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A California universitys decision to put a limit on the number of American citizens it enrolls -- while placing no such restrictions on illegal immigrants who want to attend the school -- is drawing sharp criticism from education activists.

The regents in the University of California systemrecently instituted Regents Policy 2109in response to state lawmakers threatening to withhold from the university system nearly $20 million if school officials didnt cap the number of out-of-state American students. The university's response to the state governments threat was to limit the percentage of out-of-state American students in the student body to 18 percent on most campuses.

The move is being criticized as discriminatory against Americans.

The UC system, like many others around the country, is routinely giving preferential treatment to illegal aliens at the expense of American students, many of whom are attending at great sacrifice of their parents, Kyle Olson, founder of Education Action Group, told Fox News.

It is disturbing to know the UC system is not even sure how many illegal students it has enrolled and is enabling by not enforcing our immigration laws.

The University of California currently has 16.5 percent of its student body comprised of out-of-state students. Its estimated that there are roughly 3,700 illegal immigrants studying in the UC system.

The regulation, which is known as Regents Policy 2109, was drafted and approved in response to lawmakers in the state threatening to withhold nearly $20 million in public funds to the state college system. (REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon)

Officials for the University of California say that the school system is simply being consistent with state law.

This policy applies to students who, under California law AB (Assembly Bill) 540, qualify as state residents for tuition purposes, Ricardo Vazquez, spokesman for the University of California, said to Fox News. AB 540 allows students to pay in-state tuition fees if they meet certain requirements.

Olson says the policy may actually hurt the state and its students.

Ultimately, and ironically, the California government is actually penalizing Californians by not counting illegals as out-of-state students and thus allowing them to, in effect, take seats away from in-state students, he said.

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The agents arrestedYesenia Hernandez-Ramos and Esau Peche-Ventura on Saturday after a stop at a routine immigration check. The location of the stop is near the U.S.-Canadian Border. Agents transported the two migrants to a detention facility after determining they had no legal status in the U.S., the Washington Post reported.

The two illegal workers joined with others protesting conditions at a Ben & Jerrys factory in Waterbury, Vermont, Breitbart News reported. The workers marched to demand better pay and living conditions on the farms that provide milk to the nationwide ice cream maker.

We cant wait anymore. We are going to pressure them and see what happens, Mexican migrant worker Victor Diaz told reporters. Diaz is a Mexican immigrant who works on a dairy farm inVergennes.

Following the arrest of the two illegal farm workers, others gathered outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in St. Albans.

We were there to denounce the arrest of Esau and Yesenia and to call on ICE to use their discretion to release them back to their families, back to their community so they can continue to live and work in Vermont and continue to raise their voice for their dignity and human rights, Migrant Justice organizer Will Lambek told the Post.

The Washington news outlet reported that Vermont has about 1,000 farm workers who are Latino. They reported that many of those are in the country illegally.

The Migrant Justice group claims their workers are being targeted for selective enforcement by immigration officials. They brought up Enrique Balcazar and Zully Palacios, who protested on Monday. The two migrant workers were arrested in March and were released later that month.

Ben & Jerrys responded to the protests with the following statement:

We are concerned that hard-working, productive members of our community, who contribute to the success of dairy farms in Vermont, would face criminalization. We need policy change that serves Vermonts dairy workers, farmers, and industry as a whole.

The company said it is working to resolve its differences with the workers. They did not make any statement about the illegal immigration status of their workers.

Bob Priceserves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTXandFacebook.

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Criminals and illegal immigrants who get booked into jail along the southwest border will soon have one less way to hide their identity. Their eyes will be photographed with the Inmate Recognition and Identification System (IRIS). The device takes a picture of their iris, which according to police, is more accurate than a fingerprint.

El Paso became the first jurisdiction both in Texas and along the southwest border to receive the technology Friday. Sean Mullin, CEO of BI2 Technologies, who creates IRIS said it will be in every jurisdiction in the Southwest Border Sheriffs Association by the end of the year. That makes up 31 jurisdictions between Brownsville, Texas and San Diego.

Cameron County on the southeast tip of Texas will receive IRIS in the next two weeks and Val Verde County will get on board soon after, according to Larry Guerra, Executive Director for the Texas and South West Border Sheriffs Coalition.

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According to multiple law enforcement officials, IRIS could have an impact on the fight against illegal crossings. Illegal immigrants, like other criminals, often use aliases to disguise their true identity and prevent law enforcement from learning theyve already been captured.

The El Paso County Jail brings in a little over 30 thousand inmates a year, 16 percent of which are inmates held for the Border Patrol and ICE according to El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles.

With this technology youll be able to identify the individual under whatever name he wants to use at the time. Whether its immigration or any type of violation, said Guerra. Its not uncommon for somebody to use a different name.

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Theyll try to avoid detection with different fraudulently obtained identification and different identities. This system stops that in its tracks, said Mullin.

He added in the last year, over 14,000 inmates who were scanned in one jurisdiction, were arrested again in another jurisdiction and identified using their iris.

The fingerprint process can take up to four hours to check local, state and federal databases. It takes less than 20 seconds for IRIS to get a match, according to Wiles. In addition, fingerprints can come back with multiple potential matches, IRIS comes back with one.

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The IRIS system was first built about ten years ago and scanned its one millionth eyeball last week.

The jail scanner is set up with a computer. The process starts as an inmate walks up to the camera, looks in a small mirror and the device takes a picture of the eyes. Then it searches the national database. If the inmate has been scanned before, it displays their information, if not, the information can be added.

In addition to the jail scanner, there is also a mobile application that can be connected to a smartphone. This allows officers to search for a suspect and their aliases while remotely connected to a database. The device can also take fingerprints, iris and facial pictures.

While the iris is more accurate than a fingerprint, it will not replace a fingerprint according to Mullin. Unlike fingerprints, criminals do not leave an iris print at the scene of a crime, so it has little forensic value.

Wiles said although the IRIS could be cheaper and quicker, there will likely always be a need for fingerprints.

We would still have to maintain the fingerprints, but I dont think we would have to go to those for an identification.

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The Supreme Court ruled that illegal immigrants cannot personally sue FBI agents for their detainment in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

In a 4-2 decision, the Court vacated a ruling by the 2nd Circuit in the case of Ziglar v. Abbasi et al. The case involved six individuals of Arabic or South Asian descent who were detained during an investigation into whether they had ties to terrorism. The individuals were held in a Brooklyn federal facility and subsequently deported.

The group argued their Fifth Amendment rights had been violated and sought punitive damages. They sued former Bush-era executive officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar, as well as the facility's warden and assistant warden Dennis Hasty and James Sherman.

Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the majority opinion of the Court with Justice Clarence Thomas filing a concurring opinion with the judgment. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito also concurred, while Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a joint dissenting opinion.

Kennedy wrote no law applies to the situation and Congress needs to take action to determine what should happen in future cases.

"The special factors here indicate that Congress, not the courts, should decide whether a damages action should be allowed," he wrote.

Kennedy's opinion referenced Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, a 1971 case which ruled that individuals could sue federal agents for violating their Fourth Amendment rights despite the lack of prior statute.

Kennedy urged caution with the judicial branch's role in setting precedent, writing "if a statute does not evince Congress' intent "to create the private right of action asserted, no such action will be created through judicial mandate."

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of the cases.

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Oscar Martinez has a drywall company, and he says that one-third of his 20 employees have left the state, reported Yahoo! Finance.

I took a big hit since my workers started hearing crazy stories about being deported, and they panicked, he said. Martinez claims The Americans I hire cant last in this job more than half a day. Citing the Workers Defense Project, the media outlet reported that about half of the construction workforce in the country are illegal aliens.

The industry is complaining of late projects as a result of the flight out of the state.

Similar fears have sent shockwaves through many sectors of the U.S. economy. In most cases, demographers and economic experts say its too early to quantify the full impact of workforce shortages fueled by immigration fears, but anecdotal evidence is widespread, Yahoo! Finance reported. The executive director of the National Immigration Forum, a pro-immigrant advocacy group, was reported to say, Ive heard from growers, construction, and the service industry about a destabilization of the workforce in Texas and around the country. Its definitely happening more in states that are considering major immigration enforcement policies.

These sorts of employers hate the free-market. In the face of high labor costs, they refuse to innovate or streamline. Instead, they take subsidies in the form of cheap illegal alien labor and call their fellow citizens lazy and arrogant just for wanting traditional American living standards. But when do we fight back and call these employers what they are: entitled, avaricious, and anti-American, Dale Wilcox, the executive director and general counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute told Breitbart Texas.

Construction companies often misclassify workers as independent contractors rather than employees. Doing so gives them an unfair competitive advantage over companies who properly classify their workers as employees. The misclassification also cheats the state and federal government out of employment taxes and unemployment insurance premiums. When workers are laid off from these unscrupulous companies, workers are not eligible for unemployment benefits, Breitbart Texas reported.

The construction industry, particularly certain home builders, effectively blocked legislation in the state legislature in 2011, 2013, and 2015.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the toughest anti-sanctuary city law in the United States in early May. Senate Bill 4 provides for criminal penalties (Class A misdemeanor) for police chiefs and sheriffs that refuse to honor immigration detainers, and they can be removed from office. Local entities, a state justice agency, or campus police department, would be subject to civil penalties of up to $25,500 a day for violating the new law.

Breitbart Texas provided extensive coverage on SB 4 as legislators fought to get it through the House and Senate chambers, and the aftermath as cities in Texas are filing lawsuits to block the law. SB 4 is set to go into effect on September 1 of this year.

Texas has been in the forefront of the sanctuary city fight. An ICE report on March 20 exposing sanctuary jurisdictions ranked Travis County, Texas, as number one in the country for not complying with ICE detainers. As Breitbart Texasreported, wellover 70 percent of the 206 criminal aliens releasedduring the week of January 28-Februay 3 were released by the Travis County Sheriffs Office.

The clampdown on illegal immigration in the U.S. has also hit industries beyond construction companies. Breitbart News reported in late May that once the Trump Administration came into power and started enforcing federal immigration law, farmers in California began complaining about a labor shortage. Farmers dealt with the issue by using technology, as an example, a leaf puller can replace25 workers. Other farmers have decided to quit agriculture entirely reported the Los Angeles Times.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTXandFacebook.

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