Immigration Reform Could Get Overshadowed in Congress

Immigration Reform Could Get Overshadowed in Congress

Los Angeles Times – The window to pass immigration laws next year is narrowing as the effort competes with a renewed debate over gun laws and the lingering fight over taxes and the budget, according to congressional staffers and outside advocates. Key congressional committees are preparing for a package of gun control laws to be [...]

Obama Administration Redefines ‘Dangerous’ Illegal Aliens

Obama Administration Redefines ‘Dangerous’ Illegal Aliens

Front Page Mag – The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used the Friday before Christmas to release official word that ICE was once again narrowing its definition of who it considers a dangerous individual. This latest change involves the process of ICE detainers, a topic addressed routinely at Front Page Magazine. ICE detainers are [...]

What Is Your Immigration IQ?

What Is Your Immigration IQ?

Washington Times – There is a fairly high correlation among countries’ IQ scores, school achievement scores (such as the recently announced TIMSS and PIRLS or the PISA of a couple of years ago), and levels of prosperity. For example, countries such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore score well on tests of intelligence and [...]

Cartels Dump Seventeen Mutilated Bodies Near U.S. Border

Cartels Dump Seventeen Mutilated Bodies Near U.S. Border

Breitbart – Mexican authorities found 17 more mutilated bodies over the month of December near the US border. Thirteen of the bodies were discovered in two abandoned vehicles in two separate cities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering Texas. Four of the bodies were found hanging in public in the Mexican state of Coahuila, [...]

ICE Targets Employers, Ignores Illegal Aliens

ICE targets employers, ignores illegal aliens

Examiner – The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audits of employers in search of those using aliens unauthorized for employment in the United States has increased dramatically. Audits of employers’ I-9s have increased to more than 3000 in fiscal year 2012 which ended on September 30, 2011. This increase is up from a low of [...]

Feds Let Mexican Cartel Hit Men Kill in U.S.

Feds Let Mexican Cartel Hit Men Kill in U.S.

New Republic – The U.S. government allowed Mexican drug cartel hit men working as “confidential informants” for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to murder people inside the United States, an American federal law enforcement supervisor told the private intelligence firm Stratfor in e-mails released by WikiLeaks. ICE neither confirmed nor denied the allegations when contacted [...]

Insidious Latino Studies Being Revived in Tucson Schools

Insidious Latino Studies Being Revived in Tucson Schools

The Arizona Republic – It is a persistent rule of governance that the more remote government officials are from the people governed, the more clueless they are about governing. Nowhere is that more true than in the Tucson Unified School District, where Mexican-American Studies, or MAS, is about to make a comeback, courtesy of our [...]

Sen. Feinstein Teams Up With Illegal Aliens Call for Immigration Reform

Sen. Feinstein Teams Up With Illegal Aliens Call for Immigration Reform

NBC Bay Area – A 26-year-old San Jose man who was just released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on Tuesday was joined by supporters outside the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco Wednesday morning as they called for federal immigration reform. Jesus Ruiz Diego, who was brought to the U.S. from [...]