Newsday — Amid Republican opposition to most of his initiatives and gridlock in Congress, President Barack Obama Tuesday night held out hope for bipartisan progress on one priority: immigration legislation. Obama gave House Republicans who blocked the Senate-passed comprehensive bill last year a nudge “to fix our broken immigration system,” but he made no attack […]
National Review: GOP Should ‘Do Nothing’ On Immigration Reform
January 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Breitbart — MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough warned that the one thing that could cost the GOP control of the Senate this year would be to pass immigration reform. That same day the editors of National Review shouted “don’t do it” with the warning that history proves “President Obama obviously can’t be trusted” to abide by any […]
BBC Documentary, “The Truth about Immigration”
January 16, 2014 By
Center for Immigration Studies — In the new BBC documentary “The Truth About Immigration”, journalist Nick Robinson interviews an economist who, during the economic boom years at the start of the millennium, was instrumental in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision to adopt an expansive immigration policy. The economist, Jonathan Portes, tells Robinson that the idea […]
Principled Immigration Reform Puts Americans First
January 16, 2014 By
FAIR — Under the leadership of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Republicans are drafting a set of immigration reform principles to guide them as they debate immigration in 2014. They plan to release these principles in time for their January 29th GOP retreat. At the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), we hope these principles […]
Immigration Reform is Not a Civil Rights Issue
January 12, 2014 By
PolicyMic – Many supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, including Attorney General Eric Holder and Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg, have demanded immediate action, calling it an urgent civil rights issue. But this is entirely wrong, because the plight of illegal immigrants isn’t about civil rights, but the rule of law. [Read More]
Bakersfield Sheriff To Continue Honoring Immigration Hold Requests From ICE
January 11, 2014 By
KBAK TV Eyewitness News – Under the new state law known as the Trust Act which went into effect January 1, undocumented immigrants arrested for minor misdemeanor offenses are no longer subjected to being placed on a 48 hour immigration hold at the request of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood […]
