John McCain is facing re-election in Arizona and has stepped back from his wildly unpopular stance on being the front man for amnesty for illegal aliens. Therefore he has temporarily passed the torch on to SC Senator Lindsey Graham... ...

This is what goes for tough talk on illegal immigration at the White House:We'll offer permanent work permits, permanent residency and path to citizenship to illegal aliens but if they don't sign up, they just have to go home.
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Undocumented aliens find dissatisfaction with Obama’s effort for their community

Immigrant’s rights groups are mad at President Obama and his fellow Democrats. They’re irritated the president is filling his daily schedule with silly things like health care, the economy and the War on Terror. What he should be focusing on is fast-tracking legislation to legalize the undocumented immigrants already inside the borders. Are they serious?

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Barack Obama will be speaking at Arcadia University (Philadelphia) on Monday, March 8. And, it looks like he and his supporters are doing to the tea parties what George W Bush and Di ...

President Barack Obama has asked Congress for a 30 percent increase in funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) 'Secure Communities' program - a program launched in March 2008 by the Bush administration to help local jails identify inmates who are in the United States illegally so they can be deported when their prison sentences are completed.

A 2008 fact sheet about the program reported that ICE, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security, checked the immigration status of '100 percent' of inmates in state and federal prisons, but only 10 percent of the more than 3,000 local jails in the United States were checking to see if criminals in their facilities were in the country illegally.

Obama included in his proposed 2010 budget $200 million for the program, a 30 percent increase from last year's funding.

The workplace is turning far less favorable for immigrants -- legal and illegal -- in the United States, a new study of U.S. labor statistics shows.

Unemployment in the first quarter of 2009 for immigrants -- defined as those who were not U.S. citizens at birth -- was 9.7 percent, compared with 8.6 percent for the native-born, according to the study by the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that argues for tighter immigration policies.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows the states with the highest immigrant unemployment rates are Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada.

A local agency that works with Ottawa employers to remove barriers to recruiting and retaining skilled immigrants says it will expand its activities after receiving a $1.9-million provincial grant.

Hire Immigrants Ottawa will form a new working group focused on the biotechnology sector, complimenting the present working groups concentrated on the health care, information technology, finance and public sectors.

'Bridging programs works,' said Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Michael Chan in a statement.

On Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee conducted a hearing on the 2010 budget priorities of the Department of Homeland Security. The budget was submitted to Congress on May 7, 2009 as part of the President's $3.5 trillion Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Proposal. The ranking Republican on the subcommittee with jurisdiction over U.S. borders and counterterrorism, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), yesterday during the hearing specifically asked DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano whether she still supported repeal of the REAL ID Act. This was the exchange:

REP. SOUDER: Now on the border, one is a concern on terrorism on the border. If we're going to work out anything in this country on immigration we have to have the confidence of the American people that whether it's the Dream Act or whether it's immigration reform of some type, that the border is secure, or otherwise people just pour in if we make changes.

Furthermore, if we're going to fight terrorism, we have to know who people are.

You stated that you wanted to eliminate - repeal the Real ID Act, which was one of the key 9/11 Commissions and - do you still stand with that? Do you see that moving ahead? And how is that working? And if I can do the second one, you can kind of work these together.