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Border Patrol may stop public transit sweeps

By | 10.31.11 | 3:43 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

Immigrants rights advocates in Michigan say they are hopeful about reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ended a policy of arbitrarily searching mass transit in the interior of the country.

Proposal aims to increase range Mexicans can travel inside New Mexico

By | 10.31.11 | 3:33 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way.

Colbert mocks Alabama immigration law for lampooning agricultural industry

By | 10.28.11 | 2:09 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Mock cable news conservative Stephen Colbert this week skewered Alabama lawmakers who passed the state’s toughest-in-the-nation anti-illegal immigration legislation this year. Alabama’s “papers please” law endorsed in Colorado by immigration crusader Tom Tancredo came amid a wave of similar proposals floated last spring by Republican state lawmakers around the country, More…

Rep. Connie Mack gears up for U.S. Senate run

By | 10.27.11 | 12:06 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Rep. Connie Mack, R-Naples, will enter the Republican Senate primary, one of his advisers announced Wednesday.

Mack will face fellow GOP candidates Adam Hasner, George LeMieux, Mike McCallister and Craig Miller.

Justice Department, gun owners, at odds over restrictions on rifle sales

By | 10.26.11 | 9:20 am | More from The New Mexico Independent

The Associated Press reports the federal government is telling gun sellers in border states that they must report anyone who has purchased two high-powered rifles within a five day period.

The guidelines affect New Mexico, California, Arizona, and Texas.

The Justice Department made the argument before a judge after a More…

Florida law that forces resident students of undocumented parents to pay full college tuition challenged

By | 10.24.11 | 10:35 am | More from The Florida Independent

Under Florida statutes, a student who wishes to qualify for in-state tuition fees for higher education has to provide proof of residency, and if the student is a dependent also must provide proof of his or her parents’ legal residency. State Rep. Reggie Fullwood D-Jacksonville, “filed legislation [Friday]

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Under proposal from N.M. senators, Mexican nationals could enter deeper into state

By | 10.24.11 | 9:17 am | More from The New Mexico Independent

New Mexico’s two U.S. senators want to expand the zone within New Mexico in which Mexican nationals who hold Border Crossing Cards, or “laser cards,” can travel inside. The current limit is 25 miles from the border, and Democratic Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall want to expand that More…

Sarah Palin gets lonely on sidelines, attacks Perry

By | 10.20.11 | 6:08 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

As if Rick Perry wasn’t taking enough flak from his fellow Republican candidates for president, he has to sit still for a rambling denunciation from none other than Sarah Palin who thinks it is just wrong to let undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges.

AUDIO: State senator blasted for saying ‘many Hispanic-speaking’ Floridians ‘are not legal’

By | 10.20.11 | 6:08 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Florida Reps. Luis Garcia, D-Miami, and Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, today sharply criticized comments made by state Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, about Florida Hispanics on Tuesday.

Halted effort to track undocumented aliens using drivers licenses cost $177,000

By | 10.17.11 | 9:15 am | More from The New Mexico Independent

This July, Governor Susana Martinez, a descendant of illegal immigrants, implemented what she called a residency certification program — an effort to review the authenticity of foreign nationals’ drivers licenses. The state currently has about 85,000 licenses issued to foreign nationals.

State district judge Sarah Singleton issued a preliminary injunction More…