Washington Post – Poll after poll shows a strong majority of Americans — upward of two-thirds, in some polls — support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. So how could anybody vote against it? The answer is actually pretty simple, and it’s the same reason that a very popular gun-control proposal failed two months […]
Archives for May 2013
DHS Can’t Locate 266 Illegal Overstays that Pose National Security Risks
May 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
CNS News – According to testimony from Rebecca Gambler, director of the Homeland Security and Justice for GAO, on May 21, 2013 before the House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, DHS identified 1,901 illegal overstays of concern in 2011. As of March 2013, 14 percent remain missing. The 1,901 cases were reprioritized for further […]
Illegal Aliens Aready Eligible For Retirement Programs
May 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Daily Caller – Half of the current population of roughly 11 million illegal immigrants has U.S.-born children that could enroll them in retirement programs, which cost taxpayers roughly $22,000 per retiree each year. And the amnesty would allow all illegal immigrants to sign up for retirement programs, and also to bring in millions of […]
Immigration Bill Authors Now Say Payment of Back-Taxes Not Required of Illegal Aliens
May 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Washington Times – Having illegal aliens pay their back taxes before qualifying for citizenship was supposed to make amnesty more palatable to the majority of skeptical Americans. Now the Senate immigration bill’s authors acknowledge that their legislation does not require illegal immigrants to pay all back taxes, saying it would be too difficult to make […]
Does Illegal Immigration Drive Down Wages?
May 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Washington Times – Some believe that America needs mass immigration now more than ever. They assert that such a thing will reinvigorate our economy’s service sector and create jobs. “This argument is absurd,” says economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. “At a time when Americans cannot find employment and are dropping out of the labor force […]
Will Immigration Reform Get Killed in Republican-led House?
May 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reuters – Some House Republican lawmakers say that even if the party would gain votes by supporting sweeping reform, that’s no reason to back otherwise objectionable legislation. “I don’t think we should be worried about the political impact but instead what is in the best interest of America,” said Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama. […]
