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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...
...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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...
"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...
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...
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-...
[See the original article for both videos.]
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...
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...
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...
John Fund, national affairs correspondent for National Review Online, told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that if President Obama attempts via executive order to grant amnesty to eight million illegal aliens “it would be the equivalent of ritual political suicide and most political parties don’t do that...
MCALLEN, Texas—A single group of illegal aliens entering Texas from Mexico over the weekend included foreign nationals from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). The group crossed into the Rio Grande Valley sector from Tamaulipas, Mexico.
“One group of our agents...
Fox News provides a brief overview of how other western nations deal with a deluge of illegal aliens. Hint: the United States is the only one to hand out free bus or plane tickets to the destination of the lawbreakers’ choice...
Reporter William La Jeunesse details the procedures elsewhere:
...Not only have more unaccompanied children illegally crossed the southern border this year — more than twice last year's total — but they are crossing at much younger ages, according to a study released this week ...
There has been a 117% increase in apprehensions among unaccompanied children ages 12 and younger and a...President Barack Obama urged the leaders of three Central American countries on Friday to work with him to stem the flow of child migrants who have surged across the U.S. border and warned that most of them would not be allowed to stay ....
Obama and presidents Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, Juan Orlando Hernandez...
...America has made great strides to create a level playing field to provide all people with equal protection under our laws — indeed, the goal of the civil rights movement and the laws it inspired was to provide equal protection under our laws for all people, especially black Americans, going back to the issue of slavery,...
Senate Bill 13-251, The Colorado Road and Community Safety Act authorizes the issuance of a Colorado driver’s license, instruction permit or identification card to those individuals who either cannot demonstrate lawful presence in the U.S. or can only demonstrate temporary lawful presence in the U.S. beginning August 1,...
Video: Governor Rick Perry: Illegal aliens in Texas behind 3,000 homicides & 8,000 sexual assaults since 2008
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson admitted at a Tuesday press conference that nearly all the roughly 50,000 Central American youths who have crossed the Texas border since October are accompanied by smugglers hired by the youth’s parents or families.
“It is our observation and our...
... According to a new Pew Research report, in fiscal year 2013, 91% of illegal immigrant "children" [unaccompanied alien children] apprehended at the border were teenagers. Of the nearly 60,000 illegal immigrant "children" who were apprehended since October of last year, 84% have been teenagers...
Pew also noted...
Did you know that the number of illegal immigrants that enter Texas each week is greater than the number of babies being born to citizens of that state? The mainstream media is shining the spotlight very brightly on all of the children that are coming over, and there is a reason for that. They are trying to tug on our...
Yolanda Vega, who came to the U.S. illegally in search of a better life, doesn't have a driver's license, yet six days a week she travels miles from the trailer she shares with her husband and teenage daughter outside Durango to clean homes much larger than her own.
Vega, 32, relies on her husband to drive her to...
A deluge of Central American children [illegally] pouring into the United States threatens to burst the seams of already overstuffed immigration courts, and President Barack Obama'ssteps to ease the crisis are likely to make matters worse rather than better for some, U.S. officials and immigration lawyers said.
"We...
On Thursday, a week after former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates argued for amnesty and for an unlimited number of high-tech guest-worker visas, Microsoft announced it would slash 18,000 jobs...
... Microsoft employs 125,000 people.
Bill Gates, along with Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett, advocated removing "the...
As US lawmakers grapple with ways to slash spending, many were shocked to learn authorities are spending $250 to $1,000 per day to care for each minor apprehended crossing the US border.
[...] "One of the figures that sticks in everybody's mind is we're paying about $250 to $1,000 per child," Senator Jeff Flake told...
An urgent humanitarian situation has become a major political conundrum.
The surge of Central American children illegally crossing the border into Texas has politicians debating possible responses while scattered protests against the influx threaten to become an organized movement in coming days.
Even fellow...
Americans tagged illegal immigration as the nation’s most important problem in July, according to Gallup.
Seventeen percent of 1,013 Americans — and 23 percent of GOP supporters — surveyed by Gallup in July identified “immigration/illegal aliens” as their top political priority...
That’s a startling change...
The last thing a liberal proponent of immigration reform wants is liberal immigration reform. Remember that paradox, and the insanity at the border makes some sense.
Each day a worried politician or pundit, with creased brow and pained expression, lectures us about the need for “comprehensive immigration reform” to...
A massive protest scheduled for July 18 and 19 across the United States is aimed at stopping the influx of Central American children flooding across the border, and more than a dozen smaller community protests already have played roles in stopping the children from being brought there...
In Vassar, Michigan, about 50...While many people are awakening to the Obama administration and their attempts to undermine our national sovereignty, it must be stated that this has been an ongoing effort for many, many decades. Barrack Obama is merely a tool selected to get an already conditioned population to accept the final stages of a plan that will...
Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday that he does not want Iowa to host any of the thousands of children from Central America who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone...
“The first thing we need to do is secure the border. I do have empathy for these kids,” Branstad said. “But I also don’t want to send the signal...
Demonstrators blasted the Obama administration’s inaction in Chicago while federal funds are earmarked to help the roughly 50,000 illegal immigrants [aliens] who have crossed into America since October...
“For the president to set aside all of these funds for immigrants and [have] forsaken the African-American...
...Obama and his leftist allies are committed to thwarting any effort by states to protect the integrity of the voting process that would prevent illegal aliens and other ineligible individuals from voting.
Judicial Watch has launched a nationwide effort to support election integrity. That effort continued...
After 14 years of separation from her parents and a harrowing journey across the U.S. border, Milsa Martinez finds solace in the northern Virginia high school where she's perfecting her English and learning civics and math.
For children and teens [illegally] crossing the border alone like Martinez did two years ago,...
When Obama let out his first soul-chilling hint: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America" on Oct. 30, 2008, few thought about what his actual modus operandi might be.
The hint was issued by a rabble rouser who had arrived on the world stage with a carefully crafted rock...
