Highly paid PR firms for the open-borders lobby have gotten stories in many major newspapers this month suggesting that the only way to attract the Hispanic vote is to favor a comprehensive amnesty and also an increase in foreign workers. But a massive Zogby poll shows Hispanic views to be quite different. If 56% of … Continued

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

Roy Beck, executive director of Numbers USA, a group that advocates for strict limits on immigration, said strategists who urge a softer stance will be hard-pressed to find “any Republicans who want to stay in office who want to take their advice.” A more conciliatory approach, Mr. Beck said, would turn off independent voters, who … Continued

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

I feel like I lost a bit of my U.S. citizenship today. For 45 years, no matter how polarized my community or my country, no matter how loud the shouting matches and the challenges to each other’s morality and humanity . . . I always felt like I could set aside differences and engage in … Continued

Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA in Washington, called the bill’s timing a tactical error, predicting the bad economy would derail it. “At a time when we have this incredible unemployment, when we have a mismatch of the number of workers in this country with the number of jobs, it’s just incredible to introduce legislation … Continued

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

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

Roy Beck, executive director of Virginia-based NumbersUSA, which supports greater limits on immigration, said young Latinos’ tendency to not identify first as Americans is “troubling.” He said the constant waves of immigration into many of the neighborhoods where young Latinos live is continually exposing young Latinos to the language and culture of their ancestors’ homelands, … Continued