According to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the U.S. immigrant population has hit a record-high 42.4 million — with a growth rate of 2.4 million legals and illegals both since 2010, including more than a million new arrivals in 2014 alone: The dramatic increases in immigration are evident in both […]
Jeb heckled over DREAMers – slams Trump
September 22, 2015 By 4 Comments
If further proof was needed, Jeb Bush showed himself to be more of a friend to illegal immigrants than he is to Americans at a speech this week. After he was heckled by an angry crowd chanting “No hope without our vote” during an address to a national Hispanic business group, he stopped to remind […]
Welfare use is very high for both legal & illegal immigrants!
September 18, 2015 By 5 Comments
49% for Legal Households, 62% for Illegals Low levels of education — not legal status — are the main reason immigrant welfare use is high, according to a new report by the Center for Immigration Studies. The report estimates welfare use separately for legal and illegal immigrant households based on Census Bureau data, and is […]
Illegal immigrant detention centers rife with abuses, U.S. Civil Rights Commission report finds
September 18, 2015 By 12 Comments
The way the government detains illegal immigrants often breaks fundamental constitutional guarantees, and holding whole families in detention is a particularly harsh abuse of human rights, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said in a controversial new report Thursday, wading deeply into the immigration debate. Some detention facilities – both government-run and private ones operating on […]
Video: What the GOP candidates had to say about immigration
September 18, 2015 By 1 Comment
Immigration played a big part in Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate. Below is a video roundup of talking points from the candidates. First, a summary of all the major talking points: At one point, Jeb Bush said Donald Trump should apologize for bringing Bush’s wife Columba, who was born in Mexico, into the debate. Trump […]
Legal publication rejects use of term ‘illegal alien,’ suggests ‘undocumented immigrant’ instead
September 18, 2015 By 8 Comments
Elizabeth A. Hacker and Mahlon F. Hanson are retired immigration judges and Department of Justice attorneys who now write commentary on the proper enforcement of immigration law and the current state of immigration enforcement policies. Several of their articles have been published by the Immigration Reform Law Institute; however, a recent submission regarding sanctuary cities was […]
