Immigration

Number of Illegal Immigrants Drops

Posted by Mark E. Noonan on September 1, 2010 at 9:07 pm

From AOL news: The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing by 8 percent since 2007, a new study finds. The reasons range from the sour economy to Mexican violence and increased U.S. enforcement that has made it harder to sneak across the [...]

Democrats Now Terrified of Immigration Issue

Posted by Mark E. Noonan on August 7, 2010 at 3:33 pm

From The Hill: House Democrats are considering adding a border security bill to the agenda when lawmakers return to vote on emergency aid for states. Under pressure from the White House, Democratic leaders in the House were discussing on Friday the possibility of adding the Senate border security bill or a similar item to their [...]

Amnesty Without a Vote?

Posted by Mark E. Noonan on July 30, 2010 at 12:21 am

From NRO’s The Corner: According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in [...]

Hijacking Immigration Reform for the Gay Rights Movement

Posted by Mark E. Noonan on July 20, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Interesting – from OneNewsNow: A pro-family activist finds it absolutely outrageous that a coalition of pro-homosexual and pro-illegal immigration lawmakers is pushing a bill that would give special immigration priorities to practicing homosexuals from other countries who want to settle in the U.S. The coalition is a veritable “who’s-who” of the liberal left, including the [...]

Rhode Island Racists

Posted by Mark E. Noonan on July 8, 2010 at 12:01 am

Well, that is the only way we can explain it, given the way AG Holder is treating Arizona – from Boston.com: …in Rhode Island, illegal immigrants face a far greater penalty: deportation. From Woonsocket to Westerly, the troopers patrolling the nation’s smallest state are reporting all illegal immigrants they encounter, even on routine stops such [...]