SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Pat Ricutti is a diehard Republican voter, but he laments what he's hearing from GOP presidential contenders about illegal immigration. The Fresno fruit and grape farmer gave money to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani last February at a fundraiser. He said he won't be giving him or any other candidate a dime more at this point, though, until he starts hearing alternatives to calling for millions of illegal immigrants to be shipped off or pressured to leave voluntarily. Ricutti may be Republican, but he's also among tens of thousands of California business owners --...
Patriotic Immigration Commission Makes Recommendations
MSNBC
MSNBC
The debate over immigrant workers is exploding across Alabama. Our state has seen a big influx of immigrant, hispanic workers recently, both legal and illegal. The state started, what it calls, a Patriotic Immigration...
Immigrants' unemployment rate lower than that of native born
CNN
CNN
Immigrants and jobs: A closer look Foreign-born unskilled workers are less likely to be out of work than their U.S.-born counterparts, but educated Americans have an edge on foreign-born. | | | RSS Subscribe to Economy...
Silver Spring jobs firm pleads guilty to immigration fraud
The Examiner
The Examiner
SILVER SPRING, Md. (Map, News) - A Silver Spring employment company pleaded guilty to immigration fraud in a scheme to obtain green cards for illegal immigrants. EBI Inc., which helped find U.S. jobs primarily for Korean...
Worker erosion: Grower trims operation over stricter immigration laws
Grand Junction Sentinel
Grand Junction Sentinel
In the midst of summer, more than 150 immigrant laborers used to toil in the fields of Grand Valley Hybrids, north of Grand Junction near 23 and H roads. Two years ago the company struggled to place 45 immigrant workers...
S.C. General Assembly OKs crackdown on illegal immigration
The State
The State
By RODDIE A. BURRIS - rburris@thestate.com Daylong negotiations Wednesday gave rise to an all-new Senate proposal to deal with illegal immigration, one Senate president Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, said will send a...
Alabama's Immigration Debate
MSNBC
MSNBC
The debate over immigrant workers - both legal and illegal - is exploding across Alabama. Some warn immigrants are taking jobs from locals in tough economic times, but some employers say they're desperate to find...
Editorial: Illegal Immigration
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Daily News
Remember reform? Months ago when there was a traffic jam of presidential contenders, it appeared that immigration reform would be a key issue of the campaign. The other Republican wannabes were dumping on John McCain for...
Who should enforce immigration laws?
The News & Observer
The News & Observer
(William Ford, an economist at Middle Tennessee State University, and Mark Krikorian, head of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that pushes for stricter limits on immigration, continue a discussion with...
Illegal Immigrant Workers in Paris Want Resident Status in France
Voa News
Voa News
Illegal immigrants working in the Paris area have launched an unprecedented wave of sit-ins and strikes to demand their situation be normalized. The movement is spreading - and is supported by the country's largest trade...
Scaled-back immigration bill faltering
The Wichita Eagle
The Wichita Eagle
BY JEANNINE KORANDA Eagle Topeka bureau TOPEKA - Legislators declared illegal-immigration reform one of their top priorities at the beginning of the session. But as they head back for a final few days this week, a...
Immigrant workers face uphill battle
Ottowa Business Journal
Ottowa Business Journal
Mengistab Tsegaye of LASI World Skills (Photo by Darren Brown, OBJ) Employers trying to recruit skilled immigrants may have to undertake a complete review of their hiring practices in order to attract new Canadians to...
Immigrant employment gap widens: Statscan
Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
Employment among "core working age" immigrants increased in 2007 despite a growing disparity between employment rates for immigrant and Canadian-born workers, a report by Statistics Canada said Tuesday. The number of...

