Breitbart — This weekend in San Francisco while speaking to the National Automobile Dealers Association, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said, “First and foremost we need to control our border.” “The 40 percent of the people that have come here illegally came with a legal visa and overstayed their bounds,” he added. “We ought to be able to […]
Jeb Bush: We need to control border by politely asking illegals to leave
January 26, 2015 by 3 Comments
What Jeff Sessions needs to understand about the immigration debate
January 23, 2015 by 5 Comments
National Review — Last summer, Eliana Y. Johnson dubbed Alabama senator Jeff Sessions “Amnesty’s Worst Enemy” in her excellent, wide-ranging profile, and now Sessions has been installed as the new chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security. Naturally, those who favor sharply increased immigration levels are displeased. Though I don’t agree with […]
Jeff Sessions named chairman of Senate immigration panel
January 23, 2015 by 4 Comments
Breitbart — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, his office announced in a Thursday release. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)—another immigration hardliner who’s stood with Sessions every step of the way over the past several years—will serve as that subcommittee’s deputy chairman. Sessions will also chair the Senate […]
Immigration reform should focus on common ground, not partisan differences
January 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Fox News Latino — In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama once again called for lawmakers in Washington to put aside their differences and pass comprehensive reforms to finally fix our broken immigration system. While I have had tactical differences with the President, I believe that now the President has acted unilaterally […]
Conservative lawmakers rebuke Mitch McConnell on immigration
January 22, 2015 by 3 Comments
The Hill — House conservatives are taking aim at a new target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Tea Party lawmakers on Wednesday directed their ire at the Kentucky Republican after Senate leaders signaled they don’t have the votes to pass a House-approved bill that would fight President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. It’s a new tack […]
New GOP border bill REMOVES border fences
January 22, 2015 by 6 Comments
The Daily Caller — The new border bills drafted by Republican leaders require the actual removal of at least 66 miles of weak border fencing between laborers in Mexico and employers in the United States. The border bills also only require for the construction of 27 miles of effective double-layer fencing along the 2,000-mile border. “It […]
