WASHINGTON — Two or three times a week, truck driver Jesus Serrano hauls loads of Mexican-grown produce from warehouses in Nogales, Ariz. , which is just across the U.S.- Mexico border, to distribution centers in Los Angeles . Serrano plans to stop making the trip now that Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a stringent anti-illegal immigration bill into law, however, and he’s recruited other truckers to join him. Serrano, the independent owner-operator of a Los Angeles -based trucking company, said that about 70 drivers based in California and Arizona had agreed to stop moving loads into or out ….Read More
09/05/2009
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Janet Napolitano says she supported the DREAM Act as the governor of Arizona, and she supports it now — as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The DREAM Act is a bill that would give undocumented students who want to go to college or serve in the military opportunities to become legal U.S. residents. Napolitano was asked about the bill Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on immigration and border enforcement. “This is one of those areas that everyone wants the immigration laws enforced, but also deal with the human issues that arise here. … ….Read More
