Immigration News

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.

President Trump declared during his visit in Poland that "The fundamental question of our time is: whether the West has the will to survive." He then asked, "Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have the respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?"

Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) has introduced legislation fund President Trump's border wall by cutting funds to sanctuary jurisdictions. He stated, "My bill has two simple outcomes: Sanctuary jurisdictions can either follow the law or fund the wall. Failure to comply with federal immigration authorities and continued efforts to interfere with the lawful pursuit of border wall contracts by local businesses will be met with the loss of federal transportation and infrastructure grant funding. These funds will go towards the construction of our border wall." The senator also posed the following question, “How many criminal aliens have to be released shy of justice being served for the rule of law to be affirmed as the first priority of a functioning society?”