Jerry Petty, Alan Ruddell, John Hanson.  You don’t know them, but you owe them. They lost their lives in service of our national community.  They’re the names I must speak at the beginning of my Memorial Day each year — just as you have your own list of names to say. Because I never knew Jerry, … Continued

Immigration control advocates hailed the slowdown, saying it would ease pressure on schools, hospitals and other public services, and open up wider job opportunities for U.S. citizens. “Any decline in immigration is good for most Americans and especially good for Hispanic Americans and black Americans,” said Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, an immigration control group. “There … Continued

“Their parents have put them in a very difficult situation,” said Roy Beck, director of Numbers USA, a Washington, D.C. group that advocates for reduced immigration levels. “We can’t just keep having one amnesty after another without fixing the fundamental problem…We have magnets that invite people to become illegal aliens because we make it so … Continued

A key Democratic Senator in the health care overhaul says illegal aliens can’t be covered under whatever emerges. Open-borders advocates are howling.  Here’s the big question for national Democratic leaders:  If they recognize that national health insurance for illegal aliens is too expensive, can they see that an amnesty essentially locks in the cost by … Continued

With millions of Americans now out of work, Roy Beck, director of NumbersUSA, which favors lower immigration levels, said he believed few would buy the arguments made by Feinstein, who he described as primarily representing western farm interests. “We’ve allowed western agricultural work to become a foreign job,” Beck said. “California farmers have gotten lazy, … Continued

“Since the landmark raid, an economic squeeze has destroyed several businesses. Postville’s population has shrunk by nearly half, to about 1,800 residents, and townsfolk say the resulting anxiety — felt from the deli to the schoolyard — has been relentless. “It’s like you’re in an oven and there’s no place to go and there’s no … Continued

E-Verify is an effective way to attack the jobs magnet for illegal immigrants, said Roy Beck, executive director of Numbers USA, which favors stricter controls on immigration. Beck said he hoped the increase in funding would result in more employers signing up. “If there aren’t jobs, they stop coming,” he said. “We would rather solve … Continued

Immigrant unemployment is now soaring. During 18 months of recession as millions of Americans lost jobs, Congress has resolutely refused to reduce immigration and the importation of foreign workers. Scores of our elected officials appear to feel much more obligation to immigrants than to vulnerable Americans among their constituents. Now, a new study shows that … Continued

Janet Napolitano has raised hopes for better immigration enforcement many times in her career and then disappointed those cheering her on, but I want to believe my eyes/ears that she signaled a major commitment to E-Verify this week. It appears the Obama Administration is finally starting to separate itself from the most extreme open-borders elements … Continued