The 10 Numbers You Need to Know About E-Verify

By Philip E. Wolgin E-Verify is an immigration enforcement tool. It is the federal government’s Internet-based system that allows employers to check whether prospective employees are legally authorized to work in the United States. Currently, only 4 percent of all American businesses use the system, but House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) has introduced the Legal Workforce Act of 2011, H.R. 2164, to make E-Verify mandatory for all employers across the country. This mand...

Federal immigration agents working from North County Sheriff’s stations

By MORGAN COOK mcook@nctimes.com For about a month, a federal immigration agent assigned to the North County Regional Gang Task Force has been working part-time from a desk at the Sheriff's Department's Fallbrook substation, where he is more readily available to help deputies identify and arrest criminal illegal immigrants, authorities said Wednesday. Deputies have always been able to call the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the task force to help identify and arrest su...

SDIRC Member News Briefs

FIND OUT WHAT SDIRC MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS ARE UP TO AND GET INVOLVED! The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium is comprised of almost 30 organizations that are dedicated to defending immigrant rights. In this post you can find news and updates from three of our member organizations, the California Immigrant Policy Center, UURISE and the San Diego LGBT Community Center. Find out what's going on in San Diego and get involved! California Immigrant Policy Center State Legislative Update B...

Senate OKs state college aid for undocumented

Written by Elizabeth Aguilera Undocumented immigrants in California would soon be allowed to apply for state-funded college financial aid if the governor signs a bill that has now passed both houses of the Legislature. The measure, which had won Assembly approval, cleared the Senate on Wednesday by a 22-11 vote. Several amendments must be reviewed by the Assembly before the legislation can go to Gov. Jerry Brown, who has indicated that he would sign the bill. The legislation was the ...

Huff Post: From Border Patrol Agent To Immigration Reform Activist

  By John Randolph (Retired  U.S. Border Patrol/ICE Agent) In my twenty-six years as a US Border Patrol/ICE Agent, I caught many people. At the time, common sense told me that the vast majority of the people who I caught were good, hard working people. I began to wonder why immigrants had to be chased like animals, and why I was being paid to chase them. Early on in my career, death and injury brought it all into perspective. In the early 1980's one of my classmates who transfe...