WHYY Newsworks – We hear a lot from the Obama administration and big business and the immigration advocacy groups about the moral reasons why Congress should enact the Senate bill providing an amnesty for immigration law violators and a tripling of legal immigration over the next decade. But we don’t hear much about the moral […]
Immigration: Claims for asylum soar in 2013
December 13, 2013 By
UPI — The number of immigrants seeking asylum after entering the United States illegally nearly tripled in 2013 to the highest level in 20 years, a report said. The report, issued Thursday by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, said the number of asylum-seekers granted temporary refuge rose from 13,931 to 36,026 in the fiscal year […]
Steve King: GOP bracing for bruising amnesty battle
December 12, 2013 By
WorldNetDaily.com — Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, considers 2013 a win for opponents of legalizing illegal aliens in the United States, but he fears a bruising fight in the new year against congressional Democrats and likely his own leadership. In the wake of President Obama’s 2012 re-election and Democrats retaining the U.S. Senate, comprehensive immigration reform […]
DHS Stacked With Pro-Amnesty Attorneys Ahead of Illegal Immigration Fight
December 7, 2013 By
PJ Media – Despite the sequester, the Department of Homeland Security has just completed a hiring blitz of attorneys to oversee and manage immigration litigation. Almost all of these new civil service attorney hires hail from an activist pro-amnesty and pro-asylum background. Sources within the Department of Homeland Security report that the process for hiring […]
Amnesty for Immigrants Won’t Help Economy
November 10, 2013 By
Lodi News-Sentinel – Here are the crucial facts that Obama and Congress have consistently ignored: Reform — as defined in the Senate and House bills, S. 744 and H.R. 15 — would legalize 11 million illegal immigrants and give them instant work authorization. Once they become legally employable, former aliens can immediately compete with 20 […]
Immigration Reform’s Flaws Revealed in the 1986 Amnesty
November 5, 2013 By
WHYY Newsworks – The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act signed into law by President Reagan is often described as a three-legged stool: a big amnesty for the estimated million or so aliens who were illegally in the U.S.; strengthened border controls to keep more aliens from entering the U.S.; and sanctions on employers to […]
