These are some recent reports some of you might be interested in.
Hearing on immigration and the economy
House Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law
Thursday, September 30, 2010
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_100930.html
Witness Testimony
Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor
City of New York
New York, NY
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Bloomberg100930.pdf
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO
News Corporation
New York, NY
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Murdoch100930.pdf
Jeff Moseley, President and CEO
The Greater Houston Partnership
Houston, TX
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Moseley100930.pdf
Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research
Center for Immigration Studies
Washington, DC
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Camarota100930.pdf
Hearing on immigration and agricultural workers
House Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law
Friday, September 24, 2010
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_100924.html
Characteristics of Persons Naturalizing in the United States Between 1980 and 2008
By James Lee
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics Fact Sheet, September 2010
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois-yon-fs.pdf
Latinos and the 2010 Elections
Strong Support for Democrats; Weak Voter Motivation
By Mark Hugo Lopez
Pew Hispanic Center, October 5, 2010
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/127.pdf
Migrant Remittances Newsletter
Vol. 7, No. 2, October 2010
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=46180_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
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Effects of Immigration on WIC and NSLP Caseloads
By Tracy Vericker, Karina Fortuny, Kenneth finegold, and Sevgi Bayram Ozdemir
The Urban Institute, September 2010
http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/412214-effects-immigration-wic.pdf
New from the Migration Policy Institute
Migration and Immigrants Two Years after the Financial Collapse: Where Do We Stand?
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Madeleine Sumption, and Aaron Terrazas
With Carola Burkert, Stephen Loyal, and Ruth Ferrero-Turrión
October 2010
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/MPI-BBCreport-2010.pdf
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
By Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri, and Greg C. Wright
NBER Working Paper No. 16439, October 2010
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16439
Demography and Population Loss from Central Cities, 1950-2000
By Leah Platt Boustan and Allison Shertzer
NBER Working Paper No. 16435, October 2010
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16435
How Do Immigrants Spend Time?: The Process of Assimilation
By Daniel S. Hamermesh and Stephen J. Trejo
NBER Working Paper No. 16430, October 2010
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16430
Acquisition of Citizenship and Political Participation of Latino Immigrants
By Ines Levin
Calif. Inst. of Technology, Div. of the Humanities and Social Sciences, September 22, 2010
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1679638
More illegal alien news today...too many to post separately.
Dogs help nab illegal immigrant in Lima
Lima, N.Y. —
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office charged Juan C. Reyes, 25, of Lima with second-degree criminal trespass Tuesday night, and they have man’s best friend to thank.
A Lima resident called 911 at around 8:50 p.m., telling them that someone was in his kitchen and had fled on foot. The homeowner told deputies that his dog, Lucky, was barking and alerted him to what was happening.
Deputy Martin Herkimer and his K9 partner, Oxo, searched the immediate area and located Reyes near the Lima Laundromat. After a short foot chase, the suspect was apprehended by the duo.
Herkimer and Oxo, a German Shepard certified in explosives and tracking, have been partners since September 2009.
The homeowner reported that nothing was missing, but Reyes was found to be living in the U.S. illegally. The U.S. Border Patrol was on scene to file a detainer.
In a related investigation, Reyes was also charged with petit larceny for allegedly stealing keys from parked vehicles in the same neighborhood.
http://www.eveningtribune.com/features/x1404214168/Dogs-help-nab-illegal-immigrant-in-Lima
M3Foreign News, NAFBPO
Large stash of firearms seized just outside of Guadalajara
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Friday, 10/15/10
Milenio (Mexico City), El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 10/13/10
Arsenal seized
After a citizen’s report, Mexican military personnel searched a house in Zapopan, Jalisco (a city just outside Guadalajara), and seized 51 “long barrel” firearms, 49 handguns, three rocket launchers, including one of 40 mm., and also 37,080 rounds of ammunition of various calibers, plus 13 fragmentation grenades and 7 other grenades of .40 mm. caliber. One of the long barrel firearms was an AK-47 assault rifle equipped with a silencer, both gold plated. Two of the pistols were also gold plated. A small amount of various drugs was also seized. There were no arrests. (The photos below accompanied the articles.)
http://www.milenio.com/node/553109
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La Nacion (San Jose, Costa Rica) 10/13/10
Costa Rica to require visa scrutiny for Mexicans & Guatemalans
Costa Rican immigration officials are proposing to toughen the issuance of the visa issuance process for citizens of Mexico and Guatemala. The object is to look into a visa applicant’s police or criminal record for citizens of those countries interested in traveling to Costa Rica. The Vice-Minister for Government, Mario Zamora, said that it’s time to take preventive type actions due to the great number of cases in which citizens of those two countries turn up to be linked with organized crime. A similar procedure has already been imposed on visa applicants who are citizens of Colombia and Jamaica.
http://www.nacion.com/2010-10-12/Sucesos/Relacionados/Sucesos2552748.aspx
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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 10/13/10
One weekend : 24 homicides
Last weekend closed with 24 homicides in El Salvador. The country’s National Civil Police has now recorded 98 homicides in the first 10 days of the month. For the entire year, the daily average of homicides is 11. (That country is slightly smaller than Massachusetts.)
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Banderas News (Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco) 10/13/10
Drug war bloodshed tarnishes Mexico’s richest city
(Use link below for an English language article about conditions in Monterey, Mexico)
http://www.banderasnews.com/1010/nr-richestcity.htm
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El Debate (Sinaloa) 10/14/10
Police being killed at soaring rates
Twenty-five law enforcement personnel were murdered in the state of Sinaloa in 2007, but this year that number has grown more than threefold and has reached 90. The highest yearly number so far was in 2008, when 112 agents of various law enforcement agencies fell victim to organized crime.
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdArt=10288392&IdCat=6087
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La Cronica (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 10/14/10
Drugs flow northward
From the morning of Friday, Oct 8, until Tuesday the 12th, agents at the U.S. Border Ports of Entry in Calexico and San Ysidro (San Diego,) Calif., detected 28 attempts to smuggle drugs into the U.S.; the contraband was hidden in various areas of vehicles including bumpers, side panels, tires and fuel tanks. The total weight of the drugs seized in that period at those two facilities: 1,901 kilos (4,182 lbs.)
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/13102010/473380.aspx
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Sipse.com (10/14/10)
Money flows southward
This past Tuesday, Miriam Gabriela Caramillos-Camargo arrived at the airport in Cancun, state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, aboard a flight from Amsterdam, Holland. Inspectors found 250,457 euros, the equivalent of 4,250,000 pesos, (approx. 352,000 dollars,) which she had not declared and were hidden in the double bottom of her suitcase.
http://www.sipse.com/noticias/70265-viajo-cancun-250-euros-bolso.html
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Diario Rotativo (Queretaro, Qro.) 10/14/10
Undocumented in Yucatan
Mexican immigration officials called it somewhat unusual, but in the city of Merida they found four aliens illegally in Mexico; three of them were labeled as Hindus and one as Central American. And at the same city’s airport, they found two others also illegally in Mexico, one from China and the other from Guatemala. All six are now detained.
http://rotativo.com.mx/migracion/aseguran-a-seis-indocumentados-en-yucatan/41116/html/
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