1. Experts to craft imm. policy
2. Feds to discuss fence with landowners
3. Report criticizes treatment of minors
4. VA AG lauds police for efforts
5. Los Angeles may pay $13m in lawsuit
6. NY county exec battling fallout
7. IN activists wrangle over enforcement
8. Activists push for amnesty Read more »

This week the Houston Chronicle published an extensive three-part series reporting on the disturbing number (thousands) of illegal aliens who commit crimes and are processed through the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, but manage to avoid removal and often remain in the community to progress in their criminal career. The series does a service by pointing out the issues involved in dealing with the hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens living in this country. But it gives the misleading impression that local law enforcement agencies are helpless, with no recourse but to sit and wait for ICE to take all these bad people off their hands. Read more »

A video of Executive Director Mark Krikorian's speech at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend is available below. Read more »

1. Latinos to press for amnesty
2. Imm. hawks alienated Latinos
3. NC sheriffs nab 3100 illegals
4. NY co. exec. apologizes over murder
5. MA plant owners settle labor dispute
6. Security companies profit Read more »

1. Government issues new E-verify rules
2. Sen. Cornyn wants probe of TX inmates
3. Poll: Americans, Europeans split
4. Texas complying with REAL ID
5. TX legislature expects several bills
6. Chinese immigrant admits selling secrets
7. NY illegal was deportation target Read more »

1. ICE released illegals from Houston jail
2. Gov't clears Irish airports for checks
3. Obama must 'pay the piper' on immigration
4. GA county to mull enforcement measure
5. CO university panel to tackle issue
6. Nobel laureate calls for amnesty
7. Status complicates home sale Read more »

Crime reporter killed in Mexican border city

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — A crime reporter in the violent Mexican border city of Juarez was killed Thursday, adding to dozens of journalist deaths in a country where newspapers are so fearful, many refuse to cover drug violence.

Armando Rodriguez had covered crime for 10 years in Ciudad Juarez, working for El Diario newspaper. He was shot several times as he sat warming up his car outside his home. Read more »

From a WaPo item on next week's meeting between Obama and McCain:

In an interview Friday, [Sen. Lindsey] Graham said that Obama requested the meeting during a 20-minute phone call that the South Carolina senator described as a "pleasant" discussion about how they could work together effectively. Read more »

1. Fed. government to limit E-Verify
2. Report alleges illegals mistreated
3. U.N. observes drop in remittances
4. Dallas schools provide fake SSNs
5. UT committee hears positions
6. NY community grapples with murder
7. Study: Chinese are diverse Read more »

Steven Camarota, Director of Research at CIS, is featured in a Lou Dobbs segment on President-elect Obama. Read more »

Last month, Maria Sacchetti of the Boston Globe interviewed Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of CIS. She wrote an article on his new book as well as posted a web video.

1. Obama may not be able to help aunt
2. Analysis: GOP to struggle over votes
3. Philly immigrant population growing
4. UT committee continues state tour
5. NYC probe finds exploitative agencies
6. Ethiopian immigrants rejuvenated
7. Former militant fights deportation Read more »

From the Boston Globe: Read more »

1. Analysis: Econ. to be Obama's focus
2. Vicente Fox calls for amnesty
3. TX co. to begin use of database
4. Activists planning march Read more »

Now that we know who’s going to be in the White House and Congress next year, what are the prospects for immigration?

Despite big Democratic gains in Congress, the results aren’t as bad for the cause of immigration enforcement as a simple partisan approach to the issue might suggest. After all, one of the ways Democrats have been picking up formerly Republican seats over the past few elections has been to nominate immigration hawks like Heath Shuler of North Carolina and Brad Ellsworth of Indiana. Read more »

P.J. O'Rourke's take on last week's defeat touches on, among many other things, immigration: Read more »

I get bored with this biennial ritual, but the raza-hustlers and the open-borders crowd are back touting the awesome power of the Hispanic vote. AP's contribution yesterday: "In key states, Latino vote fueled Obama's victory." A bunch of these interchangeable groups is having a press conference today in D.C., announcing that "Our voice was heard at the polls, and we will continue to make sure our voices are heard."

Well, no. Read more »

A new Zogby poll shows only about a third of Obama's voters supported him because of his backing for an amnesty, while two-thirds either voted for him despite his support for amnesty (15%) or it wasn't a factor at all in their decision (51%). Interestingly, among McCain voters, 59% did it despite his amnesty stance, 28% didn't care, and only 11% supported him because of his backing of amnesty. Read more »

1. Analysis: Obama win built on 1965 act
2. 1.3m educated foreigners 'underemployed'
3. IN lawmakers mull immigration policies
4. TX legislators to tackle immigration
5. ICE attorney charged with corruption
6. Illegal accused of auto-deaths Read more »

1. Immigration and the Obama Admin.
2. Sen. links blames restrictionism
3. Obama's aunt to fight deportation
4. Latino vote tipped scales for Obama
5. UT Officials mull sanctions challenge
6. SC co. targets illegal immigration
7. Hospitals repatriate uninsured
8. Latino DJ encourages students
9. Illegal accused of murder in MD Read more »

Illegal-alien and open-borders advocates may succeed in getting the Arizona Supreme Court to ban numerous immigration-related phrases, including “illegal alien” and “open-borders advocates.” Read more »

1. Admin announces major overhaul
2. ICE: Deportations increasing
3. Topic drove Latinos to Obama camp
4. Firm misses background checks Read more »

Even if The One's minions gut immigration enforcement, it's still alive at the state level. Arizona voters rejected the mendacious attempt by the business community to gut the state's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law (the ballot measure was called the "Stop Illegal Hiring Act" when it would have actually stopped the efforts to stop illegal hiring). In addition, Maricopa County (Phoenix) re-elected immigration hawks Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas.

From Ross Douthat's "whither conservatism" contributon at Slate:

Which means that the best thing, by far, for the American right would be for every sect within the conservative temple to spend some time in self-examination before it turns to flinging blame.

. . . Read more »

But not how you think:

Central American immigrants adopt Mexican ways in U.S.

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Now that the election is over, Julie Myers, the head of immigration enforcement, has announced she's leaving. I was skeptical of her appointment at first (Michelle Malkin was too), but I was wrong. Myers has probably been the most effective champion of immigration enforcement we've ever seen. Read more »

1. ICE chief announces resignation
2. FL amendment fails to rescind old law
3. AZ co. sheriff, attorney re-elected
4. Activists claim increased threat
5. DC day laborers often exploited
6. Indictment issued for NV kidnapping
7. Kidnappings expose brutality
8. Ex-BP agent imprisoned Read more »

No, not the election; we already know that. Rather, who will win Mickey Kaus's new prize for the expected pro-amnesty spin on McCain's 2-to-1 shellacking among Hispanic voters (which is actually in the usual range for a Republican): Read more »

1. Palin may break hawkish on issue
2. IA plant raided a second time Read more »

1. 78% of Hispanics favor Obama
2. Issue slips in CO district
3. India to open Seattle consulate
4. NC race highlights issue
5. Topic remains hot in NE Read more »