May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
MATAMOROS, Mexico — Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border. The long rows of bunk beds offer immigrants a place to rest on their long journey. But the shelter is no safe haven in a ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The president of the union representing 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudications officers and staff has added his name to a letter of law enforcement officials detailing their concerns about the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. In a statement to be released Monday, obtained by The Daily Caller, ...
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May 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama’s new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday. That’s a slight drop from the 99.5 percent approval rate reported last month. The policy, known as Deferred Action for ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Hill: A bipartisan group of House negotiators said Thursday it has reached an “agreement in principle” on comprehensive immigration reform legislation. “We have an agreement in principle,” Rep. John Carter (R-Tex.) said as he and five other members of the group emerged from a two-hour meeting late Thursday afternoon. Democrats confirmed the deal, and ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GRETAWIRE – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, today released the following new information about the February 2013 release of ICE detainees with criminal records: In February 2013, in a misguided effort to comply with anticipated budget cuts due ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from CNS News: Law enforcement officials nationwide have warned Congress of the dangers giving too much power to "appointed officials" like DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano in the immigration bill S.744 being considered in the Senate. In a letter to Congress, they warn the bill grants "virtually unlimited" discretion to grant illegal aliens legal status to the ...
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May 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: A group of Spanish-speaking custodial workers in Colorado have filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that the Auraria Higher Education Center in Denver discriminated against them by failing to provide Spanish translations. The complaint, filed last week by a dozen custodial workers, contends that the employees suffered ...
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May 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from Wired: The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is ...
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May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL A co-author of the Heritage Foundation’s controversial immigration study resigned from the think tank on Friday amid a firestorm over his research on the intelligence of immigrants. “Jason Richwine let us know he’s decided to resign from his position,” a spokesperson for Heritage told The Hill in an email. “He’s no longer employed ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› iResist
Would you expect anything less from left leaning Yahoo News? Excerpted from Yahoo News: Heritage Foundation analyst Jason Richwine, the co-author of a study claiming the immigration reform bill pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion, wrote two articles in 2010 for a website founded by Richard Spencer, a self-described "nationalist" who writes frequently about ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT In a letter to the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators behind the immigration bill in the Senate right now, National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) chairman Zack Taylor ripped the group for its plan’s failures to secure the border. “The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers is writing to ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TOWNHALL An amendment submitted by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley requiring the security of the Nation's borders before granting amnesty to more than 11 million illegal immigrants, has been voted down by the Senate Judiciary Committee 6-12. Every Democrat on the Committee voted against the amendment. The amendment: Purpose: To prohibit the ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) entered a letter from law enforcement officials nationwide warning of the dangers of the immigration bill S.744 into the judiciary committee record today. The letter To Congress from the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council of the American Federation of Government Employees Affiliated with AFL-CIO warns of ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NY DAILY NEWS ON THURSDAY, non-citizen, immigrant voting will return to New York City’s political agenda. The City Council Committee on Immigration and the Committee on Government Relations will hold a join hearing tomorrow on non-citizen permanent resident voting in municipal elections. Council Immigration Committee Chair Daniel Dromm is leading the Council’s effort, along ...
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from US NEWS Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a newly elected Republican with a penchant for making headlines, filed an amendment that would bar undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States from ever earning citizenship.There are an estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally, and a bipartisan immigration reform measure would create a ...
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The Heritage Foundation came under fire Wednesday from Hispanic lawmakers after reports that the author of a controversial immigration study previously wrote a dissertation warning of the lower intellectual capacity of immigrants. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas), the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, called the group’s study “ugly racism and xenophobia dressed up ...
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Tea party heavyweights Marco Rubio and Jim DeMint are on opposite sides of the immigration debate – and they’re duking it out for the support of the movement. The clash went public Tuesday, when Rubio hosted leaders of tea party groups and other conservatives in his Capitol Hill office for some frank talk ...
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May 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher said today that he will never “feel comfortable” telling Congress that the border has been secured or that the government has a “scientific method” for tracking how many people attempt to enter the country illegally. “When there are no more bad people looking to come into this ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL Legalizing an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants will cost taxpayers at least $6.3 trillion over the coming decades, according to a study released Monday by the Heritage Foundation. The study projects illegal immigrants would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and pay only $3.1 trillion in taxes over their lifetimes if they gain ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES Former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint argued on Sunday that implementing immigration reform as proposed by the “Gang of Eight” would “cost Americans trillions of dollars.” “The study you’ll see from Heritage this week presents a staggering cost of another amnesty in our country and the detrimental effects long term that that will ...
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May 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – The immigration bill proposed by the “Gang of Eight” in the U.S. Senate includes a provision to create a commission to study the failure of securing the border's "high-risk sectors" during any or all of the first five years after the 844-page legislation becomes law. On page 14, Section 4 of the ...
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