Posts Tagged ‘illegal immigration’
New Poll Shows Strong Dissatisfaction with Washington
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, today released the results of a new nationwide survey of registered voters conducted by telephone by Harris Interactive concerning the American people’s attitudes on a variety of subjects, including [...]
What Conservatives and the GOP Dare Not Say about Immigration
By Selwyn Duke In a recent election piece, pundit Ann Coulter identified illegal migration as one of the two most important issues of our time. She writes that if we fail at halting it, “the country will be changed permanently.” She continues: Taxes can be raised and lowered. Regulations can be removed (though they rarely are). [...]
ICE’s Own Data Fails To Back Enforcement Claims
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES The Homeland Security agency charged with immigration enforcement has repeatedly lied to Congress, the American people and the media by drastically increasing the number of individuals that have been apprehended, deported or detained. The shameful revelation was made this week by a nonprofit university [...]
DOL To Enforce Illegal Immigrants’ Federal “Rights”
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES The U.S. Secretary of Labor has warned local governments that try to crack down in illegal immigration that they cannot deny undocumented workers minimum wage, which is guaranteed under a federal law that establishes pay in both the private and public sector. Obama Labor Secretary Hilda Solis singled out [...]
U.S. Report: Border Fence Threatens Bear Population
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will soon get unsolicited advice from a group of U.S. government scientists that claim fencing along the Mexican border threatens the black bear population. The esteemed researchers recently published a study warning that the border wall erected to protect the [...]
Feds Accuse Police Of Discriminating Against Latinos
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a matter of days the Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that federal investigations of law enforcement agencies in different parts of the country uncovered a pattern of discrimination against Latinos in violation of the U.S. Constitution. This appears to be part of a much bigger Obama [...]
DOJ Confirms Mexican Drug Cartels Operating Inside U.S.
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In yet another compelling reason to beef up border security, a new federal court case outlines how Mexican drug cartels have teamed up with violent street gangs to operate inside the United States. The case involves dozens of members of the Barrio Azteca gang charged with operating a massive [...]
L.A. Police Won’t Enforce Safety Law To Help Illegal Aliens
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The city of Los Angeles is taking its sanctuary title more seriously than most by ordering police officers to stop enforcing a state public safety law because it creates an “unfair burden” for illegal immigrants. A few weeks ago the mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, directed the Los Angeles Police [...]
A Security Threat to Our Borders
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Can a state secure its borders and protect its citizens when the federal government fails to? The Supreme Court agreed to take up this question when it agreed to consider Arizona’s illegal immigration law. The Court’s answer to this question will determine not only the security of our [...]
More Environmental Justice Grants In FY 2011, 2012
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama Administration continues pouring huge sums of taxpayer dollars into a program that seeks to help poor, minority and indigenous communities attain “environmental justice” with some of the cash going to groups that assist illegal immigrants. It’s all part of the president’s [...]
Illegal Aliens, In-State Tuition and the Law
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation Consider it an illegal fringe benefit for illegal immigrants. Today, 12 states allow individuals who are in the United States illegally to pay the same in-state tuition rates as legal residents of the state without providing the same rates to others in the country who are here legally. And those states are [...]
U.S. Program Protects Illegal Immigrants From Scams
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In the Obama Administration’s latest effort to help illegal aliens, the federal agency created by Congress nearly a century ago to protect American consumers is cracking down on “immigrant service scams” that traditionally target individuals living in the U.S. illegally. The first-of-its-kind [...]
Gingrich Blasts Obama Administration Over Immigration Litigation
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich, campaigning in the early primary state of South Carolina, criticized the Obama administration for challenging state laws that combat illegal immigration. “After years of failure on the part of the federal government to achieve border security, it is an [...]
Obama Leaves Mexico Border Unfenced
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com The Obama administration has slashed spending on border fencing, infrastructure and technology, cutting it by more than half since it peaked under President George W. Bush in fiscal 2008, according to a Government Accountability Office report. In 2008, according to GAO, the federal govenrment spent more [...]
GOP Must Be the ‘Pro-Legal Immigration Party’
Liberty Alerts, Christopher Goins, CNSNews.com The Republican Party must be seen favoring legal immigration, rather than being known for its stance against illegal immigration, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Thursday. Calling for a modernization of federal immigration laws, the freshman Republican added that the GOP should be known for what [...]
Don’t Blame States for Federal Government’s Failure to Protect Citizens
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's not surprising - another lawsuit by the federal government - targeting South Carolina's new immigration law. Not surprising, but certainly misplaced. South Carolina, like many other states, are facing the reality that they must now protect their citizens and borders because of the federal [...]
Immigration, Migration, Politics and Policies
By Alan Caruba When early humans got the hang of walking upright, the first thing many did was to walk out of Africa and, eventually, to all parts of the Earth from Asia to Europe, to North and South America, proliferating into different races. Always restless to see what was over the horizon, they populated continents. There will shortly be [...]
A Run for the Border
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #28 Still ON TARGET: July 30, 2000 Every year 900,000 legal immigrants are allowed into the United States. Many of them have critical technological skills, which corporate America and government need because not enough Americans graduate in technical and scientific fields. A bill stalled in Congress, held up [...]
Gov. Christie Should Not Get in the GOP Race
By Alan Caruba Does anybody recall the frenzy surrounding the question of whether Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and Fox News host of his own show, would toss his hat in the ring and seek the GOP nomination? That same frenzy is occurring now regarding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and, as a lifelong citizen of the Garden State, [...]
Democrat Thanks Obama for Bypassing Congress on Immigration Reform
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) thanked President Obama for circumventing the Legislative branch when it comes to immigration law. Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code makes it a federal crime to be in the United States illegally. Nevertheless, the Obama administration in August directed federal immigration [...]
CBP Chief: Weaker U.S. Economy Is Strengthening Border Security
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Over the next year it will become apparent to the American people that a secure southwest border is possible, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Alan Bersin. “Our border with Mexico has been a project of a 20-year effort beginning in the early 1990s, and I think what [...]
Supreme Court Urged to Uphold Arizona Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's a case that deserves the consideration of the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue: Arizona's immigration law S.B. 1070 - Arizona's effort to protect its borders and citizens by enacting a state law that targets illegal immigration. The Obama Administration is challenging several key [...]
Obama Illegal Alien Uncle Won’t Get Special Treatment, White House Says
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama’s uncle, facing deportation for being in the country illegally, will not be treated differently than anyone else under U.S. laws, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told CNSNews.com on Thursday. “I would refer you to ICE and DHS . It will be handled like any other [...]
Labor Dept.: Illegal Aliens Will Get Paid Legal Wages in U.S. Jobs
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com The U.S. Department of Labor told CNSNews.com in a written statement on Wednesday that it will enforce the federal wage laws on behalf of anyone working in the United States “regardless of their immigration status.” The statement was in response to a written question from CNSNews.com. The [...]
Obama’s Illegal Alien Uncle Has Valid SS, Driver’s License
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The mainstream media’s love affair with President Obama has apparently led to the omission of a few crucial details involving the recent arrest of his illegal immigrant uncle, who was caught driving drunk after running a stop sign in Massachusetts. It turns out that Uncle Onyango Obama, who is actually [...]
U.S. Congress: HALT Obama’s ‘Backdoor Amnesty’
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign HALT Obama’s ‘Backdoor Amnesty’ As most Americans already know, our nation’s immigration laws have been poorly enforced for decades now. This has led to the current situation where the Obama administration, following suit with previous administrations, is so lenient with illegal immigrants that [...]
If Elected (A Fantasy)
By Alan Caruba I suppose we all wonder what we would do if elected President of the United States. In the run-up to the 2012 elections we will first have the primaries in which the candidates seek the nomination of their party. It will be easier on Democrats because no one expects Barack Hussein Obama to face any opposition. That’s good [...]
DNC Chair: Republicans Believe Illegal Immigration ‘Should be a Crime’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration “should in fact be a crime.” “I think the president was clearly articulating that his position – the Democratic position – is that we need comprehensive [...]
DHS Can’t Account for 10 Libyan Men It Caught and Released Inside U.S.
Liberty Alerts, Penny Starr, CNSNews.com Even as President Barack Obama continued the U.S. military intervention in Libya’s civil war--with armed Predator drones beginning patrols over that North African country on Thursday--U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the division of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for [...]
Obama Spares Arrested Illegal Immigrant Protesters
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In the Obama Administration’s latest move to protect illegal immigrants while an amnesty plan gets worked out, Homeland Security officials said they won’t take action against a group of outlaws arrested in Georgia last week. The illegal immigrants participated in a disruptive Atlanta demonstration to [...]
Government’s Border Security Approach Is Ineffective
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.comJudge Veronica Escobar of El Paso, a Texas Democrat, told CNSNews.com that the federal government’s border security approach is “ineffective” because it involves building fences that are “pushing border crossers” to “more dangerous, treacherous crossings” or inspiring them to build [...]
Extremist Hispanic Group Releases Racist Death Threat Video
Shocking Internet Video Includes Photo of African American Hanging From Noose; Produced in Retaliation for Testimony by Mr. Hayes before Maryland House of Delegates Opposing Taxpayer Benefits for Illegal Immigration Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government [...]
U.S. Sued By Illegal Immigrant’s Family
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The family of a drug-abusing illegal immigrant who died after being subdued with a stun gun is suing the U.S. government for using excessive force that led to his “wrongful death.” The illegal immigrant, Anastacio Hernandez, lived in San Diego and was twice deported to his native Mexico. He became [...]
84 Percent of Illegals Apprehended in 2010 Weren’t Prosecuted
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Washington – An illegal alien apprehended by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency during the last fiscal year had an estimated 84 percent chance of never being prosecuted, according to figures compiled by the office of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas). Culberson submitted the figures for the [...]
Multicultural Suicide
By Alan Caruba In his famed poem, Mending Wall, the American poet, Robert Frost chided the rock wall that he and his neighbor would mend each spring, replacing fallen rocks. “He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good [...]
The Last Link in Chain Migration
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org We may soon reach the last link in “chain migration” as the legislative battle to clarify the 14th Amendment has officially begun. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has introduced H.R. 140, “To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United [...]
Napolitano: Those Who Say Border Is Out of Control Are Trying to Score Political Points
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com The Obama administration's approach to U.S.-Mexico border security "is working," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday, and anyone who suggests otherwise is “misstating the facts and unfairly politicizing border issues.” Speaking at the University of Texas at El Paso, [...]
Judicial Watch Details Ambitious Investigative Agenda for 112th Congress
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Washington, DC -- January 24, 2011 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its list of investigative priorities for the new 112th Congress. The list, in alphabetical order, includes: ACORN Corruption: Including, but not limited to, [...]
County’s Illegal Alien Welfare Tab Exceeds $600 Mil
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles As it suffers through a ravaging financial crisis, the nation’s most populous county spends well over half a billion dollars annually just to provide illegal immigrants with welfare food stamps. For two consecutive years Los Angeles County has doled out more than $550 million just to cover the welfare [...]
Bill To Let “Exemplary” Illegal Immigrants Become U.S. Citizens
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A United States congressman dedicated to fighting harmful anti-immigrant legislation has introduced a bill to change a decades-old federal law so that “exemplary” illegal aliens can obtain American citizenship. California Democrat Joe Baca actually wants to amend the 1952 Immigration and Nationality [...]
Gov. Kills Immigration Laws In Name Of Economic Growth
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Rhode Island’s new governor has killed crucial measures to crack down on illegal immigration for the sake of statewide economic growth and prosperity in “immigrant-rich areas.” Just a few days on the job, Democrat Lincoln Chafee wasted no time issuing executive orders to accommodate illegal [...]
Our Stealth Congress
By Alan Caruba We are living in an era in which our Congress and much of our government operates like a stealth bomber, destroying rights we assume to be protected by the U.S. Constitution and otherwise encumbering an ailing economy in ways known to make it worse. Take, for example, the House passage yesterday of the Dream Act, an end-run [...]
DREAM Act Votes Tonight!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Time is running out! The House is scheduled to vote on the DREAM Act tonight around 8:30 p.m. EST, and if it passes the House, the Senate will vote soon thereafter, either tonight or tomorrow morning. Call your Senators and Congressmen and urge them to vote AGAINST the DREAM Act, which will allow “back door” [...]
No Amnesty, No Dream Act
Liberty Alerts, JBS Freedom Campaign The upcoming debate over the DREAM Act’s passage is beginning to look more like a con man’s shell game, of sorts. With two new versions of the original DREAM Act now on the table, it will be easier to perpetrate a great fraud on the American public. Players in the game -- the American people -- will [...]
City Creates Alternate Banking System For Illegal Aliens
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles While local governments work to curb the ravaging effect of illegal immigration, a major U.S. city is helping its undocumented aliens by creating an “alternative banking system” and giving them official government identification cards. The northern California city of Oakland will join a few other [...]
Court Says Taxpayers Must Keep Financing Illegal Aliens’ Education
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles States cannot be prevented from giving illegal immigrants public benefits that aren’t extended to all American citizens, according to a California Supreme Court ruling that’s likely to have nationwide impact. The case involves discounted tuition at public colleges and universities in the Golden State. [...]
Court: State Must Keep Financing Illegal Aliens’ Education
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles States cannot be prevented from giving illegal immigrants public benefits that aren’t extended to all American citizens, according to a California Supreme Court ruling that’s likely to have nationwide impact. The case involves discounted tuition at public colleges and universities in the Golden State. [...]
Judges Strike Down Immigration Law
By Phyllis Schlafly The city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a small town previously having only 23,000 people, became a magnet for illegal aliens. In just a few years, they increased the population of this town by over 50%. This put a great burden on the city's social services and police force, and was associated with some shocking crimes. The [...]
Sanctuary City May Recognize Mexican IDs
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles As local governments across the U.S. find ways to battle illegal immigration, a North Carolina city is working to help undocumented aliens by becoming the nation’s first to accept an easily forged Mexican card as a legal form of identification. The controversial “Matricula Consular” cards have been [...]
Cover-up: Mid-East Terrorist Entering U.S. Through Mexico
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The U.S. government is covering up the growing threat created by Middle Eastern terrorists entering the country through the porous Mexican border, according to a veteran federal agent who assures the area has never been secure. The U.S. Border Patrol has captured thousands of people who have been [...]
