Total Cost of Obama’s Executive Amnesty: $1.3 Trillion

U.S. taxpayers will shoulder a whopping $1.3 trillion in outlays thanks to President Obama’s executive action to grant amnesty for illegal immigrants. The figure, calculated by Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector, counts all long-term liabilities created by amnesty even with expected tax revenue collected from the newly-minted workers. Based on Rector’s calculations, which assume that […]

Amnesty is 2014’s Obamacare

By Rick Manning, contributor Many are predicting a bad year for Democrats in 2014, and Democratic apologists are pointing to an unfavorable map as the reason. It is true that Democrats had to defend a number of incumbents who represented states that voted for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, but this argument really holds […]