Border Patrol rescues 34 from flooded drainage tunnel

"U.S. Border Patrol agents and police in Nogales rescued 34 illegal immigrants Thursday morning after finding them clinging to the sides of a flooded drainage tunnel."

Border Patrol gets new rescue beacons

"The U.S. Border Patrol will install seven additional rescue beacons in high-risk areas for illegal immigrants stranded near Yuma to use to signal for help."

Immigration backlash goes local

"Though immigration reform is stalled in Congress, the ripple effects are being felt around the country — more backlash and knee-jerk than thoughtful and measured. These anti-immigrant measures are cropping up in small cities such as Hazleton, Pa., a community of...

Lawmakers doubt border plan will work

"WASHINGTON - Lawmakers of both parties told the nation‘s homeland security chief Thursday they doubt that plans for more agents, improved sensors and other measures to tighten U.S. borders against illegal immigrants and terrorists will work."

Immigrant Rights Groups Split Over Senate Bill

"Even as Congress is stalled over legislation dealing with the growing number of illegal immigrants, a split has emerged among pro-immigrant rights groups over whether to back the Senate measure, seen as the more lenient of the two bills being considered by lawmakers."

Solve immigration crisis -- annex Mexico

"The Bush, Kennedy and McCain guest worker proposals will not stem the tide of illegal immigration. It will continue the phony 20-year policy of *a wink and a nod.*  Over the next 20 years it will open the floodgates for 66 million or more illegals, according to...

New troops at US border, but the task is vast

"Spc. Anthony Maielli of the National Guard is posted in the back of a pickup truck, parked on a San Diego hill called Arnie's Point. He points the lens of a giant infrared scope, which will allow him to see when darkness falls, south over the US-Mexican border."

Mexican gangs, drugs are growing worries

"As debate heats up about illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande, I suspect our perspectives are influenced by one's history and by one's proximity to the Mexican border." Copy & Click this...

Slavery was absent from Moses Austin's petition to settle an American colony ...

"The question of slavery presented the greatest obstacle to the passage of the law. Austin believed that at least temporary toleration of slavery was necessary to the success of his colony. It was the slaveholding population of Missouri, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky,...

Hirings to get scrutiny

"Employers beware: The federal government wants to crack down harder on bosses who hire workers with false Social Security cards."

Sheriff says border violence worsening

"MISSION, Texas - Drug and smuggling gangs controlling Mexican border territory are proving an increasingly violent and sophisticated threat to Texas border law enforcement, Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzales told a state Senate committee Wednesday."

Hawkish border patrol union endorses Kyl in Senate race

"has endorsed U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl's reelection efforts, while highly criticizing fellow Republican Sen. John McCain's stance on immigration matters, which includes a legal path for some of the 12 million illegal immigrants already living in the U.S." Copy & Click this...

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