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Business Owners Slam Crackdown On Illegal Workers
RIVERSIDE (CBS) — A new plan to verify immigration status for employees across five Riverside county cities has some local businesses very upset. Temecula City Councilman Jeff Comachero tells KNX...
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Group: DUI Checkpoints Unfairly Targeting Immigrants
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Immigration activists say police sobriety checkpoints in the Southland unfairly target illegal immigrants. KNX 1070′s Ed Mertz reports the financial incentive behind the crackdown...
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Fingerprinting Effort Nets 65,000 Immigration Arrests Statewide
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — A program designed to cross-check the immigration status of every person arrested in California with a U.S. database is now in place in every county. Immigration and Customs...
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California Ferret Owners Want Their Pets Legalized
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s ferret owners are tired of being criminals. They live in the only U.S. state besides Hawaii that bans residents from keeping ferrets as pets, forcing an untold number of...
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Authorities Closed An Illegal Maternity Ward For Chinese Women
SAN GABRIEL (AP) — Authorities shut down a makeshift maternity clinic crammed with 10 newborns and a dozen Chinese women who paid as much as $35,000 to travel to Southern California to give birth to...
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Feds: Record Number Of Illegal Immigrants Target SoCal Beaches
SANTA ANA (CBS) — Federal investigators are warning Southland beach-goers to watch for boats full of illegal immigrants amid what officials say is an ongoing surge in maritime smuggling. KNX 1070′s Ron...
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Immigration Authorities Add 1,300 Beds For Southland Detainees
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigration authorities will add another 1,300 beds to detain suspected illegal immigrants in Southern California. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday announced an...
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Assembly OKs Bill To Give Taxpayer-Funded Financial Aid To Illegal Immigrants
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — A local Democratic lawmaker has won the support of the state Assembly for his long-stalled legislation that would grant state-funded financial aid for immigrant college students...
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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To College Tuition Break For Illegal Immigrants
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A California policy which allows illegal immigrants at state colleges and universities to pay the same tuition rates as legal residents will not be reviewed by the highest court in...
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Feds Launch LA County Effort To Combat Fake Immigration ‘Notarios’
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A nationwide campaign to crack down on immigration services scams will soon be implemented in Los Angeles County, officials said Thursday. The program — which is being rolled out in...
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ICE Union: Americans Should ‘Brace Themselves’ For New Immigration Policy
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A union leader for employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Americans need to “brace themselves” after the department released a memo outlining “procedural...
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Rangers Seize Over 3,500 Marijuana Plants In Santa Monica Mountains
SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS (CBS) — Authorities have completed the removal of over 3,500 marijuana plants growing on National Park lands in the Santa Monica Mountains. According to a press release, the...
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Phone Tax Revolt? Calif. Supreme Court OKs Class Action Against LA
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Taxpayers stand to receive up to hundreds of millions of dollars in telephone tax refunds after the California Supreme Court ruled to allow a class action lawsuit against the city...
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ICE: Hundreds Of Illegal Immigrants Arrested In LA, San Diego Counties
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Federal immigration agents touted the successful completion Thursday of what they said is the largest operation ever to target criminal illegal immigrants. KNX 1070′s Tom Reopelle...
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‘Dream Act’ Over? Opponents Say Demand For Petition ‘Off The Charts’
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A Southland celebration of the passage of the California Dream Act could be short-lived. Union members, activists and college students came together at a labor hall in the Westlake...
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Group Caught Crawling Into US Via Abandoned Pipeline Returned To Mexico
SAN DIEGO (CBS) — It was a narrow escape for a group of immigrants who tried to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico via an abandoned gas pipeline. KNX 1070′s Tom Reopelle reports five Mexican...
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OC Group Splits With GOP, Backs Legal Residency For Illegal Immigrants
SANTA ANA (CBS) — A group of Republican business leaders in Orange County broke ranks Friday with the mainstream GOP party line on immigration reform. KNX 1070′s Ron Kilgore reports the three-point...
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US Captain, 8 Mexican Nationals Arrested In Seal Beach Smuggling Attempt
LONG BEACH (CBS) — An American pleasure boat skipper was in federal custody Thursday on charges of smuggling immigrants from Mexico into the U.S. illegally. KNX 1070′s Ron Kilgore reports the captain...
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‘Dream Act’ Opponents Corral Signatures From ‘Black Friday’ Shoppers
SAN BERNARDINO (CBS) — A grassroots effort to repeal a controversial law that makes undocumented students in California eligible for financial aid headed to the Inland Empire on Friday. Opponents of AB...
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Ex-Border Patrol Agent Sentenced For Harboring Drug-Dealing Illegal Immigrant...
SAN DIEGO (CBS) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Diego was sentenced on Friday for harboring his illegal immigrant father who was later convicted on narcotics charges. KNX 1070′s Tom Reopelle...
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