Illinois may give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants...

onalandline · Nov 21, 2012

Is Illinois trying to be the next California? Illinois is on the way!

What is next? Why are politicians more concerned with illegals than citizens of this country?

Illinois may give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants:

Illinois may soon become the most populous U.S. state to grant a form of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, after the nation's growing Hispanic population boosted the power of Democrats in national and state elections on November 6.

A bipartisan group of Illinois politicians announced on Tuesday they would propose such a law when the legislature convenes on November 27.

Washington state and New Mexico are the only states that currently allow illegal immigrants to get licenses. Utah allows driving permits. As the fifth most populous state, Illinois would be the biggest state to adopt such a law.

A California law that allows immigrants with federal work permits to receive driver's licenses will take effect January 1, 2013.
Supporters said the law would be good for public safety, allowing Illinois immigrant motorists to get tested on their driving skills and buy insurance.

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waltky · Dec 26, 2012

Illegal immigration advocates win a big one...

ICE Scraps 287(g) Program That Allowed Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law
December 26, 2012 - Amid Hispanic calls for immigration leniency, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is scrapping a program that allowed specially trained state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law.

On Dec. 21, the Friday before Christmas, ICE announced that it has decided "not to renew any of its agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies that operate task forces under the 287(g) program." ICE said it has concluded that "other enforcement programs, including Secure Communities, are a more efficient use of resources for focusing on priority cases." Under Secure Communities, the federal officials -- not state or local law enforcement officers -- decide what immigration enforcement action, if any, is appropriate. The Obama administration in 2009 weakened the 287(g) program by directing state and local police not to arrest many of the illegal immigrants with whom they came into contact.

Instead of allowing local police to arrest people simply on suspicion of being in the United States illegally, the Obama administration established categories of illegal aliens who are a “priority for arrest and detention.” Those priorities include aliens who have broken criminal laws, are national security threats, recent border-crossers, repeat immigration law violators, or fugitives from immigration court. According to a fact sheet on its website, ICE since 1996 has had as many as 57 active 287(g) partnerships in 21 states and has trained and certified more than 1,300 officers to enforce federal immigration law. Also on Dec. 21, ICE issued a new policy restricting the use of detainers against suspected illegal aliens who have been arrested or convicted of minor traffic violations or other petty offenses. ICE said this will allow it to devote its resources to apprehending felons and other priority individuals.

ICE uses detainers to identify and ultimately deport criminal aliens who are currently in federal, state or local jails or prisons. The detainer informs law enforcement agencies that ICE intends to assume custody of an individual being held by that law enforcement agency. "Smart and effective immigration enforcement relies on setting priorities for removal and executing on those priorities," said ICE Director John Morton in a Dec. 21 news release announcing the policy changes. "In order to further enhance our ability to focus enforcement efforts on serious offenders, we are changing who ICE will issue detainers against. While the FY 2012 removals indicate that we continue to make progress in focusing resources on criminal and priority aliens, with more convicted criminals being removed from the country than ever before, we are constantly looking for ways to ensure that we are doing everything we can to utilize our resources in a way that maximizes public safety."

ICE says it deported 409,849 individuals in fiscal year 2012, more than half of them (55 percent) convicted of felonies or misdemeanors. Twenty-four percent (96,82 of those removed from the U.S. were repeat immigration violators or immigration fugitives; and 17 percent (69,957) were recent border-crossers. Four percent fell into the "other" category. Of the 225,390 aliens (55 percent) with criminal violations, 1,215 were convicted of homicide; 5,557 were convicted of sexual offenses; 40,448 aliens were convicted of crimes involving drugs; and 36,166 were convicted of driving under the influence. ICE said that 96 percent of the total 409,849 individuals deported in fiscal 2012 fell into one of ICE's enforcement priorities -- a record high, it said.

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ICE Audits Record Number of Companies for Illegal Immigrants on Payrolls
December 23, 2012 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached its highest number yet of companies audited for illegal immigrants on their payrolls this past fiscal year.

Audits of employer I-9 forms increased from 250 in fiscal year 2007 to more than 3,000 in 2012. From fiscal years 2009 to 2012, the total amount of fines grew to nearly $13 million from $1 million. The number of company managers arrested has increased to 238, according to data provided by ICE. The investigations of companies have been one of the pillars of President Barack Obama's immigration policy. When Obama recently spoke about addressing immigration reform in his second term, he said any measure should contain penalties for companies that purposely hire illegal immigrants. It's not a new stand, but one he will likely highlight as his administration launches efforts to revamp the nation's immigration system. "Our goal is compliance and deterrence," said Brad Bench, special agent in charge at ICE's Seattle office. "The majority of the companies we do audits on end up with no fines at all, but again it's part of the deterrence method. If companies know we're out there, looking across the board, they're more likely to bring themselves into compliance."

While the administration has used those numbers to bolster their record on immigration enforcement, advocates say the audits have pushed workers further underground by causing mass layoffs and disrupted business practices. When the ICE audit letter arrived at Belco Forest Products, management wasn't entirely surprised. Two nearby businesses in Shelton, a small timber town on a bay off Washington state's Puget Sound, had already been investigated. But the 2010 inquiry became a months-long process that cost the timber company experienced workers and money. It was fined $17,700 for technicalities on their record keeping. "What I don't like is the roll of the dice," said Belco's chief financial officer Tom Behrens. "Why do some companies get audited and some don't? Either everyone gets audited or nobody does. Level the playing field."

Belco was one of 339 companies fined in fiscal year 2011 and one of thousands audited that year. Employers are required to have their workers fill out an I-9 form that declares them authorized to work in the country. Currently, an employer needs only to verify that identifying documents look real. The audits, part of a $138 million worksite enforcement effort, rely on ICE officers scouring over payroll records to find names that don't match Social Security numbers and other identification databases. The audits "don't make any sense before a legalization program," said Daniel Costa, an immigration policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. "You're leaving the whole thing up to an employer's eyesight and subjective judgment, that's the failure of the law. There's no verification at all. Then you have is the government making a subjective judgment about subjective judgment."

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onalandline · Dec 27, 2012

waltky said: ↑

Illegal immigration advocates win a big one...

ICE Scraps 287(g) Program That Allowed Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law
December 26, 2012 - Amid Hispanic calls for immigration leniency, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is scrapping a program that allowed specially trained state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law.

See also:

ICE Audits Record Number of Companies for Illegal Immigrants on Payrolls
December 23, 2012 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached its highest number yet of companies audited for illegal immigrants on their payrolls this past fiscal year.
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Yep. The federal government is doing everything it can to allow illegal immigration to thrive, and hog tie the States.

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