Category: Immigration

Why is Obama Letting Non-Citizens Get Away with Voting?

From The Heritage Foundation: As Matt Mayer vividly describes in a new Heritage Web Memo, the Obama administration is implementing a de facto amnesty that will allow the vast majority of illegal aliens to remain in the United States without being disturbed by the Department of Homeland Security or any attempts to deport them. We can [...]

Obama Justice Dept. Argued in Favor of Using Race As a Relevant Factor Among Others to Justify Immigration Stops

From CNSNews.com: In at least three court cases, President Obama’s Justice Department has argued in favor of federal law enforcement officers using race as a factor in determining whether to stop someone for a suspected immigration violation. It has done so despite the fact that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report [...]

Obama Administration Tells U.N. It’s Committed to Closing Gitmo, ‘Fixing’ Immigration

From CNSNews.com: In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of America’s human rights record, the Obama administration has informed the world body that it remains committed to closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and to “fixing our broken immigration system.” A report delivered to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on Friday and [...]

Sheriff’s Challenge to Obama: Give Me Half Hour, I’ll Show You How to Secure Border

From CNSNews.com: Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., is issuing an invitation to President Barack Obama: If the president will come and spend a half hour with Babeu in Arizona, the sheriff says, he will convince the president he can succeed in securing the border and thus make himself a hero who transcends partisan [...]

Nearly Half of United States Considering Arizona-Style Immigration Legislation

From CNSNews.com: Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona’s law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled against portions of that law – a ruling [...]

Border Patrol Joins ICE Agents in Condemning Obama Administration

From Intellectual Conservative: On the heels of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ 258-0 “vote of no confidence” against their superiors, U.S. Border Patrol agents are slamming President Barack Obama’s administration, especially Attorney General Eric Holder.“We are receiving reports . . . that Eric Holder and DOJ have signaled that they [will continue to] challenge SB1070. If this development wasn’t [...]

HSINO: The $600 million Homeland Security In Name Only bill

From Michelle Malkin: I know border security hucksterism when I see it — whether it’s from Democrats or Republicans. Longtime readers will remember that when pro-shamnesty President Bush and the GOP backed a Secure Fence Act in 2007, I called it what it was: The Fence in Name Only. Sadly, the call was alltoo right. Today, the president will [...]

Only 29 Percent of Americans Approve of Obama’s Handling of Immigration, Says Gallup

From CNSNews.com: As the Senate reconvened on Thursday, taking a rare break from its August recess to pass a $600-million bill to fund border security provisions that had passed in a specially-reconvened-session of the House on Tuesday, new numbers from the Gallup Poll showed that only 29 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the immigration issue. [...]

Pampering Illegals, Endangering Americans: The Obama Administration’s Immigration Policy

From The Heritage Foundation: The death of a Catholic nun and the serious injury of two elderly nuns in Virginia is more than just a tragedy. It’s the inevitable outcome of the Obama administration’s immigration policy — offering selective amnesty for many illegal aliens while spending tax money on pampering those who break our laws [...]

1,200 National Guard Troops Being Deployed to Border Will Not Be Used to Stop and Detain Illegal Aliens

From CNSNews.com: The 1,200 National Guard troops that are being deployed incrementally to the southwest border “will not be doing direct law enforcement,” said U.S. National Guard Bureau Director of Communications Jack Harrison when asked if the forces would be interdicting drugs and undocumented immigrants. “The two mission sets are criminal analysts and enter-identification team,” [...]

Virginia Attorney General Rules Police Can Check Immigration Status

From Fox News: In a decision that could lay the groundwork for an Arizona-style immigration policy, Virginia’s attorney general said state law enforcement officers are allowed to check the immigration status of anyone “stopped or arrested.” Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the legal opinion Friday extending that authority to Virginia police in response to an [...]

Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’

From CNSNews.com: Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government. Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel. “What’s very troubling [...]

GOP blasts Obama over ‘amnesty’ plan

From World Net Daily: An internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has created a firestorm on Capitol Hill over revelations the Obama administration is considering sidestepping Congress to grant illegal immigrants “amnesty” by executive fiat. “Once again, the Obama administration says one thing and does another,” asserts a statement [...]

On Arizona and Immigration: Judge Ignores Rule of Law

From The Heritage Foundation: As everyone knows, Arizona, chafed by the Federal government’s inability to control the flow of illegal immigrants into the State, enacted Senate Bill 1070(PDF) in an effort to do something about the resulting collateral damage to it and its citizens. Now, a federal judge appointed by President Clinton, Susan Bolton, has temporarily blockedenforcement [...]

Obama’s War Against the (Red) States

From Human Events: When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona’s now famous immigration bill into law on April 23, it was immediately evident that she had crossed a line that President Obama didn’t want her to cross. Thus his administration quickly reviewed lessons learned from years in the Chicago political machine and began using PR tactics [...]

Gingrich: Obama Doesn’t Understand America

From HotAir.com: Newt Gingrich makes a similar argument to Charles Krauthammer’s in yesterday’s Washington Post, which is that Barack Obama really doesn’t get America. That’s not to argue over origins, because as Gingrich also points out, a cadre of American elitists fall into the same trap. While the majority of the country opposes the federal lawsuit [...]

Obama’s Immigration Hypocrisy

From Townhall.com: When Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform — when he still had 60 Senate Democrats — he didn’t lift a finger to push it. Now that he can’t pass it — it is too late in the year, he doesn’t have 60 votes and many Democrats will defect — he aggressively pushes [...]

Obama’s Immigration Speech Showcases Plans for Amnesty

From The Heritage Foundation: Today, President Barack Obama gave a major speech on immigration reform at the American University in Washington, D.C. He emphasized that it was time for the United States to “squarely confront our challenges” when it comes to the country’s broken immigration system.  Indeed, fixing the immigration problem is appropriate because the country [...]

Another outrageous Obama DHS appointment

From Michelle Malkin: Here we go again. I’ve long reported on the danger of illegal alien sanctuary city policies embraced by woefully misguided (at best) and criminally reckless public officials seeking to appease the open borders lobby. One of the countless casualties of this deadly pandering was Houston PD officer Rodney Johnson, who shot and killed during [...]

Obama Could Face Impeachment If He Pardons Illegals

From NewsMax.com: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly is warning that if President Barack Obama ever bypasses Congress and uses his pardon power to make millions of illegal aliens citizens, he could face serious calls for his impeachment. “If President Obama were to sign an executive order giving illegal aliens amnesty, his career would be over and [...]