Senate Bill 13-251, The Colorado Road and Community Safety Act authorizes the issuance of a Colorado driver’s license, instruction permit or identification card to those individuals who either cannot demonstrate lawful presence in the U.S. or can only demonstrate temporary lawful presence in the U.S. beginning August 1,...
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Colorado Department of Revenue; Motor Vehicles
23 July 2014
Fox News
23 July 2014
Video: Governor Rick Perry: Illegal aliens in Texas behind 3,000 homicides & 8,000 sexual assaults since 2008
The Daily Caller
23 July 2014
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson admitted at a Tuesday press conference that nearly all the roughly 50,000 Central American youths who have crossed the Texas border since October are accompanied by smugglers hired by the youth’s parents or families.
“It is our observation and our...
The Denver Post
22 July 2014
Yolanda Vega, who came to the U.S. illegally in search of a better life, doesn't have a driver's license, yet six days a week she travels miles from the trailer she shares with her husband and teenage daughter outside Durango to clean homes much larger than her own.
Vega, 32, relies on her husband to drive her to...
Reuters
22 July 2014
A deluge of Central American children [illegally] pouring into the United States threatens to burst the seams of already overstuffed immigration courts, and President Barack Obama'ssteps to ease the crisis are likely to make matters worse rather than better for some, U.S. officials and immigration lawyers said.
"We...
Breitbart
22 July 2014
... According to a new Pew Research report, in fiscal year 2013, 91% of illegal immigrant "children" [unaccompanied alien children] apprehended at the border were teenagers. Of the nearly 60,000 illegal immigrant "children" who were apprehended since October of last year, 84% have been teenagers...
Pew also noted...
Economic Collapse Blog
22 July 2014
Did you know that the number of illegal immigrants that enter Texas each week is greater than the number of babies being born to citizens of that state? The mainstream media is shining the spotlight very brightly on all of the children that are coming over, and there is a reason for that. They are trying to tug on our...
Breitbart
18 July 2014
On Thursday, a week after former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates argued for amnesty and for an unlimited number of high-tech guest-worker visas, Microsoft announced it would slash 18,000 jobs...
... Microsoft employs 125,000 people.
Bill Gates, along with Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett, advocated removing "the...
People who call for “comprehensive immigration reform” seldom mean it
National Review Online
17 July 2014
The last thing a liberal proponent of immigration reform wants is liberal immigration reform. Remember that paradox, and the insanity at the border makes some sense.
Each day a worried politician or pundit, with creased brow and pained expression, lectures us about the need for “comprehensive immigration reform” to...
MSN.com
17 July 2014
As US lawmakers grapple with ways to slash spending, many were shocked to learn authorities are spending $250 to $1,000 per day to care for each minor apprehended crossing the US border.
[...] "One of the figures that sticks in everybody's mind is we're paying about $250 to $1,000 per child," Senator Jeff Flake told...
CNN Newswire
17 July 2014
An urgent humanitarian situation has become a major political conundrum.
The surge of Central American children illegally crossing the border into Texas has politicians debating possible responses while scattered protests against the influx threaten to become an organized movement in coming days.
Even fellow...
Breitbart
17 July 2014
Americans tagged illegal immigration as the nation’s most important problem in July, according to Gallup.
Seventeen percent of 1,013 Americans — and 23 percent of GOP supporters — surveyed by Gallup in July identified “immigration/illegal aliens” as their top political priority...
That’s a startling change...
World Net Daily
16 July 2014
A massive protest scheduled for July 18 and 19 across the United States is aimed at stopping the influx of Central American children flooding across the border, and more than a dozen smaller community protests already have played roles in stopping the children from being brought there...
In Vassar, Michigan, about 50...Breitbart
16 July 2014
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has warned all of his colleagues in Congress that President Barack Obama’s new immigration strategy—his plans to legalize millions of illegal alien adults through executive power—could destroy America as we know it.
“I write to inform you of a development...
Freedom Outpost
16 July 2014
While many people are awakening to the Obama administration and their attempts to undermine our national sovereignty, it must be stated that this has been an ongoing effort for many, many decades. Barrack Obama is merely a tool selected to get an already conditioned population to accept the final stages of a plan that will...
VDare
15 July 2014
Speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Albuquerque in 2001, George W. Bush declared that, as Mexico was a friend and neighbor, “It’s so important for us to tear down our barriers and walls that might separate Mexico from the United States.”
Bush succeeded. And during his tenure, millions from Mexico exploited...
CBS DC
15 July 2014
Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday that he does not want Iowa to host any of the thousands of children from Central America who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone...
“The first thing we need to do is secure the border. I do have empathy for these kids,” Branstad said. “But I also don’t want to send the signal...
15 July 2014
Demonstrators blasted the Obama administration’s inaction in Chicago while federal funds are earmarked to help the roughly 50,000 illegal immigrants [aliens] who have crossed into America since October...
“For the president to set aside all of these funds for immigrants and [have] forsaken the African-American...
Breitbart
15 July 2014
Border Patrol agent Gabe Pacheco and National ICE Council President Chris Crane said that the southern border was “wide open” and a “perfect storm” in an interview on Monday’s “Sean Hannity Show.”
Pacheco stated re-deploying agents to process illegal immigrants has created “certain areas along the border you have it...
Breitbart
15 July 2014
...Obama and his leftist allies are committed to thwarting any effort by states to protect the integrity of the voting process that would prevent illegal aliens and other ineligible individuals from voting.
Judicial Watch has launched a nationwide effort to support election integrity. That effort continued...
MSN.com
15 July 2014
After 14 years of separation from her parents and a harrowing journey across the U.S. border, Milsa Martinez finds solace in the northern Virginia high school where she's perfecting her English and learning civics and math.
For children and teens [illegally] crossing the border alone like Martinez did two years ago,...
Canada Free Press
14 July 2014
When Obama let out his first soul-chilling hint: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America" on Oct. 30, 2008, few thought about what his actual modus operandi might be.
The hint was issued by a rabble rouser who had arrived on the world stage with a carefully crafted rock...
Breitbart
14 July 2014
With thousands of unaccompanied illegal minors flooding across the U.S. border from Central America, the plan to house up to 120 of them in the town of Vassar, Michigan received a jolt Wednesday night from local community leaders and activists.
During the heated town meeting at Vassar High School, about 300 activist...
Fox News
13 July 2014
Republicans escalated their opposition Sunday to President Obama’s request for $3.7 billion to help fix the illegal immigration crisis at the southern U.S. border -- posing alternatives and arguing they can resolve immediate problems for less money.
McCaul said his caucus was looking at changing a 2008 law that...
Waking Times
13 July 2014
The mainstream media is aging and collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and arrogance. Now entirely formulaic in presentation and predictable in substance, the ‘major’ outlets of news, which are monopolized under only a small handful of corporations, serve the purpose of misleading the public on important issues and...
Breitbart
13 July 2014
Saturday on the Fox News Channel, Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza said that up to 70 percent of the agents are being pulled off patrolling the border to handle the administrative paperwork needed to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis of ten thousands of unaccompanied minors flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border...
Tom Tancredo on how establishment forces from across nation targeted him
World Net Daily
13 July 2014
...In Colorado as well, the Republican gubernatorial primary picture was not pretty.
On June 24 the GOP establishment won a narrow victory – less than 14,000 votes (or 3 percent) separated first and second place. They won by pursuing a scorched-earth policy against the liberty movement’s leading challenger to the status...
A perfect storm of special interests have hijacked U.S. immigration law
National Review Online
13 July 2014
...Mexico strictly enforces some of the harshest immigration laws in the world that either summarily deport or jail most who dare to cross Mexican borders illegally, much less attempt to work inside Mexico or become politically active. If America were to emulate Mexico’s immigration policies, millions of Mexican nationals...
Breitbart
12 July 2014
Illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial airliners without valid identification, according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). “The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their Notice to Appear forms,” NBPC’s...
Roll Call
12 July 2014
The effect on the congressional immigration debate after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprising primary loss should not be about whether to have reform [amnesty], but whether that reform should be about increasing foreign labor or reducing it.
Cantor represented the unanimous views of the leadership of both...
Breitbart
12 July 2014
The Minuteman Project, the "citizens' Neighborhood Watch on our border," began recruiting volunteers on Monday morning for "Operation Normandy," a new citizen effort to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jim Gilchrist, co-founder and president of the Minuteman Project, posted a message on the group's website outlining the...
TownHall
12 July 2014
According to Border Patrol sources, violent MS-13 gang members are using the Nogales processing center in Arizona as a recruitment hub and as a transfer point for gang members to get into the United States.
The Red Cross has set up phone banks inside the processing center so unaccompanied minors can make phone calls to...
Washington Times
11 July 2014
A militia has set up a command center south of San Antonio to prepare for what they say is a mission to protect the United States from the influx of illegal immigrants.
The militia, operating via the website PatriotsInformationHotline.com, founded by Barbie Rogers, said members at the command center in Von Ormy will...
One News Now
11 July 2014
Illegal aliens and their children, by definition, are not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. That’s why they can be deported.
Because the current policy is that any child who is born here, even to an illegal alien, is automatically a citizen of the United States, pregnant illegal aliens by the thousands commit...
Canada Free Press
11 July 2014
It is so sad to watch Latin American children used as human props for political gain by our government, intent on forcing America into a third world status and more diversification.
It is even sadder to see that so many parents were so deluded and so irresponsible that they sent their children in the company of coyotes...
FAIR
11 July 2014
We have a crisis at the border! The illegal immigration of aliens under 18 is up an astounding 367% at the Rio Grande Valley since 2011. The Obama Administration has systematically sidetracked and derailed enforcement through numerous "executive memos" designed to gut deportations and border apprehensions.
The...
The Denver Post
11 July 2014
Cases pending in immigration courts across the country have reached an all-time high, fueled in part by a high number of cases involving juveniles.
Colorado, with 7,760 cases pending, is not in the top 10 of clogged-court states, but Colorado does have a higher wait time than the average. The average wait time in the...
Reuters
11 July 2014
The Obama administration warned lawmakers on Thursday that U.S. border control agencies would run out of money and migrant children would run out of beds if Congress did not approve $3.7 billion in funds to address an influx of people from Central America.
Days after the White House put forward its request for...
The Denver Post
11 July 2014
An Uzbekistan refugee charged with conspiring with foreign terrorists accuses U.S. intelligence agents of using a "backdoor" strategy to violate his privacy rights and those of millions of people, including virtually every U.S. citizen who corresponds with anyone overseas.
Defendant Jamshid Muhtorov of Aurora filed a...
Fox News
10 July 2014
A cargo train carrying about 1,300 Mexican and Central American migrants heading to the United States border has derailed in southern Mexico.
Many of the people onboard were young and no one was injured when the train came off the tracks in the southern state of Oaxaca on Wednesday, a spokesman for local emergency...
NumbersUSA
10 July 2014
Earlier this week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina held a joint press conference to formally announce a new program that will allow Guatemalan citizens to legally travel through Mexico in their effort to enter the United States illegally. Guatemala is one of three sending...
Breitbart
10 July 2014
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson argued Wednesday that there are more cost-effective and efficient ways to confront the ongoing border crisis than President Obama’s emergency funding request for $3.7 billion to be dispersed across multiple agencies.
“The $300 million dollar [State Department] request for – I guess...
Washington Times
10 July 2014
Nearly half of all illegal immigrant children don’t show up for their deportation hearings, federal officials testified to Congress on Wednesday, underscoring just how easy it is for those surging across the border right now to disappear into the shadows.
The number could be even higher for the current surge...
Breitbart
9 July 2014
The city of Los Angeles has joined Orange County, Riverside County, and other cities nationwide in ending the practice of holding illegal immigrant [alien] inmates past their scheduled release dates, characterizing the practice as "unconstitutional" under a recent federal court ruling.,,
ICE, for its part, hopes that...
The agent says he expects to lose his job for exposing irresponsible public-health policies at the agency.
National Review Online
9 July 2014
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has served one of its agents with a letter saying “you must immediately cease and desist” from issuing statements and press releases to the media with information that is “Law Enforcement sensitive,” according to the document, obtained by National Review Online.
Kathleen...
Fox News
9 July 2014
According to a recent claim from a Border Control union, illegal immigrants are coming into the United States with “active scabies and other illnesses,” while reports have surfaced from a camp in San Antonio of a tuberculosis infection. While common in other areas of the world, these two infections aren’t frequently seen in...
Breitbart
9 July 2014
Matthew Leber spokesman for the American Patriot, Three Percent, sent Breitbart News photos of what American security contractors on the ground believe is a Muslim prayer rug found near the border in Arizona last week.
A member of the security team spoke with Breitbart News on Monday night saying they were on patrol...
Obama pushes for flexibility to send minors back
The Denver Channel
9 July 2014
Will he or won’t he – that seems to be the question surrounding President Barack Obama’s visit to Texas on Wednesday and Thursday.
Will he visit the U.S. – Mexico border, now ground zero for an influx of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors streaming into the United States - 52,000 as of mid-June this year....
San Diego 6
9 July 2014
Tens of thousands of children streaming from chaotic Central American nations to the U.S. border have overwhelmed the government's ability to respond, senior administration officials said Wednesday as President Barack Obama urged Congress to move swiftly to approve emergency spending request for the crisis.
Emerging...
Fox News
9 July 2014
A Northern Virginia county at the center of the early fights over illegal immigration on Tuesday approved pursuing the Department of Homeland Security for information about what it did with the 7,000 illegals arrested in the county since 2008.
The Prince William County Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday approved...
Border union officials see more Chinese nationals in the Rio Grande Valley
National Review Online
8 July 2014
The influx of Central American illegal immigrants appears to have attracted the attention of Chinese nationals seeking to gain access to the United States. Border Patrol union officials in the Rio Grande Valley Sector tell National Review Online that they’ve noticed a recent uptick in the number of Chinese border crossers....
Breitbart
8 July 2014
Central American nations may have no incentive to prevent migrants from flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border because of the billions of dollars of remittances that illegal immigrants who are able to stay in the United States are sending back home...
According to a leaked June 4, 2014 internal Department of Homeland...
Breitbart
7 July 2014
...Democrats continue to promote higher spending, placing more and more Americans on the public rolls. In 2013, a record one out of five American households used food stamps. A record number of Americans were dependent on the federal government with regard to their higher education debt. Overall, a full 49 percent of...
Fox News
7 July 2014
Are the thousands of illegal immigrant kids housed in detention facilities happy and well fed -- or are they living in disease-infested compounds shrouded in secrecy?
Well, it depends on who you ask.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seems to think the children coming across the southern border...
Canada Free Press
7 July 2014
Not all of the tens of thousands of border rushers flooding the U.S. sleep with teddybears; not many of them would stand in awe at the appearance of border greeter Nancy Pelosi, and some would never be mollified by the lollipops distributed by Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
Here they come, America: Bloodthirsty MS-13...
Nothing to do with immigration, humanitarian aid or Racism-- It's all about Government Power
Canada Free Press
7 July 2014
...The TownHall Meeting in Murrieta, California over the immigration issue last Wednesday Night at Murrieta Mesa High School was meant to be a good thing, but most of it was lip service, and half-truths. We are being told that the bureaucrats, Homeland Security, and the Border Patrol have no choice but to receive, process,...
CBS 4
6 July 2014
Prosecutors had nearly wrapped up their case against a man accused of robbing six Iraqi immigrants in Aurora when the judge announced that the pair of Arabic interpreters assigned to the case was needed in another courtroom. Without an interpreter, the sixth Iraqi would not get to tell his story.
“It was just absurd...
Daily Caller
6 July 2014
The vast majority of 50,000 unaccompanied youths and children who have illegally crossed the Texas border during the last few months have been successfully delivered by federal agencies to their relatives living in the United States, according to a New York Times article.
A second New York Times article report...
VDare
6 July 2014
This morning I noticed that none of my MSM news summary emails had any coverage of the Obamacrat Border enforcement termination scandal which as Brenda Walker has noted is rapidly creating serious public health crises all over America. A consequence of this is that nothing readily appears on the traffic-driven Google News...
VDare
4 July 2014
It is not ignorance, but malice that motivates the media when they lie about illegal aliens. Case in point, CBS 4 Denver, who have been reporting on the illegal act by Colorado to issue identification and driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
Illegal because it is a violation of Federal law to assist an alien...
New York Post
4 July 2014
The signs at the Texas border offer a glimpse of the enormity of the problem of unaccompanied minors trying to sneak into the US.
The instructions are printed in English and Spanish, of course — but also, surprisingly, the instructions for help are also in Chinese.
Hundreds of Chinese teens are slipping into...
Fox News
4 July 2014
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer use the word “alien” in its references to illegal immigrant minors who have been apprehended without their parents at the U.S. border, according to an internal agency email.
The children have commonly been referred to as “unaccompanied alien children,” or “UACs.”...
Truth Stream Media
4 July 2014
Behind the endless throngs of desperate Central American children arriving on the U.S. border and a steady wave of illegal immigrants from Mexico and beyond is a covert plan for global economic warfare -- those building up the world of globalization are tearing down the sovereignty and financial strength of the...
Breitbart
4 July 2014
Most Americans spend their Fourth of July enjoying time with their friends and family and hopefully taking some time to reflect on the founding principles of our country and the sacrifices men and women have made to fight for them. However, pro-amnesty advocates1 have long tried to turn Independence Day into Immigration Day...
VDare
4 July 2014
Ordinary American patriots are rising up in fury against the Obama Regime’s unlawful nation-wide dumping of diseased, tax-eating illegal alien children and their parents, from Lawrenceville, Virginia, to Murrieta, California. And they should, because it suggests a fundamental shift in Regime policy—towards the establishment...
Canada Free Press
3 July 2014
I’ve been living in Murrieta since 1989, when it was a rural area with few homes, many dirt fields, and ranches dotting the hills. Murrieta incorporated as a city a couple years later, but at that time my home remained outside the city limits.
Then the housing boom hit full throttle, and with annexations and an...
KKTV
3 July 2014
Starting this week, people who are living in Colorado illegally can start making appointments to get a state-issued driver's license.
This comes after a Senate bill was passed in Colorado allowing undocumented immigrants or those living here temporarily to get state driver's licenses.
The licenses will look...
3 July 2014
National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 spokesman, Hector Garza Discusses the crowded Laredo, Texas bus station and why it is full of illegal aliens.
CAIRCO Research
Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) - Illegal alien kiddie colonists invited by Obama administration
...VDare
2 July 2014
Nancy Pelosi didn’t just display the typical liberal hypocrisy when she preened about wanting to take home all the adorable bambinos besieging our Southern border. Her comment that “We are all Americans–North and South in this hemisphere” may sound odd to Middle Americans but is already established practice at colleges and...
DC Clothesline
2 July 2014
On June 30, 2014, I interviewed Dr. Jane Orient, an internal medicine specialist and the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Dr. Orient stated that by admitting these huge groups of children who come from countries where medical screenings are minimal and hygiene is poor, the...
Breitbart
1 July 2014
A devastating new Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General report released on Tuesday reveals that the Obama administration has yet to determine whether 1,295,571 of the over 8 million Obamacare enrollees are U.S. citizens lawfully in the country.
The finding, located on page 11 of the report, states that 44...
Fox News
1 July 2014
A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.
In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their...
Denver Post
1 July 2014
Those wanting to make an appointment to get the new driver's license for noncitizens [illegal aliens] overwhelmed the system Tuesday — the first day appointments were being scheduled.
Officials from the Department of Motor Vehicles did not answer specific questions Tuesday but said the website for appointments had...
Number of U.S.-born not working grew by 17 million
Center for Immigration Studies
30 June 2014
Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). This is remarkable given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population. Though there has been some recovery...
The New York Times
29 June 2014
The number of Border Patrol agents roughly doubled over the last decade to more than 21,000, but many of them work where illegal crossings are relatively low ...
STAFFING LEVELS: The agency's staffing levels aren't always in line with arrest numbers. Despite being the busiest sector, the Rio Grande Valley doesn't...
Investors Business Daily
29 June 2014
But while the political debate has focused on U.S. immigration enforcement, a key economic factor has been lost in the clamor. Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, which are supplying three-quarters of the latest cross-border flood, are bucking a trend in Latin America toward stronger local economies based on sound...
National Review Online
29 June 2014
Today is the one-year anniversary of Senate passage of S.744, the Schumer-Rubio bill that would have doubled legal immigration and guest workers, legalized the bulk of the illegal-alien population, and promised better enforcement in the future. Now that even Representative Luis Gutierrez, the loudest cheerleader in the...
The Conservative Wife
28 June 2014
On January 29, 2014, the Federal Government posted an ad on their BizOpps website seeking escorts for unaccompanied illegal alien children. If this doesn't prove that the entire mess with all the illegals flooding our country was planned by this administration, nothing ever will. Here is the entire...
Canada Fred Press
28 June 2014
It has been a few years since I’ve talked and, subsequently, interviewed former USBP Supervisor David J. Stoddard (Ret). In my opinion—and that of many others—there really is no better information source than Dave for what is currently transpiring at and on our Southern Border.
David J. Stoddard BIO: US Border...
S.744, Passed 1 Year Ago, Would Have Doubled Immigration
The Center for Immigration Studies
28 June 2014
On June 27, 2013, the Senate passed the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill (S.744) which, among other things, doubled the levels of legal immigration and guestworkers. One year after that vote, a new Center for Immigration Studies report suggests just how out of touch the bill was from the realities of the labor market....
Fox News Latino
27 June 2014
A majority of the unaccompanied minors arriving by the tens of thousands at the U.S.-Mexico border could qualify to remain here, say experts in immigration and the refugee system.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which has interviewed more than 400 such children, reports that many of them fled “join...
LimitsToGrowth
27 June 2014
There’s no question that murderous Muslims are on the march from Africa to the Middle East , and are pumped to wage jihad beyond dar al-Islam, particularly to the United States .
Reporter Dale Hurd noted in ISIS a ‘Clear and Present Danger’ to US Homeland that the aggregation of jihadist groups was a...
The Blaze
27 June 2014
U.S. law enforcement officials have been finding “cheat sheets” along the border used by illegal immigrants to try to stay in the United States and not get deported after they’ve been caught.
The notes, believed to be supplied by human trafficking groups, give pointers in Spanish on what immigrants should say when...
CBS 4
27 June 2014
Many builders in Colorado support immigration reform because the industry is facing a serious labor shortage.
After the economy collapses in 2008 many building projects disappeared and with them, hundreds of thousands of jobs.
As the business returns those workers haven’t. This as many Baby Boomers retire and...
FAIR
25 June 2014
Yesterday, FAIR released a new study examining the taxpayer burden of illegal immigration in California, which found providing education, health care, law enforcement, and social and government services to illegal aliens and their dependents costs California taxpayers $25.3 billion a year. This is an increase of some $4.7...
25 June 2014
Senator Rand Paul is far too willing to support amnesty for illegal aliens. Paul pointedly replied to Breitbart News after their headline “Rand Paul: Let’s Compromise on Amnesty.” In response to that headline, Paul tweeted:
I will not let sloppy journalists characterize my position as “amnesty.” It is simply untrue...
Federal Observer
25 June 2014
Many people are analyzing the real causes of the recent surge in illegal “immigration” over the Southern border. Some blame a lack of adequate border enforcement, some blame Pres. Obama executive order (the “DREAM Act”), some, including the Prez, blame the huge gap between the living standards in the U.S. and the countries...
Border Patrol union says poor medical screening risks new virus outbreak.
National Review Online
24 June 2014
Border Patrol official says he’s concerned the medical screening at the Border Patrol Station in McAllen, Texas, has grown so porous that a new superbug will make its way into the United States through the station.
Albert Spratte, the sergeant-at-arms of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande...
Breitbart
24 June 2014
A tidal wave of immigrants [illegal aliens] entering the U.S. illegally each day has caused a dire situation which officials have called a "humanitarian crisis." But not everyone agrees with that label. "This is a manufactured crisis, not a humanitarian crisis," Zack Taylor, Chairman of the National Association of Former...
GOP USA
24 June 2014
Here are six facts you need to know about what President Obama fraudulently calls the unaccompanied minors "urgent humanitarian crisis."
First, many minors aren’t unaccompanied. Rather, they’re traveling with their mothers, some pregnant with future anchor baby citizens. Other women crossing are of child bearing age—...
National Review Online
24 June 2014
...Osburn, a rancher who lives just south of a Border Patrol checkpoint in Brooks County, Texas, says he stepped away for about 45 minutes, and when he returned somebody had trashed his house. The trespassers shattered his gun case, leaving a trail of blood throughout the house, but dropped the guns near the kitchen before...
In the Rio Grande Valley, illegal border-crossers are surrendering voluntarily
National Review Online
24 June 2014
Albert Spratte, the sergeant-at-arms of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, says there are two types of illegal immigrants crossing the border: those whom Border Patrol catches and those who catch Border Patrol...
He says people traveling in large groups have characterized the sharp...Examiner
23 June 2014
...The plan [George W.] Bush proposed was similar to a law that Reagan had supported in 1986, granting a blanket amnesty in return for beefed-up border security, better enforcement of immigration laws, and serious visa and immigration reforms.
At least, that’s what it said on paper. But when it came to implementation,...
Front Page Mag
23 June 2014
Perhaps no issue better illustrates the current divide between everyday citizens and our political and business elites than the issue of immigration. The latter group draws the financial gains from a generous labor supply without considering the perspective of those on the other side of the ledger: the working people who have...
21 June 2014
Subject: Fortune article on age discrimination in tech
To: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter
Thu Jun 19, 2014
Test from Professor Matloff:
Quickly! What are the two MOST IMPORTANT reasons the tech industry loves the H-1B program so much?
If you answered “cheap labor,” you only receive...
Breitbart
21 June 2014
The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, recently said that the tidal wave of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Central America can be attributed to the fact that many believe they will get amnesty. The Obama Administration's rhetoric and actions surrounding the immigration surge have led many in...
Breitbart
20 June 2014
The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) has led the charge in defense of the approximate 17,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents they represent, often with direct truths that challenge the official line from the Administration in Washington, DC. In perhaps their boldest statement to date, they have identified the main cause of...
Washington Times
20 June 2014
“The White House is incompetent and the dumping of illegals is intentional.”
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio takes the dumping of illegal aliens in his Maricopa County as an “affront” because Arizona has been a high-profile critic of federal immigration policy, and Arpaio has been “like the poster boy” for slamming the...
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet warns of dangers from 'textbook Cloward-Piven strategy'
World Net Daily
20 June 2014
A flood of illegals has massively surged at our southwestern borders. The economic impact of medical care, education and incarceration for illegals forced on taxpayers is bankrupting Arizona.
Why are such swarms entering the U.S. illegally NOW, particularly children? Newspapers in Mexico and Central and South America...
NumbersUSA / Rasmussen
20 June 2014
A new Rasmussen poll finds only 31 percent favor increasing immigration and that may be because only 18 percent of Americans think legal immigration is running higher than 500,000 per year. The real rate is more than a million per year. 58 percent of respondents either supported lower immigration levels or maintaining...