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IMMIGRATION IN THE NEWS

Immigration bill at center of new fight

Sanford, Senate spar over changes on how to verify workers' status

The fight over an immigration reform bill heightened Thursday after the governor blasted the compromise the Senate thought he would support.

  • Immigration bill at center of new fight

    The fight over an immigration reform bill heightened Thursday after the governor blasted the compromise the Senate thought he would support.

  • Graham foe against any merger with Mexico

    A former Republican Party official seeking to oust U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the June 10 party primary on Thursday announced his opposition to any merger between Canada, Mexico and the United States - though no such merger has been proposed.

  • Officials skip out on immigration bill

    A resolution to the House-Senate standoff on the immigration reform bill will have to wait until next week. Lawmakers adjourned Thursday after more accusations against each other but no movement toward agreement.

  • Panel's tiff halts immigration bill vote

    Agreement on an immigration bill disintegrated Wednesday as House and Senate members of a committee assigned to work out differing versions raised their voices at each other and blamed each other for the failure.

  • Deportation prisons proposed

    Under a new proposal, three regional prisons would hold all of South Carolina's illegal immigrants as they await deportation, officials said, easing the burden on local jails but raising the concerns of some advocates for the poor.

  • Immigration process complicated over decades

    There's pride in every word as Joe Defeo recounts his family's history, how his grandparents migrated from Italy the right way. "My grandparents came through Ellis Island from Italy," he said.

  • S.C. bills rely on sending criminals to homeland

    In the summer of 2005, a young man from Mexico was shot to death after an alcohol-fueled argument in a Green Sea house full of migrant workers.

  • The question of crime

    Some people say they are responsible for additional crime, while others say they commit fewer crimes than citizens. Others say immigrants are more likely to be victimized, and thus need extra protection. High-profile instances, such as several in the Grand Strand in recent years, also help shape perspectives:

  • Coroner's staff laments unclaimed remains

    In the deputy coroner's office, serene photos on shelf after shelf depict headstones from the world's most lavish cemeteries - stone angels and crosses marking the graves of the wealthy or celebrated dead.

  • Theories on crime

    How much crime are immigrants, illegal or otherwise, responsible for? Those who advocate for lower levels of immigration are often quick to find crime threats from immigrants, while other studies find evidence of lower crime rates.

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