Immigration + Did You Know Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 19, 2009
There are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States
June 18, 2009
The backlog of immigration cases awaiting disposal by the judges is steadily increasing. Since the end of FY 2006 this backlog has grown by 19% – over the past decade, it has increased by 64%.
November 6, 2008
Today marks the last day of a three-week hunger strike by immigrant rights protesters who hoped to re-energize the movement. – Los Angeles
October 27, 2008
Did You Know? Hispanic immigrants contribute $842 more per resident to local revenues than they receive in local expenditures, according to the study. Latino immigrants have long settled in Long Island, but since 2000, Hispanics, especially from Central America, have made up more than one-half of the immigrants arriving there.
September 18, 2008
More than four-in-five Hispanics (81%) say that immigration enforcement should be left mainly to the federal authorities rather than the local police; 76% disapprove of workplace raids; 73% disapprove of the criminal prosecution of undocumented immigrants who are working without authorization; and 70% disapprove of the criminal prosecution of employers who hire undocumented immigrants. A narrow majority (53%) disapproves of a requirement that employers check a federal database to verify the legal immigration status of all prospective hires.
July 28, 2008
Did You Know? Caning has failed to deter 4,326 illegal immigrants from returning to just one Malasyian state to seek employment.
June 18, 2008
Did You Know? Criminal prosecutions of immigrants by federal authorities surged to a record high in March 2008, as immigration cases accounted for the majority — 57% — of all new federal criminal cases brought nationwide that month
June 16, 2008
Did You Know? Obama voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
June 12, 2008
Did You Know? The social security database e-verify uses has a 4 percent error rate, though Shuler claims the overall system has an error rate of half a percent. Both of those numbers sound insignificant. Iowa Republican Steve King says “The accuracy of the e-verify system is remarkable!” and “almost perfect!” But 4 percent of 153 million workers is 6,120,000. (Half a percent is 765,000.) That’s a lot of people who will have to wrangle with the federal government before showing up at the office.
June 3, 2008
Did You Know? 297 illegal immigrants arrested in the raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant were sentenced to five months in prison for using false documents – but not one company official as yet faces any charges. – Postville
June 2, 2008
Did You Know? Nearly 3,700 illegal immigrants have been arrested in dozens of business sweeps since October, immigration officials told the Houston Chronicle, far ahead of the previous year’s pace.
May 15, 2008
Did You Know? In Phoenix, 15,976 immigrants applied for citizenship during fiscal 2007, which ended Sept. 30, up 64 percent from 2006.
April 25, 2008
Did You Know? States have considered more than 1,100 bills that deal with aspects of immigration this year (My question are how much money has been spent doing this and what party affiliations did the sponsors have)
April 21, 2008
Did You Know? That around 2 million Hispanics were deported during the Great Depression, many of them legal residents or even U.S. citizens – (The question is could it happen again? I don’t know but I know that plenty of the anti-immigration folk want this)
April 14, 2008
Did You Know? About two-thirds of immigrants in the Rockies are Hispanic, but more than 60% of Hispanics in the region are not immigrants. There is not a single state in the Rockies in which the immigrant Hispanic population outnumbers the native Hispanic population.
April 9, 2008
Did You Know? The U.S. Border Patrol said Tuesday that the number of apprehensions dropped 17% to 347,372 between Oct. 1, 2007, and March 31, 2008, from the same period in late 2006 and early 2007.
April 2, 2008
Did You Know? The Bush administration says it’ll bypass dozens of laws to finish construction of a fence along the Mexican border.
March 28, 2008
Did You Know? ICE has been targeting illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, and the related costs are growing. Last year, 164,000 immigrant criminals were placed into deportation proceedings, up from 64,000 in 2006
March 26, 2008
Did You Know? A new study estimates that Oklahoma’s anti-illegal immigration law will cause $1.8 billion in economic losses as foreign-born workers flee the state.
March 24, 2008
Did You Know? There are an estimated two million mixed families where at least one member is a citizen or lawfully living in the country and the other isn’t.
March 17, 2008
Did You Know? President Reagan had the Hispanic vote in mind when he granted roughly 3 million illegal immigrants amnesty in 1986.
March 6, 2008
Did You Know? The cost of arresting, incarcerating and housing illegal immigrant criminal suspects had more than doubled since 1999, to $192 million in the 2006 fiscal year
March 5, 2008
Did You Know? Sometime in the coming months, a single music label, Universal Music, will control almost half of the U.S. Latin music marketplace. – because of recent laws
January 31, 2008
Did You Know? A van of 11 people believed to be illegal immigrants were in custody after a vehicle the van rear ended tapped a Homeland Security vehicle in an automobile accident Tuesday.
January 28, 2008
Did You Know? Between 8 percent and 9 percent of the Texas workforce is estimated to be in the country illegally, according to an analysis of 2005 U.S. Census data by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center
Did You Know? 500: The number of children who were separated from their parents, left uncared for, and who faced economic instability as a result of the immigration raids conducted in Colorado, Nebraska, and Massachusetts in 2007. Most of these children are U.S. citizens.
Did You Know? 4,077: The number of workers arrested on work site raids and deported in 2007. The majority of them were Hispanic.
January 24, 2008
Immigrants face long waits for citizenship – and immigrants “shouldn’t get their hopes up” that projected long delays in processing applications will be shortened. – according to Emilio Gonzalez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
January 23, 2008
Did You Know? In 2006, Colorado passed tough new laws designed to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. In the first year, state departments spent $2 million implementing the laws. How many people did they catch? None.
Did You Know? In Kansas, state government spent $1 million last year complying with a federal proof-of-citizenship requirement for HealthWave, the state children’s health insurance program for low-income families. How many illegal immigrants did the dragnet nab? One.
January 22, 2008
Did You Know? Under pressure to crack down on illegal immigrants, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is expanding its Colorado Springs office from two agents to 10.
January 15, 2008
Did You Know? More illegal immigrants are caught in Tucson than anywhere else. Last year, Border Patrol agents arrested almost 400,000 immigrants.
January 10, 2008
Did You Know? Since 1804 was approved in Oklahoma, 15,000-25,000 illegal immigrants have left Tulsa County, the Greater Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce says
January 7, 2008
Did You Know? A new poll finds that illegal immigration registers as a serious problem for a strong majority of people living in four Southwestern states.
December 6, 2007
Detention and removal operations took more than 40 percent of ICE’s $4.7 billion budget last fiscal year. – That is more than $1.88 billion
November 6, 2007
Did You Know? A study released last week by the Urban Institute and the National Council of La Raza says there are about five million U.S. children with at least one undocumented parent.
November 4, 2007
Did You Know? In North Carolina, the state with the biggest percentage of Latino growth during the 1990s, just 41 percent of Mexicans are U.S. citizens, and there has been no increase since 2000 in the number of Mexican-Americans who have become citizens through naturalization.
November 1, 2007
Did You Know? One apartment manager who just paid for a roofing job complained that with so many Hispanics having already left Oklahoma City, the crew he hired was able to double the price for the job, said Jason Thompson, operations manager for D&S Property Management Inc. – effects of immigration law in Oklahoma
October 15, 2007
Did You Know? In his ruling, Breyer chastised government officials for making a policy change with “massive ramifications” for employers without properly surveying the potential costs of compliance. (regarding the no-match enforcement rule)
September 25, 2007
Did You Know? More than 300 illegal immigrants are being deported every month from the city of Irving, Texas
September 18, 2007
Did You Know? Coupled with the 20,000 visas issued to Cubans each year for legal immigration, the numbers arriving (illegally) now rival the 35,000 who crossed the Straits of Florida in 1994 to escape the poverty that gripped communist-ruled Cuba after the Soviet Union disintegrated, ending the billions in subsidies it once sent to Havana.
September 12, 2007
Did You Know? The Mexican population in the United States climbed 37 percent between 2000 and 2006, with Pennsylvania and New Jersey substantially outpacing the national trend.
Did You Know? Nearly one out of every seven adult males in Arizona is not a U.S. citizen
September 9, 2007
Did You Know? Among immigrants who got degrees abroad and arrived in the past 10 years, 42 percent of Latin Americans, 21 percent of Asians and 18 percent of Europeans are doing work that requires no training
August 23, 2007
Did You Know? Las autoridades migratorias de Estados Unidos han deportado a unos 51,512 guatemaltecos indocumentados entre 2004 y 2007 – The US deported 51,512 Guatemalans between 2004 & 2007
August 22, 2007
Did You Know? “Eighty percent of our food source is picked by someone with a questionable document,” said Rochester filmmaker Angelo Mancuso, who has made a documentary on migrant workers in America.
August 21, 2007
Did You Know? While unauthorized entry into the United States is illegal, being in the country after having entered illegally is not necessarily a crime, according to a new ruling by the Kansas Court of Appeals.
August 18, 2007
Did You Know? The Constitution requires the Census Bureau to count everyone, including illegal immigrants, in the census.
August 13, 2007
Did You Know? Referring to the new immigration enforcement rules that Bush announced – “In certain industries and in certain states, there will be a very significant impact on the functioning of businesses or entire sectors,” said Deborah Meyers, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. “Some employers are going to find themselves having to fire significant portions of their workforces, and I think there will be employees — some who are authorized and some who are not — who will find themselves out of a job.”
August 9, 2007
Did You Know? 82% of Mexicans and 84% of Central Americans said they found it more difficult to obtain good-paying jobs than they did a year ago. 45% blamed the increased difficulty on problems with documentation and 21% blamed a lack of jobs.
August 2, 2007
Did You Know? In 2000, the average immigrant earned about 20 percent less than their American-born counterpart, the report stated. In 1940, a typical immigrant earned nearly 6 percent more.
July 30, 2007
Did You Know? Starting July 30, fees will increase from $400 to $675 to file the lengthy paperwork for citizenship.
July 17, 2007
Did You Know? In the first eight months of this fiscal year, the immigration service received 711,538 citizenship applications, nearly as many as in all of last year.
July 12, 2007
Did You Know? Estimates vary but the Congressional Budget Office puts the expected cost of the border fence at $3 million a mile
June 27, 2007
Did You Know? The recent hot spell – temperatures have reached 100 every day since June 13 – has taken a toll on illegal entrants. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector have found 11 bodies in the past 12 days, bringing this fiscal year total to 109, compared to 116 the same time last year.
June 25, 2007
Did You Know? The U.S. Border Patrol has spent a cool $1 million to advertise on a hot NASCAR racer
June 24, 2007
Did You Know? Immigrants filed 46,884 citizenship petitions in Florida during the first four months of 2007, a 75 percent increase from the same period last year
Did You Know? More than 45 bills aimed at illegal immigration have been introduced in the Tennessee Legislature
May 30, 2007
Did You Know? It would cost our nation $204 billion over four years to deport the 12 million undocumented humans
April 9, 2007
Did You Know? The estimated 900,000 illegal immigrants in Florida have about 122,000 children who are U.S. citizens
March 28, 2007
Did You Know? Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave are grappling with a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can’t accurately account for the fugitives whereabouts, the government reported yesterday.
March 19, 2007
Did You Know? Latin Americans working outside their countries are expected to send home more than $100 billion annually by 2010,
March 12, 2007
Did You Know? Three million American-born children have at least one parent who is an illegal immigrant; one in 10 American families have mixed immigration status
March 6, 2007
Did You Know? Agents arrested 363 illegal immigrants in New Jersey during the first two months of the year
February 15, 2007
Did You Know? Of immigrants interviewed by Mexico’s central bank, 70 percent said they had U.S. bank accounts.
February 2, 2007
Did You Know? There are currently 8 million immigrants in the U.S. who are eligible to become citizens.
January 29, 2007
Did You Know? The United States granted asylum to 25,257 people in 2005, including 8,736 people -or near one third- from Latin America
January 28, 2007
Did You Know? U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans a fee increase for naturalization applications that some fear could double the current fee.
Did You Know? As many as 900,000 female illegal immigrants work as maids in the US
December 6, 2006
Did You Know? Up to 9.4 percent of the all persons born in Mexico were living in the United States in 2005
November 20, 2006
Did You Know? As many as 900,000 female illegal immigrants work as maids in the country
November 15, 2006
Did You Know? Healthcare for illegal immigrants between the ages of 18 and 64 cost American taxpayers $1.1 billion in 2000 ”” or about $11 per household
November 6, 2006
Did You Know? There are about 3.4 million foreign-born residents in New York City, and an additional 500,000 undocumented immigrants, according to city figures
November 2, 2006
Some 3,000 to 4,000 men, women and children have died crossing the 2,000-mile (3,200km) U.S.-Mexico border illegally on foot in the past decade
November 1, 2006
Latino immigrants in Nebraska are expected to send $154 million to their home countries this year
October 31, 2006
For the fiscal year 2006, 432 deaths have been reported in the entire border region
Border Patrol apprehensions have risen and fallen like a roller coaster over the years, peaking at almost 1.7 million in 2000 before bottoming out at 932,000 in 2003
October 25, 2006
Hospitals can seek some financial relief through a $1 billion federal program that offers reimbursement for emergency room costs associated with undocumented immigrants
October 24, 2006
Last fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended 115,000 unaccompanied minors, up from 98,000 in 2001. Almost 7,800 children landed in the federally funded system of shelters last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2005 — 25 percent of them girls, 20 percent under 15.
Federal officials flew 95,876 incarcerated illegal immigrants and criminal aliens around the country in 2005, a 28 percent increase since 2000
The Denver office, which serves Colorado and Wyoming, posted a record number of applications for naturalization – 8,121 between Oct. 1, 2005, and Sept. 30, 2006
October 18, 2006
Did You Know? The number of immigrants in a community cannot explain changes in crime rates or the level of crime rates and that’s been shown time and again
Did You Know? By one estimate, there are about 400,000 illegal immigrants now living in the Houston area
Did You Know? In 10 House races, including close contests in Colorado, Georgia and Indiana, voters selected immigration as one of their top concerns – according to a recent survey
October 13, 2006
Did You Know? The U.S. government received about 70,000 petitions for family-based visas in June alone
October 10, 2006
Did You Know? It took the federal government 10 years to finish a comparatively tiny fence of 14 miles dividing San Diego and Tijuana.
October 3, 2006
Did You Know? More than 15,000 Mexican illegal migrants caught in Arizona this year were flown to Mexico in repatriation program
October 2, 2006
Did You Know? In July, there were about 18,000 immigrants in detention nationwide. The current population is around 25,500.
Did You Know? Homeland Security was on track to remove 180,000 people from the country during the fiscal year that ended Friday, up 7 percent from the previous year.
September 27, 2006
Did You Know? With 20 to 22 million immigrants who are legal and 52 million Asians and Latinos that are US born, “immigrants can potentially become 20% of the entire American electorate making them the crucial swing vote in an election.”
September 25, 2006
Did You Know? Every day, legal experts say, families are split up when an illegal immigrant is arrested.
Did You Know? An estimated 3.1 million children born in the U.S. have at least one parent living here illegally
September 22, 2006
Did You Know? Between 1942 and 1964, 15,136 Mexican farmhands worked the fields in Oregon. Nationally, an estimated 4.5 million Mexicans were imported into the nation as braceros
September 14, 2006
Did You Know? Latino immigrants are expected to send back home more than $60 billion in 2006
Did You Know? Among Mexican-Americans with two U.S.-born parents but three or more foreign-born grandparents, only 17 percent spoke fluent Spanish. Among those with only one or two foreign-born grandparents, Spanish fluency dropped to 7 percent.
Did You Know? One-quarter of the workers in New Orleans after Katrina are undocumented Latinos
September 5, 2006
Did You Know? 12 percent of illegal immigrants hold positions in management, business and professional occupations
April 22, 2006
Did You Know? Five of six Texas residents of Hispanic descent live here legally, including nine of 10 schoolchildren. Some are descended from families that have lived in Texas since the 18th century.
April 17, 2006
Did You Know: Illegal Immigrants Bolster Social Security with Billions. This article is a year old but…still very useful info
