Financial Catastrophe for States Under Senate Immigration Bill

USA Today – The Senate immigration proposal does not help states pay for costs incurred by policy changes. “Potentially, we are going to create a financial catastrophe for states and localities,” said Sheri Steisel, senior federal affairs counsel and a human services expert at the National Conference of State Legislatures. “The states will end up […]

Anxiety Brews Among Immigration Supporters

Associated Press – Supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation fear they’re losing the message war and say an all-out campaign is needed from business groups and other outside advocates with ties to House Republicans to turn it around. “Here’s the fact: We’re not winning, so we’ve got to wage a campaign,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said […]

IRS Gave $14 Billion in Refundable Tax Credits to Illegals

Townhall.com – Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., both said the immigration bill they helped push through the Senate was designed to “bring people out of the shadows.” Yet, if illegal aliens are truly in the shadows, why has the Internal Revenue Service been able to find enough of them to pay […]

Immigration Judges Want Independence from DoJ

Boston Globe – Federal immigration judges are urging Congress to liberate them from the Department of Justice, a dramatic bid for independence that could eventually open immigration court records to the public for the first time in US history. “Somebody needs to flip the light switch on and make all of this stuff more visible,” […]