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HAYWARD -- Jeff Cook didn't see this one coming. Cook was assailed during the Hayward Unified School District Board of Education meeting on Wednesday night by members of the Latino community who were outraged by comments the new trustee made prior to a meeting last month. A procession of leaders and members of the Latino community took turns calling Cook a "racist, bigot" and "xenophobe" after he referred to Latinos as "illegal aliens" and "selfish" during his opening comments of the Jan. 14 board meeting. Cook called Wednesday's attack "pretty vicious," and said he simply wanted to voice his disapproval...

In virtually every debate about illegal immigration, the other country primarily involved in this American problem – Mexico – is never held to account, despite its role in actually encouraging its citizens to break into the United States. What is equally less known about this problem is that Mexico does this despite its potential to care for its own citizens. As I document in my new book, "Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border," Mexico is simply not taking responsibility for its primary role in the U.S. illegal immigrant problem. It's high time the United States forced...

<p>Immigration policy is a key factor in a growing increase in the uninsured and the fiscal crises burdening public health care systems nationwide, officials at the Federation for American Immigration Reform said in a report yesterday.</p> <p>The report, "The Sinking Lifeboat: Uncontrolled Immigration and the U.S. Health Care System," said that as states cut their health care budgets to try to make ends meet, high rates of immigration are straining the health care system to the breaking point.</p>

(KSL News / AP) Strong statements, bordering on anger, came during a news conference on Capitol Hill this morning. The issue is illegal immigration and House Bill 109. Both the Mexican Consulate and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made strong statements about it. Both the consulate and church made it very clear they are upset with allegations coming from a group called Utahns for Immigration Reform. That group is apparently suggesting that Mexico's president is encouraging his people to cross the border into the U.S. illegally. Joe Reyna, Advisor, Institute of Mexicans Abroad: "The group, Utahns for...

A federal judge in Alexandria ruled yesterday that Virginia's colleges and universities may deny admission to illegal immigrants -- a ruling that experts said was the first of its kind in the nation. The decision by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III came in a lawsuit filed against seven Virginia schools accused of violating the rights of the immigrants by refusing them entry. "It is clear that denying illegal aliens admission to public colleges and universities simply removes another public incentive for illegal immigration," Ellis wrote. He stopped short of dismissing the case, however, ruling that it could proceed to...

Maine is one signature away from becoming the first Illegal Alien Sanctuary State in America. Immigration lawyers supporting illegal aliens are pushing Governor Baldacci to sign an executive order that will stop state agencies from questioning a person's immigration status. More distressing is the fact that all major newspapers in Maine are owned by the same family. That family favors illegal immigration. Therefore, this executive order is being shoved down citizens' throats while they sleep. A spokeswoman said, "They are working so fast and quietly to leave this a 'done deed' before word of the sell-out can hit the national...

<p>If you scrutinize the U.S. labor market numbers from the last two years of economic recovery, you're left with what seems to be a paradox. Since the recession's low point, in November 2001, the number of employed people 16 and older has risen, but the number of jobs on the formal payrolls of employers remains below recessionary levels...</p>

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico agreed on Friday to tighten security along their border and start sending illegal immigrants caught sneaking across the frontier back home by bus or plane. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Mexican Interior Minister Santiago Creel signed an accord to step up cooperation on security on the border, seen by some as the soft underbelly for the U.S. war on terror. The agreement includes a controversial plan to start repatriating illegals to their hometowns rather than simply dumping them on the Mexican side of the frontier. The two countries have...

"The rich will always require an abundance of the poor." - Voltaire Six weeks and five days ago, our president brought forth to this nation a new amnesty proposal, conceived in political cynicism and dedicated to the propositions that public opinion and American workers don't count, the rule of law is passé, and future generations should suffer for today's political expediencies. Now we are engaged in a great civil war of words, testing whether this proposal, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Immigration lawyers say that the most often-heard question is, "When's the next amnesty?" That figures, because...

Sheriff: Hereford kids were brave during incident, did right thing BY BILL HESS Sierra Vista Herald/Review SIERRA VISTA, ARIZONA - On Friday night, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever honored the bravery and courage of two Hereford children Brittany Smith's actions while trying to fend off an illegal immigrant who was beating her mother while he tried to steal a family vehicle, were an act of bravery under stress that many adults would have found difficult to do, Dever said. As for her brother, Cody McDaniel, 11, the sheriff said he had the unique courage of remaining in his home while...

Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan (D) and other local officials came to Annapolis yesterday to protest nine bills they consider anti-immigrant, including one that would outlaw Montgomery's acceptance of consular identification cards from Mexico and Guatemala as proof of identity. Other measures would require local police to detain suspected illegal immigrants and to suspend the driver's license of anyone who knowingly permitted an illegal immigrant to use his or her vehicle. Officials and immigrant advocates predicted that the bills would be voted down in committee. What prompted them to speak out, they said, was concern that, taken as a...

<p>On Jan. 27, the Copley News Service reported that shortly after President Bush announced his plans to amnesty millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., more than half of the Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. through San Ysidro (search) told authorities they were doing so to position themselves for the amnesty.</p>

STEIN REPORT XXXXX Tuesday, February 17 2004 16:00:26 ET XXXXX VIRGINIA SENATE OVERWHELMINGLY PASSES BILL CLOSING LOOPHOLES ON ILLEGAL ALIEN BENEFITS In a lopsided, veto-proof vote, the Virginia Senate passed SB521, a bill that requires most people claiming Virginia residence to prove that they are lawfully in the U.S. This comes on the heels of a major victory last year to deny a Virginia drivers license to illegal aliens. Activist groups across the state, who have been pushing measure like this since 9/11, expressed their gratitude for the expertise and advice offered by FAIR during this important fight. "Our Coalition...