreement announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Eleven new jurisdictions around the nation were accepted into the program, known as 287g, on Friday.

Napolitano also unveiled a standardized agreement for any local jurisdiction that wants to deputize police to act on behalf of ICE.

The program has drawn strong opposition from immigrant advocates and divided opinions among L/E who feel it may undermine trust in immigrant communities where crime is often underreported.

[ridesthemiles]

ANOTHER SHOCKER Local law enforcement officers will be able to act as immigration agents under an agreement announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. “”

Just the news that Sheriff Joe Arpaio needs to hear!!!!!

[Tennessee Nana]

Scrapple Face ??? THe Onion ???

Tell me I haven’t died and gone to Heaven...

A roll over by the libs...

and we only have a miniscule group on our side in the US Senate ...

[TribalPrincess2U]

Well, they have to give a little once in a while to
make it look like they're doing their job and
keep us rambunctious heathens quieted down.

[Moonman62]

The program has drawn strong opposition from illegal alien advocates and divided opinions among L/E who feel it may undermine trust in illegal alien communities where crime is often underreported.

[Calpernia]

Sounds like the adults are back in charge! I wonder what is going on? Someone have dirt on someone?

[raybbr]

Senate This Week Passes Sessions’ E-Verify Amendment; Senate Adopts DeMint Border Fence Amendment; Senate Adopts Vitter and Grassley Amendments — And immigration-reduction.

I am very leery of this. I see this as a precursor to amnesty. "See, we did what you wanted now we get amnesty."

I have no faith in politicians whatsoever.

[AuntB]

And the other side of the coin.....Why CALIFORNIA?

Risking Israel’s ire, US takes 1,350 Palestinian refugees

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0708/p02s04-usgn.html

July 7, 2009 - The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.

It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US – and welcome news to the Palestinians who fled to Iraq after 1948 but who have had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003. Targeted by Iraqi Shiites, the mostly-Sunni Palestinians have spent recent years in one of the region’s roughest refugee camps, Al Waleed, near Iraq’s border with Syria.

“Really for the first time, the United States is recognizing a Palestinian refugee population that could be admitted to the US as part of a resettlement program,” says Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch in Washington.

Given the US’s past reluctance to resettle Palestinians – it accepted just seven Palestinians in 2007 and nine in 2008 – the effort could ruffle some diplomatic feathers.[snip]