GOP Debate: Bay Area residents weigh in on candidates’ stance on sanctuary cities

By Katie Nelson, San Jose Mercury News Aug. 07–A significant spotlight shined on the Bay Area during Thursday night’s first GOP debate after moderators raised questions surrounding sanctuary cities and the shooting death of former Pleasanton resident Kate Steinle by an undocumented immigrant. The question, in a Facebook submission by a man identified as Doug […]

NumbersUSA to run immigration reduction ad during Fox News debate

During tonight’s GOP primary debate on Fox News, immigration reduction group NumbersUSA will run an ad encouraging viewers to see immigration as a question of “numbers”: “We are glad that candidates are beginning to address various problems of our immigration policies, but our ad seeks to remind presidential hopefuls and voters that the overwhelming issue […]

The Trump effect: immigration remarks push GOP contenders sharply right

Before Donald Trump walks on stage at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland for the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, he will have already succeeded in wielding a dramatic – and some believe potentially fatal – impact on his party and the nine other candidates standing beside him vying to be its nominated […]

ICE losing track of released illegals

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is losing track of the illegal immigrants being released from family detention centers, and does not know how many immigrant families have been released: ICE built huge family detention centers in Texas and other locations in response to last summer’s surge of unaccompanied minors and “incomplete family units” as previously reported […]

Obama handing out 1 million extra alien work permits per year

There are approximately one million lawful permanent residents and 700,000 foreign guest workers admitted to the U.S. each year. However, from 2009 to 2014, the Obama administration has issued more than 7.4 million work permits to foreign nationals: In written responses to the Senate Judiciary Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee Republicans obtained by Breitbart […]

Immigration judges are lesser than prison wardens and hospital doctors

According to the latest data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) across the United States, tens of thousands of immigrants are facing years of waiting for their day in court. With court staff in short supply and enforcement on the rise, there are close to half a million cases pending nationwide. But there […]