Immigration News

Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the streets, the nation's leading newspapers and big-city mayors call his plans "un-American" and promise defiance.  So what,...

Florida's Miami-Dade Country will no longer be a sanctuary jurisdiction. Its mayor Carlos Gimenez says that the county will "fully cooperate" with President Trump's crackdown on sanctuary policies, i.e., policies of localities and states which bar cooperation with federal immigration law enforcement.

President Trump is moving forward with his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border. On a number of occasions he has affirmed that Mexico will help pay for the project.

Immigration Control supporters are concerned that President Trump has not yet eliminated President Obama's DACA program which grants legal status to a category of illegal aliens. Obama illegally proclaimed DACA in defiance of the constitutional separation of powers which gives Congress, not the president, the right to makes laws. Illegal aliens in the DACA category continue to receive permits to work in the U.S. Some immigration control activists are concerned that cheap labor interests in the Republican Party are pressuring the president not to act on DACA.         

Newly-elected liberal Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez  on Friday issued a new policy that prohibits deputies and jailers from inquiring about someone's immigration status and...

In his inaugural address President Donald Trump promised that a pro-American agenda would guide his policy-making. Said the president, "For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry. . . . From this moment on, it's going to be America First. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families."  

Some campuses are following the lead of "sanctuary cities" by stating their refusal to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) has introduced legislation to deter them from doing so. It would deny federal funds to these "sanctuary campuses." Said Hunter, “This effort is not about telling colleges who they can and can’t accept for enrollment, but whatever decision they make will either mean they receive federal money or they don’t — it’s that simple.”

Deportations of illegal aliens from the interior have declined by 73 percent since 2009. The Obama Administration claims that it has removed focus from most illegal aliens in order to focus on deporting illegal aliens who pose a criminal threat to the public. While the percentage of these aliens as part of the total of illegal aliens deported has sharply increased, the numbers of those criminals being sent home have steadily declined. In 2016 they totaled 60,000, down from approximately 150,000 in 2010. There are two million deportable criminal aliens now residing in the U.S.

President-elect Donald Trump denounced the open-border policy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He stated: “I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals, you know taking all of the people from wherever they come from. And nobody even knows where they come from." He added that "People, countries want their own identity."

Former U.S. Attorney Troy A. Eid, the first Arab-American U.S. Attorney, writing Saturday in The Denver Post, states: "President-elect Trump recognizes that the federal government isn't...