Archives for 2013

Why Immigration Reform Could Spell Doom for the GOP

Townhall — The recent Senate debate over immigration reform focused mostly on three issues: 1) the economic effects of legalizing millions of currently illegal immigrants while also increasing the rate of future immigration, 2) the possibility of achieving real border security and 3) the ethical question of offering the reward of citizenship to those who […]

Conservative ‘fly-in’ aims to sell House GOP on immigration

USA Today — About 300 conservatives from around the country and with varying backgrounds — pastors, farmers, police chiefs, business owners — will arrive in Washington on Oct. 28 to meet with Republican lawmakers and make a conservative pitch for a new immigration law. Participants in the “fly-in” say they can better speak to the […]

The Myth of the “Otherwise Law-Abiding” Illegal Alien

RightSideNews — For years advocates of amnesty and high levels of immigration have described the illegal alien population as one made up of “otherwise law-abiding” people who have committed no violation other than the simple act of crossing a border illegally or overstaying a visa. Journalists routinely invoke this language when writing about amnesty, conspicuously […]

Former Border Patrol Agents Warn Citizens About Obama Immigration Scam

Jim Kouri – Albany Tribune — The press, the elite political establishment and President Barack Obama and his administration are subjecting the American people to a steady and intense diet of political deception concerning Immigration reform, officials from the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers said on Friday. The group of retired law enforcement […]

Paying Illegals to Stay: IRS Gives Out Billions Each Year

Center for Immigration Studies — To crib from Caesar, all immigration policy is divided into three parts: you can enforce the law and deport the illegals, you can ignore them (and there is a lot of that going around), or you can pay them to stay in this country. Not even the White House is […]

‘Machete’ Sequel Makes Minuteman-Style Border Enforcers into Racist Killers

Briebart — The Machete franchise is a loving ode to the Grindhouse movies of yore, brimming with blood, gunplay and the hulking presence of action star Danny Trejo. It’s also an unabashedly pro-amnesty movie franchise. Machete Kills, the second film in what promises/threatens to be a trilogy, tones down the political rhetoric from the first […]