Yahoo News — Donald Trump has declared that the immigration raids carried out last week were “the keeping of a campaign promise” – a statement which puts him directly at odds with his immigration officials, who spent Saturday repeatedly insisting that the raids were long-planned and routine. Agents from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested […]
Donald Trump contradicts his immigration agency and insists migrant arrests are ‘the keeping of my campaign promise’
Commentary by Jim Gilchrist:
Dear Americans, If the United States of America is to be “a nation of laws,” then it must actually enforce its laws. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. But, to those who believe that “mob rule” should supersede the rule of law, then it […]
Overnight, the threat of deportation becomes a reality for Arizona mother
Yahoo News — Twenty-one years after moving to the U.S. from her native Guanjuato, Mexico, Guadalupe García de Rayos has been dropped off alone in Nogales, Sonora, a bustling border town just over the 20-foot fence from Arizona and nearly 1,200 miles from the home she left behind at age 14. “That’s a long drive,” […]
Commentary from Jim Gilchrist
Dear Americans, The Minuteman Project wholeheartedly supports Texas Governor Abbott and his fellow legislators in the great state of Texas. After decades of reckless neglect and abuse of our nation’s immigration laws the time is long overdue to rectify the long established insult to our concept of “a nation of laws.” Without our political governors […]
‘Sanctuary cities’ bill advances in Texas, despite outcry
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas Senate panel shrugged off 16 hours of sometimes tearful pleas and defiant opposition to approve a “sanctuary cities” proposal that would withhold grant funding from local jurisdictions that don’t hand over immigrants already in custody for possible deportation. A 7-2 vote around 12:45 a.m. Friday from the chamber’s powerful […]
Commentary by Jim Gilchrist:
There is a concerted effort underway in our nation to literally change our culture, our common bond of language, our geographical borders, our state and national sovereignty, and many other elements that comprise our nation’s unity. As English-speaking European-based white America is replaced with alternative ethnicities speaking non-English languages and practicing non-American traditions, the America […]