...For some geographical context, the southwest border with Mexico is roughly 2,000 miles long divided into 9 “sectors” patrolled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Here is a list of the border sectors and their size, listed from west to east (Pacific Coast to Gulf Coast):
San Diego (60 miles) El Centro (70...All News Articles
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Advocates are calling for the Obama administration to do more to aid hundreds of thousands of Middle East Christians fleeing the Islamic State and escaping situations where they are often told to either convert to Islam or die.
Many of those refugees are seeking asylum in the U.S., and activists want the government...
... Defenders of unrestricted birthright citizenship - primarily found among liberals, establishment GOP types, and the more uninformed types of libertarians—adamantly argue from the 14th amendment’s Citizenship Clause that birthright citizenship is not only legal, but is in fact constitutionally protected, and is what the...
Immigrant groups are picketing his events.His recent remarks on "anchor babies" have outraged Latino and Asian groups. Democrats are attacking him in both English and Spanish ...
During Bush's visit to Colorado on Tuesday, members of Progress Now, a liberal advocacy organization, waved signs protesting Bush's recent...
One of the proposals listed in Donald Trump’s immigration policy outline includes ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, and presumably children of birth tourists who game the system in order to add a U.S. passport holder to their families. We estimate there are up to 400,000 children born to...
he dust is kind of settling after a week-long wind-storm of news media pressing Presidential candidates to express a position on various aspects of immigration policy.
We know a lot more now than we did a week ago. And we'll tell you what we know right here. This overview is the result of two long NumbersUSA Grade...
...the U.S. is one of few countries that actually grant automatic citizenship at birth to illegal immigrants.
As reports have indicated, the U.S. and Canada are the only two developed nations that grant automatic citizenship at birth to the children of illegal and temporary immigrants. Last summer NumbersUSA...Most arguments for birthright citizenship pushed by the political left and many establishment Republicans are baseless. For those who do try to make a legal argument, the strongest one is based upon two Supreme Court precedents, which were wrongly decided and should be overruled. But even those cases don’t save the myth...
...how could anyone – even a not-very-bright person – imagine that granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens is actually in our Constitution?
...Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox’s senior judicial analyst... at least got the century right. He mentioned the Civil War – and then went on to inform Bream that...
...The Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment does not confer citizenship of the children of foreigners, whether legal or illegal.
Media commentators have gotten this issue dead wrong...
That’s not the law. It has never been the law.
Under current immigration law—found at 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a)—a baby...
... New information released by the Census Bureau shows that there are now a record 42.1 million immigrants and illegal migrants in this country; this means the two groups together comprise more than 13 percent of our 320 million population, the highest figure in 105 years. Moreover, the total im(migrant) population has...
Billionaire Donald Trump released a detailed immigration policy position paper on Sunday morning, a paper that walks through exactly what steps he would go through as president to help American workers.
The paper is detailed to the level of specific areas of policy, and it also calls out one of his opponents, Sen....
Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law...
Reports have started to surface about a new surge at the U.S.-Mexico border at a time when many Americans remain unnerved over reports of rapes and killings perpetrated by illegal aliens ...
Ronald Vitiello, the deputy U.S. Border Patrol chief, said the number of immigrant families captured at the border increased in...
The Rio Grande Valley area, in Texas, has seen an uptick in the number of people – notably fathers – crossing the border, according to a local relief group and federal officials.
Border agents are arresting hundreds more than usual ...
Catholic Charities says that 762 immigrants stayed overnight at the center...
The author of Adios America appeared on Fox News Wednesday and asked rhetorically, “How many immigrants are enough?”
And isn’t that THE question? The aim of leftists is to destroy traditional America by dumping in tens of millions of foreigners who are culturally disposed to prefer big government, making them ...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump deserves credit for forcing all 17 Republican candidates to talk about the social costs of illegal immigration, but it is not “Trump’s issue.” ...
...illegal immigration is not “Ann Coulter’s issue” any more than it is “Tom Tancredo’s issue.” It is America’s issue —...
The Obama administration recently made changes to the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in a manner very conducive to Sharia, or Islamic law.
On July 21, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS )announced some “modifications” to the Oath of Allegiance that immigrants must take before becoming...
The Obama administration has issued more than 7.4 million work permits to foreign nationals from 2009 – 2014, beyond the approximately one million lawful permanent residents and 700,000 foreign guest workers admitted to the U.S. each year...
Beyond those limits each year, these new and renewed work permit approvals...
If you want to see the immigration crisis getting completely out of control, check out northern France, where several thousand “migrants”—as the press describes them—are trying to charge through the Channel Tunnel to Britain, where, they suppose, the welfare state will take care of them. It hasn’t been receiving much media...
An alert has been issued by the FBI to all law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming involving U.S. military families and concerns about who may be watching them.
The alert says Middle Eastern men are approaching families of U.S. military members at their homes in Colorado and Wyoming. It mentions Greeley and...
... Trump’s 2011 book, “Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again,” contains 10 chapters of proposals for enacting policy changes on a host of key issues, including a five-point plan on immigration reform.
In one striking clarion call, Trump used the book to demand an end to the interpretation of law that allows for...Talk show host and bestselling author Mark Levin sees immigration as one of the most important issues facing America today and believes the country better contain it — or future generations will suffer the consequences.
In the final part of The Daily Caller’s exclusive interview with Levin in connection with his...
A June report from the Instituto Cervantes, a group created to promote the Spanish language, documented how four decades of mass immigration to the United States has made America the world’s second-largest Spanish-speaking country.
But petition from the womens’ group Equality Now reveals that immigration has put...
...New U.S. government reports show in the last year murder rates in American cities have spiked dramatically as well. The list below show some of the highest increases:
Chicago ^ 20% (Sanctuary City)
New Orleans ^ 33% (Sanctuary City)
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...Qualcomm — a major producer of smartphone chips — announced last week it’s eliminating 15 percent of its workforce or about 4,500 employees, just weeks after fellow tech giant Microsoft announced a massive round of layoffs.
Both companies are top beneficiaries of the H-1b visa program, which backers say allows......Along the Rio Grande River, anticipation begins to set in for Border Patrol agents for the possibility of a second wave...
They said they’re still well below last year’s surge. Apprehensions are 48 percent lower than last fiscal year. “We’ve apprehended about 118,000 people this year,” Ortiz said. “Yet, we’re still...A new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) finds that President Obama's executive amnesty will shield nearly all illegal aliens from deportation. In particular, the report focuses on two aspects of the President's November 2014 decrees unrelated to deferred action: the administration's new enforcement priorities...
It’s mid-summer and the weather is pleasant, a perfect time for third worlders to flood into Europe more easily. There has been a lot of reporting about the rickety boats headed north from Africa , but it’s also possible for the intruders, some number of whom are unfriendly Muslims, to walk to the first world, just like...
Okay, “Muslim immigration halted in wake of Chattanooga terrorism attack” isn’t today’s newspaper headline. But it ought to be.
We ought to halt all legal immigration and refugee resettlement from Muslim-majority countries and declare an indefinite moratorium — until two changes occur. First, we must devise a...
Below is a five-minute video worth your attention, titled the Red-Green Axis: Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America. It is from the Center for Security Policy and is a preview of a 65-page monograph of the same name.
The last 18 months of Obama’s term look to be filled with extreme actions...
Barack Obama’s latest immigration battering ram against unsuspecting Americans is the radical change he seeks in the current naturalization process to arrange for new immigrants to be able to skip the pledge to take up arms and defend the United States in the 65-year-old American Oath of Allegiance.
On Obama’s...
On Tuesday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing, Oversight of the Administration’s Misdirected Immigration Enforcement Policies: Examining the Impact on Public Safety and Honoring the Victims . Chaired by Senator Grassley, the committee heard testimony from five Americans who had lost family members at...
More than half of all new California driver’s licenses this year have gone to people who are in the country illegally, the state said Friday
The California Department of Motor Vehicles reported it has issued roughly 397,000 licenses to people who live in the country illegally ...
New drivers say having a...
The FBI failed to stop another terror attack, this time in Chattanooga, and the pressure building on the bureau from President Obama’s reckless immigration policies may be reaching a boiling point, say security experts.
And the problem goes far beyond a loose border, where some 400,000 illegal aliens enter each year...
...The New York Times reports that about 4.5 million illegal aliens in the U.S. drive on a regular basis, many without licenses or insurance, or even the ability to read road signs written in English.[2]... Yahoo.com writer J.C. Grant notes, “There is a statistically significant correlation between state per capita illegal...
The president said it worked. The nation's top immigration agent said it worked. Even the inspector general said it worked. So why did the Obama administration kill a government program that did exactly what Congress intended by identifying and deporting illegal immigrants? ...
At issue is an ICE program known...
State and local sanctuary policies caused the release of more than 8,000 criminal alien offenders sought by ICE for deportation in 276 jurisdictions1 around the country over an eight-month period, according to ICE records obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies in a FOIA request.2 Sixty-three percent of the...
The fatal shooting of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco by an illegal alien with seven felony convictions and five prior deportations has brought national attention to the huge public safety price paid by communities when local and state law enforcement agencies do not comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
[...] This month, Donald Trump stood before the American people to announce his candidacy for becoming the next President of the United States.
He told the American people exactly what actions he expects to take once he becomes president ...
“I will make the United States of America a great country again,”...
...As Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Study outlines, Department of Homeland Security records show that in just one eight-month period in 2014, more than 8,100 deportable aliens were released by sanctuary jurisdictions. Three thousand of them were felons and 62 percent had a prior criminal record. Nineteen...
...Trump's surge in the polls is being fueled by ordinary Americans. They are applauding or murmuring quiet approval because they probably live in areas that have gotten massive influxes of immigrants -- the majority from Mexico -- over the last decade or two. They know what the score is; that diversity has failed to...
Did you know that in the state of Texas alone over the last few years, more than 2000 illegal aliens were deported after committing sex crimes?
Did you know that in the state of Texas alone over the last few years, nearly a thousand illegal aliens have been convicted of sex crimes against children?
Of...
The recent death of a 32-year-old California woman by a five-times-deported illegal-alien felon has drawn attention to the impact of the Obama administration's dismantling of immigration enforcement. The Center for Immigration Studies has published a map showing the more than 200 cities, counties and states across the...
...With major media now finally reporting on killings committed by illegal aliens, the pressure may be mounting on enablers like San Francisco mayor Edwin Lee to put an end to the immigration anarchy in their cities.
The term “sanctuary cities” generally refers to places that, through an act, ordinance, or policy,...Donald Trump may be the most politically incorrect candidate on the Republican side. He openly mocks the news media and addresses the problem of illegal immigration. But even more importantly, he attacks the trade policies that benefit our enemies and adversaries. By doing so, he challenges what radio talk show host Jeffrey...
A crackdown on document fraud has sent the number of driver's licenses issued to illegal aliens in New Mexico plunging by 70 percent, while revealing that the state likely issued tens of thousands of bogus licenses after becoming the first state to adopt the controversial policy a dozen years ago ......
In the 2016 race, June belonged to two outsiders who could not be more dissimilar.
Bernie Sanders is a socialist senator from Vermont and Donald Trump a celebrity capitalist and legendary entrepreneur and builder.
What do they have in common? Both have tapped into what the bases of their respective parties...
San Francisco is one of dozens of cities, counties and states across the country that have laws, policies or regulations that prevent employees from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts ...
The sanctuary movement is said to have grown out of efforts by churches in the 1980s to provide sanctuary to...
Republicans are now foundering on the rocky shoals of Donald Trump’s rhetoric. Three weeks after Trump set the media world aflame with his comments about illegal immigration, the debate has not quelled.
Democrats and the media, seeking a way to demonize Republicans with Hispanic voters, have turned Trump’s...
[...] The defense presented a slideshow including photos of the 40-year-old Olivos-Gutierrez and his family, describing him as a hardworking family man who made a mistake. They said he started drinking following the death of his 2-year-old son, who suffered from a heart defect ...
But prosecutors stressed that Olivos...
Common Sense, published in 1776, challenged the authority of the British Crown by using plain language that appealed to ordinary people. The subtitle of author Thomas Paine’s fellow British immigrant Peter Brimelow’s Alien Nation, “Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster,” was a conscious tribute.
...In the first three months of 2015, Europe saw the arrival of 185,000 illegal aliens, a big uptick from last year’s numbers. The increase is not surprising, because who among the one billion Africans wouldn’t like a better life in first-world Europe with its generous welfare policies? Word has gotten out that if you claim to...
Obamatrade is alive.
One week after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly rejected Obamatrade by voting against a key provision of it Trade Adjustment Assistance GOP establishment lawmakers resuscitated Trade Promotion Authority and rammed it through Thursday afternoon. The final talley was 218-208....
As Republican presidential debates and primaries approach, we can expect almost all candidates to sound tough on illegal immigration, regardless of their record or actual beliefs. This tough talk usually begins and ends with lofty rhetoric about how Republicans support legal immigration, just not illegal...
The Border Between the U.S. and Mexico is More than Just a Line on the Map.
It is one of the few places on earth where nothing but a line on a map separates the third world from the first...
But it is more than a line separating two countries. It is a boundary separating two philosophies that can trace...
Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand...
Earlier this month the New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division made a decision to allow, for the first time, a law school graduate who is in the country illegally to practice law in the state.
Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says the court is making a mockery of...
...It may not be news that President Obama is a cheerleader for multiculturalism and understands its political uses. It has been a valuable weapon in the arsenal of “transformational politics.” But we are slow to recognize that this trend did not begin with Obama and it will not end with his departure. Multiculturalism is a...
A new poll by Rasmussen Reports finds that a strong majority still favors a requirement for voters to show a photo ID before being allowed to vote.
Following several years of similar results, the June poll finds that Americans overwhelmingly support Voter ID laws.
Rasmussen found that 76 percent of respondents...
Most of the illegal [alien] immigrant criminals Homeland Security officials released from custody last year were discretionary, meaning the department could have kept them in detention but chose instead to let them onto the streets as their deportation cases moved through the system, according to new numbers from Congress...
The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.
While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in...
The situation at U.S. borders is still out-of-control despite reports that the number of illegal [alien] immigrants attempting to come to the U.S. is on the decline, Border Patrol officials told The Washington Post.
"This notion that DHS is saying the border is more secure than ever — they don’t have any evidence of...
In February, federal judge Andrew Hanen, of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas, issued an injunction temporarily blocking President Obama’s expanded executive amnesty, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). The order was in response to a lawsuit filed...
...A month ago, a bill in the [Colorado] state legislature proposed to prohibit any local law enforcement agency from cooperating with ICE by honoring official requests for “detainers” on illegal aliens already in custody. A detainer allows ICE a few days to interrogate the person and determine both true identity and...
Twenty years on, we can reconstruct two different scenarios for the period 1992 to 2012: the actual one, in which immigration rises throughout the period, and the... ideal, in which an immigration moratorium is imposed.
In 1992 the U.S. population was 255...
Tuesday on the House floor, Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) criticized Republicans on a day he declared we should be “celebrating” President Barack Obama’s amnesty for putting off passage of so-called immigration reform legislation ...
“We should be celebrating today the start of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
When President Obama effectively granted amnesty to nearly 5 million illegal aliens in December, I reported that the funding to pay for new programs would come directly from fees paid by legal immigrants through the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. This fact still remains true.
The funding for...
As if it weren’t infuriating enough that American taxpayers are being forced to house, feed, medically treat and educate the never-ending influx of illegal [alien] immigrant minors, the Obama administration is also doling out millions of dollars to provide them with free legal representation.
Unlike the criminal...
The U.S. is bringing in 100,000 Muslims every year through legal channels such as the United Nations refugee program and various visa programs, but new reports indicate a pipeline has been established through the southern border with the help of the federal agency whose job it is to protect the homeland.
They are...
The Cato Institute, along with several law professors, has filed an amicus brief supporting the lawsuit filed by 26 states challenging President Obama's executive action to grant amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal aliens. Joining Cato in the brief are South Texas College of Law professor, Josh Blackman, George...
Mexican [sic] living in the United States sent $5.7 billion in remittances back home in the first three months of 2015 alone, the highest amount of money sent to the country by expats since 2008, Banco de Mexico reported ...
Banco de Mexico reported that 97 percent of remittances to the country came from the United...
How many people in this country are aware of the fact that immigration from Islamic countries has doubled since 9/11? According to data Conservative Review collated from the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the U.S. has issued 1,628,854 green cards to immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries from 2001-2013. ...
Last Monday, Rasmussen released a poll of likely voters showing that 77% now believe illegal immigration is a “serious” problem, with 51% saying it is “very serious.” (Rasmussen Reports, May 4, 2015) Only 19% believe illegal immigration is not a serious problem, with only 3% indicating it is “not at all” serious. (Id.)...
It’s not news that the Democrat party, led by Barack Obama, hopes to encourage many grateful illegal aliens to vote in support of big liberal government in the next Presidential election and beyond. Former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams explained it particularly well on Judge Jeannine’s show on Saturday....
The U.S. government says it "erroneously" awarded three-year work permits to 2,000 people under President Barack Obama's executive immigration action after a judge had put the plan on hold ...
"After months of obfuscation and stall tactics by the Obama Administration, the president's lawyers have been forced to...
After students, alumni and community members staged protests in and around the University of Northern Colorado campus over the suspension of the Mexican-American Studies program, university leaders lifted the suspension ...
"Diversity and equity are essential to UNC's mission as a public research university, and...
...Securing the “fast track” authority to finalize a new trade deal, covering 40 percent of America’s exports, is a top priority for the Obama White House. The agreement, named the Trans-Pacific Partnership, would set new rules for America’s economic relations with Asia.
Under “fast track” authority, the......Obama is demonstrating just how colonial he is as he sets up colonies of Muslim refugees across the United States.
The latest revelation of such colonization is coming to Idaho.
According to MagicValley.com:
The College of Southern Idaho’s Refugee Center is expecting an...
It’s time we had proof of citizenship in federal elections. The fundamental right of choosing our representatives is threatened to the extent non-citizens are able to vote. Our elections are now tighter than ever and when a non-citizens votes, like a recipient of Obama’s amnesty for instance, the legitimate vote of a citizen...
When we see news of the African invasion of Europe, what’s generally presented is the situation on the Mediterranean of rickety boats jammed with young men determined to reach the free stuff of the First World. What’s even more alarming is how far they travel over dangerous desert terrain to demand life in Europe.
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Geert Wilders, an outspoken member of the Dutch parliament, has been visiting Washington this week, with a speech to a conservative group on Wednesday and an outdoors press conference on Thursday. Thanks to Rep. Steve King for posting a video of the whole presser.
Geert Wilders has been speaking out for years...