NPR – Nearly half the people now in the U.S. illegally didn’t climb walls, wade across the Rio Grande or trek through the desert to get here. They arrived legally, with tourist or student visas. And when those visas expired, they just never left. Like the rest of the 11 million undocumented people in the […]
Thomas Sowell: Judge Immigration Laws By How They Affect Americans
April 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Omaha World Herald – Britain’s late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has “never ceased to be dangerous” but the West has “ceased to be vigilant.” Nothing better illustrates her point than the fact that the West has imported vast numbers of people who hate our guts and […]
Obama Budget Sends Mixed Signals on Immigration Enforcement
April 12, 2013 by 1 Comment
Washington Times – President Obama’s budget would rewrite the federal government’s interior immigration enforcement priorities, cutting funding for states that try to help enforce immigration laws and scaling back the number of immigrants the federal government will detain while they await deportation. The budget cuts overall funding for the Homeland Security Department. It particularly trims […]
Immigration Redistributes Income from Poor U.S. Workers
April 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Center for Immigration Studies – A new report by Harvard economist George Borjas and published by the Center for Immigration Studies finds that the flow of one million immigrants into the United States each year does not substantially raise the overall income of native-born Americans. Borjas, recognized by Business Week and the Wall Street Journal […]
ICE Officer Union Wants to Put Brakes on Immigration Bill
April 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Fox News – The union representing 7,000 immigration enforcement officers and employees has a message for the so-called Gang of Eight senators working on an immigration deal: Not so fast. The National ICE Council voiced opposition to the plan, and said the proposal prioritizes “amnesty” over enforcement. The blistering comments were the latest signal from […]
Immigration Must Focus on Needs of Unemployed Americans
March 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) – Immigration reform is a complex issue that requires significant time and public engagement to be handled responsibly and to produce legislation that will actually work. We need to have open public hearings on every aspect of this proposed reform—visa overstays, exit and entry systems, future flow, chain migration, the public […]
