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The injunction that has blocked President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty will remain in place following the ruling of a federal judge Tuesday night in this Texas border city.
In a late night ruling, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen sided with the State of Texas and 25 other states that are suing to stop the...
Most economists expected job creation to slow a bit in March, but few expected such a steep drop: the economy created just 126,000 jobs last month, the smallest gain since the end of 2013. Still worse, reported job gains for the first three months of the year were revised downward by a combined 69,000. There’s now debate...
...For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life — 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland and coastline, shimmering with ambition and dreams, money and beauty...
The 25 percent cut in water consumption ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown raises fundamental questions...
...California, supplier of nearly half of all US fruits, veggies, and nuts, is on track to experience the driest year in the past half millennium. Farms use about 80 percent of the state's "developed water," or water that's moved from its natural source to other areas via pipes and aqueducts...
In addition to farms...
More voters than ever feel the United States is not aggressive enough in deporting those who are here illegally, even as President Obama continues to push his plan to make up to five million illegal immigrants safe from deportation.
Just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. government is too aggressive in...
Last month, CR published a series of articles spotlighting the surge in Muslim immigration to America and noted that, if a stronger vetting process is not instated for immigrants from countries with a large concentrations of fundamentalist Muslims, America could easily head down the dangerous path to balkanization that is...
New information released Friday from the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows the agency has received nearly twice the number of applications for driver licenses from undocumented immigrants as projected ...
Immigrant advocates have cheered the licenses as a way to integrate immigrants who must drive to...
Like many sojourners to this country, Alejandro Fuentes Mena lives with uncertainty as U.S. immigration policy is debated in the courts, Congress and the White House. But as he awaits a final ruling on his own future, he’s helping other young people build their dreams.
Fuentes, who settled in the United States...
Muslim immigration from dangerous nations is dramatically higher in recent years, and government assurances that immigrants are being properly screened is “a farce,” according to accomplished author and columnist Paul Sperry.
“It’s a huge surge under Obama. In the last three years, he’s averaged 100,000 new...
The Supreme Court rejected a free-speech appeal Monday from several California high school students who were told they could not wear a shirt emblazoned with an American flag on the Cinco de Mayo holiday ...
The court's action has the effect of upholding school officials who said they acted because they feared an...
Here's a look at what you need to know about immigration to the United States ...
2013 - 990,553 people are granted lawful permanent residence in the United States. Approximately 40% of these "green card" recipients, or LPRs, were born in Asia, while about 32% were born in North America. The top countries of origin...
When President Obama issued a series of executive orders on immigration last November, he unleashed a fierce torrent of criticism for granting millions of undocumented immigrants a de-facto amnesty. Lost in all the attention paid to that fight, however, was a lesser known executive action taken at the same time, one which...
An illegal [alien] immigrant male residing in the United States is more likely to be gainfully employed than a male who is a legal immigrant or U.S.-born citizen, a senior demographer at the Pew Research Center think tank told lawmakers.
In 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, an estimated 91...
California school dispute that arose when students wore shirts emblazoned with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo could prompt the Supreme Court to take a new look at free-speech rules for high schools ...
The legal battle began on May 5, 2010, at Live Oak High School south of San Jose, when several students wore...
It’s spring and the weather is pleasant for travel from Central America to the American southwest compared with the brutal heat of summer. The illegal alien Centrals are attracted by the boatload of freebies they receive upon arrival in deluxe “detention” facilities before they are transferred to more permanent quarters...
For years now, we've been warning about the problematic "ISDS" -- "investor state dispute settlement" mechanisms that are a large part of the big trade agreements that countries have been negotiating. As we've noted, the ISDS name is designed to be boring, in an effort to hide the true impact -- but the reality is that...
Last week’s damaging Senate Judiciary Committee testimony (see here and here) suggests that legislation expanding H-1B program is going nowhere (which may be why the Regime is threatening one of its imperial decrees for guest workers: Indian IT Industry Gets a Boost As Obama Decides To Ease L-1B Visa Norms, by Mohul Gosh,...
Think of the 400 “birth tourism” babies born in Orange County in a single year as snuggled in little pink and blue bassinets waving tiny Stars and Stripes, and that’s a pretty nice image.
But then think of the $2 million the feds say an Irvine company made off mostly wealthy mothers who came to Orange County from...
The water crisis in California is reaching epic proportions.
And it’s going to cost everyone, big time.
After a sustained drought, NASA has reported that the state has less than one year of water reserves remaining, with no back up plan if things go wrong.
Now, there is so much demand for water in...
Rutgers Professor Hal Salzman was a standout witness in Tuesday’s Senate hearing because of his grasp of the facts and skill at explaining the danger to citizens’ employment from bad policies.
Senator Sessions questioned the professor on the subject of legislation:
SESSIONS: In an article that appeared in...
Southern California Edison recently laid off hundreds of employees, mostly from Irvine, and replaced them with tech workers from India – a move scrutinized Tuesday from Pomona to Washington, D.C.
The IT workers were forced to train their replacements, who were brought in from India on special tech visas.
The...
The Department of Homeland Security late Tuesday announced it will restart processing H-2B visas for temporary seasonal workers.
"It looks as if visa requests will be processed for those employers who have received their labor certifications," said Kristen Fefes, executive director of the Associated Landscape...
See also Senate Hearing Examines H-1b Visas and US Worker Displacement
You’ve heard it from Big Government lobbyists. You’ve heard it from Big Business lackeys in both political parties. And you’ve heard it from journalists, pundits and think-tankers ad nauseam:
The H-1B foreign guest worker program, they...
The struggling state program that grants driver's licenses to people living in the country illegally won funding approval Wednesday that would allow it to open more offices, but the money remains far below what officials say they need.
Weeks of contentious debate between the state House and Senate fizzled into quick,...
Colorado landscapers, hotel operators and other employers are scrambling to find seasonal help after the Department of Homeland Security abruptly stopped issuing temporary worker visas under its H-2B program ...
After Texas, Colorado draws the most H-2B visas, with 2,056 in the works. In the warmer months, the vast...The number has jumped dramatically as Muslim refugees have entered the US from Somalia, Ethiopia and to a lesser degree Egypt. The horrific practice has been illegal in the US for nearly 20 years!
This map is incredible since it almost state-for-state matches the highest refugee resettlement states in the US!...
The Gulf Cartel made $38 million smuggling illegal aliens during last year’s immigration surge, taking advantage of the situation to smuggle tons of drugs with little intervention by authorities. The quantification of the cartel’s involvement was made in a report by the top law enforcement agency in Texas.
As...
... the vast majority of the U.S.-Mexico border remains unsecured. Areas with frighteningly insufficient security are of particular concern in the state of Texas, largely due to differences in the nature between the transnational criminal organizations that control Mexico immediately south of Texas and the organizations...
...A publication sponsored by a large health insurer wanted me to comment on a study entitled, “Re-orienting the Safety Net For the Remaining Uninsured,” published by an innocent-sounding organization called Health-Access.org.
Seemed harmless at first. Until I read the whole report.
As I read the survey,...
For over a decade, armed drug traffickers were so prevalent in this vast desert monument that visitors were barred from entering more than half of it.
One law enforcement group dubbed it America’s most dangerous park for two years straight after drug smugglers gunned down a ranger.
But a series of...
Within the first couple of months of Obama’s illegal immigration executive action, at least ninety thousand Social Security cards were issued to illegal aliens. Now Republican Senators led by Ben Sasse and Jeff Sessions are asking the Obama administration to answer questions on how many additional social security cards were...
A five-day nationwide operation targeting convicted criminal aliens subject to removal from the United States yielded the arrest of 2,059 convicted criminals. The operation was led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) ...
The operation, dubbed “Cross Check,”...
The U.S. government on Thursday asked an appeals court to lift a temporary hold on President Barack Obama's executive action to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, arguing it can't wait for the judge who blocked the action to make a ruling on a similar request ...
Justice Department attorneys said that...
Some have argued for large-scale immigration on the grounds that it will make the U.S. population much younger. But those who study demographics have long known that immigration has only a small impact on slowing the aging of society. Further, a new analysis of government data by the Center for Immigration Studies shows...
As we have been writing ad nauseam lately, the Obama Administration is now out of the shadows with its plan to “seed” towns and cities across America with diversity.
‘Seed’ is their word! Your community is the soil into which the migrants of all sorts (legal and illegal) are being planted according to Obama’s Task...
The Center for Immigration Studies, in view of the president's amnesty-by-edict announced last year, has decided to re-publish a 1989 evaluation of the amnesty that came with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. "The U.S. Alien Legalization Program" was written when the co-authors were with Washington's now-...
There is much talk about the need for “comprehensive immigration reform”. With that in mind it would be useful to review what we as a nation learned, or should have learned, from our last big experiment in the field, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA).
It so happens that I had a lot of contact...
An audit conducted by the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) inspector general finds that thousands of social security numbers of people who are long deceased were used by illegal immigrants to apply for work, and some numbers were also used to open bank accounts.
CNSNews.com reports that the March 4 audit has...
Last Tuesday, the Obama administration revealed that it has already begun implementing part of its new executive amnesty program despite a federal court injunction putting the programs on hold. (See FAIR Legislative Update, Feb. 18, 2015) As part of the sweeping executive actions announced in November — and scheduled to...
Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that the Supreme Court probably made the wrong decision in 1982 when it ruled that public schools must provide free education to children who are in the country illegally ...
WHO host Jan Mickelson, an immigration hardliner, peppered Cruz with questions about Plyler v. Doe, a Texas case in...
A new report from the Census bureau predicts that nearly one-fifth of America’s total population will be foreign-born in a mere 45 years.
Immigrants, legal and illegal, will enjoy 85 percent growth — from 42 million to 78 million — by 2060.
In contrast, the native-born population, which includes children...
It was supposed to be a phone call for Obama administration ears only. But hear it the radio host did, she says. And what she heard should make your blood run cold—and perhaps your rage hot. Obama’s amnesty plan is to use illegal aliens as “seedlings,” said the federal officials. They will “navigate, not assimilate,” as...
White children will be outnumbered by minority kids in the United States in just five years, new Census Bureau projections...
Airfare from the U.S. to China and a months-long stay in an Orange County, Calif., apartment: $80,000. A baby born a U.S. citizen: priceless.
In the largest operation of its kind, early Tuesday morning federal officials in Southern California served warrants at "Chinese birthing houses" or "maternity hotels," where...
The IRS is defending its decision to let illegal immigrants claim up to three years’ refunds on income even if they never paid income taxes, telling Congress in a new letter last week that agency lawyers have concluded getting a Social Security number triggers the ability to go back and ask for previous refunds.
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Illegal aliens with ties to terrorist organizations have been working to bring other suspected terrorists into America through a wide open Texas border. This is just one of the many red flags raised by the state’s top law enforcement agency in a leaked report.
In a 68-page “law enforcement sensitive” report...
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Mexicans who were expelled from the country by immigration officials in Southern California will be allowed to return for a chance to make their case to stay in the United States, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday ...
The agreement applies to Mexicans who left...
A new study finds that Hispanic foreigners, both legal and illegal, will account for a large portion of future job growth, taking perhaps as many as 75 percent of the jobs created by 2020.
It’s expected that the Hispanic population present in the U.S. will enjoy 2.6 percent growth per year over the next 20 years,...
Illegal [alien] immigrants who are able to obtain Social Security Numbers and work permits as a result of President Obama’s executive amnesty could claim tens of thousands of dollars in back tax benefits, a new Congressional Research Service memo obtained first by Breitbart News reveals.
The report comes following...
Should funding of the Department of Homeland Security be dependent on a repeal of President Obama's executive actions on immigration?
Yes NoCAIRCO Notes:
What's happens if Homeland Security shuts down?
Claim:"If this goes to shutdown," Mikulski [U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski] said, "...
As Republicans work to overcome a Democratic filibuster of a House-passed Department of Homeland Security bill that blocks President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is highlighting the Obama administration’s long history of dismantling immigration laws.
In a lengthy timeline released...
As reported on Limits To Growth:
Ann Corcoran, editor of Refugee Resettlement Watch, appeared on Fox News on Thursday morning to discuss the refugee aspect to Obama’s open border.
CORCORAN: This is Obama’s continued lawlessness on the whole subject of immigration. This is the purview of Congress. The...
President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty will make it easier for illegal immigrants to improperly register and vote in elections, state elections officials testified to Congress on Thursday, saying that the driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers they will be granted create a major voting loophole.
While...
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...
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...
The market for Mexican marijuana has dried to a whiff and “everybody and his mother” is growing their own product, says a Puebloan who has been selling pot here for more than 20 years.
...Personal use and possession of marijuana was made legal in December 2012, but rec sales were first permitted on Jan. 1, 2014....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Are legislative Republicans right to block funding for Colorado's program that provides driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally?
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YESAs 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...
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...
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 ......
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 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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...
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...
