The United Kingdom's Home Secretary has announced plans that will make life difficult for illegal aliens and compel businesses in many areas to verify the immigration status of those applying for service.
Analysis of immigration politics and policy often yields contradictory results and the attention given to the issue by the New York Times over the weekend was no exception.
At its Summer meeting last week, the Republican National Committee rejected the Attrition Through Enforcement policy established in its 2012 National Platform in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens. Since illegal aliens would be legalized but denied citizenship, the RNC’s spin suggests the new policy would cause no harm. But the work permits offered to illegal aliens cause the greatest damage. And since most voters do not support this shift in policy, the RNC has likely harmed itself.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has already held two hearings this week. The first was a nearly 8-hour long marathon with a parade of witnesses from Big Business to Big Labor to Special Interest groups. And there were a few that testified about the need for more interior enforcement, better border security, and the huge fiscal drain that an amnesty would have on the nation's future. Yesterday, the Committee brought in DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano who was first scheduled to appear before the Committee last week. Here's what we learned from the past few days . . .
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.
In an online Wall Street Journal Live interview last week, Republican strategist Karl Rove, claimed that terms such as "self-deportation" are "distinctively unwelcoming" rhetoric and were the reasons why Romney lost the Hispanic vote this past election. Rove pointed to Texas Senator-elect Ted Cruz who won because he used a more welcoming message, but Ted Cruz ran on an Attrition Through Enforcement platform and was rated as a NumbersUSA True Refomer.
The mainstream media and open borders groups constantly reiterate to the American people that there are only two solutions to our nation's illegal alien crisis – give illegal aliens amnesty or round them up and deport them.
Here is the transcript of all comments on immigration in the debates and my explanation of what I think each comment meant.