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Reacting to news that the Department of Homeland Security is considering a “fresh look” at the Secure Communities program as a way to reduce deportations, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions pointed out to Breitbart News Friday that the head of a law enforcement agency cannot bend to the demands of law breakers.
The Secure...
On March 24, 40-year-old [illegal alien] Ever Olivos Gutierrez drove drunk without a license and killed 17-year-old Juan Carlos Dominguez-Palomino. That same night, 10 more drivers in Colorado also drove drunk without a license, according to data from most of Colorado.
9NEWS, together with I-News at Rocky Mountain...
The Homeland Security Department released 36,007 convicted criminal immigrants last year who are facing deportation ...
The immigrants released had completed their criminal jail sentences and nearly all still face deportation and are required to check in with immigration authorities while their deportation cases are...
Just a day after the release of a report showing his administration has set free hundreds of illegal immigrants [illegal aliens] convicted of murder and other serious crimes, President Obama told law enforcement groups Tuesday that an immigration bill with amnesty provisions would make America safer.
During a meeting...
Yadira Castillo [illegal alien] was pulled over for not having her lights on as she was driving home from her waitress job in Denver three years ago. Because she was a suspected [illegal alien] undocumented immigrant and could not produce identification, a deputy handcuffed her and she was booked into the Aurora Detention...
President Barack Obama's new homeland security secretary is offering his first public hints at executive action the administration might take on immigration, suggesting changes to a much-criticized program that runs the names of people booked for local crimes through a federal immigration database.
But advocates who...
"Change the Numbers" is an excellent two-minute educational video from NumbersUSA on how Congress is using mass immigration to drive up United States population.
The video also has an interactive mode where you can set your own immigration numbers in order to observe the resulting impact on US population.
...After some of President Obama's closest political allies unexpectedly accused him of enforcing immigration laws too aggressively, the president ordered his aides this spring to find ways to ease the pace of deportations.
Now, some of those same advocacy groups are quietly urging the White House to slow that effort...
The following chart is a dismal reminder of the failure of the post-recession “recovery” to grow jobs.
Moreover, the lack of jobs should illustrate the insanity of the Senate’s scheme to double legal immigration in addition to a work permit amnesty for at least 11 million [to 40 million] lawbreaking...
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies reports a threat to public safety by the release of 36,007 criminal illegal aliens in 2013 who were being processed for deportation, but were not detained while awaiting the final disposition of their cases, or afterwards.
Based on data from statistics compiled by...
Hundreds of workers at a central Washington apple- packaging company could be facing layoffs after a federal immigration audit.
Crunch Pak notified its employees Friday that they need to provide documents proving they can work in the United States legally, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audit...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretly assembled a terrorist “hands off” list that permitted individuals with terrorist ties unfettered entrance into the United States, according to document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa).
The existence of a “hands off” list that permitted easy entrance for...
Dozens of Chinese agencies in the Bay Area are advertising online package deals that offer the highly-coveted prize of U.S. citizenship to the children of Chinese and Taiwanese parents. In exchange, parents cough up upwards of $30,000 to give birth in “maternity homes."
According to a local San Francisco CBS News...
83% of graduating seniors said they didn't have a job lined up as of April 2014, despite 72.7% reporting that they were actively looking for one. This is a jump from the 80% of graduating seniors who didn't have a job lined up at the same time last year.
These numbers don’t vary significantly, even for more “...
The Obama administration said Thursday that troubling reports continue of school districts raising barriers to enrollment for children brought into the U.S. illegally.
The Justice Department and Education Department issued new guidance reminding schools and districts they have a legal obligation to enroll every...
Alleged enforcers for a Mexican cartel were reportedly involved in the kidnapping and torture of U.S. teenagers over methamphetamine in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press. The U.S. Attorney’s office omitted Mexican cartel involvement in their official press release on the case.
The...
Federal authorities have rejected California's proposed design for a driver's license for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, saying it is not distinguishable enough for security purposes from permits given to citizens.
The Washington officials want the license to state clearly on its face "that it is not acceptable...
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a Nebraska city ordinance that bans renting homes to immigrants living in the country illegally.
The justices on Monday let stand an appeals court ruling that found the ordinance doesn't discriminate against Latinos or interfere with federal immigration laws.
The...
Alexis Nava Teodoro was getting ready to go to sleep when a friend called: Immigration authorities picked up her aunt earlier that day. The family was frantic.
Victoria Delgado Arteaga, an [illegal alien] undocumented resident from San Juan Capistrano with no criminal record and six children – four with temporary...
...The [Border Patrol] agency unveiled its plans Wednesday for dealing with the problem of immigrants [illegal aliens] dying in the desert, including 10 new beacons that allow migrants to call for help at the push of a red button. The agency is also adding new hoisting systems on helicopters to rescue immigrants [illegal...
Sweden passes law that will prosecute people for criticizing immigration
A new law will come into effect in Sweden after Christmas 2014, that will allow people to be prosecuted for criticizing immigration or politician’s unwillingness to tackle the issue...
This new law is meant to stop Swedish people...
...most voters still believe the federal government is not aggressive enough in this area already and should not halt deportations while it waits on Congress to act.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 14% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. government is too aggressive in deporting...
Denver will no longer hold inmates for federal immigration authorities solely on the basis of immigration status, Sheriff Gary Wilson said Wednesday.
The move to refuse federal immigration holds follows federal court rulings in other states that a county sheriff's department is potentially liable for a Fourth...
A Local Legacy
Did you know that Colorado used to be owned by Spain? In the early 1700s the area that is now Colorado was claimed by Spain, and eventually France controlled most of it. Later, in 1803, the Eastern part of Colorado became part of the Louisiana Purchase (a deal between France and the U.S.), with the...
Marches, call-a-thons and other actions are scheduled today, May 1, as pro [illegal alien] immigrant groups keep pushing for an end to deportations and [amnesty] immigration reform.
“This will be no ordinary May Day in America. Congress must do the people’s will or we will select a Congress who does.”...
This...
A federal judge in Milwaukee struck down Wisconsin's voter identification law Tuesday, declaring that a requirement that voters show a state-issued photo ID at the polls imposes an unfair burden on poor and minority voters.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman sided with opponents of the law, who argued that low-income...
...reforming the nation's immigration laws could very well create a whole bunch of new Democrats, including in some key swing states. Let's break it down...
The rise in the Hispanic population in the United States is problematic for the GOP, but so far it's been quite slow. In 2004, Hispanics made up 6 percent of...
I am totally perplexed by Republicans who advocate amnesty for those who entered the U.S. illegally. We Republicans are supposed to be the party of law and order, a party that stands on clearly defined principles. Let’s cut through the pompous rhetoric: The issue of amnesty is only about cheap labor. All the other arguments...
What did you do this Earth Day? I took a pledge to have no more children. After all, our nation is already overpopulated. Yet in taking the pledge, I could not help but harbor bitter resentment towards our President and Congress for failing to enforce existing immigration laws. They insist on using mass immigration to...
A new report, "Justice on the Run", from the Center for Immigration Studies tells us that the ACLU is pitted against Arizona regarding mandatory detention of accused illegal alien felons.1 The case is headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court. The ACLU, who typically side with illegal...
A coalition of investigative journalists to include the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) recently announced a public project to map border infrastructure used to hopefully minimize unlawful crossing and other illegal activities...
The Center for Investigative Reporting’s map of a U.S./Mexico border fence,...
Federal immigration policy has allowed about 30 million legal immigrants to settle permanently in the United States since 1980. This has affected all areas of American life, not the least being electoral politics.
Progressives openly debate the immigration issue in political terms...
A new report published...
Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has been an opportunity to bring global awareness to the fragility of our environment and the urgent need to take protective measures to sustain it. Celebrating its 44th year, Earth Day has helped galvanize over one billion people in 192 countries who participate in year-round advocacy...
Collins, R-Maine, told the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee at a hearing this month that the Portland-based Council on International Education Exchange issued a J-1 work-study visa to murder suspect Ibragim Todashev in 2008.
A suspect in three unsolved murders in Waltham, Mass., who had ties...
According to Bruce Shepard, president of Western Washington University (WWU), a university’s success is based not on its curriculum but on the color of its student body and faculty. In a school-wide questionnaire, the WWU community was asked, “How do we make sure that in future years 'we are not as white as we are today...
Republicans are famously divided on immigration reform [amnesty for illegal aliens], but Democrats pretty much unanimously support it. There's a reason for that...
"The enormous flow of legal immigrants into the country — 29.5 million from 1980 to 2012 — has remade and continues to remake the nation's electorate in...
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and arguably the leading intellectual force against amnesty in Congress, is coming out hard against a proposal backed by Majority Leader Eric Cantor to grant amnesty to illegal alien DREAMers who enlist in the military.
“We are now in a...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo is calling for the superintendent of Denver Public Schools to resign over a program that allows for the hiring of teachers who came to the country illegally.
The program is part of a directive from the Obama administration called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,...
The spring sailing season is getting off to a roaring start in the Mediterranean, where 18,000 diverse welfare seekers from Africa and the Middle East have boarded boats headed to soft-touch Europe since the beginning of this year.
On Thursday, the Italian navy reported it had “rescued” 1000 African boaters over 24...
[...] An informal tally among the immigrants gathered that recent Tuesday night found a total of 22 people who either had a spouse who had been deported or were in deportation proceedings themselves. All told, those parents had 59 children. All but nine of the children were born in this country ...
One teenager’s...
... Jewish organizations are unanimous in support of the Amnesty/ Immigration Surge drive. This support for liberal immigration laws has a long history - the granddaddy of them all being the 40-year campaign to enact the 1965 immigration law that opened the door to heavy immigration of all the peoples of the world.... A...
Any doubts about the determination of an activist United States Supreme Court to rewrite election rules so that the dollar matters more than the vote were removed Wednesday, when McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission was decided in favor of the dollar.
The court that in 2010, with its Citizens United v. FEC...
House conservatives are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter urging Republican leaders not to include a proposal in the defense authorization bill that would grant legal status to young undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens] in the military...
The effort is led by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), one of the most vocal...
On the day the U.S. began accepting H-1B visa applications for FY2015, Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us PAC stepped up its lobbying efforts for more tech visas even as ComputerWorld reported that the major share of H-1B visas go to offshore outsourcing firms that use visa holders to displace U.S. workers.
'The two largest...
Immigration [open borders] activists have sharply criticized President Obama for a rising volume of deportations, labeling him the "deporter in chief" and staging large protests that have harmed his standing with some Latinos, a key group of voters for Democrats.
...A closer examination shows that immigrants living...
Today is Cesar Chavez’s birthday, celebrated as a state holiday in California, and an optional holiday in a few other states. Chavez has been held up as a symbol of race pride and open borders. A hagiographic film has just been released, and President Obama used the occasion of a screening at the White House to push “...
[In the following video Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach explains how the Obama Administration is giving administrative amnesty to illegal alien criminals. The video also shows Vice President Biden publicly stating that "illegal aliens living in the shadows I believe are already American Citizens."]
The...
When Marie was two years old, a woman in her village in Africa cut off her clitoris and labia. Now 34 and living thousands of miles away in New York, she is still suffering.
“I have so many problems, with my husband, with sex, with childbirth,” she told NBC News, withholding her real name to protect her identity. “...
The Obama administration has been helping to facilitate a series of events nationwide at Mexican Consulate offices to enroll people in Obamacare – and a key activist says the efforts are “our responsibility” regardless of citizenship.
“Whether they’re Mexican nationals or whether they’re United States citizens or...
At the Corner, Mark Krikorian catches John Sandweg (previously of Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in the act of putting forward proposals which would effectively eliminate his own former job. If you can’t gain any ground in getting the Legislative branch to decriminalize entry by illegal aliens, apparently you can just...
Fully 98 percent of individuals deported from the United States in 2013 were either criminals, apprehended while illegally crossing the border, or had been previously deported, according to a new analysis from Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
The three-page document, labeled a “...
Earlier this month, a group of us convened in El Paso for the Center for Immigration Studies' fourth annual border tour. On previous trips we followed the southwest boundary from east of Douglas, Arizona, to the Imperial Valley of California and traveled south along the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to Brownsville. This...
[...] Some 1,000 people have already lined up to cross the border for work in the fields, and soon another 8,000 to 10,000 join the line behind them ...
Norma and Roberto are both green card holders and could live and work in the United States. But they say living in Mexico is the only way to support their family...
In late April, 2013, Oregon’s legislature passed senate bill SB833, which allows illegal aliens to obtain “driver cards.” On May Day—no coincidence, according to Jim Ludwick of Oregonians for Immigration Reform [OFIR]—Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, signed SB 833 into law.
Driver cards supposedly have the sole...
Refugee resettlement was once the calling of true sacrificial charity and the work of private sponsors who invested their own resources. Today, it is the work of federal contractors who have no responsibility a mere 3-4 months after the refugee has arrived.
Traditional sponsor duties have been replaced by access...
Last Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged that the Department has been reclassifying deportation data in a way that makes it appear deportations have increased. Specifically, Secretary Johnson confirmed that the 368,000 deportations reported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for fiscal...
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to help Kansas and Arizona enforce laws requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship.
U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren in Wichita, Kan., ruled the commission has no legal authority to deny requests from Kansas and...
U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) has deported more than 860 sex offenders from the State of Texas this year, according to an official press release from the agency. More than 7,000 sex offenders have been deported from Texas alone in the past three years.
The release reveals 27% of the deported 860+...
Drug cartels in Mexico are no longer being financed by cocaine production or selling crystal meth.
Even cartels have diversified. And nowadays, their biggest cash cow is illegal mining.
Other big moneymakers for groups like the Knights Templar is logging and extortion, said Alfredo Castillo, the Mexican...
In a March 14, 2014 news release, Sessions Responds To President's Immigration Announcement, False Deportation Statistics, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) revealed that:
...In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted this week that the Obama Administration’s...The past year has been hard on Republican cheerleaders for amnesty legislation. Now comes a new Gallup Poll that puts an end to any pretense of intelligent political calculation behind the Republican establishment’s endorsement of the amnesty agenda.
It was only a year ago that the Republican establishment was...
Congress is currently considering immigration reform packages that include work permits for those in the country illegally [illegal aliens], as well as substantial increases in future legal immigration. Many in Congress argue that the country needs more workers. Yet a new analysis of government employment data by the Center...
President Obama's recently released budget request for fiscal year 2015 (FY2015) claims to reduce the deficit by assuming Congress passes amnesty this year. Despite Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) pledging that the House will never take up the mass guest worker amnesty bill the Senate passed last June, the President attributes...
Mexico’s vicious drug cartels and Islamic jihadists must certainly be happy to hear that throwing a couple rocks at officers will give them free entry to the United States. The reason is the instruction of the DHS for the Border Patrol to behave more gently toward violent alien invaders.
One might reasonably...
Immigration reform may be stalled in Congress, but a new Obama administration policy is extending legal status and military benefits to thousands of illegal immigrants who are the spouses, parents and children of American military members ...
"A whole class of aliens with no right to be in the United States are...
Appearing at a panel with Eagle Forum’s Phyllis Schlafly across the street from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday morning, conservative columnist Ann Coulter joked that Republicans pushing for amnesty are actually racist because increased immigration would depress the wages of black and other...
Apart from the potential staggering loss of life — 239 souls that are still officially listed as missing — one of the most alarming pieces of information to come out of the Malaysian plane mystery is how easy it may be to use a stolen passport to board an international flight ...
Investigations into the operations of...
...Over the weekend, a Harvard researcher finally cast a more critical eye on all the hoopla. The conclusion: While the great STEM shortage isn't wholly myth, it certainly has been mightily overhyped.
Michael Teitelbaum, a senior research associate in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, laid out the...
...If mass immigration is the key to a robust economy, why are we in such bad shape? Why are more than 20 million people unemployed, or stuck in low-paying or part-time jobs? Why are tens of millions more working-age adults out of the labor force entirely? Why are we in danger of losing our middle class? After all, between...
This may be the first and last time I ever write these words: America, follow Canada.
Our neighbors to the north finally have wised up to the international cash-for-visas scam. The country recently ended its foreign investor program that put residency up for sale to the highest bidder. We should have done the same a...
The Department of Health and Human Services is estimating in its new budget proposal that the number of unaccompanied alien children who will be caught having illegally entered the United States will rise to 60,000 in fiscal 2014.
That is up about 815 percent from the 6,560 unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who were...
The Arizona Daily Star reports that less than half the people picked up by an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer and suspected to be in the country illegally are taken into custody by federal immigration officials or jailed. Despite the best efforts of state and local law enforcement officials to enforce U.S....
Speaking at CPAC on Thursday, Donald Trump said that illegal immigrants, whom Democrats and House GOP leaders want to legalize, will simply not vote for Republicans.
He blasted those who want open borders, saying, "We're either a country or we're not. We either have borders or we don't."...
If conservatives...
Nearly every speaker at the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) avoided any discussion of immigration or amnesty, a sign that Republican politicians are starting to understand that conservative voters have very little interest in doubling legal immigration and amnestying illegal aliens...
The U.S. Border Patrol has restricted border agents' authority to shoot at moving vehicles or at people throwing rocks, changing a controversial policy that has contributed to at least 19 deaths since 2010.
In a memo released Friday, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher directed border agents not to step in front of...
A new poll by the Washington Post shows that amnesty is a vote-loser for GOP legislators...
Only 28 percent of independents and moderates said they were more likely to vote for a candidate who backs amnesty...
The poll also showed that the GOP’s opposition to amnesty doesn’t lower their one-in-four support...
If the powerful of business and politics have their way, America will be burdened with a historical high percentage of immigrants.
As shown by Census figures for 2010, the United States is already headed for a record proportion of foreign-born, even without the monstrous Senate bill which doubles legal immigration...
Former journalist and author Roy Beck is the executive director of NumbersUSA, a Washington-D.C-area based organization that works to reduce immigration levels in the country and opposes amnesty. On its website,numbersusa.com, the organization also grades Congress members on issues such as reducing unnecessary worker visas...
A California school that stopped students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo didn’t violate their constitutional rights, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
The school’s approach, according to the appeals court, kept students safe in a climate of racial tension ...
The case dates back to May 5,...
After the long awaited immigration reform [amnesty for illegal aliens] in the United States was suspended by the House of Representatives in 2013, a report published on Tuesday revealed that businessman George Soros increased the amount of donations to political groups who favor legislation in immigration matters in the...
Parents in Central American countries may be sending their children to illegally cross the U.S. border into Texas after hearing that Democrats and Republicans are pushing for more laws granting amnesty to illegal [alien] immigrant minors.
Immigration officials told the Los Angeles Times that "up to 120 unaccompanied...
Monday was the one-year anniversary of the self-defense groups that have challenged the drug cartels in the Mexican state of Michoacán. A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies concludes that mass emigration from Michoacán to the U.S. has created conditions that “facilitate narco-terrorists and their allied...
Black Americans overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama in his two presidential elections, but their employment prospects have, if anything, deteriorated during his term of in office. In particular, their position relative to other racial groups has worsened.
Historically, Blacks’ unemployment rates have been multiples...
The Obama administration regularly cuts a break for businesses that violate immigration hiring rules, reducing their fines by an average of 40 percent from what they should be, according to an audit released Tuesday that suggests the government could be doing more to go after unscrupulous employers.
According to the...
[An] inquiry has led to the prosecution of at least 30 people — lawyers... paralegals, interpreters and even an employee of a church, who is on trial, accused of coaching asylum applicants in basic tenets of Christianity to prop up their claims of religious persecution. All were charged with helping hundreds of Chinese...
Americans want to see illegal immigrant [illegal alien] young adults given legal status [amnesty], but they are far less forgiving to most others, and want to see a huge reduction in legal immigration as well, according to a new poll released last week by a group that wants to see an immigration crackdown.
Other...
Despite repeated attempts by pro-enforcement immigration activists, The New York Times continues to mislead its readers about what the Senate amnesty bill (S. 744) passed in June would do if enacted into law.
The newspaper's most recent disregard for facts pertaining to the immigration issue can be found in Jonathan...
...In a referendum backed by the Swiss People’s Party, a clear majority voted to impose quotas on all immigration, even from other European nations.
Though Switzerland is not a member of the EU, it has signed the Schengen Agreement on freedom of travel across European borders. Now it wants to be rid of Schengen – and...
...Some politicians, particularly those from the Republican Party, are being stampeded to act irrationally in a move to appeal to a segment of the American electorate, “Latino Voters.” We will address this foolhardy notion shortly.
While the Democratic Party has been most often seen as the party that was eager to...
Our southwest border with Mexico is completely unlike any other part of the United States. It is also a place that needs to be personally experienced in order to fully understand the complexities and nuances of life next to another country...
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, our relationship with Mexico became...
Yet another flawed push poll has been released and the media have used it to promote the idea that Americans support President Obama's amnesty agenda. This time, the flawed poll comes from CNN/ORC International. It was conducted January 31 through February 2 and included 900 registered voters.
Each of the questions...
Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps says that a decade of mega-merger deals approved by the communications regulator helped destroy independent journalism and local media, and he is sorry for the role he played in making that happen.
[See open letter From the desk of a former FCC Commissioner - Journalists need...
With technology destroying jobs for humans, adding tens of millions of new immigrants [illegal aliens] to America will only deepen inequality and poverty...
The next 10 years are expected to see a revolution in the application of Artificial Intelligence to every day tasks... The need for human labor in construction...
Making the case that American workers are inferior to foreign labor, less bright, less educated, less talented, less qualified, less industrious, and less entrepreneurial, Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue wrote on Feb. 13, 2014, "It's in our own best interests to welcome the world's brightest minds and hardest workers...
Just yesterday TRN reported on the landslide victory in a Fremont, NE vote to bar illegal aliens from being able to rent housing.
Today, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit challenging Nebraska’s authority to deny driver’s licenses to illegal aliens who have received temporary authorization to live and work in the...
With almost all votes counted, it looks like Switzerland--which never joined the European Union (EU)--is set to reintroduce measures that would significantly reduce the free movement of people across its borders with the EU...
Around 51 percent are said to have voted in favour of measures which would see an effective...
Congress is debating whether to give the president the authority to fast-track a massive free trade agreement -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- between the U.S., Canada, and 10 nations from the Asia-Pacific region. The nations involved in the talks account for nearly 40 percent of the world's GDP and 26 percent of the...
A week or so ago, amnesty critic Ann Coulter revealed some ugly facts about immigration from an embargoed report published by Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum...
Republican lawmakers are assailing new exemptions from antiterrorism laws the Obama administration issued this week for war zone refugees seeking to come to the United States, saying the rules are examples of unilateral action by President Obama that weaken immigration security will exempt refugees from provisions banning...
