Posts Tagged ‘illegal immigration’
Un-American American History Courses
By Phyllis Schlafly Arizona's new law that requires the police to ask people to show ID, which was just knocked out by a supremacist judge, may not be the most controversial Arizona law about illegal aliens. Governor Jan Brewer signed another law this year that bans schools from teaching classes designed to promote solidarity among students of a [...]
Obama Won’t Deport Illegal Immigrant Students
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles As it strives to grant illegal immigrants in the U.S. amnesty, the Obama Administration has ordered authorities to stop deporting a large category of undocumented aliens while lawmakers craft legislation to officially spare them from expulsion. The Homeland Security agency responsible for protecting the [...]
Colorado Gives Illegal Immigrants Unemployment Benefits
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Colorado pays illegal immigrants unemployment insurance because a director at the state agency that cuts the checks eliminated a key tool designed to prevent payments from going to unqualified residents. As a result the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) regularly makes unemployment [...]
1,200 National Guard Troops Being Deployed to Border Will Not Be Used to Stop and Detain Illegal Aliens
(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 [...]
1787 Common Sense: Debating Minimum Citizenship Requirements
By Steve Farrell Some policies, laws, constitutional principles and traditions are about common sense. On August 9, 1787, Gouverneur Morris, one of the eight delegates to the Constitutional Convention from Pennsylvania, observed regarding minimum citizenship requirements for the United States Senate: "Every society from a great nation down to [...]
Feds Released Criminal Illegal Alien Who Killed Nun
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Illustrating the government’s derelict when it comes to immigration enforcement, a drunken illegal alien with a criminal history killed a nun in Virginia because federal authorities released him on his own recognizance after two previous arrests. The tragic event occurred a few days ago in Prince William [...]
Secret Amnesty Plan Offers Illegal Immigrants “Relief”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama Administration has a secret backup plan to grant illegal immigrants amnesty in case Congress doesn’t pass legislation to do it, according to an internal Homeland Security document recently exposed by a conservative news magazine. The backdoor amnesty plan, devised by high-ranking officials at [...]
Are Anchor Babies Made Citizens in Violation of the 14th Amendment?
Liberty Alerts, The New American Are anchors babies made American citizens in violation of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution? Joe Wolverton, III, writes in The New American: "Several key GOP senators are calling for congressional hearings into the 14th Amendment’s supposed grant of citizenship to children born in the United [...]
Obama’s Grand Strategy: Bankrupt America
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org, Arthur R. Thompson Arthur R. Thompson, CEO The John Birch Society. Video Message, Week of July 26 - August 1, 2010. JBS CEO Art Thompson offers an analysis of the week’s news, discussing how Hillary Clinton’s announcement of the U.S. sending $7.5 billion foreign aid to Pakistan is part of the Insiders’ plan to [...]
Ending Birthright Citizenship; Don’t Amend the Constitution, Apply It
By Bryan Fischer Comments by Lindsey Graham and John Kyl over the weekend have put the issue of birthright citizenship on the front burner of our debate over immigration. Sen. Graham wants to propose a constitutional amendment to bring an end to the practice by which the children of illegal aliens born on American soil are automatically granted [...]
Arizona Appeals Ruling on Immigration Law Amid Protests, Dozens of Arrests
Liberty Alerts, Fox News PHOENIX -- The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested. A federal judge's decision a day earlier to block [...]
I Demur
By Steve Farrell Emily Dickinson spoke to her time as well as ours when she penned this penetrating line: Assent — and you are sane — Demur — you're straightway dangerous And handled with a chain. I wonder, this day, can the State of Arizona and its good people relate to the treatment Dickinson predicted? I'm sure they can. Have they not [...]
Arizona Immigration Law Blocked By Federal Court
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Phoenix, AZ – Federal District Judge Susan Bolton issued a 36-page decision blocking enforcement of key provisions to the controversial Arizona immigration law. Judge Bolton wrote: “Applying the proper legal standards based upon well-established precedent, the Court finds that the United States is likely to [...]
ACLJ Extremely Disappointed With Federal Court Decision Blocking Key Provisions of AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said today it is extremely disappointed with a federal court decision that blocks key provisions of Arizona's immigration law S.B. 1070 from taking effect. The ACLJ, along with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, filed [...]
Fundamental Right of Societies, Clubs, and Nations
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Gouvernor Morris Every society from a great nation down to a club has a right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted. Source: Madison's Notes on the Federal Convention, August 9, 1787, Gouvernor Morris: delegate from Pennsylvania. Liberty Letters are compiled and edited (with [...]
Judicial Watch Sues Pasadena Police Department for Records Detailing Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policy
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an open records lawsuit against the Pasadena Police Department (PPD), and PPD Police Chief Christopher Vicino, to obtain documents related to the department’s alleged illegal [...]
Help Block Obama’s Lawsuit Against Arizona
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign A very important and worthy amendment was just defeated in the Senate by a 55-43 vote. Senators Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and David Vitter (R-La.) introduced an amendment designed to stop the Obama Administration’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona and its taxpayers for SB 1070, the immigration bill that [...]
U.S. Calls Illegal Mexican Pot Farmer “Displaced Traveler”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In an insane case of political correctness, a federal government agency has classified an illegal immigrant arrested for cultivating marijuana in a national forest as a “displaced traveler from Michoacán Mexico.” The illegal alien (Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez) was recently busted during a U.S. Forest [...]
Americanus Speaks to Arizona’s Immigration Crisis and to All of Us
By Steve Farrell As the illegal immigration crisis proceeds a pace, and an American President has so far removed himself from his duty (and his wits) that he has ordered his Justice Department to sue an American state (Arizona) for doing its duty and for having its wits about it in defense of its citizens and their property — a little wit and [...]
ACLJ & Members of Congress Urge Federal Court to Reject DOJ Suit Challenging AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) have filed an amicus brief on behalf of 81 members of Congress in support of Arizona's new immigration law which is being challenged in federal court by the U.S. Department of Justice. The brief urges the [...]
Sanctuary Cities Immune From Federal Law
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Days after suing Arizona for “intruding” on the government’s authority by passing a state version of its immigration laws, the Obama Administration has revealed that it will also ignore violations of the federal statute. A Justice Department official confirmed in a news report this week that the [...]
Immigration, Reconsidered — Duke
By Selwyn Duke While the Obama administration has chosen the southern side in the Mexican-Arizonan border war, most Americans stand with their countrymen. They are troubled by the strain illegals place on services, the drugs and thugs moving north and blue-collar job prospects moving south. Then there is another factor: the political and [...]
Nebraska Town Joins Growing Chorus Defying Corrupt Obama Adminstration
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles While the feds waste valuable taxpayer resources to fight Arizona’s “unconstitutional” and “racist” immigration control law, Americans in other parts of the country are working to enact similar measures in their state even if it creates a legal war with Uncle Sam. This week alone, in two [...]
‘No English’ Defense Works In N.J. Drunk Driving Case
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles New Jersey drunken drivers who don’t understand a police officer’s English commands are immune from prosecution thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling, which this week overturned three separate court decisions to side with a Spanish-speaking drug dealer. The case involves a suspected illegal [...]
Florida County Helps Illegal Workers Get Paid
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles As states and municipalities across the nation adopt measures to combat a painful illegal immigration crisis, a major U.S. county continues to dedicate public resources to help undocumented workers. Florida’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, is operating a taxpayer-financed program to assist illegal [...]
My Immigration Debate with Matt Staver — Bryan Fischer
By Bryan Fischer I devoted the final hour of my program Friday to a lively discussion with Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, over the evangelical approach to immigration. The debate can be viewed by going to our Facebook page (American Family Radio - Focal Point) or by going to RightlyConcerned.com. Mat is the author of a [...]
Selective Enforcement — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb Federal law currently prohibits the use of marijuana. California spit in the face of the feds and enacted a law that makes “medical” marijuana available to anyone who wants it. Now, a ballot initiative in the November election will remove the “medical” requirement and allow any adult to grow and use marijuana at will. The [...]
Most Americans Oppose Obama’s Arizona Lawsuit
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a major blow for the Obama Administration just months before the midterm elections, an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration control law. Most Americans, not only back Arizona’s measure, they support a similar bill aimed [...]
Why Optimism Seems so Irrational — Steven Horwitz
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Steven Horwitz Over the last several weeks my columns have made a variety of arguments about why the world is a much better place than it used to be and why we should be optimistic about the future. In last week’s column I mentioned Matt Ridley’s new book, The Rational Optimist, which I heartily [...]
Illegal Immigrants Cost U.S. Taxpayers $113 Billion Annually
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles On the heels of a new study that reveals illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers $113 billion a year, the Obama Administration has filed a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s measure to curb illegal immigration. The Justice Department filed the lawsuit in federal court this week, claiming that the Arizona law, [...]
