http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 07 Oct 2008 6:57:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39021/us-illegal-immigration-plunges.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe number of illegal immigrants entering the US has plummeted in the last several years, a new study has found. Close to 800,000 illegal immigrants entered the US each year from 2000-2004, but 500,000 have entered each year since, reports the Washington Post . For the first time in a decade the number of legal immigrants entering the US has surpassed the illegals coming into the country.http://www.newser.com/story/39021/us-illegal-immigration-plunges.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 02 Oct 2008 22:26:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37843/rush-obama-is-race-baiting.html?refid=rss_all_defaultRush Limbaugh, himself the frequent target of race-baiting charges, has turned the tables on Barack Obama. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Limbaugh says Obama is distorting his words to create a misleading Spanish-language ad about immigration that he likens to "vile fear-mongering" of the "old segretationists." The ad uses two Limbaugh quotes, which the radio host says were obvious attempts at parody in full context.http://www.newser.com/story/37843/rush-obama-is-race-baiting.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 19 Sep 2008 7:29:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37686/passport-frauds-used-identities-of-deceased.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMore than 100 people stole the identities of dead people to cover up their immigration status, military desertion or drunken-driving convictions, federal authorities say after an investigation called “Operation Deathmatch.” Some of the accused even hid their true selves from spouses and children, and had been using the identities for decades, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.http://www.newser.com/story/37686/passport-frauds-used-identities-of-deceased.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 17 Sep 2008 13:13:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35044/work-begins-on-controversial-san-diego-border-fence.html?refid=rss_all_defaultConstruction crews have launched work on a controversial section of the US-Mexico border fence near San Diego, AP reports. The Smuggler's Gulch canyon will be filled with dirt and a fence built at a cost of $16 million a mile. Critics charge the fence is no longer vital and the work will cause serious environmental damage.http://www.newser.com/story/35044/work-begins-on-controversial-san-diego-border-fence.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 16 Aug 2008 2:40:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34798/lawyers-dying-immigrant-denied-care-in-custody.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHiu Lui “Jason” Ng was a New York computer engineer trying to get his green card when immigration officials arrested him last year, the New York Times reports. Last week he died of undiagnosed cancer after months of neglect in immigration detention centers. Ng complained of chronic back pain, and eventually became too weak to walk or stand, but officials refused to give him a wheelchair or medical examination, his lawyers say.http://www.newser.com/story/34798/lawyers-dying-immigrant-denied-care-in-custody.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 13 Aug 2008 7:27:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34028/many-hospitals-deport-injured-ill-immigrants.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe case of an illegal immigrant from Guatemala has called attention to a little-known, but common, practice at US hospitals: the deportation of immigrants without insurance. Injured in a car accident, the immigrant spent years at a Florida hospital before being repatriated by court order, the New York Times reports. An appeals court overruled the decision, stating that deportation falls under the federal government's purview.http://www.newser.com/story/34028/many-hospitals-deport-injured-ill-immigrants.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 03 Aug 2008 8:02:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32143/mccain-wobbling-leftward-again-on-immigration.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBy John McCain’s own admission, his embrace of immigration reform nearly sunk his candidacy in the early primaries, writes Byron York in the Hill . But after saving his hide with a swing to the right and a pledge to "secure the border first" (a “legitimate flip-flop,” York specifies), the pendulum is moving leftward again. McCain recently told a Latino audience that comprehensive reform “will be my top priority yesterday, today, and tomorrow.”http://www.newser.com/story/32143/mccain-wobbling-leftward-again-on-immigration.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 10 Jul 2008 15:51:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31728/cash-strapped-businesses-battle-immigration-crackdown.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAs state and federal authorities crack down on illegal immigration, businesses are fighting back, the New York Times reports. Employers, stung by aggressive new measures that would revoke the licenses of those found to have hired illegals, say their very existence is threatened. A few states are responding to the fears, and revising or rejecting tougher immigration laws.http://www.newser.com/story/31728/cash-strapped-businesses-battle-immigration-crackdown.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 06 Jul 2008 5:03:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30719/supreme-court-will-hear-navy-sonar-appeal.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Supreme Court today agreed to hear the US Navy's objection to a court order that ships may not use sonar within 12 miles of the California coast because high-frequency signals are harming whales and other marine life, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Bush administration argues that the judge exceeded her authority in putting environmental concerns before national security.http://www.newser.com/story/30719/supreme-court-will-hear-navy-sonar-appeal.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 23 Jun 2008 12:45:40 CDT