In this April 4, 2011 file photo is Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Hesperia, in Sacramento. Donnelly, who previously sought the right to carry a loaded weapon inside the state Capitol has been cited for trying to bring a loaded handgun onto a Sacramento-bound flight. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez says Donnelly had a Colt .45 with four rounds in it inside his carry-on luggage at Ontario International Airport. He says another magazine with five rounds also was in Donnelly’s carry-on bag. The lawmaker was passing through a security checkpoint at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday. (Associated Press file photo)

By Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Created: 01/06/2012 10:52:55 AM PST

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly said Friday the effort to repeal the California Dream Act had fallen short of gathering enough signatures needed to get on the ballot.

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KFI’s John and Ken thrive on an angry public and wield power by stirring their loyal listeners — 1 million weekly — to action. But their stances and beliefs are more varied than many might suspect.

COLUMN ONE

By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
January 6, 2012

Four hours a day, five days a week, John and Ken swoop from substantive to sophomoric faster than you can change the station.

They are conservative, campaigning against what they deride as the “Illegal Alien Dream Act.”

They are liberal, hosting an in-depth conversation about income inequality with Occupy Los Angeles protesters.

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Staff Reports
Created: 01/05/2012 05:38:23 PM PST

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly on Thursday said he was assaulted and threatened on Dec. 26 by a man in Rancho Cucamonga due to his opposition to the Dream Act.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/27/2011 02:37:13 PM PST

Nearly 1,000 county businesses screen employees’ immigration status with a process called E-Verify, part of a 37-percent surge statewide in the number of employers using the system since 2010.

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Securing the money has long been a top priority for California, which will receive about $65.8 million after a rare alliance between the two most populous red and blue states.

By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
November 16, 2 2011

Reporting from Washington— California and Texas lawmakers formed a rare alliance to secure $240 million in federal funds to pay for jailing illegal immigrants despite a congressional drive to reduce Washington’s red ink.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
October 21, 2011

Opponents of a new law that allows illegal immigrants to receive college financial aid were given the green light to begin collecting signatures for a referendum to overturn the measure, Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office announced today.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounding up illegal immigrants earlier this year in Phoenix. (Nick Oza / Arizona Republic)

By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times
October 16, 2011, 6:45 p.m.

For years, activists against illegal immigration pushed cities across California to adopt ordinances ordering businesses to verify that their employees were eligible to work in the U.S.

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Nanette Asimov,Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writers
Saturday, October 8, 2011

(10-08) 13:53 PDT Sacramento — For the first time, thousands of California students who are in the country illegally will be eligible to receive financial aid to attend any public college in the state at taxpayer expense, beginning in 2013, as Gov. Jerry Brown today signed into law AB131, known as the California Dream Act.

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The popular KFI radio hosts gave out the cellphone number of an immigrant rights activist, prompting hate-filled calls. Minority and immigrant rights groups say they will boycott advertisers if the show isn’t taken off the air.

John Kobylt, left, and Ken Chiampou host an afternoon show on Los Angeles’ KFI-AM (640). On Sept. 1, they gave out the cellphone number of an immigrants’ rights activist, who then received many angry calls. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times
September 30, 2011

Long-time immigrant rights activist Jorge-Mario Cabrera is used to being called to task for his views. But when radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou recently gave out his cellphone number on the air in a campaign against the California Dream Act, he found himself unprepared for the barrage of hate-filled phone calls that followed.

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Derry

Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 09/13/2011 06:43:23 PM PDT

San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry is proposing an ordinance that would require anyone seeking a job in the food service industry be screened for eligibility to work in the United States using the federal E-Verify program before a food handler card could be obtained.

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Donnelly

September 02, 2011 6:31 PM
From Staff Reports

Former Minuteman Assemblyman Tim Donnelly on blasted the Assembly’s passage of the DREAM Act Friday, calling the move a costly travesty.

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The measure would allow college students who are illegal immigrants to receive public financial aid.

By Teresa Watanabe and Patrick McGreevy,
Los Angeles Times
September 1, 2011

The college dreams of thousands of students who are illegal immigrants moved closer to fulfillment Wednesday after the state Senate approved a bill that for the first time would give them access to public financial aid.

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June 14, 2011 5:29 PM
From Staff Reports

SAN BERNARDINO • Echoing a message by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly earlier this month, 1st District Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt on Tuesday called on the federal government to pick up a greater share of the county’s tab for jailing illegal alien inmates.

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10:00 PM PDT on Sunday, June 12, 2011

By BEN GOAD
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans are poised to press forward with legislation requiring all U.S. employers to use an electronic worker verification program penned by Inland Rep. Ken Calvert.

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Beige Luciano-Adams, Staff Writer
Created: 06/06/2011 09:25:18 PM PDT

Five years after its first introduction, the California DREAM Act – designed to remove higher education barriers for undocumented students – is finally inching closer to the governor’s desk.

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Donnelly

June 02, 2011 8:58 AM
Natasha Lindstrom
Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO • Assemblyman Tim Donnelly is pushing the Obama administration to help relieve California’s mounting tab for housing illegal-immigrant.

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June 01, 2011 2:46 PM
AMY TAXIN
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigration authorities will add another 1,300 beds to detain suspected illegal immigrants in Southern California, officials said Wednesday.

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By Adam Weintraub Associated Press
Posted: 06/01/2011 12:20:01 PM PDT

SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers voted Wednesday to open the door to state-funded financial aid for immigrant college students who entered the United States illegally.

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Donnelly

By Mediha Fejzagic DiMartino Staff Writer
Created: 05/26/2011 09:48:29 PM PDT

In the light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating release of 33,000 criminals in the next two years, two lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are urging the federal government to intervene.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
May 26, 2011

After a heated and partisan debate, the state Assembly voted Thursday to cancel and then modify an agreement with the federal government under which fingerprints of arrestees are checked for their immigration status.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain suspected illegal immigrants in Phoenix. A Supreme Court ruling will allow the state to revoke business licenses for those who hire undocumented workers. (Nick Oza / Associated Press / May 26, 2011)

By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
May 26, 2011, 5:59 p.m.

Reporting from Washington— The Supreme Court gave a big boost to proponents of stricter state laws against illegal immigration by upholding Arizona’s “business death penalty” for employers who repeatedly hire undocumented workers.

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By Jim Sanders
jsanders@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, May. 6, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

Illegal immigrants could receive college financial aid under legislation approved Thursday by the Assembly and apparently destined for the desk of a new Democratic governor who supports the concept.

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L.A. NOW
Southern California — this just in
April 25, 2011 | 4:31 pm

In another swing at the judge who declared Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, backers of the measure Monday asked that his decision be voided because he failed to disclose that he was gay and in a long-term relationship.

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April 16, 2011 1:30 PM
By Michael Mishak, Los Angeles Times

This is the first of a two-part series on Assemblyman Tim Donnelly. See Monday’s Daily Press for part two.

SACRAMENTO • Tim Donnelly crouched into a firing stance behind his chair and folded his hands in the shape of a gun.

Lawmaking, said the GOP assemblyman who represents Hesperia and Apple Valley, is “full-blown war,” and guerrilla tactics are needed to win the battle against California Democrats’ agenda. As Donnelly sees it, the liberals who dominate state government have betrayed the public with job-killing regulations and crushing taxes.

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Donnelly

By James Rufus Koren Staff Writer
Created: 04/15/2011 09:49:10 PM PDT

Two anti-illegal-immigration bills by firebrand Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Hesperia, were rejected by an Assembly committee last week, but the freshman lawmaker and former minuteman says he’s not deterred.

In fact, he said he sees last week’s hearing as a step in the right direction.

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Whitman

By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
April 13, 2011

Reporting from Dallas—Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said Tuesday that her party must change its approach on immigration if it wants to be successful in California.

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Donnelly

Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/05/2011 06:04:34 PM PDT

The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted down Assemblyman Tim Donnelly’s bills targeting illegal immigration in California.

Donnelly, R-Claremont, had presented two bills to the committee, which voted 7-3 against both, on a straight party vote.

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Immigration reform

Backers cite Arizona’s law
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/04/2011 06:07:10 PM PDT

More than 100 people, many carrying American flags, rallied at the state Capitol on Monday in support of an immigration enforcement bill introduced by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly.

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Donnelly

Plan would bolster immigration laws
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/03/2011 09:22:45 AM PDT

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly today will host a rally to gather support for his immigration-reform bill, which is similar to a law that garnered much attention last year in Arizona.

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Donnelly

April 02, 2011 2:30 PM
Natasha Lindstrom

SACRAMENTO • Tea Partiers from the High Desert and across California plan on joining Assemblyman Tim Donnelly in Sacramento Monday for a rally in support of an illegal-immigration bill modeled after Arizona’s controversial law.

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10:00 PM PST on Friday, January 28, 2011

By BEN GOAD
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON – As the GOP looks to improve the party’s image among the nation’s burgeoning Hispanic community, area House Republicans are pressing forward with legislation meant to fight illegal immigration.

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Sandra Emerson and Monica Rodriguez, Staff Writers
Posted: 01/01/2011 07:06:22 AM PST

The approach to addressing illegal immigration is expected to shift as Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in the new year.

In a matter of weeks, Congress will switch from working on legislation geared toward legalization to stricter enforcement of immigration laws.

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Donnelly

December 16, 2010 2:41 PM
From Staff Reports

SACRAMENTO • After a gunbattle killed a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly called on President Obama Thursday to send the full power of the United States National Guard and military units to the “war zone on the southern border.”

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, a member of the agency’s special Search, Trauma and Rescue team, was killed in a gun battle Tuesday night in Arizona, about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border.

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Donnelly

James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/14/2010 02:29:27 PM PST

When Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Claremont, was running for office, there was no shortage of fiery rhetoric about illegal immigration and the need for drastic action in Sacramento.

His first week on the job featured no shortage of similarly fiery legislation. On Dec. 6, the day he took the oath of office, Donnelly introduced an immigration enforcement law modeled on Arizona’s controversial S.B. 1070. He followed that on Friday with a bill that would reverse existing state law and force illegal immigrant students to pay out-of-state tuition rates at California’s public universities and community colleges.

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Donnelly

Proposal modeled after Arizona’s controversial law
James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Created: 12/06/2010 10:41:19 PM PST

As promised, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly’s first official act as a state lawmaker was to introduce a stiff new immigration bill.

Donnelly, a Republican from Twin Peaks, introduced Assembly Bill 26 on Monday after being sworn in on the Assembly floor.

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Group asks for help passing act
Bethania Palma Markus, Staff Writer
Created: 12/06/2010 05:12:08 AM PST

SAN DIMAS – About 25 people crowded into the field office of Rep. David Dreier, R-San Dimas, on Friday afternoon, seeking his support for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.

Dreier was in Washington, D.C. but the group handed petitions to his office staff. They complained the Republican congressman backpedaled on support of the bill, which would provide immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children with a path to citizenship if they go to college or join the military.

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Opponents of the measure, similar to Arizona’s suspended law, fear alienating the fastest-growing voting bloc and further hampering the party’s ability to win elections in the state.

By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
December 6, 2010

A nascent California ballot measure that seeks to replicate Arizona’s controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants is dividing the state’s Republicans, with a number of prominent strategists and leaders fearing that it could further harm their party’s already fraught relationship with Latinos — the fastest-growing segment of the electorate.

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Lame-duck Congress may take up legislation
Monica Rodriguez, Staff Writer
Created: 11/27/2010 07:08:04 AM PST

The final days of the current congressional session may provide an opportunity to pass legislation giving a path to U.S. citizenship to some young people who are in the country illegally.

Supporters of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, also known as the DREAM Act, along with its opponents, say the proposal could be introduced shortly and come up for a vote.

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By Susan Ferriss
sferriss@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, Nov. 26, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A

The bill has already been approved – and vetoed – four times.

But California’s Latino Legislative Caucus expects it to become law next year when Gov.-elect Jerry Brown takes office.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
November 23, 2010

The California Secretary of State’s office today authorized a signature drive to place an Arizona-style immigration law before California voters.

Called the “Support Federal Immigration Law Act,” the proposal was submitted to state authorities in September by Michael Erickson, a Tea Party activist in in the Bay Area city of Belmont and former chair of the Sonoma County Republican Party.

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Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

One of the most tantalizing mysteries in California’s 2010 gubernatorial election involved the connection between one of the state’s poorest women and one of its wealthiest.

How did an undocumented, Mexican-born housekeeper, Nicandra Diaz Santillan, end up in the national spotlight, boldly confronting her former boss, billionaire GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman?

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Critics say the California law that state Supreme Court justices upheld conflicts with a federal ban on undocumented immigrants getting college benefits based on residency. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is expected.

By Maura Dolan and Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
November 15, 2010|7:43 p.m.

Illegal immigrants who graduated from state high schools can continue to receive lower, in-state tuition at California’s public universities and colleges, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday.

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Baca

James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/06/2010 04:32:09 PM PDT

Rep. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino, says he wants Congress to vote on comprehensive immigration reform before Republicans take over the House of Representatives in January.

Once the switch takes place and Democrats are in the minority, Baca said the chances of immigration reform passing will be much slimmer.

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Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/30/2010 03:41:02 PM PDT

A new study shows Latinos have soured considerably on illegal immigration in the last three years.

In 2007, 50percent of Latinos surveyed told the Pew Hispanic Center that the growing number of illegal immigrants was a positive force for the existing Latino population. In a Pew survey released Thursday, that number had plummeted to 29percent.

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First time USCIS has halted an EB-5 regional center
October 27, 2010 9:05 AM
Brooke Edwards

VICTORVILLE • The federal government has terminated Victorville’s foreign investor program, ending the city’s hopes to raise tens of millions of dollars for projects at Southern California Logistics Airport.

It’s the first time U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has ever terminated an EB-5 program, agency spokeswoman Mariana Gitmore said by phone Tuesday. She said Victorville hadn’t been able to demonstrate that it meets the criteria to raise funds through the federal program, despite repeated requests for more information.

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10:00 PM PDT on Tuesday, October 12, 2010

By DARRELL R. SANTSCHI
The Press-Enterprise

Highland City Council members heard emotional appeals from both sides of the immigration debate Tuesday night.

Three months after the council voted 4-0 to send letters to a number of officials supporting Arizona’s illegal immigration law, a Latino advocacy group accused the council of violating its own code of ethics and called on the council to rescind its action.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
October 6, 2010

Immigration attorney Marc Van Der Hout, who is representing Meg Whitman’s former maid, said his undocumented client has been in the United States for nearly 20 years and has a long work history and family ties to bolster her quest for legal residency.

“There are many people who get to stay who were in her circumstances,” Van Der Hout said of Nicky Diaz Santillan, housekeeper for Republican gubernatorial candidate Whitman for nine years.

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Meg Whitman

California Watch
A Project of the Center for Investigative Reporting
Money and Politics

October 4, 2010 | Chase Davis

New allegations this week that Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant housekeeper for nine years have sent reporters and political operatives scrambling to find foot-in-mouth moments from her vocal, hard-line stance on immigration.

You can read more about the allegations here.

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10:00 PM PDT on Saturday, October 2, 2010

By JOHN ASBURY
The Press-Enterprise

The hip-hop band Cypress Hill and a production company are planning to host a designated smoking section for medical marijuana patients at the upcoming Smokeout music festival in San Bernardino.

The Guerilla Union promotional company has been approved by San Bernardino police to set up the area at the National Orange Show during the Oct. 16 concert.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
October 2, 2010

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told reporters this afternoon that she told her consultants about Nicky Diaz Santillan, an illegal immigrant and her former housekeeper, when she fired Diaz Santillan last year.

Asked if she did so because she anticipated it would be problematic for her campaign, she said, “I didn’t think it would be a problem.”

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By Dan Morain
dmorain@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee
Published: Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1E
Last Modified: Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 – 12:43 am

A really rich Republican candidate challenges a liberal icon in a year when the Democratic president’s popularity has plummeted.

Slick ads air nonstop. Polls show the Republican might win in this truest of blue states.

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GOP candidate for governor has purchased more ads in Spanish-language media and given interviews to Univision and Telemundo.

By Michael J. Mishak and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
October 2, 2010

Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor has doubled its advertising on Spanish-language radio and increased the number of its Latino television spots by roughly 50% as the former EBay chief executive seeks to blunt the impact of news that she employed, then fired, an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper.

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NEWS ANALYSIS
A jumbled view of illegal immigrants

By Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times
October 2, 2010

With the tears of a housekeeper who claimed she was wronged by a candidate for governor, the issue of illegal immigration came roaring back into California’s political landscape this week, like a blast of uncomfortable deja vu.

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Friday, October 1, 2010 – 12:45 p.m.

Democrat lawyer Gloria Allred dishes out her latest pre-election bomb shell.

Jerry Brown says the illegal immigrant employee allegations involving Meg Whitman “sounds credible” and then he runs as far away as possible.

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Brown

Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
September 30, 2010

Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman blasted Democrat Jerry Brown today for what she said is his campaign’s involvement in the controversy involving Whitman’s former housekeeper.

Citing a report in which KTVU’s Randy Shandobil said Brown’s campaign told the Bay Area TV station two weeks ago that it had heard a rumor Whitman had “housekeeper problems,” Whitman spokeswoman Andrea Jones Rivera said in a written statement that “this is part of a coordinated effort to smear Meg Whitman.”

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Allred

Thursday, September 30, 2010 – 11:00 a.m.

Oh boy! Attorney Gloria Allred round two at noon today.

Yes more entertainment.

Allred has scheduled her own news conference to launch another salvo at republican Meg Whitman.

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Studies cite fewer jobs due to bad U.S. economy
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Posted: 09/12/2010 09:48:51 PM PDT

SAN BERNARDINO – Gerry Gates is a concrete contractor who has seen his fair share of illegal immigrants looking for work in front of home improvement stores.

But their numbers are thinning, he said Friday as he loaded parts and equipment into his truck outside a Lowe’s store on North Hallmark Parkway.

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Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Posted: 09/10/2010 05:38:13 PM PDT

SAN BERNARDINO – A judge on Friday substantially rejected Measure C opponents’ attempt to force a rewrite of sample ballot language.

Plaintiffs Renee Affaitati and City Attorney James F. Penman asked the court to delete what they contended to be misleading language in pro-Measure C ballot arguments.

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Liset Márquez, Staff Writer
Created: 09/08/2010 05:56:39 PM PDT

ONTARIO – The City Council has decided to not get involved in the fiery debate over Arizona Senate Bill 1070.

Council members at their Tuesday meeting decided against taking a stance on the illegal immigration enforcement law after representatives from a grassroots group requested that the council pass a resolution supporting it.

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L.A. NOW
Southern California — this just in
September 3, 2010 | 2:47 pm

Welfare payments to children of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County increased in July to $52 million, prompting renewed calls from one county supervisor to rein in public benefits to such families.

The payments, made to illegal immigrants for their U.S. citizen children, included $30 million in food stamps and $22 million from the CalWORKS welfare program, according to Los Angeles County figures released Friday by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.

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By Ryan Hagen Staff writer
Posted: 09/02/2010 07:38:35 PM PDT

More than four out of every 10 illegal immigrants deported from San Bernardino County under the federal government’s new Secure Communities program did not commit additional crimes before being kicked out, according to figures released by immigration officials.

That’s well above the state average of 25 percent and the 21 percent rate in Los Angeles County.

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Michael J. Sorba, Staff Writer
Posted: 08/27/2010 06:05:49 PM PDT

About two dozen troops from a San Bernardino-based unit will be among the roughly 260 California National Guardsmen helping secure the border with Mexico.

National Guard forces at the border are expected to be at full strength by Wednesday, said Major Kim Holman, public affairs officer for the border mission.

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Fiorina

By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times

August 13, 2010

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Carly Fiorina said Thursday that she opposes calls from some conservatives to alter the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to all people born in the United States.

Fiorina sought to appeal to conservative voters on immigration issues during her party’s primary this spring, strongly backing Arizona’s tough new law on illegal immigration, for example. But she drew the line Thursday at the question of denying birthright citizenship — an issue that could be highly controversial among the state’s large number of Latino voters.

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California Watch
A Project of the Center for Investigative Reporting
Health and Welfare

August 12, 2010 | Joanna Lin

Pew Hispanic Center

Illegal immigrants constitute about 4 percent of adults in the United States, but they gave birth to about 8 percent of babies in 2008, according to a study published yesterday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
August 5, 2010

GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s views on immigration reform were in the spotlight again yesterday, as she told conservative radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou that she would not support allowing undocumented immigrants currently in the country to apply for citizenship.

“I don’t think we should have blanket amnesty, and I am not for a path to citizenship. I have been very, very clear,” she said during a segment on John and Ken show on KFI 640 AM.

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The GOP gubernatorial candidate opens an office in East L.A. and visits the ‘John and Ken’ show. At both stops, her shifting stance on illegal immigration is criticized.

August 04, 2010|By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times

Meg Whitman’s 54th birthday Wednesday featured a rough time on the campaign trail because of what critics on both the left and the right view as the GOP gubernatorial nominee’s shifting tone on illegal immigration.

Continuing her aggressive courtship of Latino voters, Whitman opened a campaign office in East Los Angeles and announced new Spanish-language advertisements aimed at this vital voter group. But her words were interrupted by a raucous crowd of protesters outside.

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Analysts suggest it was a perfect storm of demographic shifts, a scary criminal element, the recession and a new governor.

NEWS ANALYSIS
August 01, 2010 | By Anna Gorman and Nicholas Riccardi,
Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Phoenix — Arizona has made a name for itself as the state with the harshest policies against illegal immigration. But as few as six years ago, this border state was among the nation’s most welcoming of illegal immigrants.

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By Susan Ferriss
sferriss@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010 – 9:39 am

Maria Marquez told the pollster who called in late June that if the November election were held that day, she would vote for Republican Meg Whitman for governor.

Now she thinks she might prefer someone else. But she doesn’t know much about Democrat Jerry Brown, whose name, like Whitman’s, didn’t leap to mind at first.

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Published: Saturday, Jul. 31, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

The battle for Latino voters is heating up on California’s airwaves.

A coalition of unions called Working Californians has debuted a Spanish-language TV ad accusing Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman of misrepresenting her positions on immigration and other matters in her own TV ad targeting Spanish-speaking voters.

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PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State

July 29, 2010 | 7:00 pm

A union coalition backing Democratic Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown will hit the airwaves with a new Spanish-language TV ad beginning Friday, trying to chip away at Latino support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman.

The new attack ad accuses the former EBay chief of being “two-faced,” saying one thing in English and another in Spanish. The spot also invokes former Gov. Pete Wilson, who earned the ire of the Latino community in 1994 when he backed Proposition 187, a ballot measure that sought to strip illegal immigrants of state services.

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PoliticsBlog

Posted By: Drew Joseph | July 29 2010 at 06:09 PM

A group of immigrant-rights groups today demanded that state Attorney General Jerry Brown meet with them to discuss his decision to force San Francisco to follow a federal program that they say violates their rights and has similarities to Arizona’s immigration law. Some of the speakers at the San Francisco protest even threatened that they would oppose Brown, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, in November’s election if he did not change his position.

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It all depends on whether one equates ‘illegal immigrant’ with evil-doers or with laborers.

By Hector Tobar

July 30, 2010

Some people look at an impoverished immigrant laborer and immediately think “illegal,” with all the stigma that word carries.

Others see that same person and think: There goes a worker.

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10:49 PM PDT on Wednesday, July 28, 2010

By DAVID OLSON and BEN GOAD
The Press-Enterprise

The sharply divergent reactions that Inland residents had to a federal judge’s ruling Wednesday blocking full enforcement of Arizona’s tough anti-illegal-immigration law mirrored the outrage and joy expressed nationwide.

Lake Elsinore Mayor Melissa Melendez blasted the decision. “If that’s what they’ve done, and they’ve usurped the authority of the state of Arizona, then I am completely ashamed and appalled at what they are doing,” Melendez said.

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The ruling halts implementation of provisions that require police to determine the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being in the U.S. illegally. An immediate appeal is expected.

By Nicholas Riccardi and Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times

July 28, 2010 | 5:50 p.m.

Reporting from Phoenix and Tucson —

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked most of a controversial Arizona immigration law just hours before it was to take effect, handing the Obama administration a win in the first stage of a legal battle expected to end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton in Phoenix issued a temporary injunction against parts of the law that would require police to determine the status of people they lawfully stopped and suspected were in the country illegally.

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Thursday, July 22, 2010 – 11:27 am

It’s time for republican Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman to clearly articulate her positions on each element of the illegal immigration issue.

Her post-primary campaign strategy has created some bumps in the road with some of the republican base. A potential problem if it continues.

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