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Nearly 60 police departments and sheriff’s offices in New York state don’t have access to important records from the state Department of Motor Vehicles because they haven’t agreed the records won’t be turned over to federal immigration, state officials said.

Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide cheap housing to illegal immigrants. “A Steyer Administration will … ensure that all undocumented communities have access to affordable and safe housing,” Steyer said in his immigration proposal.

SACRAMENTO — California has been slowly erasing legal immigration status as a requirement for medical coverage under the state’s healthcare program for low-income residents, allowing children and, this month, young adults living in the U.S. illegally to enroll. Now, Democratic lawmakers expect Gov. Gavin Newsom to embrace an effort to include seniors without legal status in the state’s Medi-Cal program — either in his new state budget or with his signature on legislation. Newsom will send the Legislature a full state spending plan this week and is expected to unveil it Friday. State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) said...

THIS is why DMV Lines are so long in states that have allowed illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses

... Mr. Grant clearly remembered Aug. 7, the day the Trump administration performed sweeping immigration raids on seven chicken plants in central Mississippi. He remembered the news flashing on his phone: 680 Hispanic workers arrested. He remembers seeing an opportunity. “I figured there should be some jobs,” he said. He figured right. The raids were believed to be the largest statewide immigration crackdown in recent history and a partial fulfillment of President Trump’s vow to remove millions of undocumented workers from the country. The impact on Mississippi’s immigrant community has been devastating. For nonimmigrant workers, the aftermath has forced them...

by Brian Hayes An illegal alien was arrested on Saturday for the fatal hit-and-run of a Native American grandmother in Denver. Annette Conquering Bear, a mother-of-six who was due to celebrate her 52nd birthday December 19, was walking home from the supermarket with her husband when Mexican national Juan Sánchez struck her with a SUV he had borrowed the afternoon of December 17. The 2007 GMC Sierra was abandoned by Sánchez down the road and traced to a friend, who identified him to police investigators. As the DailyMail reported, Sanchez had been previously deported multiple times, but took advantage of sanctuary...

I believe that if the full story is told about Obama-era political spying, Admiral Mike Rogers (former head of NSA) will emerge as a hero. Sources say Rogers has been cooperating with the ongoing Durham investigation. Look for significant developments in the case as we approach the 2020 election... Below is a Rogers timeline covering illegal spying using NSA data. This illegal use of data is a matter of record -- undisputed, but also largely unreported. The FISC (FISA court) report on this illegal use of data appeared in April 2017; the author is Rosemary Collyer, the head FISA judge....

MANCHESTER, Wis. - The Green Lake County Sheriff's Office has arrested six people in connection with a sex trafficking case, according to a news release. Law enforcement officials said they received a 911 call Nov. 28 from a juvenile on the run. According to police, she had escaped from a residence where she was being sex trafficked. Police said she was able to provide information that allowed police to start an investigation. Police executed a search warrant on Nov. 29 at W2964 County Line Road in Manchester, Wisconsin, where they seized multiple items of evidence believed to be connected to...

The Trump administration announced a new process to apply for H-1B visas, requiring applicants to preregister online for an initial lottery before filing their full petitions for the coveted visas for highly skilled foreign workers. Under the new process, employers must register between March 1-20 to determine who will be selected to apply for the visas, which allow holders to live and work in the U.S. for up to three years at a time, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Friday. Under the previous system, U.S. employers prepped their applicants’ full petitions, which cost thousands of dollars to file, to...

WASHINGTON—Investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened about four times the number of workplace investigations in the year ended Sept. 30 compared with the close of the Obama administration, while starting fewer probes into gangs, weapons and financial crimes, according to new figures the agency provided to The Wall Street Journal. ICE’s focus on workplace enforcement—targeting both immigrants working illegally and their employers—has intensified in the past two years. Homeland Security Investigations, the ICE arm that carries out criminal investigations, opened 6,812 new workplace cases in the 2019 fiscal year, up from 1,701 during fiscal 2016. The agency made...

Some good, but still sobering news comes to us from the Philadelphia office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). First the good news. They just arrested Hector Moran-Espinoza, an illegal alien from Guatemala who was wanted on a laundry list of charges, primarily having to do with sexual assaults on minors and trafficking in child pornography. Then there’s the sobering news. The Philadelphia Police Department had already arrested and then released Moran twice this year, despite ICE having filed a detainer for him both times. (ICE.gov) Nov. 27, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested unlawfully present Guatemalan national...

... Steve Bullock, governor of Montana and a former Democratic presidential candidate, spoke truthfully to a debate audience: “We’ve got 100,000 people showing up at the border right now. If we decriminalize entry, if we give health care to everyone, we’ll have multiples of that.” Yes, and the cost is measured partly in bodies. An average of 372 dead migrants a year were found along the southern border during Mr. Obama’s two terms. In Mr. Trump’s first two years, the average was 290. Don’t blame either man. Both had the same policy. It’s the same as Bill Clinton’s and George...

Whiteside’s life came to an abrupt end on March 5, three days after Ruben Adolfo De Leon Valenzuela, who was driving drunk and in the wrong lanes of West Broad Street, slammed into Whiteside’s Lexus RX head-on. Whiteside and his wife, who had been married 47 years, were driving to dinner about 9:15 p.m. after watching an early evening show at a local cinema. Whiteside, who was driving, suffered blunt-force trauma to his head, torso and lower extremities. His wife suffered a broken sternum and vertebra. Physicians did what they could for Whiteside but his injuries were too severe, and...

When New York lawmakers passed the so-called Green Light Law in June, it was hailed a landmark victory by those who had fought for the measure for more than two decades. The law makes New York one of 14 states that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, which proponents argue will help them avoid deportation for relatively minor offenses, such as traffic violations. But the change has been met with resistance from county clerks in conservative areas of upstate New York, who are now setting the stage for a political clash when the law takes effect next month. Some...

An undocumented immigrant that was arrested on October 19th on Aggravated DWI charges in Wayne County has been charged in connection with Sunday’s fatal accident in the village of Weedsport that killed a 59-year-old Weedsport man. 31-year-old Heriberto Perez-Velasquez, of Savannah, is accused of striking from behind a tractor that was traveling east on the south shoulder of Route 31 just before 2 Sunday afternoon. The operator of the tractor, Mark Knapp, was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. Perez-Velasquez fled the scene on foot and was caught a short distance from the scene by police and a bystander....

Editor’s note: The following column was submitted before Rep. Katie Hill’s resignation became official and additional candidates entered the race. There are three Republicans running for Congress in California’s 25th Congressional District, where Democrat Rep. Katie Hill has announced her resignation. These Republicans are Mark Cripe, Mike Garcia and Angela Underwood Jacobs.

A referendum on Tuesday’s ballot in New Jersey’s northernmost county asked whether voters wanted local officials to cooperate with federal immigration agents. It passed by a lopsided 2-to-1 margin. Nearly 200 miles away, along the state’s southern swath, a directive by the state attorney general that in part bars county sheriff officers from doing the work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has led two counties to file federal lawsuits. A third county has threatened legal action. The state attorney general’s rule not only precipitated the lawsuits, but also became a key election issue, generating support for Republican candidates who...

A top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer in Iowa privately offered campaign contributions to local politicians in exchange for endorsing his White House bid, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the conversations. The overtures from Pat Murphy, a former state House speaker who is serving as a top adviser on Steyer’s Iowa campaign, aren’t illegal — though payments for endorsements would violate campaign finance laws if not disclosed. There’s no evidence that any Iowans accepted the offer or received contributions from Steyer’s campaign as compensation for their backing.

Two murder suspects who escaped from a California jail on Sunday were captured late Tuesday night while trying to cross the southern border back into the United States, according to United States Customs and Border Protection. The escapees, Santos Samuel Fonseca, 21, and Jonathan Salazar, 20, were arrested trying to re-enter the country near Tijuana, Mexico, Capt. John Thornburg of the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference on Wednesday. Both inmates, who had been awaiting trial for gang-related killings at the Monterey County Adult Detention Facility in Salinas, Calif., are now facing escape charges, Captain Thornburg said....

LAS VEGAS (AP) — THE Latest on Las Vegas city officials considering a law to make sleeping on the streets illegal (all times local): 6 p.m. Despite protests about a war on the poor, Las Vegas officials passed a law Wednesday making it illegal to sleep on the streets when beds are available at established shelters. The measure framed as a ban on camping downtown makes Las Vegas the latest city in the U.S. West to take steps to try to deal with complaints about homelessness. It has also drawn criticism from several Democratic presidential candidates. Effective Jan. 1, the...