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Colorado senate passes bill targeting ‘sanctuary cities’
A bill targeting immigration “sanctuary cities” won its initial vote Thursday in the state Senate.
The bill, by Sen. Tom Wiens, R-Castle Rock, passed on a voice vote with little debate. It would require local police officers to report suspected illegal immigrants they arrest to federal immigration agents.
It also requires cities to report immigration arrests to the Legislature.
An earlier version of the bill would have required police to call the feds every time they found a suspected illegal immigrant, whether or not an arrest was made…
No senator voted against the bill Thursday.
“One of the concerns we have is this is federal law, and when we incarcerate (immigrants) at the state or local level, we don’t get compensation to incarcerate them,” said Sen. Jim Isgar, D-Hesperus. “If somebody illegal commits a crime, yes, they need to report it. I think we all agree on that.”
Minutemen threaten to ‘shut down’ labor site
Continuing to target North County sites where day laborers gather, a handful of opponents of illegal immigration showed up early Wednesday at the corner of Stagecoach Lane and East Alvarado Street to photograph would-be workers and those who hire them.
Anti-immigration candidate exchanges gunfire with ‘gang-banger’
Mesa council candidate JT Ready bought some cat litter at Wal-Mart and was driving to a friend’s house about 1 a.m. Thursday when he noticed Hispanic men dressed like “gang-bangers” acting “suspiciously.”
100,000 rally for immigrant rights in Chicago
Tens of thousands of immigrants from all over the Chicago area, many carrying U.S. flags, marched into downtown Friday to show support for immigrant rights.
Border Patrol agent accused of excessive force
U.S. Border Patrol is investigating a San Luis, Ariz., resident’s allegations that an agent used excessive force by spraying him with pepper spray.
Lawmakers tour border
The dusty roads and barbed wire fences of the U.S.-Mexican border are nearly 2,000 miles from the ornate offices and hearing rooms of the Capitol, but this is where Rep. Jim Kolbe thinks his colleagues need to be as Congress considers expansive changes to immigration and border security laws.
Immigration debate in Maryland grows ‘nastier’
For years, Maryland has been insulated from the polarizing battles over immigration that have troubled such immigrant-heavy states as Arizona and California.
Minutemen ranks growing in Chicago suburbs
At first glance, Terry Gavin and Pete Kozak seem to have little in common.
Andrew Thomas ‘misinterpreting’ immigration law
The top prosecutor in Arizona’s most populous county is misinterpreting the law under which he wants to charge 51 illegal immigrants with a felony, two legislators who helped write the law said Friday.