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Time to bring refugee program out of the shadows
Star Tribune

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Traditional sponsor duties have been replaced by access...

Presenting a case for open borders
The Volokh Conspiracy

CAIRCO Preface

The following article presents arguments in favor of open borders. We disagree with these points both in principle and in detail. We believe that every country has not only the right, but the obligation to control its borders, demography, and population size. It is, however, enlightening to read...

DHS Secretary Admits Department Manipulates Deportation Statistics
FAIR

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...

Judge: Kansas, Arizona Can Require New Voters To Prove Citizenship
WIBW

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...

Boulder appoints man in country illegally to human relations panel
The Denver Post

The Boulder City Council this week appointed a man who is not in the country legally [illegal alien] to the council's Human Relations Commission, making Jose Beteta the first beneficiary of a rule change that city voters approved in November.

"I think it's exciting to actually see we changed the rules, and someone...

10 lbs of meth, worth $450,000, seized in southwest Colorado bust, 14 arrests
The Denver Post

Drug enforcement agents in southwest Colorado have busted an alleged methamphetamine ring and seized about 10 pounds of the illegal drug, worth about $450,000.

Fourteen people have been arrested ...

Stolen property, including weapons, were also seized ...

The ring has connections to Las Vegas,...

7,000+ Sex Offenders Deported from Texas in Past 3 Years
Breitbart

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+...

Illegal Mining? Mexican Drug Cartels Diversifying Portfolios, Seeking New Revenue Streams
Fox News Latino

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...

Timeline: How the Obama Administration bypassed Congress to dismantle immigration enforcement
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL),

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...
Finally, light at the end of the amnesty tunnel
Ccommon sense is breaking through the fog with GOP
World Net Daily

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...

Still No Evidence of a Labor Shortage
Report casts doubt on need for increased immigration
Center for Immigration Studies

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's Budget Assumes Amnesty - Cuts Immigration Enforcement
FAIR

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...

‘Run Away’ Now Administration’s Prime Directive for Border Patrol
Limits To Growth

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 change gives legal status to illegal alien relatives of US military
Fox News

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...

Ann Coulter: I Never Believed GOP Was Racist Until I Read Marco Rubio's Amnesty Bill
Breitbart

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...

Can Republicans neutralize immigration as issue?
Yahoo News

If the apparent slow death of immigration legislation in Congress has any political repercussions this year, they probably will be felt in the subdivisions, shopping centers and ethnic eateries wrapped around Denver's southern end.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman represents this fast-changing district ...

Coffman was...

Missing Passport Databases Not Routinely Checked: Interpol
NBC News

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...

Labor surplus won't help middle class
Commercial Appeal

...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...

When Will America End Immigration Cash-for-Visas Racket?
Nooz Hawk

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...

HHS: 60K Unaccompanied Illegal Alien Children Will Be Caught in ’14; Up 815% in 3 Yrs
CNS News

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...

Federal Government Refuses to Enforce Immigration Law on the Southwest Border
The Foundry

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....

Trump to GOP: Illegal Immigrants Won't Vote for You 'No Matter How Nice You Are'
Breitbart

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...

CPAC's 2014 Amnesty Panel
Center for Immigration Studies

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...

Border Patrol restricts agents' use of force
Policy changes ordered by the Border Patrol chief bar agents from firing on fleeing vehicles and discourage shooting at most rock throwers.
The Los Angeles Times

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...

The truth about the great American science shortfall
Los Angeles Times

...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...

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