IR There is certainly a sizeable minority of white Americans who appreciate the benefits to this country of immigration by people of diverse cultures.
And not only that, but it denigrates the value of legal immigration by people that stand in line for years to get to our country legally, you know.
Last week, our new immigration cap for people coming here to work from outside the EU came into force.
As I understand it, the police are seeking immigration enforcement for people convicted of serious crimes like murder, rape, felonies.
Others insist that the cultural concerns that come with having too much immigration -- people not learning English, changing neighborhoods, etc.
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The proposal has come from Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency - a government-backed organisation that facilitates the immigration of Jewish people to Israel.
When we get in to land here in Malta there'll be a reception committee of police, immigration officials and people from the detention centre, and it's not what any of these people planned at all.
The United States can change its tax and immigration laws or people can spend their time scratching their heads as to why more capital is not flowing into (or back to) America to create more jobs.
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Mr Calderon said he "strongly" disagreed with a new Arizona law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of people whom they have stopped while enforcing other laws, if they suspect they are in the country illegally.
Mr Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency - a government-backed organisation that facilitates the immigration of Jewish people to Israel - said the visit was still on after his meeting with the Argentine foreign minister in Buenos Aires.
The idea behind SB 1070 is to round up as many illegal immigrants as possible by requiring that police check the immigration status of people with whom they come in contact if officers have "reasonable suspicion" to believe that the person is the country illegally -- whether police want to or not.
"We have come to a position on immigration that I believe people will see is a fair one, " he said.
Ms. ANGELA KELLEY (National Immigration Forum): People are coming here to work.
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These alternatives to detention yield about a 93% appearance rate before the immigration courts and allow people to remain with their families and communities.
But first, we go to Europe, which has seen two recent episodes of violence that raised troubling questions for many people about immigration and assimilation.
It upholds the most dramatic and eye-catching part of the legislation, which makes it the duty of police officers to ask for immigration papers when stopping people.
Some pundits claim that legal immigration leads to illegal immigration because, once people come to the United States legally, their relatives will follow even if it means coming illegally.
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Immigration controls keep many people out, but not everyone.
Mr. BENJAMIN JOHNSON (Immigration Policy Center): When state and local officials begun their own roundup and their own sweeps, it makes it more difficult to deal with undocumented immigration because it drives people deeper and deeper underground.
If tax laws keep earnings outside the United States, while U.S. immigration laws prevent skilled people from coming in or staying here, then U.S. capital investment is lower and fewer jobs are created inside the United States.
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Under her leadership, the council has taken on matters including requiring electronics manufacturers to collect their products for recycling, making it tougher for immigration officials to deport people being released from city jails or police custody and barring employers from discriminating against unemployed job applicants the last of which Bloomberg vetoed.
Emmer was known as a social conservative who opposed civil rights for gay and lesbian people and opposed immigration reform.
Widespread anti-Chinese prejudice makes a legal influx politically impossible to accept, despite a desperate shortage of people, Russian immigration officials say.
Ms. PULIDO: Well, you know, one of our main objectives here in Illinois is to educate the people about illegal immigration.
At the time of the High Court ruling, Immigration Minister Des Browne invited people living nearby to co-operate with the new centre's development.
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Arizona had just passed SB 1070 requiring police to question people about their immigration status and Utah seemed destined to follow the same course.
Many hoped he would try to convince Congress to separate skilled people from broader immigration issues, but he has been reluctant to do so.
And I will remind people that comprehensive immigration reform, like so many of the issues that he talked about yesterday, is something that we can unite behind, that we can come together to act on.
And if that is married to comprehensive immigration reform, so that people who are living here undocumented actually have a chance to become American citizens, then I think they've got the opportunity to become part of the plan.
But is it inherently racist to say that there are social costs to immigration of high levels of people with less skills, who are not native speakers of English, and that as a society we'd rather not pay that cost?
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