Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 10/18

A Eureka, Calif. newspaper takes a look at immigration in the national election. Where do the candidates stand? Pretty close together.
Paul Kanjorski and Nick Lampson, two of the endangered Democratic Congressman that News 21 looked at this summer, might get a boost from the financial crisis. A new poll shows Kanjorski catching up to illegal immigration mayor Lou Barletta in Pennsylvania’s 11th district.
How many years of English classes should immigrant children get in public schools? Oregonians will vote on a referendum that would limit ESL classes to two years.
The Postville, Iowa, raid cost the federal government $5,211,092, or “$13,396 for each of the 389 illegal immigrants taken into custody,” the AP reports.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., raided Mesa’s city hall and public library in search of illegal immigrants who might have been working as janitors. Three people were arrested, and city officials are expressing their outrage over Arpaio’s failure to notify them.