As US lawmakers grapple with ways to slash spending, many were shocked to learn authorities are spending $250 to $1,000 per day to care for each minor apprehended crossing the US border.
On June 27, 2013, the Senate passed the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill (S.744) which, among other things, doubled the levels of legal immigration and guestworkers. One year after that vote, a new Center for Immigration Studies report suggests just how out of touch the bill was from the realities of the labor market.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) lost his seat in Congress on June 10, 2014 to economics professor Dave Brat, who was supported by the Tea Party. This is the first time since 1899 that a sitting House majority leader has been ousted. It is a monumental event.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, on a visit to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday, said the U.S. has to strengthen efforts to control the humanitarian crisis that both nations face with unaccompanied [illegal alien] migrant children crossing the U.S. Southwest border.
Marches, call-a-thons and other actions are scheduled today, May 1, as pro [illegal alien] immigrant groups keep pushing for an end to deportations and [amnesty] immigration reform.
[...] Some 1,000 people have already lined up to cross the border for work in the fields, and soon another 8,000 to 10,000 join the line behind them ...
Democrats prioritize amnesty for illegal aliens because it will give them a whole new class of Undocumented Democrats. "Immigrants" overwhelmingly vote Democratic.
...For Colorado’s third-largest city, with more than 90 languages spoken and the state’s most-diverse populace... immigration reform is a long, complicated, costly and cumbersome process.
