Navarrette: Cops shouldn't enforce immigration
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The wacky world of immigration reform is full of half-baked ideas, but none has the taste of having spent less time in the oven than letting local cops enforce federal immigration law.
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The Home Secretary is asked why police were told to release illegal immigrants and allow them make their way to a screening centre.
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EUGENE, Ore. - A police officer's spraypainted signs on curbs and sidewalks are coming under fire. The white and red "no trespassing" and "no soliciting" signs - meant to ward off panhandlers - may be illegal, according to city officials.
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By Thomas Korosec, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 6--DALLAS -- A federal judge extended an order Tuesday preventing the suburb of Farmers Branch from enforcing a voter-approved ordinance barring apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants.
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Illegal immigrants seeking to make a home in this northeastern Pennsylvania city could face barriers to finding a home and job after the city council passed one of the nation&#039;s strictest ordinances to fight illegal immigration.
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Police authorities have urged the public to back government plans to sign the European Union's controversial Schengen/Dublin accord on cross-border crime and asylum.
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Mexico asked the U.S. government on  Tuesday to formally explain the use of pepper guns by Border  Patrol agents against illegal Mexican migrants, the government  news agency said.
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U.S. federal agents have begun training Arizona police to enforce immigration laws in a pioneering move to combat violent smuggling networks from Mexico, police said on Monday.
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Ines Olivia Martinez wonders if her family will be denied medical care. Even her mentally disabled 13-year-old son has been anxiously pointing out police cars amid fears of a local crackdown on illegal immigrants. Resolutions to deny a potentially wide range of public services to illegal immigrants have thrust two northern Virginia counties into the nation's immigration debate.
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The move had been thought to be at odds with Gov. Eliot L. Spitzerâs plan to allow illegal immigrants to apply for driverâs licenses.
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National Democrats on Tuesday urged Republican Party chairman Mel Martinez to stop the independent College Republicans from holding "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" events around the country.
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Herndon's decision Tuesday night to seek federal training for some of its police officers so they can enforce federal immigration law is part of a long-term effort by a new mayor and Town Council to aggressively curb the presence of residents who are in the country illegally.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer is backing off his plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain the same  driverâs licenses as other New Yorkers.
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that Mexico and the United States need to secure their common border before Congress approves an immigration accord. He acknowledged that focusing on security puts "horrible pressure on the Border Patrol," but said Americans must be convinced that the border is safe before they back a plan to grant more immigrants legal passage to the U.S.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - Business owners could soon face fines and even jail time if they hire illegal immigrants in this Long Island community, the latest in one of many efforts by local governments across the country to crack down on undocumented workers.
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ALIR JEGK, Ariz. -- Elsie Salsido was breast-feeding her baby when Border Patrol agents walked into her house unannounced this summer. "Are you Mexicans?" they demanded.
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Dismay over Washington gridlock on immigration has inspired cities and states to pass their own measures, most of which make life harder for undocumented workers and demand that employers, law enforcement officers and even landlords act as the front line.