Politics, activism, families: How Prop. 187 is still being felt 20 years later

OCRegister.com — There’s a ghost haunting next week’s elections in California. It’s been there 20 years. Proposition 187 – a measure Californians overwhelmingly voted into law on Nov. 8, 1994 – was never enacted. The law would have denied public services, including public education and non-emergency health care, to immigrants living in the state illegally. […]

NH: 71% of New Jobs Go to Foreign Born Legal, Illegal Immigrants

CNS News — A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that the state with senators who both voted for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, which cleared the Senate in June, has 71 percent of its job growth going to foreign-born workers, including legal and illegal immigrants. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) […]

Illegals Now Bringing in Leprosy

Cleveland.com — For the first time in Ohio history, a prison inmate has been diagnosed with leprosy, state corrections officials said Thursday. The inmate, whose name was not released, was diagnosed with the chronic bacterial infection on Tuesday at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, according to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The infected prisoner is […]

Disease Plagues Illegal Aliens; Basic Hygiene, Lack of Medications Blamed

Washington Times — Communicable diseases continue to be a problem at the New Mexico facility built to house illegal immigrant families surging across the U.S.-Mexico border, and the immigrants themselves aren’t taking their own health care very seriously, according to an audit released Monday. While the Border Patrol is doing a good job of handling […]

Hotel group sued by US for racial discrimination

AP — Feds sue hotels for treatment of minority workers in New Mexico, Texas, South Carolina. A hotel chain broke the law by subjecting minority employees in New Mexico, Texas and South Carolina to a hostile work environment and firing those who complained, a federal agency said. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday […]

New Mexico Immigration Lockup Draws Criticism

AP — Trailers have been set up for a school at a federal immigration detention center in an isolated New Mexico desert town. A basketball court and a soccer field have been installed. And detainees are pleading their cases over a video link with judges in Denver. Officials say that the facility, billed as a […]