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Among the upscale homes, sparking new schools and pristine parks of North Fulton is a danger lurking just below the surface – teenage gang activity. Gangs are not new to North Fulton. In fact, some well-known gangs, such as the Crips and the Bloods, have been here for more than a decade. What is bothering area police is evidence that several Hispanic gangs are developing rivalries with one another. "This is major stuff. This is not a bunch of local kids watching too much television and listening to rap music,” said Alpharetta police officer Joey Meadows. "This is the real ...

<p>The English-only bill is an exercise in arrogance. Where is Iowa's famed neighborliness?</p> <p>What an embarrassment for Iowa. A bunch of yahoos in the Legislature finally passed a bill declaring English the state's official language.</p> <p>Now, Iowa can be known nationwide not only as slow growing, but as slow thinking. Unless Gov. Tom Vilsack rejects the bill.</p>

This article is from The Handbook of Texas Online. Operation Wetback was a repatriation project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to remove illegal Mexican immigrants ("wetbacks") from the Southwest. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the majority of migrant workers who crossed the border illegally did not have adequate protection against exploitation by American farmers. As a result of the Good Neighbor Policy, Mexico and the United States began negotiating an accord to protect the rights of Mexican agricultural workers. Continuing discussions and modifications of the agreement were so successful that the Congress chose to ...

When Sen. Ron Tupa, D-Boulder, sponsored Senate Bill 67, which would allow undocumented immigrants to get a driver license in Colorado, his goal was to increase road and public safety and to strengthen law enforcement, he says. Despite the bill being killed last week in a state senate committee, Eagle County Sheriff A. J. Johnson agree with Tupa. “We need to deal with this issue,” he says. “If these people are here illegally, we should do something about it, give them some kind of permit that allows them to get a drivers license, get insurance and use their real names. ...

BRANFORD — Last Thursday, Anne and Alfredo Cordero got the letter they'd been awaiting for years - a notice from the Immigration and Naturalization Service telling them of Alfredo's "change of status" hearing. It was salvation on a slip of paper. After four years with his American wife, Alfredo Cordero would finally metamorphose from endangered illegal alien to a lawful permanent resident. Instead of a hearing Monday, Cordero, 23, got orders - orders to remove his watch and his wedding ring so immigration agents could take him to a Hartford detention center. He languished there for four days, unable to ...

Eminent Domain in Anaheim: "Citizens' property bulldozed by ruling" In "Razing homes for schools" (News, Feb. 2), the Register reported on the Anaheim City School District's plans to raze homes if its $111 million bond measure passes in March. Proposition 39 lowered the threshold for government plunder, so the measure is likely to pass. Anyone who pretends illegal immigration is not a problem ought to take a close look. The single biggest factor in Anaheim's school overcrowding condition is illegal immigration. What's about to happen in Anaheim will have profound effects on the liberty and property rights of all. Foul ...

The writer, of Lincoln, represents District 27 in the Nebraska Legislature. The Legislature's Education Committee killed Legislative Bill 955 this week. Even though I was disappointed, I was not surprised. LB 955 is a complicated issue and arouses a lot of strong feelings. I would like to explain my reasons for introducing the bill. The intent of the bill was to allow undocumented immigrant students to pay in-state tuition if they graduate from a public or private high school in this state or receive an equivalent degree. They must have resided in Nebraska for at least three years with a ...

A landlord in Sebree upped the price on a rental home when she found out the potential renters were Hispanic. And another in the same area was reluctant to rent a mobile home to a Hispanic family. The families did find other housing, said Sister Rosemary Keough, assistant at Centro Latino. But the Kentucky Fair Housing Council in Louisville says it will check allegations of housing discrimination if called, even if the Hispanic is in the United States illegally. "If we had that information and we had enough about the landlord, we could send investigators out," said Tony Baize, assistant ...

Immigration defense lawyers and immigrants’ rights groups are calling for the repeal of a provision in an immigration law that calls for the deportation of foreign nationals with three felony convictions. National and regional authorities on immigration met last week on South Padre Island for a seminar dealing with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 and criminal convictions and their effect on immigrants. Immigration rights groups and immigration officials said hundreds of immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley have been deported under the auspices of the 1996 law. "It has affected legal residents and their families ...

Seven days a week, Carlos drives from Muskegon to a West Michigan dairy farm where he hooks up the milking machines and cleans the cows' udders for at least 10 1/2 hours per day. Every 15th day, Carlos is paid between $700 and $800. Carlos doesn't mind the hard work and minimum-wage pay. It puts food on the table and a roof over the heads of his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He's scared that soon he may no longer be able to provide for his family. Two bills being considered by the Michigan House of Representatives Transportation Committee on ...