Saturday, October 10, 2009

Evangelicals: Your Leaders Endorsed Mass Amnesty Today

Leaders of most of the nation's evangelical Christians made a shocking endorsement of illegal-alien amnesty today in Senate testimony.

Their spokesman -- the head of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) -- said high immigration is increasing membership in evangelical churches and is good for the economy...

Tancredo Questions Illegals' 'Sweetheart Deals'

A five-term congressman whose outspoken advocacy for secure national borders made him a target during his tenure in the U.S. House is charging that the government agency that is supposed to enforce the nation's immigration laws has been working to subvert them...

Friday, October 9, 2009

Franks Rips Obama Administration for Arpaio Move

Below are the complete remarks of Congressmen Trent Franks of Arizona and Lamar Smith of Texas in response to reports that the Department of Homeland Security has stripped Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of his illegal immigration enforcement powers:


“This unbelievable move by the Obama Administration represents a politicized attempt to hinder one of our most effective illegal immigration enforcement mechanisms, the 287(g) program...
Sen. Vitter Seeks to Prevent Counting of Illegal Aliens in 2010 Census

U.S. Sen. David Vitter has offered an amendment to prevent states from counting illegal aliens for the purposes of determining population levels and other data associated with the 2010 Census...
Immigration Officials Prepping for Amnesty

A New York Times' story reveals that immigration officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have begun preparations for issuing visas to 11-18 million illegal aliens who would be granted an amnesty if Congress is able to pass immigration reform legislation...
Agency Plans for Visa Push by Residents Made Legal

Although President Obama has put off an immigration overhaul until next year, the federal agency in charge of approving visas is planning ahead for the possibility of giving legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, the agency’s director said Thursday...
Napolitano Bans Border Enforcement, Announces New "Alternatives to Detention" Program

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has now officially banned any enforcement of our immigration laws by local officials.

Meanwhile, in a press release on Tuesday, October 6th, removed all doubt that the Obama Administration is officially pursuing an open borders policy that rewards those who break into our country illegally, cut in front of law-abiding immigrants, and and impose crushing burdens on our already teetering economy...

Backdoor Insurance for Illegals

When President Obama addressed Congress last month he made a promise. "There are also those who claim that our [health care] reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false - the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, yelled, "You lie," which made that section of the president's speech a part of every newscast...
U.S. to Overhaul Immigration System

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will review the procedures under which the United States detains about 380,000 illegal immigrants a year, exploring the use of converted hotels and nursing homes as it seeks to transform a prison-based system into one tiered according to the risk posed by individual detainees, officials said yesterday...

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Border Patrol Sees Sharp Rise in Number of Chinese Caught in the Desert

NOGALES, Ariz. — Amid an overall drop in arrests of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S-Mexico border, an intriguing anomaly has cast a new light on human smuggling: Authorities report an almost tenfold spike in the number of Chinese people caught in the Arizona desert, the busiest smuggling corridor on the international line...
Illegal Alien Caught Trying to Kidnap Two School Children in North Carolina

On September 29, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested illegal alien Ruben Garcia-Rosario, 25. He was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree kidnapping, felony conspiracy, carrying a concealed weapon, and driving without a license...
Employer Guilty in Case of Immigrant Cop Killer

HOUSTON — A landscape business owner pleaded guilty Monday to harboring an illegal immigrant convicted of fatally shooting a Houston police officer in 2006...
Footing the Bill for Undocumented Immigrants

Taxpayers footed a $25.3 million bill in 2007-08 to pay for emergency health care for non-citizens in Pennsylvania. Tax-funded subsidies of $2 million went to seven area hospitals...
O'Hare Airport Security Badges Issued to Illegal Aliens

The owner of a temporary employment agency and her assistant were sentenced in federal court Wednesday for harboring illegal aliens and assisting those workers in obtaining unauthorized access to secure areas at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, including the tarmac, according to a government report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police...
Family and OSHA Searching for Answers to Grain Elevator Death (LaRue, Ohio - October 2, 2009)

LARUE - The family of a man who died after falling from a ladder in a grain bin says they're searching for answers.

Fermin Luna Garcia, whose family says he was an illegal immigrant working in the United States and sending money home to his family in Mexico, died a week ago at an Ohio Fresh Eggs grain elevator near LaRue. He reportedly was working as a subcontractor...
La Raza President Wants Health Care Reform for 'Everyone', Including Illegal Aliens

(CNSNews.com) – National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguia said that health care reform should include “everyone,” and this means illegal immigrants as well because with more people paying into the system it might lower the costs of health care...

Monday, October 5, 2009

Illegal Immigrants Burden Portland-Area Schools

In 1982, in its Plyler v. Doe ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court obligated America's public elementary and secondary schools to educate children who are illegal immigrants. Since then, Americans have doled out untold billions to this end...