• State activity: Attrition is starting to work in Arkansas. Nebraska legislature moves forward on tax penalties for companies that hire illegals. Gov. Barbour of Mississippi expected to sign bill requiring employers to use the federal E-Verify system. A roundup of other state action.
  • U.N. report criticizes U.S. treatment of illegal aliens. The U.N. investigator is Mexican professor Jorge Bustamante (he’s also at Notre Dame), a longtime amnesty advocate; here’s an episode of Wattenberg’s show I did with him, and here Bustamante is just last month telling a gathering at the New School the United States must make immigration policy in a bilateral manner.
  • L.A.’s Cardinal Mahoney says that “people in countries that don’t offer opportunities have ‘a natural right under God’s law’ to try to improve their future somewhere else.” (It’s not clear from the news report whether he meant by this a right to immigrate.)
  • Indian contract workers rebel against “slave treatment” at shipyard in Mississippi. This is precisely why Congress banned indentured labor in the Alien Contract Labor Law of 1885, which was repealed in 1952, paving the way for today’s plethora of ostensibly temporary visa programs.