Texas and California Congressmen Say Lack of Immigration Laws Harms U.S. Jobs Opportunities

Could the lack of enforcement of immigration laws be harming our job opportunities for America’s teens and young adults?

According to San Antonio and south Texas Congressman Lamar Smith it is.

Smith, Ranking Member of Congress and Congressman Gary Miller from California are members of the newly-formed “Reclaim American Jobs Caucus.”...

Failure to Uphold Immigration Laws Leads to Death of a Deputy Sheriff

During the past several months, I have commented on the failure of law enforcement officials to enforce the nation's immigration laws, thereby giving illegal alien criminals an advantage that they should not have.

Law enforcement officials argue that they have to give illegal aliens a pass for violating immigration laws in order to gain their confidence and support. While this may work in some cases, it also leaves violent, criminal illegal aliens free to go about their business...

Murder Victim's Mother 'Frustrated' With Iowa Courts

SPENCER, Iowa (KTIV) - A convicted "ringleader" in a drug-related death of a Siouxland teen, won't serve up to 80 years.

Now one of the parents of the victim is speaking out.

During a 2007 trial a judge Convicted Juan Humberto Castillo Alvarez of the murder of 15 year-old Sky Erickson...

Amnesty Legislation Will Kill Jobs

Over the past year, the administration and Congressional Democrats have touted their No. 1 priority as “jobs, jobs, jobs;” however, their actions over the past year have proved otherwise.

As the economy tanked and the number of unemployed soared, the White House pushed a so-called stimulus loaded with money for pet projects and special interests, job-killing cap-and-trade legislation, and a Washington takeover of the health care system...

Sheriff is Defendent (Butler County, Ohio - 01/26/2010)

BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio -- Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones faces charges in federal court that he violated a man's constitutional rights. The court will decide if the sheriff authorized his employees to detain an illegal immigrant and whether that was his right to do...

Fingerprints May Indicate Immigration Status (Franklin, Ohio - January 27, 2010)

Franklin County law-enforcement agencies can now check offenders' fingerprints against a national database to help federal authorities find immigrants who are illegal or undocumented.

The initiative, called Secure Communities, began in Franklin and Cuyahoga counties last week and will spread to the rest of the state by 2013, said Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Branding Americans "Racists" to Further Their Agenda

In 2007, former Bush nominee and columnist Linda Chavez published an article in which she accused Americans who stood in opposition to the Bush/McCain/Kennedy Amnesty Bill as racists. Alleging racism is the favorite tactic of the open borders crowd, as it is often used by those who find themselves on the wrong side of the argument...

About $2 Million a Month: More Illegal Immigrants Getting Emergency Treatment at UMC

There are now four more of them regularly making their way to the emergency room at University Medical Center. And doctors say the illegal immigrants coming in for dialysis treatment at University Medical Center are sicker than they were before, making their care even more expensive.

Six months after the Review-Journal revealed that 80 illegal immigrants with failing kidneys were running up about $2 million a month in bills for dialysis and other medical treatment at the only publicly supported hospital in Las Vegas, the situation for both patients and taxpayers only continues to worsen...

Time Now for Real Immigration Reform

The Senate health-care bill is not the only monstrosity that died in Massachusetts on Jan. 19.

Two days after the Massachusetts victory of Republican Scott Brown, Speaker Pelosi announced that she does not have the votes to push the Senate health-care bill through the House. A similar message is being delivered more quietly to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus: There will never be enough votes in 2010 to push the amnesty bill...

Owner of Restaurant Facing Immigration, Tax Charges (Toledo, Ohio - January 22, 2010)

The owner of several Mexican restaurants throughout northern Ohio was charged in U.S. District Court in Toledo yesterday for allegedly employing numerous undocumented workers and failing to obtain proper immigration documents.

Ramon J. Ornelas, 42, of Norwalk, Ohio, was charged with eight counts of harboring and concealing illegal aliens, three counts of mail fraud, and seven counts of subscribing to a false tax return. No court date has been set...

Restaurant Chain Owner Faces Immigration Charges (Toledo, Ohio - January 22, 2010)

TOLEDO -- The owner of eight Casa Fiesta restaurants -- including one in Ashland -- faces charges stemming from raids at his restaurants by federal agencies in July 2008.

Ramon Ornelas, 42, of Norwalk, is charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with eight counts of harboring and concealing illegal aliens, three counts of mail fraud and seven counts of subscribing to a false tax return...

In Arizona, A Stream of Illegal Immigrants from China

TUCSON — The unforgiving terrain of the Sonoran Desert, south of here, whose searing summers and frigid winters claim hundreds of lives each year, has long been a favored avenue of entry for illegal immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries. But in the last year, the authorities say, smugglers have increasingly capitalized on a much more lucrative business — trafficking Chinese citizens into the United States...

Catholic Church Should Lose Tax Exempt Status Over Pro-Illegal Alien Lobbying Efforts

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on immigration met recently to discuss how the church can help push forward so-called ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ (i.e. amnesty for illegal aliens)...

Three Guilty of Hiring Illegal Immigrants (Cincinnati, Ohio - January 20, 2010)

Three Cincinnati construction contractors face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty this week to tax charges related to the hiring of illegal immigrants.

Federal prosecutors say all three men tried to conceal payments to illegal immigrants by writing checks for large amounts of money to a handful of employees, who then gave the cash back to the contractors so they could pay dozens of workers off the books...

Amnesty vs. True Immigration Reform: Part I

In the heated debate over immigration reform, we seldom hear this simple truth uttered by anyone: Amnesty is the enemy of true immigration reform.

Amnesty for persons in the country unlawfully exacerbates and magnifies every single problem our immigration system faces, yet advocates for "comprehensive immigration reform" never fail to make amnesty the centerpiece of their plans. This contradiction reveals a different agenda. They aim not to fix our broken immigration system but to destroy it...