Today former INS Commissioner Doris Meissner emphatically endorsed E-Verify in a report from the Migration Policy Institute, Taking Stock and Correcting Course, coming as Sen. Sessions (R-AL) failed to get an E-Verify reauthorization amendment into the Senate "stimulus" package yesterday. Read more...

Free Speech Is Great, But . . .
The open-borders lobby's attempts to silence its critics.
by Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, February 11, 2009 Read more...

Illegal-immigration enthusiasts at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) may be partially responsible for President Obama's recent decision to force the U.S. Census to report directly to the White House. According to Congressional Quarterly, the decision was made after NALEO issued a press release questioning the qualification of Obama's GOP appointee, saying: Read more...

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1. Stimulus jobs may be given to illegals
2. AL Sen. attempted revision in stimulus
3. State, local lawmakers reconsider tactics
4. Illegals repatriating due to economy
5. Citizenship under scrutiny Read more...

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1. DHS says economy is main factor
2. CO Senate committee kills bill
3. UT guestworker legislation stalls
4. MD co. PD to tighten enforcement
5. TX city wants enforcement Read more...

In the name of work load reduction, US embassies and consulates are in the process of rolling back certain security improvements imposed by Congress and the State Department after 9/11, with potentially serious public safety implications. Specifically, the Bureau of Consular Affairs has decided to allow posts to waive the interview requirement for applicants who are applying to renew temporary visas. The move represents a return to the reckless assembly line corner-cutting mentality that facilitated the entry of the 9/11 terrorists (read Janice Kephart's work, Joel Mowbray’s award-winning coverage and the GAO's report). Read more...

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1. E-verify spurs controversy
2. ICE operates busy air service
3. New Yorkers 'betrayed' by senator
4. Enforcement, economy has effect
5. TX atty. works immigration cases Read more...

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1. Study reveals stimulus may help illegals
2. E-verify requirements under fire
3. GA co. jailers flag 900 for deportation
4. NJ Jewish group urges 'reform'
5. Activists press for probe of BP Read more...

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1. Stimulus may provide jobs to illegals
2. Bush policy targeted illegal aliens
3. New NY Senator reversing course
4. Study says conditions improving
5. Los Angeles paying $13m in suit Read more...

There's a scene in the Life of Brian where members of the People's Front of Judea are hiding from Roman soldiers in obviously ineffective ways — standing upright with a lampshade on their heads, etc. — and the joke is that the soldiers don't notice them and leave. Read more...

As the recession affects more Americans' job security, many are questioning the practice of hiring foreign workers. Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for the Center, participated in a quick CNBC debate with Stuart Anderson of the National Foundation for American Policy. An online video of the segment is available.

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1. Border Fence bill over budget
2. ICE strategy criticized by group
3. Analysis: NY junior senator pressured
4. AZ co. sheriff to isolate inmates
5. AZ amnesty activists hold protest Read more...

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1. Report: Latino voting in 2008
2. Border Patrol to probe claims
3. DHS considers new detention center
4. New GOP chair maintains position
5. NY county police question status Read more...

The government is reporting that gangs are responsible for up to 80 percent of crime in communities across the nation. While the report is not yet public, one central conclusion is that street gangs are growing in size and strength. Many are transitioning from street-level distributors of narcotics to cartel-sized entities that are capable of competing with major drug-trafficking organizations. Increased violence accompanies this trend. Read more...

All this week, I discuss my book, The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal, on the web-based interview show "Uncommon Knowledge." The interview will be posted in five segments, one each day, and then the full interview will be posted here.

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1. New NY Senator wavering
2. Issue a low priority among Latinos
3. Houston candidates condemn enforcement
4. Children of deportees sue
5. Laid-off workers face expulsion Read more...

The New York Times editorial Saturday foreshadowing the "growth" in office by New York's junior senator included this precious line: "Ms. Gillibrand's House votes on immigration amounted to a repudiation of New York's special gift to America." In addition to demonstrating yet again the insufferable arrogance of the Times, this hilarious "special gift to America" stuff shows a central problem in immigration policmaking: In the minds of supporters of open borders, it's always 1907. Read more...

Want a small taste of what would have happened if President Bush had gotten his way with his "Any Willing Worker/Any Willing Employer" plan to open every job in the country to unlimited immigration? From the AP:

Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were getting laid off, according to an Associated Press review of visa applications.

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1. DHS to target convicts, delay E-verify
2. McCain presses GOP on strategy
3. Activists allege profiling
4. Refugees hit hard by economy
5. FBI probing BP altercation Read more...

No, that's not the name of a new group, though it wouldn't surprise me. A new poll of the 2010 Senate prospects of Colorado's Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter found, among other things, that 35 percent of the state's Hispanic voters prefer immigration hawk Tom Tancredo to Ritter. Given the margins of error, that's the same share of the Hispanic vote in Colorado as McCain last year (reported as 38 percent), and Bush in 2004 (reported as 30 percent). Read more...

Good news and bad news on the E-Verify front. The House version of the "stimulus," monstrous though it is, at least retains the requirement that recipients of its funds be enrolled in E-Verify, so as to screen out illegals. On the other hand, at the request of the open-borders U.S. Read more...

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1. Government postpones E-verify
2. Vatican official lobbies
3. Activists keep pressure
4. Latino group sues over DLs
5. FL sells status for investment Read more...

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1. New NY Sen. under fire for positions
2. NC co. sheriff defends program
1. Reception center receives facelift
4. Illegal marks one year in sanctuary
5. Suspect deported before trial Read more...

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1. DHS reverses position on arrests
2. CT imm. judge okays suit against ICE
3. Feds closing popular CA border park
4. RI prosecutors drop detention case
5. SC co. officials laud E-verify
6. MD co. lawmakers press for data
7. US atty.Touts local enforcement Read more...

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1. Obama to review arrest restriction
2. Fed sweep nabs 1,970 gang members
3. Senate preparing to pass SCHIP
4. Former GOP official courts Hispanics
5. IL city seeking cooperation Read more...

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1. Napolitano to reconsider REAL ID
2. AZ state candidate has 'legal woes'
3. Nashville English-only law fails
4. TX city runs deficit to fend suit
5. AZ city lauds accomplishments Read more...

President Obama has released a five-step plan for tackling immigration. On some points, he’ll find plenty of support from the public; Americans overwhelmingly support secured borders and the reduction of incentives to enter illegally (of which there are many). On other agenda items (e.g. mass amnesty), he’ll waste political capital and have nothing to show for it at the end of his term. If Obama starts with the politically-practical items, the new president will find much success. He seems to already know this: during the primary debates, Obama promised that border security and ending illegal employment would be a prerequisite for amnesty.

Here is the official plan from whitehouse.gov: Read more...

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1. Congressional Hispanics struggle
2. CNMI policy may exile some foreigners
3. TX fending suit over DL policy
4. TN city to vote on language policy
5. Activists protest raids Read more...

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1. Bush gives clemency to BP agents
2. ICE arrests expand beyond fugitives
3. Experts fret conditions in Mexico
4. Report blasts treatment of detainees
5. Asian pols make headway Read more...

The fragility of institutions is not a concern for most Americans. Despite our relatively short—and occasionally tumultuous—history, we view our situation with the hubris borne from beginning the world over again. There is a sense we are immune from the internal crises that threaten the civility of other parts of the world. Read more...