The Hill — A push by House Republicans to reverse President Obama’s executive action on immigration has put their vulnerable Senate counterparts in a tough electoral spot. The GOP faces a much tougher 2016 map, and Hispanic groups are warning of political fallout over the issue of deportations at a time when the party is trying […]
Mexican Cartels are Turning to Heroin and Meth as Marjiuana Sales Decline
January 12, 2015 By 3 Comments
WASHINGTON POST – Mexican traffickers are sending a flood of cheap heroin and methamphetamine across the U.S. border, the latest drug seizure statistics show, in a new sign that America’s marijuana decriminalization trend is upending the North American narcotics trade. The amount of cannabis seized by U.S. federal, state and local officers along the boundary with […]
Commentary from Jim Gilchrist defending free speech for Santa Barbara, Ca. newspaper
January 10, 2015 By 29 Comments
California Newspaper Stands Its Ground On Free Speech — a commentary by Jim Gilchrist Dear Americans and free speech proponents, The Santa Barbara News-Press will set a long overdue precedent of defying politically correct speech, which in itself is “censorship.” For decades the U.S. media has cowered to intimidation from sinister reactionaries who would have […]
Thousands of illegal minors apprehended to start fiscal year 2015
January 9, 2015 By 13 Comments
Latin Post — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) released data on the number of undocumented immigrants already apprehended during the 2015 fiscal year, and according to the numbers, thousands of immigrant children were caught by border patrol agents to kick off the new fiscal year. The CBP noted 5,143 undocumented immigration children were […]
Newspaper office VANDALIZED for using term ‘illegals’
January 9, 2015 By 79 Comments
Fox News — A California newspaper will continue to use the term “illegals” to describe people who enter the U.S. without permission, despite an attack on its building by vandals believed to object to the term. The Santa Barbara News-Press’s front entrance was sprayed with the message “The border is illegal, not the people who cross […]
White House: GOP ‘playing with fire’ on DHS funding
January 9, 2015 By 17 Comments
The Washington Examiner — The White House is accusing Republicans of “playing with fire” in their strategy to use Homeland Security funding to challenge President Obama’s executive action on immigration, after the deadly terrorist attack at a French satirical magazine. Team Obama has long doubted that Republicans would unite behind an effective strategy to fight the […]
