Fast-track" programs are selectively implemented programs that give illegal reentry defendants a reduced sentence in exchange for a quick guilty plea and broad waiver of procedural rights. Found predominately in southwest border districts overburdened with illegal immigrants, these programs cause grave sentencing disparities. A defendant in a fast-track district will receive a lower sentence than a similarly situated defendant in a non-fast-track district based simply on the geographical location of arrest. The circuit courts have split on whether a sentencing court in a nonfast-track district is permitted to give a defendant a lower sentence because of this disparity. This Note suggests that the circuit split results from a collision between an immigration policy that focuses on prose...
The 2012 election cycle is underway and familiar allegations that illegal immigrants are registering to vote or casting ballots are already cropping up again, but election officials from across Arizona say the oft-made claims are little more than urban legend. Election officials from all 15 Arizona counties and the Secretary of State's Office told the Arizona Capitol Times they can't recall any instances of illegal immigrants trying to commit election fraud. What fraud they have seen is mostly from legal immigrants, many of whom were told by organizers of campaigns that they're allowed to register to vote.
WASHINGTON - Anngie Gutierrez was a child when she arrived in the United States as an illegal immigrant 10 years ago. There's still no path to legal status for her, but in Maryland and a handful of other states, there is a more affordable road to college. Gutierrez, a high school junior in Hyattsville, Md., will benefit from a new state law that allows illegal immigrants who live there to pay in-state tuition rates at Maryland's public colleges. If she lived in Virginia, about 15 miles to the west, she would find that many public colleges require undocumented students to pay out-of- state tuition.
(AP) - A Republican-led House panel rejected legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to attend Colorado colleges at the lower in-state tuition rate. Republicans who voted against the bill Monday said it would entice more illegal immigrants to come to the U.S. and provide false security to students who would not be able to legally work after graduation.
Today, the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force recruitment campaigns focus largely on education and benefits to families. The Army's campaign, created by Cartel Impacto, a cutting-edge firm from San Antonio, uses the firms proprietary "barrio anthropology" and grassroots "viral and guerilla marketing" techniques to "go deep into the neighborhoods and barrios" in order to tell Latino families how the military can help them have the kind of life they want in America. "We address the core issues of why they left their country in the first place," says a Cartel Impacto spokesperson, who did not want her name published. "You have to conduct your outreach carefully," she says, "using PTAs as an entry point," as well as "local Hispanic groups that the newly arrived would look to. How many of the...
Staff Writer State and local police lack authority to investigate reports of illegal immigrants on job sites.
A state senator who wants Missouri's anti-immigration laws to mirror measures passed in Alabama and Arizona is stirring up a fight with advocates for refugees and other foreigners. The bill is designed to deter illegal immigrants from coming to Missouri and to gather information on the impact of their presence, said Sen. Will Kraus, R-Lee's Summit. He has a separate bill directing the attorney general to initiate a lawsuit against the federal government for the state's costs of having illegal immigrants in the state.
Armed federal agents descended Wednesday on a popular Mexican restaurant that has employed illegal immigrants since it opened in 2006, court documents say. Guillermo Fuentes, 35, owner of the Fajita Grill on Main Street, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens and employment of illegal aliens. His brother, Hector Fuentes, who owns Cancun Mexican restaurants in Biddeford and Waterville, was arrested on the same charges.
ATHENS, Ga. - As college students return to campus in Georgia, a new state policy has closed the doors of the five most competitive state schools to illegal immigrants, but a group of professors has found a way to offer those students a taste of what they've been denied. The five professors at the University of Georgia have started a program they're calling Freedom University. They're offering to teach a rigorous seminar course once a week meant to mirror courses taught at the most competitive schools and aimed at students who have graduated from high school but can't go to one of those top schools because of the new policy or because of cuts to state scholarship programs.
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