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N.C. - Myrick will push again for bill involving illegal immigrants and drunk dr
Wednesday, November 26 @ 11:01:51 EST by alipac (1643 reads) |  CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - An On Your side investigation exposed just how bad the problem of illegal immigrants getting DWIs is here in Mecklenburg County.
Our analysis found one out of every four people arrested for D-W-I on weekends this month is a suspected illegal immigrant.
This is not a new issue. Congresswoman Sue Myrick has been trying to make D-W-I a deportable offense since 2005.
"It's just frustrating as the Dickens that we can't get something done to stop it," she told WBTV.
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Congresswoman Sue Myrick, illegal immigrants, DWIs, deportable offense, Scott Gardner Act, killed by drunk illegal, bill needed, deportations, Congress, Emily Moose, Republicans, Democrats, Angeles Ortega-Moore, Latin American Coalition
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N.C. - Myrick Wants To Cut Funding For Community Colleges Admitting Illegal Immi
Thursday, August 14 @ 01:10:49 EDT by alipac (1878 reads) | CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick is proposing a bill that would limit federal funding for colleges and universities across the country that knowingly admit students who are in the country illegally.
"It's my belief that federal tax dollars should not be going to support institutions who admit illegal immigrants," Myrick said Wednesday.
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Rep. Sue Myrick, prohibit federal funding for colleges, North Carolina Board of Community Colleges, Department of Homeland Security, taxpayers, North Carolina State Attorney, enforcement needed
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Myrick: Gaston County an option for immigration detention and deportation center
Saturday, January 12 @ 09:49:01 EST by alipac (2654 reads) | Myrick: Gaston County an option for immigration detention and deportation center
By Kevin Ellis
January 11, 2008 - 8:29PM
Federal officials have begun talking to Gaston County leaders about the possibility of locating a detention and deportation facility here.
The facility would house illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.
So far, the talk has not moved beyond phone calls and discussions to gauge the county’s interest.
“Certainly, we’re open at looking at this,” Gaston County Manager Jan Winters said Friday.
Conversations started in mid-December and apparently involve U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick and officials with the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A 1,500-bed detention and deportation facility had been announced to open in Mecklenburg County, but those talks have ended, according to Myrick.
TOPICS: ILLEGAL Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Federal officials, Gaston County, Sue Myrick, Gaston County, U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mecklenburg County, 9th U.S. House District, Sheriff Alan Cloninger, federal detention center, ICE facilities
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North Carolina - Citizenship checks sought
Wednesday, August 29 @ 15:17:53 EDT by Jean (3255 reads) | U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick and Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph called Tuesday for North Carolina to begin determining the citizenship of all inmates entering the prison system.
Myrick said the program would resemble the current illegal-immigrant screening at Mecklenburg's jail, where about 2,600 illegal immigrants have been identified since May 2006.
Myrick and Pendergraph want state prisons to check inmates' citizenship during their initial screening, when prison officials fingerprint and photograph them.
Once the inmates have served their sentences, those already marked as illegal immigrants would be turned over to federal authorities and deported, rather than returning to N.C. communities, Myrick said.
August 29, 2007
Emily S. Achenbaum
The Charlotte Observer
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Topics: Illegal Immigration, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, Sheriff Jim Pendergraph, citizenship of inmates, federal authorities, deported, Gov. Mike Easley, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, inmate screening, Gaston County, Alamance County, Cabarrus County, York County, South Carolina, Arizona, New Mexico, Charlotte, detention facility, taxpayers, Mecklenburg County, U.S. Department of Justice, immigration court, North Carolina
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N.C. leader joins push to halt Bank of America program
Monday, March 19 @ 18:20:06 EDT by admin (3366 reads) | Tampa Bay's second largest bank has gained a hometown foe to plans that could lead it to do business with illegal aliens.
U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick is joining the fight to shut down Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America Corp.'s program to give credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers -- in more ways than one.
The seven-term Charlotte congresswoman is co-sponsoring legislation that would kill the controversial credit-card offer and she also is pulling her banking business from BofA (NYSE: BAC), one of her biggest political donors.
"I have been with them for a long time, but this was just the straw that breaks the camel's back in my mind," said Myrick, who said she is in the process of moving her accounts to Wachovia Corp. because the BofA program launched in Los Angeles is likely to be rolled out nationally. "If I believe something, I'm going to stand by my principles. I'm not going to be a hypocrite and have my banking there and feel the way I do."
The bank switch has Tampa Bay applications, where, like in Charlotte, the two banks are major rivals.
Topics: Bank of America Boycott, bankofamericaboycott.com, BofA, Congresswoman Sue Myrick, Blackburn legislation, Congress, Senate, laws, crimes Banks, illegal immigration
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Restaurant Tests Myrick on Immigration
Sunday, December 17 @ 18:12:40 EST by JimP (3469 reads) | Illegal workers at
stepson's restaurant?
FRANCO ORDOÑEZ
Rep. Sue Myrick
U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick sailed into a seventh term in Congress last month
on a campaign that emphasized one issue: fighting illegal immigration.
To celebrate, the Charlotte Republican went to Blue Restaurant
& Bar, said her stepson, who owns the uptown restaurant known for
its Mediterranean cuisine.
Her visits often stir talk in the kitchen among the roughly 20
Hispanic employees, said one worker. He said he believes Myrick's
aggressive stance against illegal immigrants like him is what propelled
her back into Congress.
"She's famous," he said. "We all know who she is. They say she won because of the Latinos."
The prospect of illegal immigrants working at her stepson's
restaurants has Myrick's critics questioning whether she is as vigilant
against illegal immigration privately as she is publicly. Myrick, 65,
has proposed legislation to increase fines against companies that
knowingly employ illegal immigrants and has hosted classes teaching
employers how to verify workers' status.
Topics: Illegal immigration, illegal alliens, illegal immigrants, Rep Sue Myrick, restaurant, fines, employers,
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Sue Myrick, Sheriff Lobby For Immigration Court In Charlotte
Tuesday, July 18 @ 10:09:08 EDT by alipac (3795 reads) | CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Rep. Sue Myrick and Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph on Monday unveiled a campaign to lobby for a Charlotte-based federal immigration court they believe would help manage the cases of the hundreds of thousands of people living in North Carolina illegally.
Topics: illegal immigration, DWI, Drunk Driving, deportation, immigration court, Charlotte, NC, Congress, legislation, local enforcement, police, aliens
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Sue Myrick pushes immigration reform in wake of deadly 485 crash
Tuesday, November 22 @ 09:58:55 EST by alipac (4414 reads) | Friends and family said goodbye Monday to a UNC Charlotte student who was killed in a wreck on Interstate 485 by a self confessed drunk driver.
Topics: North Carolina, deaths, illegal immigration, DWI, immigrants, laws, congress, crimes, licenses, Congress, Republican, Democrat, Senate
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3 Al-Qaeda agents caught on Border! Myrick: Tighten laws or lose funding!
Friday, November 11 @ 14:30:53 EST by alipac (3633 reads) | A local professor believes Sue Myrick's tough stance is about politics just as much as policy.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick is co-sponsoring a bill that would crack down on illegal immigrants who try to obtain a driver's license.
Topics: Sue Myrick, Al-Qaeda, Southern Border, Border Patrol, laws, crimes, illegal immigration, Congress, GOP, Republican
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Update on the Tina & Scott Gardner Case. Tina is trying to come out of coma.
Tuesday, September 20 @ 08:45:30 EDT by alipac (4639 reads) | Woman Injured In Drunken Driving Wreck (caused by illegal immigrant) Trying To Emerge From Coma
Relatives of a woman critically injured in an apparent drunken driving wreck two months ago said she is trying to awaken from a coma.
Topics: Scott Gardner, Sue Myrick, Tina, Congress, DWI, GOP, illegal immigration, immigrants, laws, North Carolina, Mike Easley
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Congresswoman Myrick introduces 2 immigration bills
Friday, September 16 @ 09:31:56 EDT by alipac (3374 reads) | WASHINGTON - Rep. Sue Myrick introduced bills Wednesday to deport illegal immigrants convicted of drunk driving and dock businesses $10,000 -- 40 times the current fine -- for every undocumented immigrant they knowingly hire.
Topics: Congress, Senate, employers, illegal immigration, laws, crimes, security, Sue Myrick
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Congresswoman Myrick's town meeting packed with citizens demanding enforcement!
Thursday, August 18 @ 09:37:11 EDT by alipac (3009 reads) | GASTONIA - An often-emotional crowd of nearly 200 people voiced support for tougher immigration enforcement Tuesday night and for the family of a Gaston County man killed in an accident with an illegal immigrant.
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Myrick announces new bill. ALIPAC encourages use of existing laws!
Tuesday, August 16 @ 08:14:57 EDT by alipac (3541 reads) | GASTONIA, N.C. - Reacting to the death of an N.C. man in a drunken-driving wreck involving an illegal immigrant, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick on Monday unveiled a proposal that she said would make local police more responsible for tracking illegal immigrants, Myrick said.
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Sue Myrick to announce new bill to address illegal immigration today.
Monday, August 15 @ 12:59:56 EDT by alipac (3393 reads) | N.C. bill looks to better track immigrants Act named for drunken driving victim aimed at law bureaus
To help fix an immigration system she thinks is broken, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick plans to introduce the The Scott Gardner Act when Congress returns in September.
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N.C. congresswoman: Why does North Carolina have one deportation officer?
Thursday, July 21 @ 08:49:25 EDT by alipac (10225 reads) | Four days after a North Carolina man was killed in accident involving an illegal immigrant, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick has asked federal immigration officials to explain why the state has just one deportation officer
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