By Roy Beck
As for jobless Americans, I suppose the answer is: Let them eat pie, or let them eat when there is a bigger pie. Despite saying some pretty sensible things about immigration at the big CPAC conservative activists conference last Friday, presidential hopeful Jeb Bush displayed zero awareness that immigration issues affect working-class Americans. FOX host … Continued
By Roy Beck
Thus far, every single Democrat in the Senate and nearly all in the House are taking the position that they will not allow funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless their Republican colleagues pay a ransom in the form of millions of work permits for illegal aliens. The headlines should read: “Democrats hold DHS … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
This week, a federal judge temporarily halted President Obama’s most recent executive actions on immigration. But what exactly does that mean? Josh Gerstein of Politico explained the decision as well as anyone: “The injunction paralyzed Wednesday’s planned expansion of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which started in 2012, and grants temporary work permits … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
A week ago, the Center for Immigration Studies made public some government statistics it obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act request from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. USCIS’ data show that since 2009, the executive branch has issued 982,000 new work permits to citizens of other countries who were in the United States illegally. … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Liberal and conservative pundits agree: the executive actions President Obama announced last week will encourage more illegal immigration. The President is granting work permits to millions in the country illegally and discouraging enforcement against future unlawful aliens who make it into the interior of the country (either by overstaying a visa or successfully eluding capture … Continued
By Roy Beck
In a 2,200-word speech, he didn’t mention “work permits” or “work authorization” even once. Pres. Obama’s huge prime-time TV speech about his big fix of the “broken immigration system” somehow left out the fact that he would be rewarding millions of unlawfully present foreign citizens with three-year work permits to compete directly with struggling American … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The Obama administration spends more money on immigration enforcement than all other enforcement agencies combined, according to a report from the Migration Policy Institute. The report has gotten a lot of media attention this week. * (Update: Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration noted in the National Review that the MPI authors acknowledged that they reached … Continued
The leaders of the Illinois Legislature are hoping to pass legislation that would allow illegal aliens to get a driver’s license. In support of that effort, the senate’s Assistant Republican Leader and a high-profile sheriff wrote an op-ed for a suburban Chicago newspaper, the Daily Herald, on Wednesday. State Sen. Bill Brady and Lake County Sheriff Mark … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
An April 3 story in the Boston Herald, “Uncle Obama on the roads again,” reported that Onyango Obama, the president’s uncle and a Kenyan national who has been living and working illegally in the U.S. since 1963 – even after he was ordered deported in 1992 – “scored his limited [driver’s] license yesterday from the Registry’s … Continued
