Senate Amnesty: Non-Enforcement is Chief Goal

Senate Amnesty: Non-Enforcement is Chief Goal

Tom Tancredo in WND – Many political commentators are feigning surprise at the large number of waivers, exemptions and “unreviewable discretion” written into the Senate’s 844-page amnesty bill. No one should be surprised: No amnesty bill in history has ever had its enforcement provisions implemented after the amnesty was granted. The debate over the Gang [...]

Enforcement Before Amnesty

Enforcement Before Amnesty

Arizona Daily Star – In 1986, Congress passed a large immigration bill based on a simple deal: amnesty for settled illegal immigrants in exchange for stricter enforcement of the law to minimize new illegal immigration. The deal was not honored. The promised future enforcement never materialized. That’s because once the amnesty was out of the [...]

Will the GOP Embrace Amnesty?

Requiem for a Grand Old Party

Patrick J. Buchanan – During President Eisenhower’s first term, 60 years ago, the United States faced an invasion across its southern border. Illegal aliens had been coming since World War II. But, suddenly, the number was over 1 million. Crime was rising in Texas. The illegals were taking the jobs of U.S. farm workers. Under [...]

Anti-Illegal-Immigration Activists Go To Washington

Just Asking...

Jim Gilchrist – MMP Exclusive – It’s not just big corporations and pro-amnesty organizations who are in Washington to lobby for immigration reform. There is a grass-roots lobbying event called Hold Their Feet to the Fire organized by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The annual event includes broadcasts and blogging by talk-radio hosts [...]

Report: ‘Gang of Eight’ to Oppose Amendments to Their Immigration Bill

Gand of Eight

Breitbart.com – All the members of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform in the U.S. Senate will band together to block any efforts by other senators to offer amendments to their legislation once it is introduced. “A bipartisan Senate group on immigration legislation is attempting to craft an agreement so secure that the [...]

Border Crossers Seek Arrest, Hoping for Amnesty

Border Crossers Seek Arrest, Hoping for Amnesty

Fox News Latino – An immigration reform bill hasn’t been drafted yet, but illegal aliens already think it’s a done deal and if they make it across the border, they’ll get amnesty. Word has spread south of the border that there’s a good chance they could get amnesty as part of a major overhaul to [...]

Jan Ting on Avoiding Immigration Amnesty

Jan Ting on Avoiding Immigration Amnesty

Washington Times – Rand Paul’s Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don’t think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment. The irony of millions of Americans looking for [...]

Why Immigration Amnesty Should and Will Fail

Why Immigration Amnesty Should and Will Fail

Waxahachie Newspapers – Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life. We attract more illegal immigrants by reducing the costs through discretionary enforcement and improving the benefits through amnesty. The United States [...]