Immigration News

According to Chicago TV station NBC 5, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is leaving Congress. Gutierrez has been one of the most outspoken advocates in the House for amnesty and other benefits for illegal aliens. He once stated, "I have only one loyalty, and that is to the immigrant community." As that statement didn't distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants, it implies that Gutierrez is loyal to foreign lawbreakers, but not to the United States.

Members of Congress, mostly Democrats, are launching a "huge push" to pass amnesty for illegal aliens in the DACA category before the end of the year, according to McClatchy Washington Bureau.  Assisting them will be cheap labor business interests which will set up a "war room" in Washington to coordinate the effort.  Among the business groups is Partnership for a New American Economy, an organization founded by pro-immigration billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Robert Murdoch. To put additional pressure on Congress, contingents of illegal aliens and their supporters will converge on Washington to stage rallies and sit-ins.  

Liberal Democrats are threatening political extortion to gain passage of amnesty for illegal aliens in the DACA category before the end of the year. They say they will  not vote for a continuation of government funding if the amnesty is not attached to a bill to authorize funding. Without that funding many operations of the federal government will have to shut down, which would cause distress for many people. These Democrats want passage of the amnesty without any concessions. The Trump Administration has expressed willingness to consider DACA legislation, but only in exchange for long-overdue immigration reforms, such as restriction of legal chain migration and an end to the Visa Lottery. Some Republican "moderates" have indicated that they may go along with the pro-amnesty Democrats.

Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban has again spoken out against globalist elites who promote mass migration from the Middle East and Africa to Europe. As they have seen public opinion shift against them, says Orban, "they've invented this magic word 'populism' to denigrate all that is national, popular, Christian, and civic -- but they repeat this magic word in vain, their incantations are in vain, and their political voodoo is in vain. "Reality, flesh-and-blood-people, real-life instincts, real human desires, dreams and hopes will conquer the globalist elite still ruling Europe today. And they will make Europe -- and within it Hungary -- great again." 

After falling in the early months of the Trump administration, illegal immigration is surging once again.  ICE has run out of detention space and is having...

The union that represents the agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) maintains that holdovers in ICE from the Obama Administration are still undermining effective enforcement. The head of the union, the National ICE Council, stated, "While officers view the president's position on enforcement as courageous, the Trump Administration has left all of the Obama managers and leadership in place, a group that ICE officers know after the last eight years to be completely incompetent, corrupt, and anti-enforcement. . . . [These] holdovers continue to undermine law enforcement operations, and wage war against their own law enforcement officers."

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) said that Republican leaders are considering compromise legislation that would allow for illegal aliens in the DACA category to get legal status. In exchange for that, they would require curtailment of family-chain legal immigration, an end to the diversity visa program, and making it mandatory for businesses to use E-Verify system, which helps prevent hiring of illegal aliens. "If we get these three," said Brat, "DACA could be a part of that. I'm open to that compromise, but it can't be any weaker than that." 

Breitbart News Executive Stephen Bannon says the time has come to challenge the cliche that America is "a nation of immigrants." Says Bannon, who formerly served as policy adviser to President Trump, "We're a nation of citizens; we're not a nation of immigrants. So now are we to start act like citizens first. All policy should be oriented to making the working people in this country and the middle class in this country have a better shot at success. And we've gotten away from that. What we're done is brought in huge global competition for their jobs, for their schools."

President Trump's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielson, has strong support from amnesty supporters who served in the administration of former President George W. Bush. Endorsing her at the Senate confirmation hearing was Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a leading supporter of the 2013 amnesty bill. Nielson once chaired a committee at the World Economic Forum which promoted mass immigration to the U.S. and Europe.  Many immigration reform advocates question President Trump's decision to nominate Kirstjen to head the agency charged with enforcing immigration law.  

Californians who oppose their state's law granting sanctuary to illegal aliens are seeking a referendum to overturn that statute.  A spokesman for this campaign, Ben Bergquam, said sanctuary is "lawless." He further stated that "It's politicians protecting criminal illegals at the expense of law-abiding citizens. It's a slap in the face of American sovereignty and the citizens of our country." The proponents of the referendum will need to gather signatures of at least 365,880 registered voters by Jan. 3, 2018, in order for it to appear on the November 2018 ballot.