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Bureau’s budget cuts cast shadow on prison project

Associated Press — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:27:12 +0000

GREENWOOD — Budget cuts at the Bureau of Prisons have put choosing a location for a 1,600-bed minimum-security prison for illegal immigrants on the back burner, according to Mississippi corrections officials. Management and Training Corporation, based in Centerville, Utah, submitted a bid to the federal government last summer to use the former Delta Correctional Facility, [...]

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Analysis: Few get all they want at Mississippi Capitol

Associated Press — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:38:43 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Legislature is moving to the end of its 2012 session, and interest groups are being reminded of a universal truth in politics: You can’t always get what you want. People who say the U.S. borders are too porous were upset when an immigration-enforcement died in a Senate committee, after passing the [...]

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Read the March 19 issue of the MBJ online

MBJ Staff — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:34:42 +0000

In this week’s MBJ — “CROWD-FUNDING” Small businesses, artists turn to social media to raise capital. By Clay Chandler Also in this week’s paper: >> Tradition planned community attracting growth: Development is state’s largest — by Becky Gilette >> HOPE Credit Union makes Utica permanent stay: Locals look forward to financial services — by Ted Carter >> POLITICS & BUSINESS: [...]

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Bryant unsure of migrant labor crackdown’s economic costs

Ted Carter — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:01:54 +0000

Gov. Phil Bryant says he has no idea what the costs would be to Mississippi’s agricultural sector if a tough anti-immigration law caused undocumented immigrants to leave the state en masse as they have in Georgia and Alabama. While Georgia and Alabama sustained serious economic losses from crops that went un-harvested after the workers left, [...]

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State Senator Comments on Illegal Immigration

Stephen McDill — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:26:15 +0000

In a statement released Friday, state senator Lee Yancey (District 20- Madison and Rankin Counties) voiced concerns about illegal immigration in Mississippi. Calling the issue, “a matter of national security and public safety” he announced his filing of legislation “similar to the Arizona law combating illegal immigration.” Yancey, a Republican and former pastor and lobbyist with the [...]

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