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As the Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry has walked both sides of the immigration line, at one point implementing a Texas-style Dream Act that some say was the model for the national act. On the other hand, he's also pushed for local police to have more authority to check on people's immigration status.

Mexican migration to the United States has slowed to a trickle, according to the Mexican government. Migration from Mexico peaked in 2006 or 2007, when roughly one percent of the population left the country each year. Today, the number is around one third of one percent per year, says Mexico.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it was canceling agreements with 40 states, including Colorado, to operate the Secure Communities program in those states. The program, though, lives on as the federal government simply decided it did not need states' permission to run the program in those states.

States rush to pass their own immigration laws while Congress watches, seemingly more amused than concerned. Meanwhile, quietly, the Obama administration is sending undocumented immigrants who break the law packing.

Hermain Cain doesn’t seem to be making many friends among Latinos. Somos Republicans, the nation’s largest Hispanic GOP watchdog group, has taken exception to statements made by the Atlanta businessman and Republican presidential hopeful that the way to solve the nation’s concerns with illegal immigration is to build a moat filled with alligators and an electrified “Great Wall of China.”

Speaking a George Bush Institute conference in Dallas, California's recent losing GOP candidate for governor Meg Whitman said the GOP has it all wrong on immigration--or at least has the language wrong.

Senator Minority Leader Mike Kopp is leading opposition to the so-called Asset legislation that would grant in-state university tuition to students who have attended at least three years of high school in Colorado but who are neither U.S. citizens nor legal residents of the country. The Littleton Republican wrote an op-ed for the Pueblo Chieftan last week making a case that drew fire from conservative Latino group Somos Republicans. In a release Friday, the group said Kopp was demonizing Colorado youth with preposterous arguments based on shoddy research.

Kansas Legislator Virgil Peck yesterday suggested one good way to control illegal immigration in the state would be to shoot people suspected of being in the state without proper documentation.

Somos Republicans, an organization representing Hispanic Republicans submitted the following statement, which was made part of the record in Rep. Pete King's, R-NY, Homeland Security hearing on Islamic terror this week.

In a legislative session that ran late into the evening March 4, Utah passed a series of immigration bills that left almost no one happy--and that some are convinced cannot be implemented.