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 […]
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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 […]
113 congressional Republicans back states’ lawsuit against Obama’s amnesty actions
May 12, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Texas and 25 other states have challenged the legality of Barack Obama’s unilateral actions to ease deportations for illegals, and on Monday 113 top Republicans in Congress signed a brief backing the lawsuit: The Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Va.), are siding squarely with the […]
Jeb Bush: I’m Fine With Obama’s Amnesty Executive Action
May 12, 2015 By 5 Comments
Legacy Presidential candidate Jeb Bush told FOX News he would not reverse President Obama’s executive action on amnesty if he were to find himself in the Oval Office. Instead, Bush argued Congress should pass amnesty to make it legal and official. Bush also believes: GOP voters “can be persuaded” to his way of thinking on the […]
HIllary’s Fibs on Illegals Called Out by . . . Washington Post????
May 12, 2015 By 6 Comments
Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spent most of last week talking out of both sides of her mouth on illegal immigration. But her latest illegal immigration whopper was too much even for her cheerleaders over at the Washington Post. Hillary claimed illegal immigrants paid more in taxes than big corporations. “In New York, which […]
Illegal minor border crossings down 58% from 2014 wave
May 12, 2015 By 2 Comments
Has the Obama administration actually succeeded in curbing the tide of illegal immigrant children flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border? Officials seem to think so, as the number of children crossing the border has dropped 58% from the surge in summer 2014: Thousands of children are still being caught, but it’s a slower and more regular […]
