Archives for January 2015

Jeb Bush: We need to control border by politely asking illegals to leave

Breitbart — This weekend  in San Francisco while speaking to the National Automobile Dealers Association, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said, “First and foremost we need to control our border.” “The 40 percent of the people that have come here illegally came with a legal visa and overstayed their bounds,” he added. “We ought to be able to […]

Border patrol agents say GOP’s border security bill is weak ‘window dressing’

Two major border enforcement unions attacked the GOP Border Security bill currently winding its way through Congress. House leaders hoped to move H.R. 399, the Secure Our Borders First Act to the House floor by Wednesday but opposition from the National Border Patrol Council has disrupted the timetable: “This legislation speaks about metrics but frankly […]

Secure Our Borders First Bill Passes Committee

The Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives reported the Secure Our Borders First Act of 2015 (H.R. 399) yesterday. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-PA) Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee expects the bill to head for the House floor shortly. “This is probably the strongest border security bill ever presented to the Congress,” McCaul […]

Jackson Lee: Obama already fixed the border

If you’ve ever wondered why Congress has such a bad reputation, just listen to Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee’s laughably misinformed comments about America’s Southern Border: “The president has spent $108 billion on border security, and we have been successful,” Jackson Lee said in a Homeland Security committee markup Wednesday. “Oh we’ve had our moments, but we […]

What Jeff Sessions needs to understand about the immigration debate

National Review — Last summer, Eliana Y. Johnson dubbed Alabama senator Jeff Sessions “Amnesty’s Worst Enemy” in her excellent, wide-ranging profile, and now Sessions has been installed as the new chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security. Naturally, those who favor sharply increased immigration levels are displeased. Though I don’t agree with […]

Driver’s licenses a magnet for immigration fraud in Vermont

Fox News — As California battles a flood of immigrants seeking driver’s licenses after enactment of Assembly Bill 60, Vermont’s Department of Motor Vehicles has found issuing driver’s privileges to illegals can be a magnet for benefits fraud. In the first week after AB 60 went into effect in January, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles issued […]