Last week media outlets grey and green, left and right, and with varying focuses breathlessly reported President Clinton’s bland statements of questionable newsworthiness on the important topic of immigration. Perhaps the pent-up ink is due to the epic (but unsurprising) lack of interaction with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The President has clearly been the more … Continued

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Ever since Scott Walker name-dropped Jeff Sessions, the question of immigration levels – and whether they should be increased, decreased, or left the same – has occasionally creeped into the national immigration conversation. We should have had this debate two years ago, when a gang of eight Senators introduced legislation to double future immigration, but … Continued

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The editorial board of the New York Times took a cautiously favorable view of Hillary Clinton’s promise to take President Obama’s executive actions on immigration further than his administration believes is within the law. The editorial and Clinton’s comments define the immigration debate as strictly a question of what to do with the 11 million … Continued

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For the first time in 10 years, the issue of Birthright Citizenship was in the forefront on Capitol Hill this week when the House Immigration Subcommittee held a hearing on Wednesday. The hearing sought to determine if Birthright Citizenship is the right policy for America, but it focused less on the policy question, and more … Continued

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Neil Irwin of The Upshot says a variety of factors have likely resulted in less-educated workers getting hammered, including workers moving from shrinking industries to growing ones: “…perhaps a rise in automation and globalization is eliminating manufacturing jobs, and the people who once held those jobs are now competing for work as janitors and food … Continued

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Over the next several days, we are encouraging the public to press their Members of Congress to answer the following question: H.R. 140 (the Birthright Citizenship Act). Of course, most of the hundreds of thousands of births to foreign citizens in the U.S. each year are not to Disney visitors. But the Disney scenario is … Continued

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We are opposing the corporate lobbies, Pres. Obama and Republican congressional leaders who together are trying to pass a Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would likely lead to cutting the American people out of future decisions about certain flows of foreign workers. We have a chance for victory primarily because most Democrats in Congress … Continued

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In an outrageous new development, the Obama Administration has started a program to bring the Central American relatives of the illegal aliens it has amnestied (or plans to amnesty) to the United States! Instead of forcing the minors, and near minors, to face the dangerous and expensive trip from Central America on their own (like … Continued

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Natural Florida is disappearing fast.  More than 4,000 square miles of unique Florida nature and its special agricultural land that you could have visited in 1982 no longer exists.  They have been cleared, drained, paved and developed into parking lots, streets, shopping malls, housing tracts, water and sewage facilities, and infrastructure of all sorts to … Continued

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