Bringing national awareness to the illegal alien invasion
GOPUSA – Border security is a key sticking point in this years immigration debate, but only a little more than one-third of senators have been to the southwestern border during their time in office to get a firsthand look at the security situation, according to a survey of the chamber’s members by The Washington Times. [...]
The Brownsville Herald – The Department of Homeland Security is looking into charging pedestrians and passenger cars a crossing fee at the Canadian and Mexican borders to fund its operations at ports of entry. A spokesman from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a branch of DHS, said the study would consider how the additional fee [...]
Channel 10 News (San Diego) – Sign-cutting is a skill used to spot the slightest traces of human presence in the wild. Along the border with Mexico, the technique is used by some Border Patrol agents to pursue those who enter the U.S. illegally. Footprints, broken twigs, and overturned pebbles are some of the signs [...]
Reuters – A Senate immigration plan seeking billions of dollars to secure the porous Mexico border sparked some skepticism in southern Arizona, where wary residents of the border area said previous efforts to ramp up enforcement had failed to stop illegal crossings “They ain’t going to stop it unless they build that wall 50 feet [...]
San Antonio Express-News – Illegal border crossings have soared in the Rio Grande Valley sector and on pace to exceed record total of 110,528 last seen in 2006. The agency’s McAllen station, which covers a 46-mile stretch of the river, including La Joya, has responded to these increases by pulling agents out of the field [...]
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 [...]
The Washington Free Beacon – The recent release of illegal immigrants in detention, the Obama administration’s renewed push for amnesty, and the planned furlough of thousands of border patrol agents will result in more illegal crossings, immigration experts and border officials say. “It’s the perfect storm,” said Stuart Harris, the vice president of Local 1929 [...]
Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – In the debate about comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans want assurances from the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership that border security will be tightened as a prerequisite for providing a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. Democrats argue that the $18 billion spent on immigration enforcement makes the border more [...]
Amnesty 2.0 — The long-anticipated “immigration operating system” — is still in development, but that hasn’t stopped media pundits from sputtering with excitement over the projected benefits of the new iOS. The package not only addresses the bugs found in Ronald Reagan’s crash-prone Amnesty 1.0, it includes the most requested productivity features that promise to heal our ailing Nation in many profound ways… [Read More]
Jim Gilchrist''s Essay on Illegal Immigration, published by Georgetown University School of Law. [Read More]
