Liberals and their pro-amnesty allies in the White House always try and frame the debate over illegal immigration as a binary choice: either we grant illegal immigrants already here citizenship or we spend massive resources forcibly deporting them. A study released yesterday by the Center for Immigration Studies provides more evidence that this is a false choice. Using data from monthly Census surveys as recent as May of this year, and then extrapolating from previous research, the report concluded that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States dropped …
On June 22, Tony Bologna and his four sons were driving home to San Francisco from a family picnic in Fairfield. When Bologna inadvertently blocked an intersection with his Honda Civic, he tried to reverse his car so that a gray-blue Chrysler could get by. When Bologna did not move his Civic fast enough for Edwin Ramos, the driver of the Chrysler and illegal immigrant from El Salvador, Ramos opened fire, killing Tony, his eldest son Michael, and his youngest son Matthew. The city of San Francisco could have prevented …
Women are again charging into what was once seen as a realm that was only populated by men—the illegal immigrant workforce. After a recent raid of a factory in Texas, where the majority of those detained were women, the Houston Chronicle published an article discussing this new trend. With heightened border control and visa regulation, many men are finding it harder to come to the U.S. to work and then return home to their families in their native countries. Hence, many are now bringing their families with them. A noticeable …
With an estimated 12 million to 15 million illegal immigrants in the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) certainly has a lot on its plate. However, many are now criticizing ICE for its lack of action not against illegal immigrants, but American citizens. In raids since October 2007, ICE has arrested 3,750 people on charges in relation to illegal immigrants in the workplace. With jobs in the U.S. being a great attraction to illegal immigrants, their prevalence in the American workforce is a grave problem. However, this is not …
Let’s say you are the mayor of a major U.S. city and that since your first day in office you’ve been subverting federal laws designed to protect our country. And let’s say that after one of your city’s employees was arrested by federal officials for subverting federal law, instead of changing policy to comply with federal law, you invented a new policy that made it harder for federal officials to arrest your city’s employees. And finally, let’s say that your new policy caused undocumented Honduran crack dealers to be let …
Today’s David Brooks column details where the left’s campaign cash is coming from including “Goldman Sachs geniuses” “employees of the University of California” and “professionals, like lawyers and media types.” Brooks explains: “Over the past several years, the highly educated coastal rich have been engaged in a little culture war with the inland corporate rich. This is a war over values, leadership styles and social networks.” And what type of policies do the left’s “values” and “leadership styles” produce? Look no further than San Francisco where city officials have refused …
TUCSON, AZ: Congress is not smarter than the Border Patrol. Congress was right to fund the Department Homeland Security’s request to build barriers along the border, but wrong to specify specifically where and how much border fence has to be built—or judge progress in border security on just building the “wall.” My visit to the Tucson border included a trip to the border fence with the Border Patrol. Here is what they told me—“border fences are not a magic bullet.” Fences don’t stop people. At best they slow them down …
TUCSON, AZ: “Who are You?” That’s the question CBP agents worry about millions of times every day when people cross U.S. borders. During my visit to the port of entry in Nogales, Arizona—I learned about better ways to get that question asked and answered. Knowing who you are is a critical element of border security—because if Customs and Border Protection, or CBP (part of the Department of Homeland Security) knows who you are they can pretty much tell if you are legally entitled to enter to U.S. It also helps …
TUCSON, AZ: Saving the environment starts at the nation’s edge. I saw plenty of evidence of that on my trip to the U.S/Mexico border area near Tucson. The wilds and wildlife of the American Southwest are other victims of our broken borders that seldom get discussed. Illegal border crossers cut trails that speed erosion. They leave mountains of trash that pollute the desert and disrupt the nesting and hunting grounds of birds and desert animals. They also wreck private property, endangering the livelihood of ranchers and others who work in …
Odds are the President will veto the defense supplemental spending measure. Not only did Congress junk up the bill with lots of provisions that are not even remotely related to war costs, many of them are down right injurious to the American economy and security. Case in point is Senator Diane Feinstein’s “Emergency Agriculture Relief” Act. Apparently, Feinstein’s agricultural emergency requires granting permanent legal residence to undocumented agricultural workers. Rewarding undocumented workers with an “amnesty” for violating U.S. immigration laws would likely only encourage wide-spread fraud, more illegal border crossings, …
