Small Pennsylvania Town Struggles With Immigration Debate

A small northeastern Pennsylvania town isn’t the first place you’d expect an immigrant debate, but Hazelton, PA. has just that. Hispanics made up just 5 percent of Hazleton’s population in 2000, according to the U.S. Census, but by 2010, that number increased to 37 percent, and has only grown since. According to Hazleton Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi,  Hazelton’s cheap […]

D.C.’s “Mansion Murderer” could face deportation

Quadruple homicide suspect Daron Wint has been flagged for deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Wint allegedly broke into the multimillion dollar home of his former employer, Savvas Savopoulos, in Northeast D.C., where he held Savopoulos, his wife, their 10-year-old son and their housekeeper hostage overnight. After receiving $40,000 in ransom money, Wint […]

VIDEO: Ann Coulter releases intense new book, “Adios America!”

Yesterday, Ann Coulter released her seventh book, Adios, America! — The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole, which discusses immigration (both legal and illegal) and the problems it sparks in America today. In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, she commented, “I wasn’t going write a book about immigration. I […]

Ted Cruz: DHS funding plan is flawed

The Hill — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) pointed the finger at the Republican leadership for a delay in dealing with Homeland Security funding until the end of February and Senate Democrats for blocking a deal that would fund the agency while also defunding the president’s executive actions on immigration. “It’s now up to leadership to lay […]

Boehner: On immigration, Dems protect Obama instead of standing with the people

Speaker.gov — At his weekly press briefing earlier, Speaker Boehner addressed Senate Democrats’ filibuster of the House’s plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security and stop the president’s unilateral actions on immigration.  Here’s what he said: “The American people want to fund the Homeland Security agency, but they also want to stop the president’s […]

New Mexico illegal immigrant driver’s license law could be repealed by Hispanic governor

International Business Times — Republican lawmakers in New Mexico are pushing to repeal a state law allowing immigrants without legal status to obtain driver’s licenses. GOP proponents said the law threatens the state’s security by allowing undocumented people to seek official identification cards, according to the Associated Press. The proposal to repeal the illegal immigrant driver’s […]