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• Ayotte mailers drill Binnie on immigration
  Sep 3, 2010 — Politico
  ...by GOP pollster Magellan Strategies shows Binnie now in third place behind Ayotte and former gubernatorial nominee Ovide Lamontagne. The automated survey of 887 likely Republican voters taken Wednesday night has Ayotte leading Lamontagne 34 percent to 21 percent. Binnie takes 17 percent and Jim Bender, who is also self-funding his own candidacy, captures 13 percent. While the survey did not include any specific questions on immigration, it found that Ayotte and Lamontagne...
• Hostage taker smuggled illegal
  Sep 3, 2010 — CNN
  In 2003, James Lee, pleaded guilty to smuggling a woman from Tijuana, according to documents from a California federal court. This revelation comes in stark contrast to the manifesto Lee left where he railed against immigrants. The hostages were unharmed in the Wednesday incident.
• Justice Dept. Sues Sheriff Over Bias Investigation
  Sep 3, 2010 — New York Times
  The sheriff has continued his sweeps of Hispanic neighborhoods to enforce state immigration laws.The federal lawsuit is the second concerning Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration in recent months.
• Letters: When Immigrants Took New Names
  Sep 3, 2010 — New York Times
  I was born Hans Walter Stern in Frankfurt, Germany. A byline like Hans Walter Stern would have been far more distinctive. Immigrant name changing was not as benign as your article suggests.
• Wonkbook: White House considers payroll tax holiday; House libs against Social Security cuts; 25% were unemployed during recession
  Sep 3, 2010 — Washington Post
  Whatever else the fiscal commission does, it seems likely to come out with some package of reforms for the stories social insurance program. But Republicans aren't very interested in raising payroll taxes, and House liberals have now announced their unified opposition to anything that includes benefit cuts. For example, a payroll tax holiday - a top priority of many business groups - could be applied only to new hires or extend to current employees.
• Illegal immigrants down, but not in Illinois
  Sep 2, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
  Illinois illegal immigrant population was stable rather than to say it actually increased. Nationwide, the total number of illegal immigrants has declined by about 1 million since 2007, to 11.1 million in 2009, representing about 4 percent of the U.S. population. While Illinois has long been attractive to illegal immigrants, the population has fluctuated over the last two decades. Unlike many states that have experienced a clear peak and decline, Illinois grew from 200,000 to...
• Li Fengzhi, Chinese spy who defected to U.S., facing deportation
  Sep 2, 2010 — Washington Post
  Li has two fundamental problems: he betrayed the trust of the ubiquitous MSS and far more importantly, he denounced the CCP.
• Number of illegal immigrants in U.S. drops, report says
  Sep 2, 2010 — Washington Post
  Of the 11.1 million, 60 percent came from Mexico, 20 percent from other parts of Latin America, 11 percent from Asia, and 8 percent from Africa, Europe, Canada and elsewhere. Large declines in illegal immigrants in Florida and Nevada were probably because of the housing crisis and the loss of thousands of construction jobs, which immigrants often fill, experts said.
• Though Condemned, German Author Opens Debate
  Sep 2, 2010 — New York Times
  Sarrazin also spoke of a Jewish gene, a reference to recent studies showing Jews share many genes inherited from the ancestral population that lived in the Middle East long ago. Sarrazin from the board, and Chancellor Merkel applauded the decision.Mr. Sarrazin and condemned his theories of innate inferiority in immigrants. “He is a Social Democrat.
• U.S. sues controversial Arizona sheriff in civil rights investigation
  Sep 2, 2010 — Los Angeles Times
  The new lawsuit is unrelated to the immigration law and stems from an investigation into the sheriff's immigration enforcement operations. The move made little difference _ the sheriff says he can use state laws against illegal immigrants and has continued his operations. His office also would not let investigators tour the county jail or other sheriff's facilities.