Center for Immigration Studies         sc        Daily news from CIS    YWCA Tulsa is one of 13 nationwide recipients of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services grant. -- The $1.2 million total grant is for agencies to support citizenship preparation programs for legal permanent residents...

Washington Post      Burden of proof on Obama's origins    The dental office of Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq., is in a low-slung complex in a quiet planned community in Orange County, alongside an assortment of small businesses and solo practitioners. The practice, Appealing Dentistry, is busy this morning... [See Obama Watch]

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    The majority of Guatemalans who live in the United States fear furnishing their data in the census which will take place in that country, for fear that the information will be used to deport them. Edgar Ayala, of the Guatemalan Immigrants Movement in the U.S., stated that this fear is common...

CBS4-TV -- Denver          Report: ICE official lied about accused agent    A supervisor in Denver's immigration enforcement office lied in the case of an agent accused of wrongly releasing records, according to an internal investigation. -- The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement report says Tony Rouco "willfully gave false testimony under oath" in the 2006 case of agent Cory Voorhis...

Statesman-Journal -- Salem, Ore.      Salem man to serve 46 months in federal prison for fraudulent tax refunds    Portland – Luciano Ramos DeLeon, of Salem, was sentenced today in federal court to 46 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. -- Ramos pleaded guilty in May 2009 to one count of filing a false claim and one count of failure to appear.... [See Crime Watch]

Calgary (AB) Herald      Annoying Mexican now carping about Canadian immigration policies    Canada is making a "big mistake" by not backing down on its visa requirements for Mexican nationals, says that country's former president. -- Speaking at the University of Calgary Monday, Vicente Fox urged the Canadian government to find a "better solution" to its refugee problems...

UPI      Plan for housing illegals draws criticism    A U.S. immigration reform group is criticizing plans by the Obama administration to house illegal [aliens] in converted hotels and nursing homes. -- Spokesman Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform says the government seems to be moving "from detention to hospitality..."

Susan Ferrechia -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas      Congressional leaders fight against posting bills online     As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote. Lawmakers were given just hours to examine the $789 billion stimulus plan...

Dallas Morning News       2 foreign nationals accused in death of Brinks security guard    A suspect in a weekend Balch Springs bank robbery is accused of fatally shooting a Brinks security guard in a west Oak Cliff robbery, Dallas police said today. -- Enrique Lopez, 25, faces a charge of murder in the death of Cresencio Borquez, a guard who was loading an ATM outside a Chase bank in Dallas... [See Crime Watch]

Rick Oltman -- CAPS        The subtext of DHS pulling the plug on Sheriff Joe    A 2008 DHS audit of Sheriff Joe Arpaio praised his Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department for professionalism and adhering to the287(g) guidelines. Regardless, and keeping in mind that Phoenix is the North America (illegal alien) kidnap capital... [More from Rick Oltman]

Herbert London -- Human Events      Losing liberty    There is a shift occurring in the United States, a tectonic shift that is imposing statism in a land predicated on limited government. -- In the past, the not very distant past, mediating structures served as a barrier against managerial despotism. But these structures have been under assault for decades...

Florence (Ala.) Times Daily     Illegal alien fiend sentenced for raping child    Russellville -- A Franklin County man accused of raping and abusing a 10-year-old girl has been sentenced to two 22-year sentences, authorities said. -- Gilberto R. Avarado, 34, 980 Franklin 60, Russellville, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree rape, according to Franklin Courthouse officials... [More "family values"]

Nicole Hoplin -- Human Events      Town Halls 2.0: Why protesting Obamacare isn't enough    The debate about health care is deeper than media reports suggest. It is, simply stated, about government’s role in our lives and in the American economic system. -- The Obama administration is trying to do with health care what Jimmy Carter did with public education -- install a bureaucratic, government-run, universal entitlement system...

Dan Stein -- FAIR      10% of borders are under control, and DHS has no plans to expand control    Eight years after the attacks of 9/11 and four years after the 9/11 Commission cited America’s porous borders as a serious risk to national security, the Department of Homeland Security does not seem remotely concerned that it has just 894 miles of border "under effective control."

Newsweek      Amnesty battle coming up... again    ...Today's news may be dominated by the health-care debate, but a new battle over immigration reform looms ahead. As Obama repeated yet again last month, in an interview with Univision [Reconquista propagandist] Jorge Ramos, "I am not backing off one minute from getting this done." He has appointed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to spearhead the administration's effort.... [See Amnesty Watch]

Brownsville Herald      Border Patrol: Brothers, woman used Jet Skis to smuggle illegals    Federal agents arrested two men and a woman accused of smuggling [illegal aliens] into the U.S. using jet skis. -- Anthony Rodriguez, Andy Rodriguez and Beatriz Manzano Luna were arrested Friday afternoon at Boca Chica Beach. All three were later charged with alien smuggling, court records show...

CNS News     FCC won't allow Mark Lloyd to be interviewed about public policy views    The Federal Communication Commission won't allow its Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd to be interviewed by the news media about his views and past statements on federal communications policy. -- Lloyd, who cites the radical author Saul Alinsky as an inspiration, has argued that public broadcasting outlets in the United States...

Connie Hair -- Human Events     ACORN charges Republican McCarthyism    ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis yesterday blamed the Bush administration for the organization's woes and accused Republicans of "ACORN McCarthyism." -- Lewis blamed Karl Rove for instigating the legal troubles the "community organizers" are facing. At this point, reports of ACORN illegal conduct have sparked a string of criminal investigations nationwide...

Los Angeles Times      Verification of illegals is scrutinized amid healthcare debate    ...Since July 2008, when Los Angeles County began implementing tougher federal verification rules, Rincon and his colleagues have gone back to check the documents of more than 100,000 recipients of Medi-Cal, the public healthcare program for low-income residents...

Billings (Montana) Gazette      Hilton told to be in court    Michael Hilton, the self-styled "Captain Mike" and California felon who founded the private security firm seeking to run an empty jail in Hardin, has been summoned back to court in California over an unpaid judgment in a fraud lawsuit. -- California Superior Judge Andrew Kauffman on Friday ordered Hilton...

Gwinnett Daily Post -- Lawrenceville, Ga.      287(g) moves forward    Gwinnett deputies will leave next week for training on beginning deportation proceedings of illegal immigrants, after commissioners approved an agreement with the federal government Tuesday. -- "We have such a large population of illegal aliens from countries around the world living here," Sheriff Butch Conway said in a statement...

Miami Herald      Feds vow to continue immigration enforcement    In response to widespread criticism from immigrant advocates, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced steps Tuesday to improve conditions of detainees and allow them easier access to attorneys. -- But Napolitano stood firm on the Obama administration's efforts to continue strict enforcement of the nation's immigration laws...

Denver Post      Probe: Voorhis' boss falsely testified    An internal investigation has determined that a supervisor in Denver's immigration enforcement office "gave false testimony" during the trial of an agent charged with unlawfully accessing a federal criminal database and releasing information to Bob Beauprez's gubernatorial campaign...

Washington Times      Firefighters lose large U.S. grant to ACORN    Nearly $1 million in Homeland Security funding typically earmarked for fire departments has been awarded to ACORN, despite a clear signal from Congress that it intends to cut off federal funding to the embattled group. -- The grant to ACORN's Louisiana office became public on Oct. 2, less than three weeks after the House and Senate voted to cut off ACORN funding... [Related video]

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Press Release      Arpaio vows to keep enforcing federal & state immigration laws      The Washington D.C. based Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has officially advised Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that it intends to strip deputies of their ICE agent status. -- Currently Arpaio has 100 deputies who have successfully enforced immigration laws since 2007...

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers          Latest NAFBPO update from south of the border    The U.N. Human Development Program ("PNUD") reported in Mexico that 70% of migrants from Latin America go to the United States and Canada, in contrast with migrants in other parts of the world, whose displacement is largely intra-regional. Magdy Martinez, "PNUD" coordinator in Mexico, together with the President of Mexico...

American Border Patrol        Photos of the day    Area around San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona remains open to smugglers as barriers, removed for monsoon season, have yet to be replaced - despite the fact that the monsoon season ended a month ago....

Associated Press      Employer guilty in case of illegal alien cop killer     Houston -- A landscape business owner pleaded guilty Monday to harboring an illegal [alien] convicted of fatally shooting a Houston police officer in 2006. -- Robert Lane Camp's plea came a day before he was set to go to trial on the harboring charge...

Center for Immigration Studies         Daily news from CIS    Louisiana and 42 states could lose congressional representation, Electoral College votes and trillions of federal dollars to seven other states if people living in the country illegally are counted in the 2010 U.S. Census. -- That's the message John Baker, an LSU professor of constitutional law, and Elliott Stonecipher...