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State closer to immigrant license showdown
Post Independent
The Colorado Legislature moved closer Thursday to a partisan showdown over granting driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally.   The GOP Senate gave preliminary approval Thursday to a bill blocking money for the state agency that oversees driver’s licenses ...   The Senate has one more procedural vote before...
DHS creates path to citizenship for Dreamers: report
The Washington Times

The Obama administration quietly told Congress this week that its deportation amnesty programs will, in fact, include a pathway to citizenship, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who said that breaks a promise President Obama made to the country when he announced the program.

“Under the...

DHS Confirms Obama's Amnesty Isn't Temporary
Townhall

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday that thousands of illegal [alien] immigrants granted temporary amnesty through President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will also get permanent U.S. citizenship thanks to how DHS is administering the program.

When Obama first announced...

For Every New Job, Two New Immigrants
Since 2000: 9.3 million new jobs, 18 million new immigrants
Center for Immigration Studies

The Center for Immigration Studies reports that government data collected in December 2014 show 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the United States who arrived in January 2000 or later. But only 9.3 million jobs were added over this time period. Yet Congress is actually considering proposals to increase...

Illegals Complaining to Border Patrol Over Long Wait to Get Caught
Breitbart

Monday on NewsMax TV’s “America’s Forum,” while discussing his trip to the South Texas border, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said not only are we not deporting illegal [alien] immigrants crossing the border, but now because of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, they are waiting to get “caught.’...

Johnson said...

Half-million U.S. women mutilated in barbaric practice
Curtis Ellis

UNITED NATIONS – A disturbing Population Research Bureau report indicates the number of women in the United States at risk of ritual female genital mutilation has doubled in 10 years, in tandem with the increase in immigration from Muslim countries in Africa.

The practice, also known as female circumcision, is common...

Issa: Edison's use of visa program 'deeply disturbing'
U-T San Diego

Congressman Darrell Issa called Southern California Edison’s apparent use of the federal H-1B visa program to replace part of its workforce “deeply disturbing” in a statement issued Friday. The utility, which provides electricity to much of Southern California but not to San Diego County, is laying off about 400 information...

California: Hundreds of American IT Workers Are Replaced by Foreigners using H-1b Visas
Limits to Growth

The President likes to talk up the American middle class and how he is working to protect it. Meanwhile in the real world, the middle class is shrinking because of Washington policies like mass immigration, outsourcing and excess regulation.

Obama has courted the billionaires of Silicon Valley to be supporters, and...

Larimer Sheriff Justin Smith calls Homeland Security letter a veiled threat over immigration, budget
7 News

Larimer County's sheriff says he received a "veiled threat letter" from the Secretary of Homeland Security warning him to support President Obama's new immigration policy or face a loss of funding...

[Sheriff] Justin Smith says the letter warns, "that if Congress didn't send President Obama the DHS funding bill...

IRS offers extra tax refunds to illegal immigrants granted amnesty by Obama
Washington Times

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen confirmed Tuesday that illegal immigrants granted amnesty from deportation under President Obama’s new policies would be able to get extra refunds from the IRS for money they earned while working illegally, as long as they filed returns during those years.

Illegal immigrants who are...

Government Data Reveals Shadow Work Authorization System for Illegal Aliens
Center for Immigration Studies

The Center for Immigration Studies reports that a shadow immigrant work authorization system, outside the limits set by Congress, has been issuing work permits at an astounding rate. Records received from USCIS through a Freedom of Information Request reveal that from 2009 to 2014, the agency issued 5,461,568 new work...

Denver Post Poll on drivers licenses for illegal aliens
The Denver Post

Are legislative Republicans right to block funding for Colorado's program that provides driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally?

Total Votes = 5747

YES
 3994 Votes, or  69.49 %   NO  1753 Votes, or  30.50 % ---- Actual impacts released Feb. 2. 2015:   For individuals with...
Immigration, Outsourcing And Now Fast-Tracking TP - When Will GOP Stand Up For Americans?
VDare

Last November, Republicans grew their strength in Congress to levels unseen since 1946...

And, so, what is the first order of business now in the Ways and Means Committee of Paul Ryan and Senate Finance Committee of Orrin Hatch?

“The first thing we ought to do,” says Ryan, “is pass trade promotion...

1,000 Criminal Immigrants Released in 2013 Committed New Crimes
Breitbart

One thousand criminal immigrants [illegal aliens] released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in fiscal year 2013 went on to commit new crimes, according to a new Department of Homeland Security document.

DHS provided the document to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who...

Vermont DMV backpedals on fraudulent license applications by illegals
Vermont Watchdog

A tight-lipped investigation into fraudulent driver’s license applications from out-of-state illegals is producing conflicting details as political pressure mounts from migrant rights groups.

On Tuesday, Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Robert Ide told the House Transportation Committee the department...

Virginia Lawmaker Explains: Dems Need Illegal Immigrants to Vote
Breitbart

As the Senate considers whether to take up a House-passed bill that aims to roll back President Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal aliens, lawmakers might want to check with their constituents.

Americans oppose greater immigration. A new Gallup poll finds just seven percent want more immigration, and 39 percent...

Govt Tells Agents to ID Which Illegal Aliens Not to Deport
American Renaissance

The Obama administration has ordered immigration agents to ask immigrants [illegal aliens] they encounter living in the country illegally whether they might qualify under President Barack Obama’s plans to avoid deporting them, according to internal training materials obtained by The Associated Press.

Agents also have...

State to slash driver’s license program for undocumented immigrants
Fox 31

The Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles is making cuts that will affect undocumented immigrants who are seeking a driver’s license ...

Last week, Republican lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee voted not to approve additional funding for offices that provide driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants ......

German Anti-Islamisation Marches: What the Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You to Know
Breitbart

LEIPZIG, Germany – Wednesday night saw a flare of violence and an accompanying police operation on a scale without precedent in recent German history. A group opposing militant Islam in Europe has called a demonstration, the city is deafened by political slogans played over loudspeakers, property is vandalised, and...

Colorado GOP leaders reject funds for noncitizen driver's license law
The Denver Post

Colorado Republican lawmakers rejected Wednesday a request to shore up the state's already starved-for-cash driver's license program for those living in the country illegally.

GOP members on the legislature's Joint Budget Committee took advantage of momentary majority and voted against a plan to extend a supplemental...

If The GOP Leadership Believes Obama’s Amnesty Is Unconstitutional, Why Can’t They Even CONSIDER Impeaching Him?
VDare

The GOP House Leadership finally passed some immigration legislation that would be useful if it were actually designed to be implemented. Unfortunately, it’s simply a show for the rubes—the party Establishment has no intention of serious opposition to President Obama’s unilateral Amnesty/Immigration Surge.

But they...

Anti-Amnesty Leaders: New House Border Bill ‘Flawed,’ Could Be Bigger Immigration Package ‘Stalking Horse’
Breitbart

A new bill from Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, may be nothing more than a stalking horse for a larger immigration package that House Republican leadership seeks, anti-amnesty leaders tell Breitbart News. What’s more, they say, despite all the hype and promises from McCaul...

Free-speech hypocrisy knows no bounds
U.S. campuses would bar Muhammad cartoons
World Net Daily

...In France and across Europe this past week we witnessed a display of public outrage against the jihadists’ murder of 10 journalists at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices. “We are Charlie” placards and banners were carried by thousands of marchers in an effort to send a message to Islamic terrorists that Frenchmen will...

House Votes to Restore Constitution
PowerLine

Following up on promises made during last year’s lame duck session, the House voted today to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and to prohibit spending to further President Obama’s illegal orders on immigration. The final vote was 236-191. The original DHS appropriations bill is here; the amendments that prohibit...

Illegal aliens can now get Mexican birth certificates in US
CNS News

The Mexican government on Thursday will start issuing birth certificates to its citizens at consulates in the United States, seeking to make it easier for them to apply for U.S. work permits, driver's licenses and protection from deportation.

Until now, Mexico has required citizens to get birth certificates at...

The Troubling Math of Muslim Migration
Preventing a Paris-style attack is, in part, a numbers game. Americans don’t seem to be paying attention.
National Review Online

A major Islamist terror attack in France was only a matter of time. For several decades, the country has invited immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa en masse – first to bolster the labor force in the rebuilding years that followed World War II, then out of multicultural impulses that prevailed over prudential...

Speaker Boehner Quotes All 22 Times Obama Has Said He Could Not Do Exec. Amnesty
Breitbart

House Speaker John Boehner took to the House Floor Wednesday — ahead of a series of votes to block President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty — to take the president to task for his executive orders on immigration.

In a pointed speech directed squarely at the president’s actions, Boehner quoted each of the 22 times...

Catch and Release 2.0 — Leaks Highlight Teardown of Immigration Enforcement
Breitbart

Leaked internal training documents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveal Border Patrol agents are now receiving guidelines instructing them that the vast majority of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are off limits to federal agents and are substantially immune to detention and deportation. A trusted federal...

Undocumented immigrants in New York get ID cards to open bank accounts
New IDNYC card, introduced in New York on Monday, will give undocumented immigrants an ID card to open bank accounts and enter federal buildings
The Guardian

Lupe is a 35-year-old mother of three who immigrated to New York in 2003 from the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz. On Monday, she says, “The system will acknowledge for the first time that I exist.”

The reason: New York City will unveil a new municipal ID program that could bring big changes for the city’s large...

National Data: Right In Time For Obamnesty Debate, December Jobs Data Shows Immigrant Displacement Of American Workers Still At Record Levels
VDare

Capping the best year for the job market since the recession began eight years ago, employers added 252,000 jobs in December 2014. It was the eleventh month in a row that employment rose more than 200,000—the longest such streak since 1995. Of course, thanks mainly to immigration, U.S. population is considerably larger now...

Mideast Immigrants to US Pose Huge Security Threat
NewsMax

A new study shows that the number of immigrants in the United States jumped 3 percent in three years — to a record 41.3 million in 2013 — and that the nearly 300,000 who came from Muslim countries pose a major national security threat, the report's co-author told Newsmax on Thursday.

"All of that does raise national...

Syrian Muslims headed to your state!
Refugee Resettlement Watch

From Refugee Resettlement Watch:

As I sit fixated on the terrible news from France as it comes in (the country that until recently led Europe with its love of  multiculturalism and one of the first to open its doors to Muslim migrants) what are readers most interested in here at Refugee Resettlement Watch? It is...

More than 600 Detained Illegal Aliens Released From ICE Custody Due To Exec. Actions
Brietbart

Since the Obama administration altered the nation’s immigration enforcement policies in November with the president’s executive actions, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released more than 600 detained immigrants from custody.

An ICE official explains to Breitbart News that, following Obama’s announcement, ICE...

Stopping Obama's Amnesty is the Battle of Our Time
Conservative Review

Every generation of conservative leaders must rise to the occasion to confront the challenge of the time. The challenge at present is to stop Obama’s war on our borders and thereby his war on the rule of law. Will conservatives rise to the occasion?...

Last week, emboldened by the blank check granted by Boehner and...

Obama Will Shut Border Agency To Aid Illegals, Says Aide
Daily Caller

President Barack Obama will block 2015 funding for the Department of Homeland Security if Republicans includes spending curbs on the president’s executive amnesty, says a top aide.

That amnesty action includes the award of work permits, drivers’ licenses, Social Security cards and tax rebates to at least four...

Contrary to Administration Claims, Surge Border-Jumpers Not Being Deported
91% have absconded from their proceedings after release
Center for Immigration Studies

Only a tiny fraction of the families and children who crossed in the border surge of 2012-14 are being returned to their home countries, despite Obama administration claims that the cases are a priority, according to a Houston television station's investigative report. Only a few of the illegal family or child arrivals are...

Visas for wealthy soar under Obama despite fraud concerns
Program for wealthy capitalists increases 700% under Obama
The Washington Times

While President Obama’s grant of amnesty for nearly 5 million illegal immigrants is drawing furious criticism, a little-known visa program for wealthy foreign investors also is mushrooming on his watch despite a history of fraud and concerns in Congress about potential national security risks.

Since Mr. Obama took...

Editorial - The problem of dual citizenship
LA Times

Before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, immigrants must take an oath that says, in part, "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen."

...
Unions to Recruit Immigrants Covered by Obama Amnesty
Newsmax

Labor unions are eyeing an estimated four million immigrants [illegal aliens] who entered the United States illegally as a prize pool of new recruits for their struggling movement, now that President Barack Obama has used an executive decree of amnesty to shield the migrants from being deported, Fox News reports.

...

The border invasion continues as more illegal alien “children” and mothers arrive in Texas…
…..over 100 a day says head nun at Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.
Refugee Resettlement Watch

From the Tucson Sentinel

McALLEN, Texas — The media tent that once stood in the parking lot of Sacred Heart Church is gone, as are the television crews and reporters who descended this summer when the flow of Central American immigrants illegally crossing the Texas border was major news.

But after a brief lull,...

More Census Bureau Propaganda
Occidental Observer

Here we go again. More politicised demographic predictions from the Census Bureau.  These projections are then hyped by the Brookings Institute, and then by a wide array of mainstream media, from the New York Times to the New Republic. The take home message? White people need to give up the fight to govern themselves...

Illegal immigration up, deportations down in 2014: DHS
The Washington Times

The number of illegal immigrants crossing the border rose in 2014, while deportations dropped, according to new statistics Homeland Security released Friday in a pre-holiday data dump that signaled potential problems on both sides of the immigration enforcement equation.

Apprehensions on the border, which Homeland...

Republican Amnesty: In Lies We Trust
Western Journalism

It was a Republican electoral head fake.

They always favored amnesty; but prior to the mid-term elections, in order to mobilize their voter base, the Republican leadership pretended to oppose Barack Obama’s threat of executive amnesty.

On February 24, 2014, the US Chamber of Commerce, the heart and soul of...

U.S. top court bars Arizona from denying driver's licenses to immigrants
Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the state of Arizona from enforcing a policy that denies driver's licenses to young immigrants granted legal status by President Barack Obama in 2012.

The court denied the request by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to place a hold on a ruling from the San Francisco-based 9th...

UK: Britain's Soaring Population Due 'Almost Entirely' to Immigration
Breitbart UK

A new study has cast doubt on the government's official immigration figures, claiming that a higher than previously thought 84 percent of population growth this century so far has been caused by migration, and that figure could rise to 100 percent in 25 years. 

The remarkable figures come from Sir Andrew Green's...

District Court Judge Rules Executive Amnesty Unconstitutional
Breitbart

A federal district court judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that portions of President Obama’s executive amnesty are unconstitutional, according to the Washington Post.

Western Pennsylvania District Judge Arthur Schwab concluded in his opinion that Obama’s executive actions go “beyond prosecutorial discretion” and...

Undocumented Immigrants Line Up for Door Opened by Obama

They pushed strollers, tugged toddlers and streamed into the convention center in the heart of this city on Sunday, thousands of immigrants here illegally and anxious to find out if they could gain protection from deportation under executive actions by President Obama.

The crowd, waiting in a long snaking line to...

Seven More States Join Suit Against Obama's Amnesty Bringing Total To 24
Townhall

Seven states joined Texas's lawsuit challenging President Obama's executive amnesty plan this week, brining the total number of states on the suit to 24.

"More than 20 states have joined our challenge against the president’s unilateral executive action to bypass Congress and rewrite immigration laws," Texas...

Boehner Drops 1,603-Page Omnibus Spending Bill, Securing Future of Obama's Amnesty
Breitbart

Election results in November that emboldened the House Republican majority and delivered the U.S. Senate majority to the GOP be damned, House Speaker John Boehner is desperately turning to the Democrats to pass his omnibus bill that enables President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.

The full bill...  is 1,603 pages...

November Jobs: Immigrants Are the (Only) Winners
VDare

...“According to BLS, the job gains were universal.” Mainstream economists gushed shamelessly over the apparent good news contained in the latest jobs report. [Economists wowed by strong payrolls number By Robert Schroeder, CBS MarketWatch, December 5, 2014]...

At first glance the headline numbers seem to support...

'Latino Urbanism' influences a Los Angeles in flux
The Los Angeles Times

Work crews in recent weeks have made major design changes to Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, widening the sidewalks and adding planters, chairs and round cafe tables with bright-red umbrellas where rows of parked cars used to be. The upgrades aim to make the street as welcoming to pedestrians as drivers.

They're...

Rep. Mike Coffman votes to uphold Obama amnesty
Lamborn, Gardner vote to overturn Obama immigration order
Gazette

Colorado's next Senator, Rep. Cory Gardner, voted Thursday with most House Republicans to repeal President Obama's order allowing more than 4 million immigrants in the country illegally to stay, triggering accusations that his pledge to help immigrant communities during his campaign this year was hollow.

Gardner's...

Court ruling challenges Obama immigration action
Watchdog.org

n a ruling that could short-circuit one of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, a federal court has allowed U.S. tech workers to challenge extensions of foreign laborers’ status here.

The case of Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has “major...

Boehner Negotiates Terms of Surrender to King Barack's Executive Amnesty
Breitbart

Republicans in Washington, under the tutelage of House Speaker John Boehner, are planning a full-scale cave to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, by aiming to fund Obama’s immigration action in full this week.

Boehner on Tuesday pitched colleagues on a plan that utilizes bills from the reliably...

Obamacare offers firms $3,000 incentive to hire illegals over native-born workers
Washington Times

Under the president’s new amnesty, businesses will have a $3,000-per-employee incentive to hire illegal [alien] immigrants over native-born workers because of a quirk of Obamacare.

President Obama’s temporary amnesty, which lasts three years, declares up to 5 million illegal immigrants to be lawfully in the country...

Congressional Research Service: Congress Has Power to Block Funding for Obama's Executive Amnesty
Breitbart

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has concluded that House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) is wrong, and that Congress can in fact block funding for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty order.

“In light of Congress’s constitutional power over the purse, the Supreme Court has...

Illegal immigrants to be eligible for Social Security, Medicare
Fox News

Illegal immigrants who apply for work permits in the U.S. under President Obama’s new executive actions will be eligible for Social Security and Medicare, the White House says.

Under the sweeping actions, immigrants who are spared deportation could obtain work permits and a Social Security number, which would allow...

Executive Action for Immigration
Canada Free Press

The President’s “immigration accountability executive action” has confused many Americans since a president’s action is more or less a “wish list” and does not have the legally binding power of an executive order. Unlike an executive order, an executive action is not published in the Federal Register.

An executive...

Robert Rector: Amnestied Illegal Immigrants to Cost Taxpayers $2 Trillion Over Their Lifetime
Breitbart

The undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens] granted amnesty by President Barack Obama’s executive orders will likely cost taxpayers $2 trillion, according to Heritage Foundation poverty  expert Robert Rector. 

“The net cost — which is total benefits minus total benefits paid in — of the amnesty recipients I...

Alien Tidal Wave Now Assured
Canada Free Press

...Pity our children. They must live in the desolate country we are creating for them...

The highest of our leaders, our President, has just come in front of us to set in motion a leprosy of executive actions that must tear down our safety, stability, and legitimacy as a culture. He has inserted a Trojan Horse of...

Alinsky Does Amnesty
The only limit on the president’s power that he recognizes is political expediency
National Review Online

President Obama is an Alinskyite.

...Saul Alinsky was a loathsome figure — a radical statist who whose toxic brew of thoroughgoing deceit and brass-knuckles extortion (“direct action”) has become a part of mainstream politics. But in tying the president to the seminal community organizer whose theories and tactics so...

The 1986 Amnesty’s Baby Bubble
VDare

This graph is from p. 26 of the Public Policy Institute of California’s 2002 book, Understanding the Future of Californians’ Fertility: The Role of Immigrants by PPIC demographers Laura E. Hill and Hans P. Johnson. They calculated the Total Fertility Rates (babies per woman per lifetime) by ethnicity in California...

America Has Been Warned: Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Breitbart

..What can a chronicler of barbarian invasions, writing in the 18th century, explain to Americans in the 21st century?What lessons can we learn today from the fall of an ancient empire? Plenty. Many.

Indeed, as immigration is a hot issue today, we might look to long-ago scholarship to remind us that the basic...

A Republic, If We Can Keep It: The Founders vs. 'Emperor Obama'
Breitbart

As “Emperor Obama”—to cite a title applied to Barack Obama by House Speaker John Boehner, Senator Jeff Sessions, and others—proceeds with his plan to trample the Constitution by issuing an Executive Order on amnesty for illegals, perhaps it’s worth looking back to see how the authors of the Constitution might have reacted...

How Our Democracy Works
National Review Online

The executive actions on immigration that President Obama announced yesterday, and the two kinds of modes in which his administration made the announcement (a presidential speech and a Department of Justice legal memo), highlight the challenge of thinking constitutionally in an age when constitutional thought and legal...

Why the President Will Go Through with His Threat to Act Unilaterally on Immigration Policy
Center for Immigration Studies

The president has placed himself in a box of his own making. The construction of that box began in 2008 when he first ran for the presidency. At a campaign event, he said this about his commitment to passing "comprehensive immigration reform": "I will make it a top priority of my first year as president."1

He didn'...

Three things that are illegal about Obama's immigration plan
Fox News

...If Obama ever finds himself in a court of law, he would surely be advised to invoke the Fifth Amendment. He is prone to contradiction and tends to be a good witness against himself...

Consider his self-incriminating statements on immigration and executive powers. A year ago, when asked if he had the authority to...

Obama’s Amnesty Plan: A Step to Non-Citizen Voting
The Fiscal Times

Prsident Obama has vowed to grant amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens]...

Some on the right accuse Democrats of wanting to stack the deck in their favor by opening our doors to millions of mostly Hispanic immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The reasoning is simple: Latinos have...

Video: Five Times Obama Made His Case Against Executive Amnesty – And What He's Saying Now
Breitbart

1. 2011 Univision town hall:

“There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president,” he said.

...
22 Times President Obama Said He Couldn't Ignore or Create His Own Immigration Law
John Boehner, Speaker of the House

With the White House poised to grant executive amnesty any day now despite the American people’s staunch opposition, on Sunday President Obama was asked about the many, many statements he made in the past about his inability to unilaterally change or ignore immigration law. His response was astonishingly brazen: “Actually,...

Looming Obamnesty Just A Symptom Of America’s Democidal Democracy
VDare
The Obama Amnesty, threatened as early as this week, is bigger than the perfidy of one President—it’s a systemic failing of our form of government. Our ruling elite clearly has a positive interest in making life worse for the majority of people in the country and in actively degrading the concept of citizenship. Our democidal...
Obama ices the cake of his new America
We either stop destruction of our country, or all is lost
World Net Daily
Right now, Obama and his administration are obsessed with immigration. His goal is not to reform our laws to make them work and put logical restrictions on the number and type of immigrants we allow across our borders, either as visitors, residents or, ultimately, new citizens.   His goals are to increase the numbers of...
Obama: 'There Are Certain Things I Cannot Do' Unilaterally on Immigration
Breitbart
On Sunday, President Barack Obama conceded that there are some things he "cannot do" unilaterally on immigration.   At a G20 press conference in Australia, Obama was asked why in years past he has said he could not act as an "emperor" or a "king" to "just do things by myself" on immigration. He was also asked what has...
Video: Obama confirms executive amnesty is unconstitutional
YouTube

The president makes the case that he has to enforce the "laws on the books" on immigration and can't just bypass Congress.

 

Related article

Obama: 'There Are Certain Things I Cannot Do' Unilaterally on Immigration, Breitbart, November 17, 2014.

Reflections On Our American Republic
The Progressive RINO Establishment is selling us down the river
Canada Free Press
The Progressive RINO Establishment is selling us down the river, as they imbibe with cavalier abandon the good life inside a rainbows-and-unicorns Beltway Bubble; a place where virtue and principle have no redeeming equitable value: in fact, quite the opposite.   Morality creates problems if one is interested in conducting...
State Department puts out $5 million reward for U.S.-born Zetas leader
Fox News Latino

The U.S. State Department has put out a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of an American citizen who allegedly heads a faction of the ultra-violent Zetas drug cartel in southern Mexico.

José María Guízar Valencia, also known as "El Charly" or "Z-43," is wanted by U.S. authorities ...

“The...
March of the Non-White Babies
MSN News

By 2050, there will be no racial majority in the United States. "Minorities"—or groups that are thought of as minorities now—will outnumber the white population ...

The share of so-called "new minorities"—Hispanics, Asians and multi-racial groups in America—is going to double. If your first guess is that this is all...

Father Asks Obama to Use Executive Order to Bring Son Slain by Illegal Alien Back to Life
Breitbart

A grieving father is asking President Barack Obama to bring his son, who was killed by an illegal alien, back to life with an executive order on immigration. 

“While your Executive Order pad is out, can you write one to bring my son and the tens of thousands (actually over 100,000) killed by illegal aliens back to...

Immigrant Families Benefit Significantly from Obamacare
Accounted for 42% of Medicaid growth since 2011
Center for Immigration Studies

A key part of the Affordable Care Act is Medicaid expansion for those with low incomes. A new analysis of government data by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under age 18) have been one of the primary beneficiaries of Medicaid growth. The data show that immigrants and...

42 percent of new Medicaid signups are immigrants, their children
The Examiner
Immigrants and their U.S.-born children make up more than 40 percent of new Medicaid recipients at a cost of $4.6 billion, according to an analysis of government data.   The Center for Immigration Studies, a low-immigration advocacy group, released a report early Thursday that found both legal and illegal immigrants and...
Report: Islamic State handlers lured Colorado girls, recruited others
The Denver Post

Three Arapahoe County girls stopped on their way to join the Islamic State interacted through Twitter with high-level militant recruiters who had already lured several Westerners to Syria, according to a new report from an international terror monitoring group.

The Westerners included a 33-year-old Minnesota man...

The Financial Costs of Illegal Immigration
National Center for Policy Analysis
Many people believe that illegal immigrants [aliens] receive little government welfare, but that is not the case, contends David Inserra, research associate with the Heritage Foundation. In a new report, Inserra provides some numbers on the fiscal cost of illegal immigration.   The typical American household received $31,...
Killed by Illegal Aliens: Victim Families Gather in Day of Remembrance
Breitbart

Stolen lives, that is how families refer to the death of their loved ones at the hands of criminals who were present in the country illegally when these men and women’s lives were stopped short. The Stolen Lives Quilt organization gathers these families and friends and on the National Remembrance Day to speak out not only...

Federal judge strikes down Arizona's controversial immigrant smuggling law
Fox News Latino

A federal judge has struck down Arizona's 2005 immigrant smuggling law on the grounds that it's trumped by federal statutes.

The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton marked the latest in a string of restrictions placed by the courts on Arizona's effort to get local police to confront illegal immigration...

Blue State Rejects Drivers Licenses for Illegal Aliens
Breitbart
The big story Tuesday night was the midterm shellacking Democrats took. Less amplified was the rejection of a law to provide drivers licenses to illegal immigrants [aliens] in the blue state of Oregon.    Measure 88 put the state’s law to grant people who cannot provide proof that they are in the U.S. legally to obtain...
Video: Ben Shapiro destroys the false premise that amnesty will solve Republican’s Hispanic problem


Establishment Republicans believe that Hispanic immigrants and illegal aliensare a natural conservative constituency and that amnesty will entice them to support the GOP. Ben Shapiro takes a look at the polls to disprove this false premise.

 

Voter Fraud Looms on Close Electoral Races
Limits To Growth
With the vital mid-term elections coming up on Tuesday, the frequency of voter fraud has been a worrying sidebar. But we shouldn’t be surprised, given the enormous illegal alien population that has grown in its numbers and sense of entitlement.   It’s crazy to work hard for worthy candidates and spend billions of dollars...
Report: 94% Of Illegal Border Crossers Skip Court Hearings Over 11-Week Period
Breitbart

Thousands of family units that recently entered the United States illegally failed to appear before immigration judges between July 18 and October 7 of this year.

Documents from the Executive Office of Immigration Review provided to the House Judiciary Committee this week and exclusively obtained by Breitbart News...

Insuring undocumented immigrant drivers won't be cheap
Connecticut Post

When the state decided to begin issuing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants, one reason was the belief that properly licensed drivers were more likely to get properly insured.

But when these newly licensed drivers start looking for insurance, they might find it won't come cheap ...

Donna Tommelleo, a...

License, ID card policies stir concerns over illegal immigrants voting
Fox News

As more states begin providing illegal immigrants and their children with driver's licenses and ID cards, officials are concerned some also are registering to vote -- some by mistake, and others on purpose.

The problem came to light recently in North Carolina, which compared its voter rolls against a federal...

Illegal aliens send home $50 billion annually but cost taxpayers more than $113 billion
Immigration Reform

Illegal immigrants [aliens] residing in the U.S. send $50 billion in remittances to their home countries each year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The World Bank estimates that number is even higher, closer to $120 billion.

To put that figure into context, $50 billion is the same amount as the U.S....

Prop. 187 lives on today in a surprising way
A generation later, the controversial measure continues to shape California politics.
Orange County Register

[...] Proposition 187 – a measure Californians overwhelmingly voted into law on Nov. 8, 1994 – was never enacted. The law would have denied public services, including public education and non-emergency health care, to immigrants living in the state illegally. This summer, state legislators officially wiped it from the books...

Non-citizen immigrants who voted in 2008 and 2010 may have swung elections
Fox News Latino

Immigrants who are not naturalized, and therefore are ineligible to vote, are casting ballots, according to two Virginia political scientists.

The political scientists, who are professors at Old Dominion University, say their research found that while the number of immigrants who vote despite not being naturalized is...

La Raza [The Race] Promotes Washington Post Guide On Where People Can Vote Without An ID
Daily Caller

The pro-amnesty Hispanic activist organization the National Council of La Raza [The Race] helpfully promoted a Washington Post article explaining which states people can vote in without having to use a photo ID.

“Voter ID laws are at-issue across the country, with newly Republican-controlled legislatures having...

The Voter-ID Myth Crashes
Enough non-citizens vote to decide close elections, a new study shows. Guess which party they favor?
National Review

...The Democrats have made a number of arguments against voter-ID laws. They argue a) that the problem of voter impersonation or in-person voter fraud is nonexistent; b) that black and poor voters are more likely than others to lack a valid ID; and c) that Republicans are attempting to “suppress” the votes of Democratic...

Obama’s immigration plan would hurt black workers: Civil-rights commissioner
Washington Times
A member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights told President Obama Monday that the administration’s reported plan to grant work permits to millions of illegal immigrants of illegal immigrants would have a harmful effect on black American workers.   Peter Kirsanow, a Republican appointee to the panel, said in a letter to...
Non-Citizen Voting and the 2014 Election
National Review

The Washington Post created a stir last week when it published a piece by two political scientists that revealed the findings from their study on non-citizen voting. Using some survey data, they found that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent voted in 2010.

These numbers are admittedly small,...

Denver charter schools face long list of requirements for ELLs [English-language learners]
The Denver Post

No public school in Denver can claim the academic accolades of Denver School of Science and Technology, or DSST, a network of charter schools vying to create schools as diverse as the city. No public school in Denver had lower academic growth than SOAR Oakland, a northeast Denver charter school that tried to turn around a...

Three decades after order, Denver schools still struggle to teach English
The Denver Post

Three decades after federal courts ordered Denver Public Schools to better serve English learners, its efforts remain plagued by inconsistencies and a large number of students who haven't shown progress in learning the language.

The district is two years into its latest plan to educate English learners, who make up...

Could non-citizens decide the November election?
Yes - non-citizens are voting
Washington Post

Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens? Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential, with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor and minority voters from exercising the franchise, while others define such...

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