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Republican legislators in Georgia are trying to dodge debate over the rising cheap-labor migration into their state — but they also are drafting bills that would steer more illegal migrants into the jobs and homes needed by young Georgians. “Those of us who are in the [Georgia] Capitol for the last 18 years know that the big business lobby run by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce does not want any discussion about the hidden costs of black-market labor,” said D.A. King, founder of the Dustin Inman Society, which opposes illegal migration.

President Obama is refusing to secure the border until Congress reaches a breakthrough on comprehensive immigration reform, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl said at a recent town hall meeting. "The problem is, he said, if we secure the border, then you all won't have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform," Kyl said, as the crowd in the room gasped loudly. "In other words, they're holding it hostage."

SCOTTSDALE - As the firestorm around SB 1070 picks up speed, a company called Arizona Sun is weathering the storm. But the reaction is different than expected. Bob Wallace runs the million-dollar skin care and hair care product business out of Scottsdale. The company supplies to thousands of locations across the United States. He was worried about a backlash, but Wallace says something odd is happening. While some are emailing that they will boycott Arizona Sun products just because of the Arizona connection -- others are buying products just to support the company.

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. government finally released the first part of a $400 million aid package Wednesday to support Mexico's police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels. The money comes at a critical time: Mexico's death toll from drug violence has soared above 4,000 so far this year, and drug-related murders and kidnappings are spilling over the U.S. border as well. U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza formally released $197 million at a signing ceremony in Mexico City. The rest will be disbursed throughout the year. Garza said the Merida Initiative aid will enable the U.S. and Mexico to...

Washington, D.C. (AHN)-President George Bush called on Congress to muster the "political courage" to pass an immigration overhaul that has foundered for weeks in the U.S. Senate. "We have an obligation to solve problems that have been piling up for decades," President Bush said in his weekly radio address. "The status quo is unacceptable." The proposed legislation, drafted by a small group of senators and White House negotiators, would create a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million immigrants in the United States illegally. The proposal has been derided by opponents as an amnesty...

With Bush and the GOP literally dying from their inability to do anything right about illegal immigration and border security, I think I've come up with a possible "way out" - more than that really - a WORKABLE SOLUTION that I think will make most people happy: Every illegal alien currently living in the United States is given the following offer: "You can apply for permanent residency and eventual US citizenship, under the following terms: #1. The longer you have been here, the higher priority you will have. However, there will be a penalty of $1000 for every year you...

Border Patrol bags 153 during raid on Yuma drop house BY BLAKE SCHMIDT, SUN STAFF WRITER Mar 2, 2006, 9:10 pm Border Patrol agents found 134 illegal aliens packed inside this trailer Thursday morning. LOANED PHOTO Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents busted a drop house Thursday morning that was packed with 134 illegal aliens, some of whom said they had been inside the single-wide mobile home for five days, according to a Border Patrol news release. "The conditions inside (the trailer) were standing-room only ... dirty ... (and) with the sheer amount of people, body-heat-generated temperatures that were extremely high,"...

Bush gives country away Posted: January 15, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com President Bush's plan to legalize 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens – maybe considerably more – is one of the most irresponsible, dangerous, reckless proposals to come out of Washington in my lifetime. And that's saying a lot. In my lifetime, I have witnessed: wage-and-price controls imposed by Richard Nixon; the greatest expansion of unconstitutional, immoral wealth-transfer programs in the history of our country; the use of the Internal Revenue Service by President Clinton to harass and intimidate political adversaries; the sacrifice of more than...

A little more than a week after angry Californians tossed out their sitting governor, a grass-roots campaign is gaining ground in a push to reverse a new law granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. A group of Republicans who were active in the recall effort said they had collected nearly 40,000 signatures in the two weeks since they began circulating petitions for the proposed ballot initiative. If volunteers can gather 375,000 signatures of registered voters by Dec. 7, the law will be suspended and voters will decide its fate in the March election. The battle over driver's licenses began with...

11/27/02Immigrants Leaving Mounds of Trash on Tohono O'Odham Indian Sacred LandsBy Paul CicalaThe Tohono O'Odham Nation faces an environmental crisis. Every day, nearly 1,500 undocumented immigrants pass through the U.S.'s second largest indian reservation, leaving thousands of pounds of trash on tribal lands.News 13 recently got a first-hand look at some of the areas on the reservation that appear more like a trash dump than sacred lands.Piles of trash grow to mounds of trash on the Tohono O'Odham lands. In the process of searching for the American dream, some immigrants are trashing Arizona.Henry A. Ramon, Vice Chairman for the...