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Approximately 2.5 million immigrants from “predominantly Muslim countries" reside inside the U.S. right now, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies found.
The four-page report, which details which countries and world regions from which immigrants in the U.S.—both legal and illegal—came to this country...
Fake driver’s licenses are flooding our market and could pose a real threat.
...these bogus licenses are being produced overseas and sold online...
Bogus licenses are seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in big numbers, says Chief Customs Officer Brian Bell.
“We have hundreds of boxes...
I had to chuckle as I read the first line of a front-page story in the El Paso Times, which I had picked up in the airport on my way home from a conference: "The average Border Patrol agent in El Paso apprehended 4.2 undocumented immigrants [sic] in 2013, according to a presentation made to lawmakers last week by two...
There were about 30, all Mexican nationals desperate to avoid deportations that would separate them from their families. Living in Illinois, they appealed for help from their new U.S. senator, Barack Obama.
He turned them down.
It was one of the first times Obama could have used the power of his office to help...
Our national debate on immigration policy centers on a paradox. We must become aware of it and deal with it.
The United States needs an immigration policy because a lot of people want to come here. If that weren’t the case, we wouldn’t need an immigration policy...
America was built by hundreds of millions of...
Something's fouling Colorado's crisp air — and I'm not talking about the pot smoke.
In my adopted home state, the toxic fumes of Islamic jihad have penetrated the most unlikely hamlets and hinterlands. Obama administration officials are vehemently denying plots by operatives of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to...
The Colorado Department of Revenue said Friday evening that 158 of 524, or about 30 percent, of drivers licenses mistakenly sent to immigrants living in the United States illegally have been returned.
Last week, the department said a software glitch was responsible for the mistake. The 524 licenses did not have a...
A federal appeals court will not reconsider a unanimous February ruling upholding the actions of a principal in a Northern California high school who ordered students wearing American flag shirts inside out during a 2010 Cinco de Mayo celebration ... in the San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill ...
In 2009, a group of...
All of Colorado's county jails now have stopped holding immigrants while federal agents decide whether to take them into custody for possible immigration violations.
This policy change makes Colorado the first state in the country where all county jailers individually have decided to reject retainer requests from...
A new report from the Congressional Research Service suggests the foreign-born population may increase by as many as 27.4 million people by 2022. The more than 40.8 million foreign-born residents who lived in the U.S. in 2012 represented a 321 percent increase over the amount of foreign-born persons who called America home...
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday that repeals unenforceable provisions of Proposition 187, the two-decade-old measure that sought to withhold public services from immigrants in the country illegally ...
Far more controversial was SB 396, which Brown signed to remove from the state law books key sections of...
Florida nonprofits have taken in more than 3,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America who illegally crossed the southern border, but those organizations are being paid handsomely by taxpayers for their charity.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System, or...
Just ahead of the 2014 elections, a federal appeals in Wisconsin approved the implementation of the state's voter ID law.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that the Badger State could implement its voter ID law while the courts hear cases over the constitutionality of the law...
When it comes to our open borders, the lies never end.
Even on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, government spokesmen continue to lie. On Thursday, the president’s press secretary, Josh Earnest, said we need not worry about such things. The Bloomberg News headline read: “Earnest discounts...
President Barack Obama has quietly slowed deportations by nearly 20 percent while delaying plans to act on his own potentially to shield millions of immigrants from expulsion.
The Homeland Security Department is on pace to remove the fewest number of immigrants since 2007, according to an analysis of its figures by...
On the thirteenth anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, a recent ABC News Investigation revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who have overstayed their student visas and disappeared. This investigation highlights how DHS has failed to fix the...
George Orwell introduced the world to the concept of “Newspeak” in his dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Wikipedia describes Newspeak as “a controlled language created by the totalitarian state as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and concepts that pose a threat to the regime such as freedom, self-expression,...
With 9/11 coming up and Fort Bliss, the Army post outside of El Paso, having implemented additional security measures following reports that ISIS is across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, it is increasingly peculiar that federal agencies don’t want to talk about this.
It has been confirmed through the Texas...
After Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), in a thunderous Wednesday speech on the Senate floor, denounced Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for pushing amnesty on foreign soil and high-tech executives for demanding more guest-worker permits while laying off American workers, Facebook board member Marc Andreessen maligned the...
Thirty-one states have made English their official language, and five more are hoping to join the club this year. The U.S. government has yet to take that step, even though Americans still strongly believe English should be the nation's officially recognized language. Most also agree overwhelmingly that it’s important to...
Since October 2013, 50,303 “unaccompanied children” from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have crossed America’s porous Southern border to claim green cards via the immigration courts.
The Obama administration has sent none of these children home. Instead, federal officials have chosen to set aside normal...
Federal agents launched a series of raids in the downtown Los Angeles fashion district on Wednesday and seized an estimated $65 million in cash and other assets they allege were part of a widespread attempt by Mexican drug cartels to launder narcotics profits.
Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 70 locations...
Just when it seemed that Barack Obama could go no lower in his assault on American sovereignty, the US Constitution, established rule of law, and good old-fashioned common sense, he managed to pull a whopper on the illegal alien issue, a move which has infuriated racists who believe that the Constitution does not, or should...
In the debate over immigration, there's a common refrain from people who oppose a path to residency for undocumented immigrants: "Why don't they get in line?" ...
Both advocates and foes of looser immigration controls agree America's immigration laws -- complex and often unwieldy -- need to change.
"The...
Legal immigration is a vital and necessary resource to enhance our economy and culture. Illegal immigration is an affront to those who follow the law.
While Mexico relies on more than $20 billion in annual remittances from Mexican expatriates in the U.S., illegal immigration continues to cost Los Angeles County...
Immigration cases involving unaccompanied minors are clogging one of the Denver area’s two immigration courts, records obtained by CBS4 indicate.
There are nearly 8,000 immigration cases backlogged in the immigration court in downtown Denver ...
Officials have created a triage system to deal with the crisis....
...August job data shows immigrant displacement of American workers has spiked unprecedentedly—to reach a level unseen since we started tracking it in 2004.
Employers added just 142,000 positions in August, the lowest rate since December. It was the first sub-200,000 gain in six months, raising new questions as to...
The number of foreign-born individuals holding jobs in the United States hit a recorded high of 24,639,000 in August, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS has been tracking the number of foreign-born workers annually since 2005 and monthly since 2007.
The BLS does not distinguish...
Half of the country's illegal immigrant [alien] adults have been in the United States for at least 13 years, according to a new Pew Research study.
Using "data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and Current Population Survey," Pew estimated that there were 11.3 million illegal immigrants [aliens...
...In “Looking Forward: Immigrant Contributions to the Golden State,” researchers at the University of Southern California’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII) noted that more than one quarter (27%) of California residents are immigrants, a rate higher than any other state and significantly higher than New...
The cost of educating the unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors [Unaccompanied Alien Children] released back into the United States this school year could top $761 million, according to an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
From January 1 to July 31, more than 37,000 unaccompanied minors...
The swarm of immigrants who came across the border this year, including more than 60,000 unaccompanied minors, could wind up paling in comparison to an immigration crisis looming on the horizon. Famine is a growing concern across Central America because of persistent drought ...
In many cases, migrants were in...
Labor Day has become a mindless holiday. It is a day off of work for most Americans, nothing more. But with 18 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, it should be a time to debate labor policy. Given the pressures of computers, automation, off-shoring and immigration, we don't actually honor labor unless we debate...
Scholars from other countries spent big in Colorado from 2008 to 2012, but the value of a foreign college student population extends far beyond graduation day, according to a report released Friday by the Brookings Institution.
Foreign students on F-1 visas spent $371.3 million to study and live in Colorado during...
Fueled by demand from wealthy Chinese nationals, an immigration program that exchanges visas for large investments in U.S. businesses has run out of its allotment of visas for the first time in its 24-year history.
A State Department official said this week that no more EB-5 visas will be issued until the beginning...
Congress might be on recess, but the immigration issue isn’t.
Two judges called on Congress earlier this week to tap into its constitutional power to make the swamped immigration court system an independent judicial agency.
“The immigration courts are the forgotten stepchild of the U.S. Department of Justice...
Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin...
Breitbart Texas has exclusively obtained a leaked document warning federal agents about an ISIS-related terrorism threat across the entire US-Mexico border. Though the document focuses on the Texas-Mexico border, Breitbart Texas has confirmed that federal agents across the entire US-Mexico border have received the ISIS...
President Barack Obama's disapproval rating on immigration has hit an all-time high in surveys conducted by Pew Research. According to a Pew survey conducted August 20-24, 61% of Americans disapprove of Obama's immigration policy while 31% approve and 7% have no opinion.
When Pew tracked how the country felt about...
As Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto travels across California and declares America to be "the other Mexico," a Pew Research survey has found that 60% of Mexicans disapprove of Peña Nieto on the economy. Perhaps as a result, a plurality of Mexicans think that life is better across the border, and a third want to move to...
A new survey about preferences and trends in Mexico concludes that one out of every three Mexicans would migrate to the United States if given the opportunity. The survey published Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew Research Center also says that of the 34% of Mexicans who indicated they would like to move to the U.S., 17...
The 169 aliens with homicide-related convictions who were freed by ICE in 2013 were booked out of detention facilities in 24 different states, with the largest number in California, according to information provided to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). ICE records show that these convicted killers were associated with 96...
The Border Patrol is increasingly posting signs written in Chinese near the U.S./Mexico border, which underscores the booming human smuggling trade as illegal aliens from China flood into America.
Case in point, the emergency beacons placed in desolate border regions which allow stranded illegals to request help...
A new poll from Gallup has found that Republican voters think the immigration woe facing America is the most important issue in the country.
Of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, the Gallup poll found that 22 percent believe immigration is the “most important problem” in America. Republicans rank the issue as...
The U.S. Border Patrol recently erected more desert rescue beacons near Tucson, beacons aimed at saving the lives of illegal aliens in distress.
Reports revealed on Friday that the new beacons are part of an effort dubbed the Blue Light of Life campaign. The effort is designed to alert illegal immigrants to the...
Joshua Katz, an Army veteran and former CIA operations officer who served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said it is “very, very, true” that ISIS may have crossed the southern border.
Katz reported that Gov. Rick Perry’s (R-TX) recent comments that it was a “very real...
The heated tempers of the nation's border states are driving the debate over immigration policy ...
Immigrant workers who [illegally] slipped over the borders years ago are aging out of the workforce, and their younger, more able-bodied counterparts are being kept from the fields because of the bureaucratic clutter....
A new letter from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) admits that illegal aliens were being allowed to board planes using Notice to Appear forms they received after entering the U.S. illegally. The revelation directly contradicts a TSA statement last month denying such allegations to various media outlets,...
If you think you don’t live in a border state, you’re probably mistaken. That’s because 95 percent of all Americans do: Every state that has an international airport is a border state, and over 150 million foreign visitors arrive at those airports each year.
You think 500,000 or 800,000 illegal aliens crossing our...
Efforts to fast-track Iraqi Christian refugees for resettlement in San Diego County and elsewhere in the country United States are expected to pick up steam when Congress reconvenes next early month ...
Nationwide, nearly 120,000 Iraqis were approved for relocation to the U.S. between 2007 and April 2013, according...
Guatemala’s shadowy human smuggling network is run by a highly sophisticated organization that more closely resembles a corporation with a profit-sharing program than a ragtag band of criminals.
"Coyotes" — the term often used to describe human smugglers — own first-class Guatemalan hotels, run a sales force with...
Word has spread far south that the United States is the land of entitlement. Each month, tens of thousands of people flood across our border with Mexico. From the moment they illegally set foot on American soil, advocates ensure the “rights” of new arrivals are upheld. Those who disregard our sovereignty are a new protected...
Colorado's driver's handbook has been translated into Spanish, roughly two weeks after the state began issuing licenses to those in the country illegally [illegal aliens] ...
The Department of Motor Vehicles said they heard rumors that unofficially translated handbooks were being sold on the black market, warning [...
The federal government released 7,173 more illegal immigrant [alien] juveniles into the United States from July 7 to July 31st, according to updated data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
During those three weeks, Alabama received 108 more illegal immigrants; California,, 759; Florida 628; Georgia, 258;...
A Texas rancher who spends $20,000 a year repairing damage that illegal immigrants [illegal aliens] do to his land says his biggest fear is getting sued by illegal immigrants who may get hurt or killed trespassing on his private ranch.
Presnall Cage, a Brooks County rancher who has found numerous dead illegal...
In April, U.S. policymakers authorized a Crisis Support Package for Ukraine. While the White House had previously released information on what the package would cover, it wasn’t until Thursday that the government published a report detailing how the U.S. would help fund a project for a border fence to help separate Ukraine...
...from quiet areas in Minnesota, Oregon, South Carolina and across rest of the U.S. as Mexican drug cartels – and groups affiliated with them – move deeper into the country and bring with them their violent tactics.
A few years ago law enforcement didn’t see this as a problem for somewhere other than the border....
The impact of the huge number of illegal aliens in America is staggering. The website Immigration Counters reveals this stunning impact in constantly updating numbers. From the website:
ImmigrationCounters.com informs the public of the realities of illegal immigration while challenging the myths and misinformation...
More than 2,000 immigrants facing deportation in 2013 were released strictly for budget reasons by immigration agency officials who kept the homeland security secretary in the dark about the plan, according to a federal watchdog's report.
This lack of communication led the Obama administration to wrongly deny for...
After seven days, less than one-third of those who had appointments for Colorado's new driver's license program for those in the country illegally were issued licenses, according to the Colorado Department of Vehicles.
Of the 1,085 who had appointments, 28 percent received licenses.
While the department has not...
The Obama administration violated the law when it released thousands of illegal immigrants last February, more than 600 of whom had criminal records, according to an internal audit released Tuesday that blamed the problem on poor planning and bad leadership from Washington.
Compounding matters, U.S. Immigration and...
Now a $32 billion dollar industry and one of the fastest growing crimes, human trafficking continues to expand in San Diego County.
According to the District Attorney’s office, human trafficking cases have increased a whopping 600% in just the last five years ...
"We're finding that gangs choose sex...
An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that illegal immigration threatens the country's "beliefs and customs" while also placing a burden on the economy.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 70% of Americans, including 86% of Republicans, believe illegal immigrants "threaten traditional U.S. beliefs and...
Immigration is only the 6th-most-important issue for Latino voters in California when casting a vote for a candidate for U.S. Senator or for U.S. Congress, according to a statewide survey conducted by Univision.
When registered Latino voters were asked to name their most important issues, the results, in order, were...
Australia had a problem with illegal immigration.
It doesn’t anymore.
In the past seven months, not one single illegal immigrant arrived on Australian shores. Not one single boat has docked on the Australian coastline.
Compare this to the preceding four year period: Over 50,000 illegal immigrants...
...President Obama’s DACA order in 2012, protecting young people here illegally against deportation, summoned tens of thousands of migrant children from Central America. To solve the problem, the White House wants to open the door even wider by offering asylum to people from that region...
Notwithstanding the...
Schools across the USA are bracing for as many as 50,000 immigrant children who would start school this fall, most of them unaccompanied by their families.
"We haven't started school yet, so we are all just holding our breath to see what's going to come on the first day of school," says Caroline Woodason, assistant...
According to Gallup, immigration has ranked near the bottom of Americans' concerns for many years. No more.
In 1994, the number of Americans who said immigration was "America's biggest problem" reached a highpoint of 2 percent. In 1996, the highpoint was 6 percent. In 1997, it was 4 percent. In 1998, it...
Three in four illegal immigrant juveniles from Mexico who are apprehended at the border are repeat offenders.
According to a Pew Research Center report, which was based on "analysis of Mexican government data obtained from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs," there have been over 11,000 illegal immigrant...
President Obama's executive actions on immigration did not begin with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in mid-2012. It began in 2011 with his announcement of "prosecutorial discretion" on deportations. A few months later the border patrol noted the first uptick in unaccompanied children at the border...
...Two illegal immigrants from Mexico who were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent in front of his family in Texas have been arrested and deported numerous times, police sources told FoxNews.com.
One suspect has been arrested no fewer than four times for...
According to Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Obama intends “to act broadly and generously” on behalf of the “millions and millions” of illegal immigrants [aliens] in the United States today.
Gutierrez, who meets often with the president, is implying that Obama, before Labor Day and by executive order, will grant de facto...
...to really absorb the issue we must analyze current year events through the reality of prior events; we must look into the way-back machine. To that end we have read the entirety of:
A March 2014 Final Report from the National Center For Border Security – HERE A June 2014 (Declassified) Intelligence Report on UAC...A leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals the exact numbers of illegal immigrants entering and attempting to enter the U.S. from nearly every nation on Earth...
The report reveals the apprehension numbers ranging from 2010 through July 2014. It shows that most of the human...
...none of the Main Stream Media reports of the July job numbers released Friday factored in immigrant displacement of American workers, although the phenomenon caused a brief MSM sensation in June. President Obama was able to boast at his press conference about job growth without fear that anyone would point out that...
A group dedicated to saving the planet by cutting runaway population increases is raising a new and shocking issue in Washington’s bitter fight over immigration reform: Most of the nation’s population growth is from immigrants, and they are consuming resources dangerously fast.
According to Negative Population Growth...
A great deal of attention has been focused in recent months on the surge of illegal aliens, particularly unaccompanied alien children (UAC), through the southwest border of the United States. However, a federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) fact sheet points to the fact that a large number of male teens have...
"If you met him for the first time you just fell in love with him," said Sandy Young, Kourtney's aunt.
On Mother's Day 2005, Denver Police Detective Donnie Young...
...At first, it was obvious the media planned to exploit the story of 50-plus thousand unaccompanied Central American children illegally crossing our border as a way to pressure the GOP into caving on amnesty. A new poll from Economist/YouGov shows how badly that plan backfired -- even among Hispanics.
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The Center for Immigration Studies has released an analysis of the House leadership’s border bill that says the bill’s border security provisions are actually a “Trojan Horse permitting unaccompanied minors to ask for adjustment of status to lawful permanent residence.”
“While the appropriations sections of the...
House Republicans, already locked in an 11th-hour battle with Senate Democrats over border security funding, are making a last-ditch effort to prevent President Obama from wielding his executive pen to let millions more illegal immigrants stay in the country.
The House plans to vote on a bill Thursday afternoon that...
Having insufficient votes for passage earlier today, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, pulled from floor consideration H.R. 5230, the supplemental spending for the border surge crisis. Boehner thereafter held an emergency meeting of the House Republican Conference to round up more votes. The House has resumed debate on...
Polling data compiled by Tea Party Patriots and provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows that a majority of Republican voters think Republicans standing strong on immigration is more important than repealing Obamacare, getting to the bottom of the Benghazi or IRS scandals—or anything else for that matter.
When...
[...] Servicios de La Raza is a human services group in Denver that is working with different national organizations to help some of these unaccompanied immigrant children who crossed the border find relatives in Colorado.
"Reunification is a highly emotional time," Gonzales [Rudy Gonzales, executive director of...
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — In a city overrun by drug cartels, shootouts, kidnappings, extortion, and executions, a group of citizen journalists continues to shed light into what local media will not report and on what Mexican officials continue to deny: the extent of cartel violence and the corruption of officials in the Mexican...
With unexpected support from Republicans, the Senate advanced a $2.7-billion emergency package to handle the influx of minors at the Southwestern border with just days remaining before Congress leaves town.
A handful of Republicans joined most Democrats to breathe new life into the Senate proposal, which was scaled...
In this video, Bill Still explains how on January 29, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security put out a request for contractors to provide escorts for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). This was months in advance of the flood that had not yet occurred. Still quotes the DHS request at stating "There will be approximately...
...A weekly report distributed by a Texas state agency to senior law enforcement officials paints a grim picture of the Mexican border, where authorities regularly confront illegal immigrant gang members and draw automatic gunfire from across the Rio Grande, and where local, state and federal authorities fight a never-...
Nearly nine in ten Americans feel that illegal immigration is a serious problem facing the country, and a majority want illegal immigrants to be deported more quickly, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
The survey found that 67% of respondents felt that illegal immigration was an "extremely" serious or "very...
Mexico's foreign minister and the visiting governor of California questioned Monday plans by Texas to deploy troops to stem the flow of immigrant children, saying they need humanitarian aid instead.
Governor Jerry Brown, on a visit focused on boosting trade with California's southern neighbor, said the Texas plan...
Many people in Washington seem to be talking about the prospect of the president unilaterally legalizing the status of several million people who entered the country illegally as though it were just another political question. But if reports about the nature of the executive action he is contemplating are right, it would be...
The federal government is in dire need of U.S. citizens willing to house the thousands of illegal immigrants [illegal aliens] who enter the country each week, and they are willing to pay them to do so...
Foster parents have the ability to collect more than $7,400 per month, considering that they can house six...
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On a recent trip to the southern border, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) witnessed coyotes brazenly smuggling illegal aliens across the Rio Grande in broad daylight as border patrol and local police watched on.
Bachmann shot video of the entire episode on her iPhone,...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that if the House passes a $659 million border bill with policy changes, he could use it as a vehicle for comprehensive immigration reform.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is trying to round up enough votes for a pared-down border bill that spends far below the...
Members of some of the United States' most notorious street gangs have infiltrated shelters housing illegal immigrant minors from Central America and are recruiting them, say Homeland Security sources.
An estimated 57,000 minors from Central America have flooded across the border from Mexico to the U.S. in recent...
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said this week will be one of the most critical weeks in the history of the republic for Americans who want to preserve the rule of law that has made America so exceptional.
President Barack Obama is reportedly intent on granting temporary amnesty and work permits to possibly eight million...
