ICE Lied About Release of Illegal Immigrants With Criminal Records

ICE Lied About Release of Illegal Immigrants With Criminal Records

Fox News – It seems that the first instinct of government officials is to lie and hope nobody finds out. Now another lie has been exposed… Hundreds of illegal immigrants with criminal records were released earlier this year as the Obama administration prepared for budget cuts, according to newly released data that challenged claims the [...]

Just Asking…

Just Asking...

Jim Gilchrist – MMP Exclusive – If you hire people to mow your lawn for the summer, does this mean you’re obligated to keep them and their whole family around forever? What if they didn’t want to leave your property when the work was done? What if they wanted to live in your home, but [...]

Requiem for a Grand Old Party

Requiem for a Grand Old Party

Patrick J. Buchanan – Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP? The question arises while reading an analysis of Census Bureau statistics on the 2012 election by Dan Balz and Ted Mellnik. Setting aside the illegals invasion Bush 41 and Bush 43 refused to halt, each year a million new immigrants enter and [...]

Jim Gilchrist of The Minuteman Project on Immigration Reform

Jim Gilchrist of The Minuteman Project on Immigration Reform

Laws.com – The so-called bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators have come up with legislation that they claim will change our immigration system for the better. This legislation would allow more legal immigrants to enter the country over the next decade, strengthen border security, award more visas based on education and professional credentials and controversially grant [...]

U.S. Aims To Track Foreigners Who Arrive, But Never Leave

U.S. Aims To Track Foreigners Who Arrive, But Never Leave

NPR – Nearly half the people now in the U.S. illegally didn’t climb walls, wade across the Rio Grande or trek through the desert to get here. They arrived legally, with tourist or student visas. And when those visas expired, they just never left. Like the rest of the 11 million undocumented people in the [...]

Thomas Sowell: Judge Immigration Laws By How They Affect Americans

Thomas Sowell: Judge Immigration Laws By How They Affect Americans

Omaha World Herald – Britain’s late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has “never ceased to be dangerous” but the West has “ceased to be vigilant.” Nothing better illustrates her point than the fact that the West has imported vast numbers of people who hate our guts and [...]

Obama Budget Sends Mixed Signals on Immigration Enforcement

Obama Budget Sends Mixed Signals on Immigration Enforcement

Washington Times – President Obama’s budget would rewrite the federal government’s interior immigration enforcement priorities, cutting funding for states that try to help enforce immigration laws and scaling back the number of immigrants the federal government will detain while they await deportation. The budget cuts overall funding for the Homeland Security Department. It particularly trims [...]

Immigration Redistributes Income from Poor U.S. Workers

Immigration Redistributes Income from Poor U.S. Workers

Center for Immigration Studies – A new report by Harvard economist George Borjas and published by the Center for Immigration Studies finds that the flow of one million immigrants into the United States each year does not substantially raise the overall income of native-born Americans. Borjas, recognized by Business Week and the Wall Street Journal [...]