An illegal alien brutally murdered Laura Wilkerson's 18-year-old son in Texas, tied his body up, and then doused him with gasoline before burning him.
Wilkerson recalled the harrowing details on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, yet her story has gone unheard in the broader press.
Maria...
The United States has its roots in being a welcoming place for immigrants but that wasn't always the case
[...] While the United States has its roots in being a welcoming place for immigrants, that hasn't always been the case.
It is true that a wave of new arrivals flooded U.S. shores in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but a movement to restrict who was allowed into the country took hold as well.
In 1882...
Every corner of Colorado is facing a future with more people and less water
[...] Every corner of Colorado is facing a future with more people and less water ...
"The state continues to develop and we've got to provide for the long-term future of the residents here in Castle Rock as well as around the state," Marlowe said.
More and more communities are turning wastewater into drinking...
On Aug. 7, the head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority called for federal disaster relief to address the consequences of water scarcity in the Colorado River system. On Friday, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it would be forced to cut the flow of water into Lake Mead in 2014 to a historic low...
A nearly...
Center for Immigration Studies
WASHINGTON, DC (August 21, 2013) — An internationally recognized authority on immigration policy and a Fellow of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), Mr. David North, argues in a new video that the United States immigration policy is “tilted against the people at the bottom of the American labor market.”
The...
Pact Establishes Ongoing Collaborative Relationship Between the Two Entities
The Miami District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
The Miami District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Orlando today with the Consulate General of Mexico in Miami and Consulate of Mexico in Orlando. The agreement establishes an ongoing collaboration between these entities to provide...
House chairman rejects 'special' citizenship path
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is rejecting the idea of giving immigrants in the U.S. illegally a special pathway to citizenship.
Republican congressman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia told a town hall meeting in the Shenandoah Valley on Monday that the House must chart its own course on immigration even if...
CO College Grad behind scheme "Concern is terrorism"-recruited customers who could not legally enter the U.S.
Federal prosecutors call it a multi-million dollar global scheme with strong ties to Colorado.
A University of Denver graduate is in federal custody, accused of helping hundreds of Vietnamese citizens enter the United States illegally ...
The 28-page criminal complaint from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the ...
Pressure seems to be working-in first weeks of the congressional recess, a number of Republicans have come forward in support of Imigration Reform
Jim Avila and Serena Marshall
Distaste for one of President Obama's priorities seems to be offering a lifeline to a second.
One is already law; the other is working its way through Congress. One is Obamacare; the other, immigration reform.
As Congress enjoys its remaining two weeks at home over the August recess, Obamacare is dominating...
Two immigrant-rights bills advanced in the Legislature Monday.
[California] State lawmakers pressed ahead with controversial immigrant-rights legislation Monday, including a measure that would open up jury pools to noncitizens who have proof of residency and a separate bill to protect unauthorized immigrants when they seek legal help to stay in the U.S.
The full Senate vote...
An average of 30 people per day have arrived at San Diego ports seeking asylum
[...] The issue gained new attention last month after a group of nine immigration rights activists presented themselves at the Arizona border in Mexico seeking asylum. After spending several weeks in detention, they have been released into the United States pending hearings before an immigration judge who will make a final...
President Barack Obama has said that any immigration reform bill must include a path to citizenship.
'Swampland' Time Magazine
The Republican National Committee passed a resolution Friday calling on Congress to pass an immigration reform bill by the end of the year—but it stopped well short of the bipartisan compromise passed by the Senate earlier this year, omitting a “path to citizenship” for any class of illegal immigrant.
The resolution...
More than 500 brought to the country without authorization are expected to enroll at Colorado universities this year.
[...] Until this year, students at Colorado colleges without legal U.S. citizenship status qualified for the nonresident rate of tuition, which at Colorado State University exceeds the in-state rate more than three times over.
But when the Colorado Legislature passed the ASSET law this year granting in-state tuition...
As a reaction to the crack epidemic of the 1980s, many federal drug laws carry strict mandatory sentences. This has stirred unease in Congress...
Traditionally — meaning before Barack Obama — that’s how laws were changed: We have a problem, we hold hearings, we find some new arrangement ratified by Congress and...
* Related article " Border Station is more than checkpoint"
America's nuclear power plants and research labs remain vulnerable to terrorist attacks from the sea, sky and control room, despite tighter security imposed since 9/11, says a scholarly study prepared for the Pentagon and released Thursday ...
"The spent fuel pools are a very significant vulnerability, as we saw in...
Audrey Singer and Nicole Prchal Svajlenka
As Congress debates the fate of the “DREAMers”—those undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens] who arrived in the United States as children—the one-year anniversary of the start of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program occurs on August 15. The DACA program—an initiative of the Obama administration—does...
GOP will keep losing if it doesn't learn these lessons
At last Republicans can read a coherent explanation of why they didn’t win in 2012, despite high unemployment and a dismal economy, the unpopularity of Obamacare, and many scandals such as Fast and Furious. Best-selling author Dr. Jerome Corsi, who spent three weeks traveling with the Mitt Romney campaign, listening to...
Stifled by a variety of obstacles — from fees to fear
Stifled by a variety of obstacles — from fees to fear — fewer than half of those eligible for immigration relief have taken advantage of an Obama administration program launched a year ago, according to a new study.
About 49% of those eligible have applied for a work permit and a two-year reprieve from possible...
Dreamers want citizenship for all
Rally urges Coffman to support path to citizenship.
CAIRCO Research
Related articles, click here "Latest Pathway To Citizenship News" - ABC
The New Mexico Supreme Court is cautioning courts in the heavily Hispanic state that citizens who don't speak English still have the right to serve on juries.
Paul Davenport and Russell Contreras
The New Mexico Supreme Court is cautioning trial courts and lawyers in the heavily Hispanic state that citizens who don't speak English have the right to serve on juries — a right enshrined in the state constitution even if people are non-English speakers.
The court issued the admonition Monday in a unanimous ruling...
History will record that in 2013, the Republican Party establishment gambled away its historic opportunity to change the course of politics in America. The Republican Party leadership decided to play 2014 politics with the deck of cards handed them by the Democrats.
Despite all the evidence, all the lessons of...
Hispanics in the U.S. identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party over the Republican Party by about a 2-to-1 margin, regardless of whether they were U.S.-born. Hispanics born outside the U.S. do have slightly less attachment to either party, and are more likely to be politically independent, but these differences do...
“IQ is a metric of such dubiousness that almost no serious educational researcher uses it anymore,” the Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox wrote back in May. It was a breathtakingly ignorant statement. Psychologist Jelte Wicherts noted in response that a search for “IQ test” in Google’s academic database yielded more than 10,000 hits...
New polling data from Gallup shows that Hispanics, both those born inside U.S. and immigrants, are exponentially more likely to be Democrats than Republicans. In fact, the data show that as Hispanics become more integrated into American society (i.e., they and both their parents are born in America) they become more likely...
Several former Border Patrol Officers warned in an open letter that some American politicians are protecting the activities of Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S.
“We must never lose sight of the fact that the United States is the market place for the bulk of transnational criminal businesses engaged in human...
Sees ways for Republicans to work toward legal status for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens]
Orange County Register-Washington Bureau
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said in an interview Monday that he sees ways for Republicans to work toward legal status for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, but cautioned that border security must come first.
McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, is scheduled to speak Tuesday in Newport Beach at an event hosted...
John Kerry makes announcement from London
Spouses in same-sex marriages will be given the same preferential consideration in their visa applications now enjoyed by those in opposite-sex marriages, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Friday.
Kerry made the announcement in the consular section of the U.S. Embassy in London, one of the largest of the 222 visa...
Economic incentives alone typically do not induce otherwise law-abiding people to violate the law
Mexicans intending to cross the border illegally into the US are not significantly deterred by threats of arrest or the severity of possible punishment – the primary method for dealing with illegal immigration in the US – according to a new study of potential migrants.
[...] Ryo, a research fellow at Stanford Law...
DHS lost track of 1.6 million people 2 years ago-1,901 of them were deemed a significant national security threat
The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won't meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system.
The findings were revealed as Congress...
The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won’t meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system...
The government does track...
In a sharp memo sent this morning to fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill, Senator Jeff Sessions argues that the GOP elite view on immigration–shared by President Barack Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer–is “nonsense.” Instead, Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, advises his fellow Republicans to adopt...
FDA proposes rules for safer imported foods
9 News & University of Georgia
Chances are that about 15 percent of the food you eat - more if your diet includes lots of fruits, vegetables and cheese - comes from abroad, and the government is taking steps now to make it safer.
New rules proposed Friday by the Food and Drug Administration would make U.S. food importers responsible for ensuring that...
Because of countless languages and past political alliances, their culture is divided
There are more than 30,000 Ethiopian immigrants in the Denver area, but because of countless languages and past political alliances, their culture is divided.
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[...] A bloody, 17-year civil war that began in 1974 drove a mass migration to the United States ...Others followed to join families, for education,...
The British government has introduced a series of programs intended to reduce illegal immigration. One of them involves mobile billboards which are cruising around six London districts, telling illegals to “go home or face arrest.” They also give data on how many illegals have been apprehended in the neighborhood, and a...
NAFBPO - National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers wishes to draw America's attention to the fact that the massive alien population illegally present in the United States, often typified as benign huddled masses yearning to breathe free, is simply not as so often characterized. Based on past arrest figures, there is...
The Senate-passed immigration bill exempts millions of non-American workers from the health insurance mandate imposed on most Americans. Thus employers would not be penalized for failing to provide them with health coverage, making the newly legalized workers much cheaper to hire. See the problem?
Most of the...
A poll released Monday by Pew Research Center shows that Latino illegal immigrants [illegal aliens], given the opportunity to vote, would vote Democratic at an eight-to-one clip. 31 percent of illegal immigrants of Latino descent identify themselves as Democrats, compared to just 4 percent who identify as Republicans;...
Videos: Speakers Discuss S.744's Effect on American Workers
Center for Immigration Studies
The Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) organized the the DC March for Jobs, which was held on July 15, 2013, along with community leaders of all races from around the country. The march was organized in an attempt to stop Congress’ amnesty push, enforce immigration laws as written, and support policies that put black...
“The Media” are just people, and all people have their biases. Inevitably, those biases subtly creep into the stories they report. Rarely do you find bald-faced, deliberate distortions of the truth, especially in reputable media outlets. The July 17th edition of the Inside-the-Beltway publication, National Journal, isn’t...
Send free faxes to Congress to make sure they get the message from the march/rally. www.numbersusa.com
You would have been so proud to have been on Capitol Hill yesterday and seen all your fellow citizens braving incredible heat to support the Black American Leadership Alliance and its attempt to get Congress to...
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., both said the immigration bill they helped push through the Senate was designed to "bring people out of the shadows."
Yet, if illegal aliens are truly in the shadows, why has the Internal Revenue Service been able to find enough of them to pay them more than...
Tom Tancredo on tactics that serve 'political ambitions of the Democratic Party
If you have been wondering how a 1,200-page bill so full of contradictions, waivers, exemptions and loopholes garnered unanimous support from 54 Senate Democrats and 14 open-borders Senate Republicans, the answer is so obvious that even the smartest pundits have missed it. The bill’s stupidities are not an accident: It is...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently released a report, "Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean," that identifies both Mexican cartels and street gangs as conduits for individuals from Africa and Asia entering the U.S illegally. The report identifies the Islamic terrorist...
While the merits of building a fence along the USA’s southern border are debated in Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his nation’s new border fence is working very well, thank you...
Netanyahu, speaking publicly ahead of his weekly cabinet meeting, argued the fence has blocked 99 percent of...
Just as the U.S. House of Representatives is returning from the July 4 recess to take up the Schumer/Rubio Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill, the Labor Department has reported that unemployment remained stubbornly stuck at 7.6% in June, although the reported 195,000 jobs created in June was better than expected. This...
"...There are at least 8 million people not participating because they don't have the right to vote"
Guadalupe Prado used to celebrate the Fourth of July as this country's Independence Day: carne asada and hot dogs on the grill, the grandkids playing outside, neighbors and fireworks.
But now, the day holds new meaning: "It's the Independence Day of the country where I live and that adopted me" ...
Locally and...
Foreign-born employment up 5.3 million since 2000, US-born down 1.3 million
Center for Immigration Studies
A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of government data shows that from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2013 the number of native-born Americans holding a job fell by 1.3 million, even though the overall size of the working-age (16 to 65) native population increased by 16.4 million. Over the same time...
There are significant unreported loopholes and exceptions in the immigration-reform bill that could allow illegal immigrants to achieve permanent status before the border security portions of the legislation are executed...
...WND review of the latest text of the bill, with the new Republican “border surge”...
This investigative video reveals that drugs and illegal aliens cross the US-Mexico border into the Tohono O'odham Nation. Drug cartels are becoming more aggressive in smuggling drugs into the United States, while the US Border Patrol is becomming more aggressive in trying to halt criminal activity. Native Americans on the...
The Treason Lobby won a Pyrrhic victory on Thursday, passing the nation-breaking Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill through the Senate. This widely-anticipated action led to predictable Main Stream Media ululations, maudlin sentimentality, and veiled racial threats against the historic American nation on the part of the...
One in seven U.S. residents would be immigrants by 2020
Center for Immigration Studies
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) the Gang of Eight Bill (S.744) would dramatically increase legal immigration, while reducing future illegal immigration by only 25 percent. Based on CBO's numbers, the Center for Immigration Studies projects that under S.744 the foreign-born (legal and illegal) share of the...
You can build the largest fence in the world, and man it with a million border patrol agents, but if you invite hundreds of thousands of immigrants [illegal aliens] to enter the country legally every year on a “temporary” basis, and then fail to track whether or not they leave, you’ll still get a large illegal [alien]...
The results are in: virtually no one trusts the scripted mainstream media. We’ve known it for years, but a new Gallup poll shows that a whopping 77% of Americans distrust mainstream media television.
Only a bit more ‘trustworthy’ than Congress, which scored in at a record low of 90% saying they do not trust the...
Pete Williams and Erin McClam
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that requires people to submit proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
The vote was 7-2. Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said that a 1993 federal law known as the Motor Voter Act takes precedence over the Arizona law because of its...
Additional $54 million in welfare payments issued in April to illegal alien parents
The children of undocumented immigrants cost Los Angeles County more than $54 Million per month, Supervisor Mike Antonovich announced Friday.
In a press release, Antonovich said that the tally came from figures provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS).
The DPSS estimated that...
Center for Immigration Studies
The Schumer-Rubio bill, which will be debated by the full Senate starting next week, would allow unprecedented increases in the number of temporary workers. A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the bill finds that, in the first year, the bill (S.744) would admit nearly 1.6 million more temporary workers than...
Tom Tancredo decires 'Rubio Circus' pushing Obamacare-like proposal
One question keeps popping up in the debate over the U.S. Senate’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill, S.744. It’s not a question about what’s in the 1,000-page bill, it’s about the packaging. The arguments for the amnesty bill are so blatantly dishonest that they defy conventional logic and analysis...
If the amnesty...
In President Barack Obama's weekly address [June 8, 2013], he makes a hard sell for the Senate to pass the immigration reform bill currently under consideration. While describing a path to citizenship, the President takes an uncharacteristically harsh stance:
This bill would provide a pathway to earned citizenship for...
Unemployment ticked up to 7.6%, in May, according to the Payroll Survey. The economy created 175,000 jobs about the same average monthly job growth for the past year, but the labor force grew faster than employment. Nevertheless, the labor force participation rate for native-born Americans is lower this May than it was last...
Next week, the U.S. Senate is expected to begin deliberation on S.744, the Gang of Eight's secretly-negotiated bill that promises to deliver "comprehensive immigration reform." By "comprehensive," the sponsors mean giving amnesty to an estimated 12 million [to 20 million to 40 million] illegal aliens...
They also...
During debate on the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriations bill, the House voted cut off funds for implementing Administration policies that shield most illegal aliens from the threat of deportation. The 224-201 vote on an amendment sponsored by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) could be a harbinger of the difficulties...
The story so far: the 2013 Schumer-Rubio Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill, which aims to double legal immigration from what are already historic highs, must be regarded as the 1965 Immigration Act on steroids. The 1965 Act notoriously unleashed an era of mass immigration after a 40-year lull, and shifted the ethnic mix of...
The governor also signed dozens of bills in private Wednesday, some of them quite controversial.
Those included a measure to allow Colorado residents without legal immigration status to receive driver's licenses. Another would take firearms from domestic abusers. He insisted the private signings weren't meant to avoid...
The economic "recovery" just keeps getting worse for the average worker: U.S. employers squeezed their employees even harder than usual in the first quarter, leading to the biggest drop in hourly pay on record.
Hourly pay for nonfarm workers fell at a 3.8 percent annualized rate in the first quarter, the Bureau of...
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
Why do we have immigration laws?
It's really quite simple: they are designed to protect Americans and U.S. society from things that are seen at the time as dangerous or bad for us. While immigration to this country is, overall, a good thing, not all things about it are good. Immigration laws are designed to control those...
A proposal of amnesty does nothing to make our country safer. It does nothing to make it easier for legal residents to find a job. And it is fiscally irresponsible. So, exactly why would we do this?
Is it safe now to talk about illegal immigration in terms of national security and fiscal prudence?
For some...
A recent letter signed by a bipartisan group of black leaders states that with black unemployment at nearly double the rate as the national average, the new immigration reform bill will hurt the black population more significantly than other segments. The letter and commentary is highlighted in a June 3, 2013 article on...
As the U.S. is recovering from the Great Recession, Americans in general consider the economy, jobs, and budget deficit as their top priority. However, it is a critical moment for them to carefully examine current immigration bills, which are making remarkable progress in both the Senate and House. These bills amount to...
As the Obama administration attempts to press its version of immigration reform through Congress, here are three relevant issues unlikely to be considered in the debate.
First, you probably won't hear a thing about droughts, either present or future. Yet according to the Science World Report website, 2013 has the...
The Rubio-Schumer immigration bill in the Senate would legalize around 11 million [to 30 million] currently illegal immigrants [illegal aliens] 6 months after passage. Most would have to wait over a decade to become citizens, but they would be legal immigrants under Federal law.
If a current proposal in New York City is...
Zack Taylor, National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers NAFBPO.org
"This border [the US-Mexico border] is not secure, but is a dangerous and lawless place."
Highlights from the video, published May 26, 2013.
In 2010-2011, Tucson sector on-duty agents reported apprehending 3% of the illegal aliens they know entered, and were patrolling effectively less than...
[Transcript excerpts. See original article for video.]
...RAY SUAREZ: It's critical to the debate over immigration reform: security along the United States' nearly-2,000-mile border with Mexico.
Nogales, Ariz., is a case in point. A long stretch of fencing separates the 20,000 residents there from more than...
"Back in March, I reported on the predicament of music teachers Uwe and Hannalore Romeike, who fled Germany in 2008 due to government harassment they received for home schooling their children. They had been fined and were facing the possibility of losing custody of their children... The Romeikes settled in Tennessee and...
Center for Immigration Studies
The proposed legalization of some 10 million [to 40 million] illegal aliens has been debated as a national issue, as it should be, but the on-the-ground impact will vary tremendously from place to place within America.
To get estimates of the likely state-by-state distribution of those to be amnestied should S.744...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cannot find 266 potentially dangerous foreign nationals who have overstayed their visas, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
According to testimony from Rebecca Gambler, director of the Homeland Security and Justice for GAO, on May 21, 2013 before the...
Big media corporations are lobbying for passage of the Gang of Eight’s 844-page immigration bill, S. 744. Critics call it amnesty.
In addition to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (the parent of Fox News), the companies include:
Walt Disney Co. (owns ABC News)
Hearst Corp. (owns 15 daily newspapers,...
Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, has entered a letter into the congressional record from law enforcement personnel around the country who are warning S.744, officially titled the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” would grant sweeping, discretionary powers to “political...
The 2013 Schumer-Rubio Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill now being debated aims to double legal immigration from what are already historic highs. In many ways, it can be regarded as the 1965 Immigration Act on steroids.
The 1965 Act notoriously unleashed an era of mass immigration after a 40-year lull, and shifted the...
One might think that given more than 20 million Americans unable to find full-time jobs, and testimony by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that the American job market remains weak, that organized labor’s highest priority would be getting Americans back to work...
The highest priority for the labor movement is amnesty for...
Section 6 of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act [giving amnesty to illegal aliens] provides that $6.6 billion be placed in a separate Treasury account on or before October 1, 2013. The bulk of the money, earmarked for “one-time and start-up costs necessary to implement this Act,” is...
The foundation of the Soviet model of trade and investment was centralization under the guise of "universal public ownership". The entire goal of communism in general was not to give more social and political power to the people, but to extinguish alternative options and focus power into the hands of a select few. The...
Over 150 conservative leaders, groups and grassroots activists have signed an open letter opposing the Senate immigration reform bill. (Read the complete letter.)
“We write to express our serious concerns regarding the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, S. 744. We oppose this bill and urge you to vote against it...
While Washington dithers over Benghazi, AP-gate, and the IRS, advocates for [illegal aliens] just keep plugging along.
As one scandal after another engulfed the White House last week, proponents of immigration reform feared the worst—that the voracious focus on the Obama administration’s missteps would overshadow, and perhaps even doom, their efforts for comprehensive immigration reform during the rest of the president’s second term.
...
The president of the union representing 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudications officers and staff has added his name to a letter of law enforcement officials detailing their concerns about the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration bill.
In a statement to be released Monday, obtained...
Migration and Development Brief 20 Migration and Remittances Unit, Development Prospects Group
Overview
Officially recorded remittance flows to developing countries reached an estimated $401 billion in 2012, growing by 5.3 percent compared with 2011. Remittance flows are expected to grow at an average of 8.8 percent annual rate during 2013-2015 to about $515 billion in 2015.
Employment conditions in the US,...
That's a slight drop from the 99.5 percent approval rate reported last month.
The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants [illegal aliens] who have applied under President Obama's new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday.
That's a slight drop from the 99.5 percent approval rate reported...
New Census projections show small effect on working-age share of population
Center for Immigration Studies
The Census Bureau has released new projections which examine the impact of different levels of immigration on the United States. The projections, analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies, show what demographers have long known: immigration has only a small impact on slowing the aging of America. Many promoters of the...
The yardstick used in the immigration bill to determine border control may produce too rosy a picture of how well the Border Patrol is doing in cracking down on illegal crossings, according to an independent study released Monday that threatens to upend the immigration debate.
In their 76-page report, three...
How Effective Is Enforcement?
Council on Foreign Relations
Overview
The authors examine U.S. efforts to prevent illegal immigration to the United States. Although the United States has witnessed a sharp drop in illegal border crossings in the past decade alongside an enormous increase in government activities to prevent illegal immigration, there remains little...
...more than a third of working-age Americans are either out of work or have given up on finding a job. Also, last month’s hiring increase was almost entirely for receptionists, waiters, clerks, temp workers, car-rental agents and other low-wage positions with no benefits or upwardly mobile possibilities. On the other hand...
Immigration will be the primary driver of population growth in the United States within a few decades, a milestone not seen in almost two centuries, the Census Bureau projected Wednesday.
The Census Bureau said immigration will outstrip natural increase — the difference between births and deaths for the total...
Small-government advocates should oppose amnesty and support selective immigration policies.
I have worked on the issue of immigration’s fiscal impact for a long time, having presented my first academic paper on the subject at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association almost two decades ago. I can thus say with confidence that the Heritage Foundation’s recent report on the fiscal cost of illegal...
Center for Immigration Studies
The Gang of Eight's immigration bill has now grown from 844 pages to 867 pages.
One of the changes is to include "comprehensive immigration reform" in the title.
While reading a section on H-1B visas, I came across a provision that epitomizes the fraud a disconnected Washington elite is perpetrating on the...
The Senate immigration bill survived its first tests Thursday as a core group of Republicans and Democrats held together, killing efforts to require full border security requirements before legalizing illegal immigrants [illegal aliens].
But the committee defeated Republican efforts to put that requirement and...
The bill’s authors also stuck together to defeat a Republican amendment that would have barred anyone from seeking citizenship until the U.S.-Mexico border had been secured for six months. Supporters of the bill charged that the real effect of that provision would have been to delay citizenship indefinitely for the...
Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?
The question arises while reading an analysis of Census Bureau statistics on the 2012 election by Dan Balz and Ted Mellnik.
One sentence in their Washington Post story fairly leaps out:
"The total number of white voters actually decreased between 2008 and...
Why does the well-off California suburbanite stand shoulder to shoulder with La Raza?
Why are over 11 million foreign nationals residing illegally in the United States? If we can answer that question, then we can fathom the purpose of “comprehensive immigration reform,” and understand why special-interest groups mostly favor what the majority of Americans oppose. Illegal immigration goes on because, in the...
Mexican-born people in the United States age 25 and older, nearly 60% didn't graduate from high school
Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation, comments on a study that shows immigration legislation would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion to provide government benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally....
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint prefaced his condemnation of immigration...
About one in 10 adults is an [illegal alien] who crossed the border illegally or overstayed a visa
In some parts of Koreatown and South Los Angeles, one in three adult residents is in the country illegally, according to a study released Tuesday by researchers at USC.
Countywide, about one in 10 adults is an immigrant who crossed the border illegally or overstayed a visa, the study found. Many of those immigrants...
An analysis of future immigration flow released Friday by Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions shows that more than 32 million immigrants [and illegal aliens] would receive legal status over the next decade and an additional 25 million would be granted non-immigrant work visas under the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill....