Archives for December 2014

Obama Will Shut Border Agency To Aid Illegals, Says Aide

Daily Caller — President Barack Obama will block 2015 funding for the Department of Homeland Security if Republicans includes spending curbs on the president’s “executive action,” says a top aide. That amnesty action includes the award of work permits, drivers’ licenses, Social Security cards and tax rebates to at least four million illegal immigrants, despite […]

Obama adviser: Timing of immigration executive fiat was political

Newsmax — President Barack Obama’s decision to take executive action on immigration reform after the November midterm elections was a political move designed to not disrupt the elections, according to one of his advisers. Dan Pfeiffer, a senior advisor to the president, told The Huffington Post the timing of the move was carefully constructed. “I think […]

Not Even 1% of Amnesty-Surge Illegals Deported

Front Page Mag — Obama’s amnesty created a massive border surge of illegal aliens. While he claimed that they would be deported, they are, unsurprisingly, not being deported. Of the 15,614 families caught crossing the border, but not detained, 4,197 have been ordered removed from the U.S. However, 96 percent of those removal orders were […]

White House blog: What additional steps can we take to improve our immigration system?

Tuesday, WhiteHouse.gov posted a blog asking what else can be done to improve America’s immigration system. Read the post below and form your own opinions… Last month, President Obama took action to fix our broken immigration system, including commonsense steps that will help secure the border, bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows, and make it […]

Obama: Republicans follow ‘nativist trend’ on immigration

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama says his recent executive actions granting millions of illegal immigrants temporary amnesty could spur Republicans to work together with Democrats on the issue, but if they solidify what he called a “nativist trend” in parts of the Republican Party, there probably won’t be much progress. “If your view is that immigrants […]

Obama handed out ‘permisos’ like candy this summer

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration’s failure from this summer’s border surge looks even worse in hindsight, according to an analysis released Monday by the Center for Immigration Studies that found the Homeland Security Department knowingly released most illegal immigrants into the community where they absconded, blending into the rest of the illegal immigrant population. Most […]