By Roy Beck
The retirement of Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) will end an 17-year unbroken commitment to persuading Congress to eliminate birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. Soon after arriving in Congress in 1993, he co-sponsored the original bill to put the U.S. in line with most other modern nations by stopping birthright citizenship. He has signed on to every bill since, … Continued
By Roy Beck
I hope very critical news reports about E-Verify this week did not shake your confidence in mandatory workplace verification. I will tell you there is more to the story, but also that the weaknesses in E-Verify are why we call for the passage of the SAVE Act which has extra provisions to combat identity fraud. … Continued
By Roy Beck
The open-borders lobby is wailing about Pres. Obama’s health care compromise, and that seems like it should be good news on the immigration front. They say the President is leaving all illegal aliens out of the plan. And they are calling on their activists to phone the White House to demand that illegal aliens be … Continued
By Roy Beck
Most of the spotlighted conservative leaders at the giant CPAC convention this weekend showed that they are far more interested in the feelings of Republican Party major donors than in offering help for 25 million Americans who can’t find a full-time job. Americans might have hoped that finally at this meeting there would be a … Continued
By Roy Beck
Pres. Obama is under attack from some Black leaders for allowing Black poverty and unemployment to remain agonizingly high. Blinded by the open-borders ideology that afflicts most of the nation’s political and media elite, Mr. Obama can’t see that he really could deflect the criticism and stick with his stated principles merely by being willing … Continued
By Roy Beck
One of our members called this morning wanting the list of Senators in the ‘amnesty bubble’ — those who are most susceptible to changing their action on the potential amnesty vote in early 2010. Those of us who made it to the office in the middle of the DC blizzard shutdown today came up with … Continued
By Joe Jenkins
Whether you intend on celebrating Christmas or Kwanzaa, are celebrating Chanukah, or have celebrated Eid this holiday season, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has given us all a gift that needs to be flung from the highest mountain top into the deepest of crevices: H.R. 4321, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act … Continued
By Roy Beck
A big poll of Americans of Latin American background finds that most first and second generations don’t think of themselves first as Americans. But they don’t think of themselves as Latinos or Hispanics either. They are most likely — even immigrants’ kids born in the U.S. — to consider themselves Mexicans, Salvadorans, Peruvians, Bolivians, etc. … Continued
“Net gains of roughly 100,000 jobs per month are needed just to absorb new entrants into the labor force.” -Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking on November 16, 2009.1 According to the most recent data, the economy isn’t creating any net new jobs, so why is the government importing 125,000 legal foreign workers per month? The … Continued
