WORLD
July 6, 2008 | From Times Wire Reports
A small boat packed with at least 148 illegal immigrants from Africa landed on a beach in the Canary Islands, the Interior Ministry said. The flimsy fiberglass vessel landed as windsurfers were preparing to take to the sea, authorities said. The windsurfers and tourists alerted police. The Africans tried to run inland but were caught, an official said. One man, who was dehydrated and suffered hypothermia, collapsed on the beach and was taken to a hospital. The rest were treated on the scene by Red Cross mobile units.
WORLD
February 17, 2009 | Times Wire Reports
Police in a Madrid neighborhood have been given goals for arresting illegal immigrants and told to concentrate on Moroccans, media reported. "This isn't worthy of a country governed by the rule of law. The police can't issue quotas for arresting Moroccans," said Kamal Rahmouni, president of the Assn. of Moroccan Immigrant Workers. Spain's National Police confirmed the existence of arrest objectives. Spanish TV showed what it said was an internal police document instructing officers in the Vallecas district to detain at least 35 foreigners without visas every month.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 22, 2008 | From the Associated Press
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say the agency will scrap a program for illegal immigrants to turn themselves in for deportation after getting only eight volunteers during a nearly three-week trial. Jim Hayes, acting director of detention and removal operations, told the Associated Press that the offer will end today because of the low turnout. The pilot program gave illegal immigrants with court orders to leave the country up to 90 days to depart. It was offered in Santa Ana, San Diego, Phoenix, Chicago and Charlotte, N.C. Hayes said the other tactics have proven more effective.
NATIONAL
September 3, 2008 | From the Associated Press
The 2008 Republican platform says the makeup of Congress should be determined by counting only legal residents in the next census, not illegal immigrants. "The integrity of the 2010 census, proportioning congressional representation among the states, must be preserved," says the platform language. "The census," it says, "should count every person legally abiding in the United States in an actual enumeration." "Our mandate is to count all residents regardless of legal status," said Mark Tolbert of the Census Bureau.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 2, 2010 | Teresa Watanabe and Patrick McDonnell
Galvanized by Arizona's tough new law against illegal immigrants, tens of thousands of marchers took to the streets in Los Angeles on Saturday as the city led the nation in May Day turnout to press for federal immigration reform. As many as 60,000 immigrants and their supporters joined a peaceful but boisterous march through downtown Los Angeles to City Hall, waving American flags, tooting horns and holding signs that blasted the Arizona law. The legislation, which is set to take effect in midsummer, makes it a crime to be in Arizona without legal status and requires police to check for immigration papers.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 9, 2011 | By Patrick McGreevy and Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday granted illegal immigrants access to state financial aid at public universities and community colleges, putting California once again in the center of the nation's immigration debate. But he vetoed a measure that would have allowed state universities to consider applicants' race, gender and income to ensure diversity in their student populations. Deciding the fate of 50 education-related bills, the governor also rejected an effort to make it more difficult to establish charter schools.