Free Talk Live - Immigration

Audits of Businesses for Undocumented Immigrants Rising

Jking8767 — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:50:41 +0000

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached its highest number yet of companies audited for undocumented immigrants on their payrolls this past fiscal year. Audits of employer I-9 forms increased from 250 in fiscal year 2007 to more than 3,000 in 2012. From fiscal years 2009 to 2012, the total amount of fines grew to nearly $13 million from $1 million. The number of company managers arrested has increased to 238, according to data provided by ICE.

Border Fence Volleyball USA vs Mexico

snowdog2012 — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:02:46 +0000

Americans and Mexicans enjoy a friendly game of volleyball over the 2.8 million dollar per mile border fence.

Trooper Fires on Truck From Helicopter, Leaving Two Dead

TheAllen4 — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:02:38 +0000

LA JOYA, Tex. (AP) — A Texas state trooper who fired on a pickup truck from a helicopter during a deadly chase through the desert was trying to disable the vehicle and suspected that it was being used to smuggle drugs, the authorities said.The disclosure on Friday came a day after the episode, which left two illegal immigrants from Guatemala dead on a gravel road near here, just north of the Mexican border.

Eight people were arrested; most were from Guatemala. Investigators said no drugs were found.

U.S. Grows An Industrial Complex Along The Border : NPR

roryn3kids — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:37:24 +0000

In today's dollars, the bill for U.S. immigration enforcement since 1986 comes to $219 billion — roughly the cost of the space shuttle program. About 80,000 government workers depend on immigration enforcement. Despite a drop in illegal immigration, the border industrial complex is here to stay

Immigrants protest 'illegal' label

mport1 — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:51:01 +0000

As Ian always says, don't call them "illegal" immigrants.

Immigrant woman loses son to "Americans"

libertas7213 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 02:40:40 +0000

In a controversial case that involved the rights of illegal immigrants and their young children, a Guatemalan mother lost her effort today to get back the five-year old son who was taken away from her after her arrest on immigration charges and put up for adoption in Missouri despite her objections.

Ex-Arizona governor detained at border checkpoint

flash3780 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:53:48 +0000

PHOENIX (AP) - Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, who in the 1970s served as the state's first and only Hispanic governor, was detained at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after the vehicle he was traveling in triggered a radiation sensor.

2 girls climb US-Mexico border fence in less than 18 seconds

snowdog2012 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:11:21 +0000

On average, each mile of border fence costs US taxpayers about $4 million to build and will cost another $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to repair and maintain.

Are we getting our money's worth? Is the border fence an effective deterrent? To find out, I asked two young women—both only about 5'5"—to see if they could climb the wall.