Immigration News

The American Bar Association House of Delegates passed a resolution saying that illegal aliens should be able to take the bar exam and practice law. Many commentators noted the irony of lawbreakers being lawyers 

The United States is seeking significant changes in the NAFTA treaty. U.S. Trade Rep. Lighthizer said that President Trump "is not interested in a mere tweaking of a few provisions and an updating of a few chapters. We believe NAFTA has fundamentally failed many, many Americans and needs major improvement." Many believe that NAFTA has encouraged illegal immigration from Mexico.

President Trump says accelerating the United States’ economic growth is one of his administration’s most cherished goals. . . . He embraced a legislative...

Kansas Secretary of State of State Kris Kobach, a long-time supporter of immigration reform, has endorsed the RISE Act, which would cut legal immigration in half. Legal immigration now runs at the highest sustained level in our country's history.  About the prospects of this legislation passing, Kobach stated, "I think it has a shot. It wouldn't say a long shot, but the odds are against it right now unless the red state Republicans can feel the heat from their base.

Conservative commentator Ken Blackwell stated, "President Donald Trump issued an executive order to stop subsidizing cities that obstruct immigration law. Chicago filed suit in response. Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to continue collecting federal dollars while ignoring federal policy." "Chicago is a 'sanctuary city.' That sounds nice, kind of like Oscar Schindler protecting Jews from the Nazis. It actually means protecting illegal aliens who commit crimes from being punished and deported. When President Donald Trump took office, some 300 jurisdictions, including 106 cities, actively interfered with federal law enforcement."

A columnist writing in the San Diego Times asked why California has the highest poverty rate of any state in the union. Twenty percent of the state's residents are below the poverty level, and another twenty percent live in "near poverty." This is interesting because California is the state with the largest number and percentage of immigrants. Immigration advocates constantly maintain that mass immigration always brings prosperity. A study by the Heritage Foundation found that our present immigration system "imports poverty."

A Politico/Morning Consult Poll found that majorities of American voters support key provisions of the RAISE Act. Forty-eight percent endorse its key proposal to...

In her column Wednesday, Ann Coulter discusses the RAISE Act bill and the corporate media's failure to cover it: The media have chosen not to cover...

White House Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller defended the defended provision the proposed Raise Act that would cut legal immigration in half. He noted that "We admitted about 300,000 people a year in the 70s. About half a million a year in the 80s. Now it's over a million a year. So what happening now is not the norm. It's actually unusual how many people we are letting in  now." He continued, "There are segments in the extreme media--I wouldn't call them mainstream--because it is extreme to want no borders. It's extreme to want to have unlimited, cheap migration driving down working class-wages. These are extreme positions.

Illegal immigration across the southwest border surged 15% in July compared to the month before, Homeland Security announced Tuesday, signaling that President Trump's early...