Bloomberg BusinessWeek – The Senate advanced the costliest plan ever to bolster security at the U.S.-Mexico border, drawing enough Republican support to indicate that a broad revision of immigration law will pass by week’s end. The 67-27 vote allows the measure to move forward. The Senate bill will create as many as 11 million new […]
Will Senate’s $38 Billion Border Plan Boost Immigration Law Prospects?
June 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Border Security Is The Key To Immigration Reform. So How Do We Measure It?
June 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Washington Post – Over the past week, border security has been the biggest sticking point in Senate discussions about immigration reform. But what does it actually mean for that border to be secure? Who decides? And is a completely secure border even possible? [Read More]
The Amnesty Mob vs. America
June 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
National Review – After America said no to a pork-filled security-undermining amnesty bill in 2007, the No Illegal Alien Left Behind lobbyists changed their overtly thuggish tactics. They put down their upside-down American flags, stopped wearing their Commie Che Guevara T-shirts, and cloaked their radical “Aztlan” aspirations in the less divisive rhetoric of “reform” and […]
Amnesty: A Path to Permanent Residency Is as Bad as a Path to Citizenship
June 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Foundry – The gossip in Washington is that the House of Representatives, unlike the Senate, will not have a path to citizenship, or amnesty, in its immigration reform bills. Indeed, just a few days ago, Speaker John Boehner (R–OH) said he would bring immigration bills up for a vote only if a majority of […]
Sensing Defeat, New Senate Immigration Deal Adds Five Tougher Border Security Measures
June 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
CNN – A border agent every 1,000 feet along the southern border, every hour of every day, supported by 700 miles of fencing. No green cards for the 11 million immigrants living illegally in America until those steps and others to enhance border controls are taken. And none of it increases the federal deficit or […]
CBO Figures Show American Wages Will Drop Under Senate Immigration Bill
June 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Fox News – Analysis by the Congressional Budget Office projects that, if the Senate immigration reform bill passes, the influx of new immigrants would have the effect of bringing down the average wage. “The wages of U.S. workers — which should be growing — will instead decline,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). “It would be […]
