Open borders are rendering some asylum claims arguably pointless, particularly when it comes to claims based on fear of gangs. Read more...

"Al Punto," the Sunday morning news show of the Spanish-language Univision network, featured a plea yesterday by the leftist candidate for the Salvadoran presidency that President Obama protect his countrymen who are living illegally in the U.S. The program also included a discussion with authors of the new book "Latinos and the Nation's Future." Read more...

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1. DHS reports population drop
2. Gov't fast-tracks deportations
3. Congress may extend E-Verify
4. Haiti refuses deportees
5. Indians more visible Read more...

In the age-old battle between the City Slicker and the Country Bumpkin, a literary opposition dating back to Greek and Roman sources that persists to this day in high and popular culture, the outcome never varies: the sophisticated overconfident Slicker loses to the ostensibly witless though wily-wise Country Bumpkin. The narrative expresses the triumph of the pastoral ideal, the tradition out of which the story line emerges, which asserts truth is most readily found and a virtuous, civilized life best lived farthest from cities and closest to nature. It would appear that Kirsten E. Read more...

The American Lawyer Daily has an interesting piece illustrating how immigration law firms push for more immigration simply as a means of revenue, without any concern for the impact on American society. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. The article begins: Read more...

Disturbia on the Border

El Paso is America’s largest border city, and one of the safest, friendliest and cleanest cities of its size. It is connected by four bridges and a dense web of long-standing commercial and family ties to the Mexican city of Juarez, on the other side of the border, which is perhaps the most dangerous city in North America, if not the world. At the local level, the cities’ self-conscious interdependence is celebrated. But the metropolis presents an unusual challenge to the federal immigration agencies operating there, and to the rest of the country. For all the genuine improvements in border security that have been made over the last several years, there remain a number of serious vulnerabilities. The situation is truly urgent – the escalating violence and deteriorating political stability in Juarez and other parts of Mexico are already putting new pressure on our immigration systems and could potentially provoke a long-term public safety and economic catastrophe here. Read more...

Lamenting the choice of Somali Americans to become suicide bombers back home, FBI Director Robert Mueller explained, “The prospect of young men, indoctrinated and radicalized within their own communities, and induced to travel to such countries to take up arms—and to kill themselves and perhaps many others—is a perversion of the immigrant story.” Read more...

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1. Federal budget adds to ICE spending
2. DHS meeting encourages Hispanic lawmakers
3. Study criticizes VA co. policies
4. Illegal grads are underemployed
5. Suspended BP agent cleared Read more...

Edited by Jessica Vaughan.

Lost in the debate over H-1B visas - which are typically portrayed as going mainly to high-tech or computer programming workers - is the fact that certain American colleges, universities, and medical facilities are also heavy users of this program. According to a searchable list of H-1B employers recently posted on Computer World magazine’s web site, a number of U.S. educational and health care institutions each sponsored hundreds of guest workers in 2008. Using this database, we identified 300 universities and 318 colleges that were approved for a total of 5,755 foreign workers. In addition we identified 465 public school systems, approved for 1,522 workers. Finally, we found 379 hospitals, and 948 health or medical employers who hired a combined 4,787 workers. Read more...

On immigration, conservatives advocate attrition through enforcement, not mass deportation.

Richard Nadler complains that his critics didn’t address his main premise: that conservatives are advocating “mass deportation,” and that such a position is sure to alienate Hispanic voters. That’s because there are no serious advocates of “mass deportation.” Read more...

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1. DHS boss orders review of raid
2. SCOTUS hears arguments on ID theft
3. 1m illegals may access benefits
4. Report critical of feds
5. TX agencies to work with feds Read more...

A story in today's Washington Times on lawsuits in the works against Denver and San Francisco over those cities' culpability in deaths because of their illegal-alien "sanctuary" policies. Read more...

The CIA's former No. 3 official awaits sentencing tomorrow in Virginia on federal charges that he conspired with a life-long friend to bilk the government out of millions of dollars and forced the CIA to hire his mistress. In their pre-sentencing memo, prosecutors also allege that Kyle "Dusty" Foggo helped facilitate an act of immigration fraud. Read more...

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1. Appointment sympathetic to illegals
2. Latino lawmakers begin new strategy
3. Cities sued over policies
4. AZ co. sheriff offers lawmakers tour
5. Scammed foreigners receive help Read more...

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1. FBI frets insulated populations
2. DHS confirms declining
3. Admin. appoints ICE chief
4. Advocates slam Bush doctrine
5. Suspect murder an illegal Read more...

Excerpts from an advocacy alert sent by the president of the immigration lawyers' association to his colleagues. I've bolded the key words: Read more...

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1. SCOTUS to hear ID theft arguments
2. Stimulus package restricts H-1Bs
3. BP embraces green technology
4. Judge dismisses case, sets precedent
5. Interpretation needs vex courts Read more...

Starting with its full-throttle campaign on behalf of open-borders immigration policy dating back to its uncritical endorsement of the Immigration Act of 1965, the New York Times has been the chief organ of disinformation in America on immigration and immigration policy. Moreover, it has the dubious distinction of creating the template for much of mainstream media coverage of the subject: don’t be confused by the facts; write every article as a stealth editorial; keep the public in the dark with regard to key legislation; run phony push polls to misrepresent American opinion; and label opponents bigoted nativists. Even seeing its confident predictions proven hopelessly wrong hasn’t chastened the paper: it guaranteed Congress and the public that the 1965 law would not increase immigration – which it did almost immediately. Read more...

Tom Barry is one of the more prolific, and smarter, writers on the open-borders left. His recent analysis of Napolitano's comments on her immigration agenda makes for encouraging reading (for our side). He writes: Read more...

The 7th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature was held by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Mark Krikorian, the Center's Executive Director, participated in an immigration debate at the event. In the second half of the debate, the opposing point of view is presented by Dr. Arthur Laffer. Read more...

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1. Obama takes notes on Canadian system
2. Napolitano re-evaluating REAL ID
3. Census profiles immigrant population
4. Mexican asylum seekers increase
5. Mexican emigration halves Read more...

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1. Illegals displacing native workers
2. ICE scrutinized over arrest quotas
3. Stimulus jobs destined for illegal aliens
4. Hispanics rising as share of convicts
5. MD co. begins enforcement Read more...

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1. ICE under scrutiny following sweep
2. Bill extends privileges to gay couples
3. Haiti refuses to accept deportees
4. MT lawmakers consider restrictions
5. Catholic leaders press for amnesty Read more...

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1. DHS chief outlines priorities
2. DHS reports on deportations
3. AZ co. sheriff faces suit
4. NE bishops speak out
5. Kansas City activists protest Read more...

On February 14, 1979, President Jimmy Carter flew to Mexico City for meetings with his Mexican counterpart, Jose Lopez Portillo. Their visit would be remembered more for its moments of awkwardness and tension than for anything they accomplished in an agenda that featured illegal immigration, trade, and drug trafficking. Read more...

Contra Nadler
Yes, reach out to immigrants—but not by admitting more of them.
By Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, February 13, 2009

Richard Nadler utterly misses the point in his NR piece on immigration. He argues that Republicans should accept amnesty and increased immigration in exchange for promises of future enforcement (“comprehensive immigration reform”). He claims that such a move could win the votes of Hispanics, and that “every hour we postpone a border reform that respects the interests of employers and Hispanics, our entire agenda suffers.” Read more...

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1. Stimulus package drops E-verify
2. Sen. seeks privileges for gay couples
3. UT lawmakers pressing for enforcement
4. LA hotel wins court tiff Read more...

The Associated Press reports that judges may order the California correctional system to release one-third of its 158,000 adult inmates within a few years, due to severe prison overcrowding. Law enforcement agencies and residents are understandably concerned. Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed several eyebrow-raising measures, but not the obvious – remove the illegal aliens who are incarcerated to their home country instead of back to the streets of California. ICE has a program, known as Rapid REPAT to do just that. Read more...

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1. Group faults DHS for spending
2. RI bill seeks to mandate E-verify
3. CO legislators seek tuition
4. WA bill seeks tuition aid
5. OK co. judge upholds law Read more...

In border terminology a "coyote" is the shadowy figure who guides illegal immigrants, usually for a hefty price, past immigration authorities and into the United States. Now a documentary film by that name, by Spanish filmmaker Chema Rodriguez, has been presented at the Berlin Film Festival. Read more...