Hot enough for you? For the first time in three years, Xcel Energy switched on its hot-weather energy-saver program, reports the Pioneer Press. Today’s 90-degree temps meant “cycling on and off the central air conditioners for hundreds of thousands of Minnesota customers in order to ease the peak demand on its electricity load” between 2 and 6 p.m. Continue reading
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Immigration in the news 7/24/2010
Foreign-born workers make up about 15 percent of the U.S. work force today, up from 10 percent in 1994, according to a new report, The role of immigrants in the U.S. labor force, from the Congressional Budget Office. About half of those workers have been in the United States since some time before 1994, with 40 percent coming from Mexico and Central America and 25 percent coming from Asia.
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Immigration notes, 7/20/2010
Just a few links to recent articles of interest:
NYT: Troops to Go to Mexican Border Aug. 1 In May, President Obama pledged the deployment of 1,200 troops. More than 500 of the soldiers will go to Arizona, and the rest will go to New Mexico, Texas and California. [Also 300 more Border Patrol officers]
Who’s lobbying on immigration and who are they giving money to? Open Secrets has a little list – actually, quite a long list – here.
NYT: Illegal workers swept from jobs in “silent” raids “While the sweeps of the past commonly led to the deportation of such workers, the “silent raids,” as employers call the audits, usually result in the workers being fired, but in many cases they are not deported.”
What do Neo-Nazis, Arizona politicians and border patrolling have in common? Gabriela Garcia explains at Change.org.
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NEWS DAY | Immigration enforcement: Arizona, Minnesota and the feds
The United States filed suit July 6 to stop Arizona’s anti-immigrant enforcement law. (Click here for full text of lawsuit in pdf.) Since the law was signed in April, legal scholars have argued over whether it is constitutional, activists have denounced it as promoting racial profiling, and many police chiefs said it is counter-productive and a waste of scarce time and resources. An Arizona police officer and the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders filed separate legal challenges to the law on April 29, and other groups have also challenged the law. Now the feds are weighing in. Continue reading
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Deportation and citizenship: two stories
Two immigration stories in the news: The first, in the Star Tribune, is an encouraging note about a Supreme Court decision. The case was that of a young man who had lived in the U.S. as a legal permanent resident:
Carachuri-Rosendo, a legal resident who had lived in the United States since he was 5, was deported to his native Mexico after being convicted of possessing a single tablet of Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and serving a 10-day sentence. He had been convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana a year earlier and received a 20-day sentence.
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Globalization and immigration: What future for Minnesota?
From the development of the computer to the refinement of bypass surgery by a Mexican immigrant to the creation of Google, immigrants leave a deep imprint on our society, Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco told the Hendrickson Ethical Leadership Forum on April 28. Continue reading
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Mary Turck