Washington Times – Having illegal aliens pay their back taxes before qualifying for citizenship was supposed to make amnesty more palatable to the majority of skeptical Americans. Now the Senate immigration bill’s authors acknowledge that their legislation does not require illegal immigrants to pay all back taxes, saying it would be too difficult to make […]

Tom Tancredo in WND – Many political commentators are feigning surprise at the large number of waivers, exemptions and “unreviewable discretion” written into the Senate’s 844-page amnesty bill. No one should be surprised: No amnesty bill in history has ever had its enforcement provisions implemented after the amnesty was granted. The debate over the Gang […]

Arizona Daily Star – In 1986, Congress passed a large immigration bill based on a simple deal: amnesty for settled illegal immigrants in exchange for stricter enforcement of the law to minimize new illegal immigration. The deal was not honored. The promised future enforcement never materialized. That’s because once the amnesty was out of the […]

Patrick J. Buchanan – During President Eisenhower’s first term, 60 years ago, the United States faced an invasion across its southern border. Illegal aliens had been coming since World War II. But, suddenly, the number was over 1 million. Crime was rising in Texas. The illegals were taking the jobs of U.S. farm workers. Under […]

Washington Times – Rand Paul’s Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don’t think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment. The irony of millions of Americans looking for […]