As the debate over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) continues in the House, more details are emerging about bi-partisan efforts to enlist illegal aliens into the U.S. military as a way to fast-track them to citizenship. The Gallego Amendment was approved by the House Armed Services Committee earlier this month. It would specifically grant […]
Archives for May 2015
GOP not falling for Hillary’s immigration trap
May 13, 2015 By 2 Comments
During a recent roundtable discussion in Nevada, Hillary Clinton proclaimed that she would go even further than Barack Obama to establish a pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegals living in the United States. Many slammed the statement as empty pandering to Latinos, but it served a second purpose as a trap for her […]
ICE Turned Loose 13,000 Illegals As “Not Enforcement Priorities”
May 13, 2015 By 4 Comments
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General’s Office revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released 13,000 detained illegal immigrants last year after agents determined they were not “enforcement priorities.” In addition, the report determined ICE is not gathering enough data on their “prosecutoral discretion” policy and without that data its impossible […]
Illegal Alien Jailed for Defrauding Other Illegal Aliens
May 13, 2015 By 2 Comments
An illegal alien and an accomplice, who operated a Mexican restaurant in La Vernia, TX, were sentenced by a federal judge for selling fake immigration documents to other illegal aliens. Chief US District Judge Fred Biery sentenced Yolanda Hernandez de Arteaga, 49, and Maria de Lourdes Montano-Vicencio, 57 to federal prison for scheming “individuals […]
Los Angeles votes to remove ICE agents from county jails
May 13, 2015 By 1 Comment
Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday voted 3-to-2 to cancel a 2005 agreement, known as “287-G,” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to station agency deputies at county jails. The deputies had been permitted to take undocumented inmates into custody before their release to the general public. Nearly 100 people signed up to give public comment […]
Interactive Map Shows Deportations By County
May 12, 2015 By 1 Comment
The Center for Immigration Studies has just compiled and released an interactive map showing deportations by county under the since cancelled Secure Communities program. See the map here. The total number of removals shown is 406,441, which is a subset of all ICE removals. The three counties with the most cumulative removals over the period […]
