An Orange County- based immigration reform group plans to lobby the Anaheim City Council today in an effort to gain the authority for local police officers to arrest suspected illegal immigrants. If the U.S. attorney general's office approves, Anaheim could become the first city in the nation to use a little- known federal law that allows local police agencies to arrest people under federal immigration laws. The organization, she said, has begun a grass -roots movement to push other U.S. cities to follow suit. The pace of foreign immigration to California has finally slowed after an extraordinary three-decade surge and, as a result, poverty among immigrants is on the decline, according to a USC study to be released today. The key change is a significant drop in the proportion of new arrivals and the sharp growth of a more stable immigrant population consisting of those who have lived in the state for 10 years or more, the study said.
Immigrants tend to do better economically the longer they are here.
The findings, which include projections to the year 2020, paint a complex portrait of California immigration, which many critics have portrayed as an ever-swelling influx of impoverished newcomers burdening public services and aggravating social tensions. Texas Lawmen nab 11 Mexicans on drug trafficking charges Federal authorities have arrested 11 people including eight from the Rio Grande Valley accused of trafficking tons of marijuana and cocaine from Mexico into the United States. Once the group transported the drugs from Mexico to the United States, the narcotics were then shipped to metropolitan cities such as Dallas, Fort Worth, Chicago and New York City, the FBI reported. Douglas Mosier, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, said that this migratory pattern will likely begin in two to four weeks. Mosier said that history has shown that people affected by a disaster generally decide to leave their native countries in search of a better life during this period of time.