During tonight’s GOP primary debate on Fox News, immigration reduction group NumbersUSA will run an ad encouraging viewers to see immigration as a question of “numbers”: “We are glad that candidates are beginning to address various problems of our immigration policies, but our ad seeks to remind presidential hopefuls and voters that the overwhelming issue […]
Archives for August 2015
The Trump effect: immigration remarks push GOP contenders sharply right
August 6, 2015 By 13 Comments
Before Donald Trump walks on stage at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland for the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, he will have already succeeded in wielding a dramatic – and some believe potentially fatal – impact on his party and the nine other candidates standing beside him vying to be its nominated […]
ICE losing track of released illegals
August 6, 2015 By 5 Comments
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is losing track of the illegal immigrants being released from family detention centers, and does not know how many immigrant families have been released: ICE built huge family detention centers in Texas and other locations in response to last summer’s surge of unaccompanied minors and “incomplete family units” as previously reported […]
Obama handing out 1 million extra alien work permits per year
August 6, 2015 By 1 Comment
There are approximately one million lawful permanent residents and 700,000 foreign guest workers admitted to the U.S. each year. However, from 2009 to 2014, the Obama administration has issued more than 7.4 million work permits to foreign nationals: In written responses to the Senate Judiciary Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee Republicans obtained by Breitbart […]
Immigration judges are lesser than prison wardens and hospital doctors
August 5, 2015 By 2 Comments
According to the latest data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) across the United States, tens of thousands of immigrants are facing years of waiting for their day in court. With court staff in short supply and enforcement on the rise, there are close to half a million cases pending nationwide. But there […]
Despite rhetoric, border security less urgent in 2016
August 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment
By SETH ROBBINS and ALICIA CALDWELL, Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In the weeks leading up to Thursday’s first debate of the 2016 presidential race, Republican candidates have sought to distinguish themselves from each other — and President Barack Obama — with ever-tougher positions on border security and illegal immigration, claiming current measures are […]
