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Rules to Aid Asylum-Seeking Refugees Are Called Security Threat
The New York Times

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...

Border Chaos Now Includes Thousands of Unaccompanied Children
Limits to Growth

It was a pleasant surprise to see ICE Union Director Chris Crane appear on the Mike Huckabee show Saturday...

Crane reported that few House members have been interested in what enforcement officers see on the ground, just as the Gang of Eight Senators ignored the offers of concerned police to share their...

Administration eases restrictions on asylum seekers with loose terror ties
Fox News

The Obama administration has unilaterally eased restrictions on asylum seekers with loose or incidental ties to terror and insurgent groups, in a move one senator called "deeply alarming."

The change, approved by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry, was announced Wednesday in the...

What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jobs last year
ComputerWorld

Despite an expanding use of electronics in products, the number of people working as electrical engineers in U.S. declined by 10.4% last year.

The decline amounted to a loss of 35,000 jobs and increased the unemployment rate for electrical engineers from 3.4% in 2012 to 4.8% last year, an unusually high rate of job...

Some Statistical Honesty From ICE
VDare

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the part of ICE responsible for removing illegal aliens from the United States, has officially released their statistics. Those statistics,with remarkable honesty, give the lie to the Regime's claim that there are a record number of deportations. And ICE ERO admits that it is...

Republicans’ Comprehensive Immigration Folly
The GOP is handing Democrats a lifeline with its immigration-reform campaign
National Review

...The latest bright idea among Republicans inside the Beltway is a new version of amnesty that is virtually certain to lose votes among the Republican base and is unlikely to gain many votes among the Hispanics that the Republican leadership is courting...

It is hard to think of any other than their hoping to win...

Enforcement before amnesty: Opposing view
House speaker's immigration plan will repeat failure of 1986 bill
USA Today

House speaker's immigration plan will repeat failure of 1986 [amnesty] bill.

The broad consensus on enforcement includes the need for a border fence, a workable visa-tracking system, better interior enforcement, and an elimination of the magnets that attract illegal immigrants, such as blocking access to American...

The Liberal Newcomers
Limit immigration or watch conservative efforts become irrelevant.
National Review Online
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...By itself, the annual flow of 1.1 million legal immigrants under the current system will create more than 5 million new potential voters by 2024 and more...

On Immigration, What’s the Hurry?
Powerline

... The Democrats have wanted amnesty and vastly increased low-skill immigration for a long time, but why is now–2014–a good time for Republicans to join them? As things stand, public revulsion at Obamacare, along with the usual sixth-year malaise, almost guarantees that the GOP gains seats in the House. It is likely to...

Immigration: How the GOP Lost Middle America
VDare

...The GOP will agree to halt the deportation of 12 million [to 40 million] illegal aliens, and sign on to a blanket amnesty. It only asks that the 12 million not be put on a path to citizenship.

Sorry, but losers do not dictate terms...

At the Cold War's end, the GOP reached a fork in the road...

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California Farmers Brace for Drought and Unemployment
ABC News

Amid California's driest year on record... One-third of the Central Valley's jobs are related to farming. Strains on water supplies are expected to force farmers to leave fields unplanted, creating a ripple effect on food processing plant workers, truck drivers and those who sell fertilizer, irrigation equipment and...

US Congress Serious About Immigration Reform? If So, Let’s Follow Mexico’s Law!
Canada Free Press

Nearly 30 years after the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 was signed into law by President Reagan, ostensibly to fix the illegal alien problem once and for all, America begins 2014 embroiled in yet another bitter, divisive, gut-wrenching debate over the fate of tens of millions of illegals who reside here...

GOP Amnesty Plan Ignores Will of Republican Voters
Judicial Watch

With the midterm elections looming, House Republicans are discounting their constituents’ wishes by crafting a measure to give illegal immigrants legal status, a chance at permanent U.S. residency and even American citizenship...

This could be costly come November. A recent national poll conducted by Judicial Watch...

Amnesty Ends the American Dream
FrontPage Magazine

Immigration is becoming unpopular everywhere else. In the UK, immigration has become so toxic that it may lead to a split from the European Union. In Australia, it helped elect a conservative government willing to tackle its migrant boat problem. Meanwhile in the United States, Republicans keep flirting with a Super-Amnesty...

Fox News Publishes Push Poll, Pushes Amnesty
Center for Immigration Studies

Nearly all of the polls allegedly showing public support for amnesty suffer from the same defect: they are designed to "push" respondents towards a certain answer. In other words, they are written in a way designed to elicit a pro-amnesty result...

 

The latest flawed poll comes from Fox News, and many other pro-...

GOP Should 'Do Nothing' on Immigration Reform
Breitbart

...Joe Scarborough warned that the one thing that could cost the GOP control of the Senate this year would be to pass immigration reform [amnesty for illegal aliens]. That same day the editors of National Review shouted "don't do it" with the warning that history proves "President Obama obviously can’t be trusted" to abide...

Deportation Relief Seen As More Important Than Pathway to Citizenship
Pew Hispanic Trends Project

While lopsided majorities of Hispanics and Asian Americans support creating a pathway to citizenship [amnesty] for unauthorized immigrants [illegal aliens], two new surveys also show that these groups believe it is more important for unauthorized immigrants to get relief from the threat of deportation...

Percent...

To fight the cartel, Mexican emigrants return to their hometowns
Many who have long lived in California travel or send resources to central Mexico to support militias standing up for their communities ...
Los Angeles Times

Martin Cruz was chopping onions in the cramped kitchen of the Birrieria Apatzingan restaurant in Pacoima and talking with his co-worker Bertha Infante about the violence that has gripped their hometown — the namesake of the eatery where they work.

Cruz, 47, and Infante, 36, are from Apatzingan in the Mexican state of...

Putting the ‘I’ in immigration reform
Focusing on Rep. Mike Coffman in Congressional District 6
Aurora Sentinal

...For Colorado’s third-largest city, with more than 90 languages spoken and the state’s most-diverse populace... immigration reform is a long, complicated, costly and cumbersome process.

Congress is gearing up for a fight in the House over comprehensive immigration reform [amnesty for illegal aliens]... Colorado’s...

Backdoor Amnesty: Deportation Cases Closed by 'Prosecutorial Discretion' Up Almost 70%
Breitbart

More immigrants [and illegal aliens] facing deportation in immigration courts across the nation are having their court cases closed because of Obama’s prosecutorial discretion policy, researchers at Syracuse University found.

Meanwhile, the number of removal proceedings initiated in immigration courts by the U.S....

Doublespeak on Immigration
FAIR

President Obama and the Democrats pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens have worked hard and successfully with the cooperation of the major media outlets to change the terms of the debate. They have largely succeeded in getting the term “amnesty” removed from the debate. They have adopted a lexicon used by their advocates...

The US Chamber Of Commerce Versus America
VDare

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a politically entrenched synod of special interests. These fat cats do not represent the best interests of American entrepreneurs, American workers, American parents and students, or Americans of any race, class or age who believe in low taxes and limited government. The Chamber's business is...

Path to What, and When?
Huffington Post

House Speaker John Boehner is set to unveil his counter to the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform [amnesty for illegal aliens] bill...

...the real question is at once more subtle and more important: Will the GOP plan lead to 'green cards,' and if so, when?

Current immigration law divides all visas...

Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants Is Still a Bad Idea
The NAtional Interest

Leaders in the House of Representatives are reportedly about to release “principles” for immigration. If these proposals include amnesty, they will be a step in the wrong direction.

Among other things, their proposals reportedly would include legal status for some of the 11 million [to 40 million] or so people in the...

House GOP Plans To Save Obama With Immigration Reform
Investors Business Daily

President Obama expects House Republicans to jump-start his presidency by embracing amnesty for illegal aliens. But if it does, the GOP could wreck its chances to take back the Senate.

Republicans should own the issue of immigration. After all, the last time — 1986 — the nation took the "comprehensive" approach that...

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