DHS Inspector General Testifies on Consequences of Immigration Mismanagement

By Eric Ruark

On March 15, John Roth, the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding the security of U.S. visa programs. The OIG report Roth submitted as his written testimony dealt with the efforts of DHS to update their paper-based processing system to an … Continued

White House’s determination to avoid work permit debate starting to look silly

By Jeremy Beck

Administration officials have been telling the media that federal judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction against President Obama’s November executive actions on immigration limits the administration’s ability to prioritize deportations. President Obama says that’s nonsense. Media reports this week were full of language like this from the Wall Street Journal: “neither a judge’s ruling nor a standoff … Continued

Parsing the media coverage of the temporary injunction

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

Obama’s Executive Amnesty Leads Christians to Question the Move — Even Some Who Have Supported Legalization

By Jim Edwards

President Obama’s end-run of Congress to give around 5 million illegal aliens quasilegal status seems to be giving more and more Christians pause. The combination of acting outside the constitutional bounds, exercising what amounts to legislative powers reserved to Congress, plus the president’s bald-faced misuse of Scripture in an attempt to justify his highly questionable … Continued

Evidence from the MSM suggests executive action will incentivize more illegal immigration

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

Focus on Obama amnesty should be on the work permits, not the deportations

By Roy Beck

Pres. Obama’s and the mainstream media’s focus on “relief from deportation” is a distraction from the real issue which is the work permits that the President’s executive immigration action would provide in the millions. It is the giving out of work permits that most strongly challenges the Constitution. And it is the work permits that … Continued

The New York Times Moral Blinders

By Jeremy Beck

In his new Center for Immigration Studies backgrounder, “Sulzberger’s Voice,” former Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Jerry Kammer details how the New York Times editorial page became a destructive voice in the immigration debate by taking an intolerant view of – and casting aspersions on – those who disagree with their policy preferences. Kammer has also written backgrounders … Continued

Immigration Enforcement: A Tale of Two Reports (and an anecdote)

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

Gannett: Fanning the Flames With Falsehoods

By Jeremy Beck

Has anyone in Alabama read HB 56? The answer is surely “yes,” but none of them appear to have been involved in the story “Hundreds from across state protest immigration law,” published May 28 in the Montgomery Advertiser, which describes people protesting Alabama’s immigration law as wanting “others to understand their frustrations, concerns, and in … Continued