Immigration News

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is one of the leading advocates of illegal aliens in the House of Representatives. In a recent speech, he called President Trump a "criminal" who must be driven from office by impeachment. The congressman expressed his "love"  for the illegal aliens in the DACA category to whom President Obama unlawfully granted amnesty. Gutierrez once declared that his only loyalty was to "the immigrant community." Evidently that excludes loyalty to America as a country governed by the rule of law.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick commented on the recent tragedy in San Antonio where eight illegal immigrants died inside a tractor trailer. Apparently they were abandoned by the smugglers who transported them had brought them. Patrick laid part of the blame on sanctuary cities. He observed that "Sanctuary cities entice people to believe they can come to America and Texas and live outside the law. Sanctuary cities also enable human smugglers and cartels. Today, these people paid a terrible price and demonstrate why we need a secure border and legal immigration reform so we can control who enters our country."

President Obama in defiance of the Constitution granted an amnesty to illegal aliens in the "Dreamer" category. Under the Constitution, a measure of this sort must be approved by Congress. Now the Obama amnesty is facing a legal challenge. To keep it in effect, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Dick Durbin (R-IL) are proposing a a Dream Act bill. Some immigration control advocates have suggested that they would be willing to accept a Dream Act in exchange for the substantial cuts in legal immigration proposed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) as well a mandatory E-Verify system, to help prevent hiring of illegal aliens.  

The Trump Administration recently increased the cap on H-2B visas, which allow low-skilled foreign workers to come to the U.S. for employment. But a study by the Economic Policy Institute shows that increasing the cap is not necessary. The study noted that "At the national level, it is worth pointing out that there is no evidence at all of labor shortages in the market that are significant enough to move national data trends."

Politico, a leading source of information about Washington politics, reports that "[President Trump] and his aides are quietly working with two conservative senators to dramatically scale back legal immigration. The two senators, Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA), have introduced legislation which would cut the current level of legal immigration, now around one million a year, to 500,000. The present annual number has been in effect for more than twenty years, the highest sustained level in our country's history.  

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stating that Texas and other states will sue the federal government if it does not end the DACA amnesty for illegal aliens known as "Dreamers." Former President Obama decreed DACA on his own and ignored the constitutional requirement that measures of this kind be approved by Congress. A similar action by Texas and other states halted DAPA, another unconstitutional amnesty proclaimed by Obama. During his election campaign President Trump promised to end DACA, but so far he has allowed it to continue and even accept new applicants.

The National Council of La Raza (NCLA), an open-borders Latino supremacist group, has decided to change its name. La Raza, which means "The Race," had become a liability by giving away the organization's true purpose. The new name is UnidosUS, which cam be translated as "US united" or "U.S. United." With this dual meaning the organization can claim to support national unity will still sending a message of group interest. The renamed organization gives no indication that it will give up its agenda of weakening immigration law enforcement and promoting amnesty in order to build up the political clout of Latinos at the expense of other Americans.

One study indicates that stricter enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump Administration is causing illegal aliens to "self-deport," i.e., go home on their own rather than deal with the pressure of added enforcement. Self-deportation is the answer to the claim of illegal alien advocates that we must grant amnesty because rounding up 11 million illegal immigrants is an impossible task. Arrest and deport some of them, and the rest will get the message and go home on their own.  

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban charged that the European Union is following the plans of globalist billionaire George Soros to flood Europe with migrants. The purpose, he maintains, is to undermine the sovereignty of European governments.

Breitbart has posted a list of quotes from U.S. elites demeaning average native-born Americans. The general message of these bigoted statements is that immigrants are superior to natives in just about every way, including work ethics, family values, and overall moral character. If such claims were true, one wonders why immigrants would want to come here and expose themselves to such a low grade of people.