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'Secure'?: Another New Definition from Secretary Napolitano - Janice Kephart By Janice Kephart On Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee conducted a hearing on the 2010 budget priorities of the Department of Homeland Security. The budget was submitted to Congress on May 7, 2009 as part of the President's $3.5 trillion Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Proposal. The ranking Republican on the subcommittee with jurisdiction over U.S. borders and counterterrorism, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), yesterday during the hearing specifically asked DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano whether she still supported repeal of the REAL ID Act. This was the exchange: REP. SOUDER: Now on the border, one is a concern on terrorism on the border. If we're going to work out anything in this country on immigration we have to have the confidence of the American people that whether it's the Dream Act or whether it's immigration reform of some type, that the border is secure, or otherwise people just pour in if we make changes. Furthermore, if we're going to fight terrorism, we have to know who people are. You stated that you wanted to eliminate - repeal the Real ID Act, which was one of the key 9/11 Commissions and - do you still stand with that? Do you see that moving ahead? And how is that working? And if I can do the second one, you can kind of work these together. Center for Immigration Studies Blog

Secure Fences Work at White House - Jon Feere By Jon Feere Open-border advocates often claim that fences don't work. Why, then, does the White House have a secure, dual perimeter fence (both metal and 'virtual') and limited points... Pandering by the ADL - Stephen Steinlight By Stephen Steinlight Notwithstanding the most incontrovertible survey data - findings so solid, consistent, and devastating not even the most naïve multicultural Pollyanna can be in denial regarding the fanatical... On E.J. Dionne's 'Buying Time on Immigration' - Stephen Steinlight By Stephen Steinlight Before giving E.J. Dionne two cheers for the quotient of candor in his Washington Post column 'Buying Time on Immigration,' plus three cheers for calling for greater...

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The Change They Seek - John Wahala

By John Wahala The gathering here in Washington, D.C., had the predictable themes: an internationalist orientation; an array of Soviet-style paraphernalia; and the relentless recitation of Cesar Chavez's dictum, "Si se puede!" After an introduction in Spanish by the Rev....
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Back to Indentured Servitude - Nicholas C. Geale

A cynical change in America's promise to temporary workers By Nicholas C. Geale So, the Labor Department went through the legally required process to reform the rules. The goal: Farmers can hire temporary workers when no U.S. workers are available...
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Amnesty Again - W. James Antle, III

By W. James Antle, III Try as they might, neither Bush nor McCain were ever able to convince the American people that they were willing to do what it takes to secure the country's porous borders. Whenever Bush or McCain...
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The Hate Crimes Prevention Bill: Why Do Jewish Organizations Support It? - Kevin MacDonald

By Kevin MacDonald The second reason Jewish organizations want enhanced repression powers: immigration. The organized Jewish community has long been the single most effective pressure group in favor of massive non-White immigration into the United States. The ADL and other...
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'Neo-Slavery' Re-emerging As A Business Strategy - Brenda Walker

By Brenda Walker Some patriotic friends of borders may have thought that a severe recession would be an impossible time for Washington to push through an amnesty for 10-30 million lawbreaking foreigners. But Senator Charles Schumer, Chair of the Subcommittee...
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Invest in American Workers - Dan Stein

By Dan Stein Despite more than 84,000 high-tech layoffs in the first quarter of 2009, by late April, U.S. employers had filed more than 45,000 new petitions to hire foreign workers, under what's known as the H-1B visa program, instead...
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Immigrant Displacement of American Workers Resumes - Edwin S. Rubenstein

By Edwin S. Rubenstein Only time will tell if the economy has truly "bottomed". But for American workers, the "bottom" is increasingly a theoretical issue. The practical reality is that Americans are being beaten out of jobs by immigrant competitors....
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Time to Level Playing Field for Working Poor in U.S - Froma Harrop

By Froma Harrop The Obama administration has launched some early immigration reforms, and they make sense. Notably, it has moved the brunt of enforcement away from the unauthorized workers and onto those who hire them. Of all the players in...
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Recession: The Fix for Illegal Immigration - Moderate Voice

By Elrod For all the talk about closing the Mexican border and ramping up enforcement efforts - or even deporting illegals en masse - a greater force has reversed the tide of illegal immigration: recession. This is hardly surprising, but...
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Immigration Reform Must Begin With Secure Border - Denver Post

A 'virtual fence' along the Mexican border is a precursor to an overhaul of this country's failed immigration policies. The Obama administration's announcement last week that it was pushing ahead with plans to build a multibillion-dollar 'virtual fence' along the...
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The Hispanic Time Bomb vs. Political Power! - Ron Ewart

By Ron Ewart What is even more important than the Hispanic population growth rate, is their political mindset when they come here and what they teach their children when they are here. In the last election, the Hispanic population voted...
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Worksite Enforcement Questions - Julie Myers Wood

By Julie Myers Wood Did the Department of Justice (DOJ) Commit to Prosecution of Egregious Employers, and If Not, How Will DHS Get Those Commitments? The recently released worksite enforcement guidelines indicate that ICE agents should not go forward in...
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The Mexican Military Regularly Enters This Country on Behalf of Drug Dealers - Doug Gibson

By Doug Gibson With the two-year imprisonment of Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean for their aggressive pursuit of a Mexican drug smuggler, and National Guardsmen being rewarded for retreating from Mexican raiding parties, and Barack Obama's unwillingness to seal...
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We Must Enforce Utah's New Immigration Law - Chris Herrod

By Chris Herrod The problem is that Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank and many others see illegal immigration as a victimless crime -- which it is not. An illegal alien commits a multitude of felonies by working, but more...
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Open-Borders Idea Hasn't Faded - D.A. King

D.A. King Readers who may assume that the open borders agenda has faded since the beginning of the decade would be sadly wrong. The concept of creating a colossal, continental Walmart using the scrap of the Founders sovereign nation as...
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Joe Still Predicts No Obama Amnesty-and A Dem. Ex-Rep. Agrees! - Joe Guzzardi

By Joe Guzzardi Here's why Obama's three statements encourage me: * The borders will never be well enough secured for the American people to feel confident that an amnesty will not lead to another flood of illegal immigrants as it...
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Immigration: 36 Chicago Students Killed Sets Record - Frosty Wooldridge

By Frosty Wooldridge 'The homicide rate is just the tip of the iceberg,' Mr. Voisin said. 'Those with nonfatal injuries are almost 100 times that of our homicide rates. You think for about every one kid who is murdered, 100...
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Obama isn't Enforcing Immigration Laws - Frosty Wooldridge

By Frosty Wooldridge Today, after the first 100 days of Obama's term, the April edition of FAIR's (Federation for American Immigration Reform) Immigration Report connected the dots and sketched Obama administration's immigration policy. 'With or without [amnesty] legislation, the administration...
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Should We Pay for The Times' Advocacy of Illegal Immigration? - Don Feder

By Don Feder A safety net for illegal aliens? Provided by whom - the American taxpayer? But many of them are hurting too - unemployed, struggling to make mortgage payments and soon to be burdened by the hyperinflation which will...
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Virtual Fence Necessary to Monitor Border - Yuma Sun

The virtual fence overcomes some of the difficulties of installing physical fencing. It uses an array of electrical sensors mounted on tall towers in remote areas to detect border activity. Border agents monitor the cameras and other detection equipment...
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Solving the Immigration Problem-Once and For All - Ross Levatter

The true story of the Save the Endangered Americans Act of 2018 By Ross Levatter In 2017, during the first term of President Michelle Obama, the bright boys in the Office of Management and Budget worked closely with the president's...
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Questioning Residents About Citizenship Status Won't Make Neighborhoods Safer - Houston Chronicle

Such a policy change would make Houston the only major city police force in Texas to allow police questioning of non-suspects about their citizenship status. The reasons frequently cited by law enforcement officials for avoiding such queries is that...
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Buying Time on Immigration - E.J. Dionne Jr.

By E.J. Dionne Jr. The Obama administration has particular worries of its own. Obama won last year with overwhelming support from Latino voters who helped him carry such swing states as New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. Latino political leaders are...
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The Democrats' Dilemma Over Immigration - Ruben Navarrette

By Ruben Navarrette It's hard to know in which camp falls Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who recently called a hearing of a Senate subcommittee to explore the feasibility of achieving - or even discussing - immigration reform in...
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It's the Perfect Time for Immigration Reform - Raymond J. Keating

By Raymond J. Keating Sen. Schumer said "recent polls show that 57 percent of Americans believe that immigration reform should be a high priority for this Congress. The politics may be hard, but reality is obvious: It is everyone's best...
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Hispanic, Asian Immigration Decline Is a GOP Opportunity--and Danger - John A. Farrell

By John Aloysius Farrell I hesitate to guess what this means politically. But it's a pretty big deal, diversity-wise. The Census Bureau says that the economic downturn has slowed immigration to such an extent that the projected date (about 2042)...
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A Grim Reminder: Reform Immigration - Des Moines Register

Besides giving illegal workers who meet certain requirements a means to become law-abiding citizens, Washington should: * Raise immigration quotas to meet U.S. work-force needs and reunify families. * Establish a guest-worker program that is flexible enough to meet...
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A Christlike Approach to Immigration - McKay Coppins

By McKay Coppins The arrest of an illegal immigrant coming home from his LDS mission in Ohio last month has sparked a fierce immigration debate in the Mormon community. No matter how much each side tries to simplify the issue,...
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The Jilted Latino Voter - Gregory Rodriguez

By Gregory Rodriguez In the meantime, a survey published last week by the nonpartisan Latino Decisions found that 63% of respondents identify the economy and jobs as the 'most important issue for the new administration this year' (at 12%, immigration...
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'War on Crime' Targets Immigrants - Tom Barry

By Tom Barry Prior to the creation of Homeland Security in 2003, there was little intersection between immigration enforcement and criminal law enforcement. The 1996 laws did establish the legal framework for the increased merger of criminal and immigration law...
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