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Morning News, 12/23/08
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. DHS expanding biometric data 2. Illegals crowded out of market 3. Poll shows support for SCHIP 4. MA funding for Census count 5. CNMI asks for hiring preference 6. NY co. to face Fed. probe Read more... |
Morning News, 1/22/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
Morning News, 1/27/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
Morning News, 3/3/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. DOD believes cartels are 1000,000 strong 2. Hispanics fret future with Republican Party 3. Study finds Indian, Chinese repatriating 4. CA to stop detaining certain illegals 5. Latinos want Hispanic Archbishop Read more... |
More on the Environment, Population, Immigration, and the SPLC
| Last week this blog noted the work of long-time environmental reporter Tom Horton, an expert on the Chesapeake Bay who wrote for many years at the Baltimore Sun and now writes for the Bay Journal. We cited Horton's projection that the Senate immigration reform bill, if passed, would increase the population of the multi-state Chesapeake Bay watershed to 24 million by 2050, up from the current level of 17 million. Read more... |
Morning News, 2/5/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
Morning News, 1/29/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
Morning News, 1/14/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Congress considers extending benefits 2. Secretary-select's record questioned 3. MI appoints 'migrant affairs' director 4. NC co. rejects federal program 5. AZ det. centers face accusations Read more... |
Morning News, 2/10/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
DHS (Albeit Slowly) and the Courts Move on Immigration Abuse Cases
| In recent months federal prosecutors, the courts, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a state regulatory body in Virginia have moved against immigration abuse on three fronts, with further progress being reported recently in all these cases, two of which involve the controversial EB-5 program for immigrant investors. Read more... |
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Quick Look at Some of the Corker-Hoeven Amendment's Many Flaws
| A document circulating on the Hill highlights some of the Corker-Hoeven substitute amendment's worst provisions. The amendment leaves in place the basic structure of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty: mass amnesty first, real enforcement never. The gory details include: Read more... |
Morning News, 1/16/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Feds pull detainees from RI center 2. DHS Sec.-select outlines policies 3. Fed. judge upholds Bush's changes 4. Survey looks at Hispanics' priorities 5. Illegals found held hostage Read more... |
Morning News, 10/23/08
| 1. McCain losing Hispanic voters 2. Candidates the same on issue 3. Decision gives momentum to suit 4. AZ campaign signs stir controversy 5. MD county sheriff lauds efforts 6. Feds probing suspect's history Read more... |
Morning News, 1/8/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Experts expect cut in enforcement 2. SC Dept. presses use of E-verify 3. MD hawk to run for state legislature 4. Seattle hotline helps victims 5. Illegal jailed for DUI charges Read more... |
Morning News, 1/13/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Congress prepared to extend benefits 2. Bush admin. pressed for prosecutions 3. New rules require e-registration 4. Feds probing rash of NY crimes 5. Obama meets Calderon in DC Read more... |
Morning News, 4/9/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. White House to test political climate 2. Gov't reports drop in H-1B applications 3. Critics blast MA pol's plan for suffrage 4. Issues features heavily in Chicago race 5. Group trys to silence analyst Read more... |
Morning News, 2/4/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
SAFE and Sound Legislation: Restoring the Parameters of the Constitution
| In my last blog on the "Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act", an immigration bill pending in the House of Representatives as H.R.2278, I discussed the terrorism and national security provisions in Title II of the draft legislation. Read more... |
Rep. Labrador Meets the Press: Round 2
| "Meet the Press", hosted by David Gregory, is, as noted, a rather conventional news program. Yet, every once in a while, it results in a very clarifying set of exchanges. One case in point was the following exchange between New York Times columnist David Brooks and Rep. Raul Labrador on the July 7 show: Read more... |
Morning News, 2/18/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
Morning News, 3/18/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 1. Obama resists calls for Haitian TPS 2. Republican Senator gears up for amnesty 3. Caucus urges immigration 'reform' 4. Reports criticize detainee health care 5. AR Senate to discuss tuition bill Read more... |
Morning News, 2/17/09
| Please visit our YouTube and Facebook pages. 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... |
A SAFE Ending
| This is my seventh and last blog on the SAFE ("Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement") Act, a bill pending in the House of Representatives as H.R. 2278. In prior blogs, I discussed in some detail the benefits of the SAFE Act and explained why it is vastly superior to the bill passed by the Senate several weeks ago. Read more... |
Presidential Discretion in Immigration Policy: Deja Vu?
| The dilemma for real immigration reformers in Congress is that that the president and the executive branch do have some degree of constitutionally mandated discretion in enforcing immigration laws. Exactly how much is a matter of debate. Jeffrey Anderson writing in the Weekly Standard of the president's decision not to deport young illegal aliens characterized that initiative as "pure lawlessness". Read more... |
Senate (again) passes amnesty. High court decides marriage, voting rights.
| Newsworks, June 28, 2013 After invoking cloture, the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2006, adopted the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 by a vote of 62 to 36. That bill was never voted on by the U.S. House of Representatives, and did not become law. This week, on June 27, 2013, the U.S. Senate again adopted a comprehensive immigration reform bill after invoking cloture, this time by a vote of 68-32. Read more... |