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Calif. Illegals Have Right to In-State Tuition: Court

Undocumented who went to state high schools qualify for lower rates

(Newser) - California's Supreme Court has upheld a law allowing illegal immigrants to pay the same lower tuition fees as legal residents. The court decided that the law—which extends in-state tuition rates to anybody who studied at a California high school for 3 years before entering a university—is not based...

Private Prison Industry Helped Draft Arizona Immigration Bill

Mass detentions mean huge profits

(Newser) - If Arizona's immigration law survives its court challenges, it could result in mass detentions of immigrants—and massive profits for the private prisons holding them. So while it's no surprise the industry supports the measure, an NPR investigation reveals that it actually helped draft the law. The report shows how...

Lou Dobbs Slams 'Outrageous' Story on Illegals

Calls it an inaccurate 'attack piece'

(Newser) - Lou Dobbs today dismissed the "outrageous claims" made by the Nation magazine that he employed illegal immigrants to care for his family's estates and horses, reports ABC News . "Did you say that I hired or my firm hired illegal immigrants?" he asked reporter Isabel Macdonald on his radio...

Record Number of Illegals Found Dead in Arizona

Authorities have found 252 bodies this year

(Newser) - Authorities have found the bodies of 252 illegal immigrants in the Arizona desert this year, an all-time high—even though the number of people crossing illegally is down. That’s in part because increased border security has driven would-be crossers to ever more remote and dangerous routes, NPR explains, and...

Illegal Population to Boom if We Kill 14th Amendment

5M US-born illegal residents by 2050

(Newser) - It's commonsense math, says the author of a new illegal immigration study: If the right to citizenship for US-born children of illegal immigrants is repealed, it's not going to deter all illegal immigrants from entering the country. But it will make the children born to those who do so illegals,...

Tea Partiers Mass on Arizona-Mexico Border

'We'll keep screaming,' says candidate packing heat

(Newser) - Hundreds of Tea Party activists massed along a remote section of the Arizona-Mexico border yesterday to rally in support of the state's controversial immigration law. They demanded the federal government commit more resources to keep illegal immigrants out of the country, and listened to speeches from conservative candidates, AP reports....

1 in 12 US Babies Born to Illegal Immigrants

Their offspring made up 8% of 2008 US births

(Newser) - One out of every 12 babies born in the US are born to illegal immigrants, according to a new study. Undocumented immigrants make up just over 4% of the American adult population, but their babies made up 8% of all births in the US in 2008, according to the report...

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