Immigration News

California Democrats are expanding their efforts to resist President Trump's crackdown on illegal aliens with bills to prohibit private business cooperation with federal immigration officers.  Democrats...

Kevin Williamson of National Review exposes the anti-Trump bias and weak reasoning of liberal federal judges striking down the President's so-called "Muslim Ban." Some excerpts: President Donald Trump's...

Scott McKay, writing in The American Spectator, does not mince words: "I am not Islamophobic.  I am Islamofedup.  Especially after the horror of Manchester and the...

The Obama administration knowingly let in at least 16 admitted MS-13 gang members who arrived as illegal immigrant teenagers in 2014, a U.S. senator said...

President Trump's fiscal 2018 budget will proposes to crackdown illegal aliens getting money from the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit. The Trump Administration believes that its proposed measures will save $40 billion over 10 years.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched the open borders group FWD.us. Its president Todd Schulte recently stated that efforts to stop illegal immigration "hurt public safety." He also claimed that amnesty for illegal aliens would "make our country safer." Although the billionaire Zuckerberg is not partial to walls on our border, he has a large wall protecting his own personal property.

The source of illegal immigration into the U.S. has shifted away from the southwest border and into the country's air and sea ports, where...

The official unemployment rate, 4.9 percent for the first quarter of 2017, is a vast improvement over the high percentages following the recession beginning in 2007. Nevertheless, the official figure minimizes the true picture of unemployment, especially for those of limited education. One way is not counting people of working age who haven't recently looked for a job. If they are factored in, the labor force participation of all natives of working age without a college degree has declined since the recession began, from 73.8 percent in the first quarter of 2007 to 69.8 percent in the first quarter of this year. In 2000 the total was 76.1 percent. Immigration is one reason for this trend.

House Democrats are expressing strong opposition to the Davis-Oliver Act recently introduced by Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) (See previous news item.) The bill would penalize cities that break federal law with their sanctuary policies while enacting other steps to strengthen internal enforcement of immigration law. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA ) stated, "We have to call it Trump's mass deportation act. It is a hard anti-immigrant enforcement only proposal. It is a welcome mat to racism. . . . A repudiation of the very values that have defined our great nation since its inception." Jayapal didn't explain how enforcing laws against lawbreakers is racist, or why it is contrary to American values to do so.

Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) has introduced legislation to improve immigration law enforcement. It is H.R. 2431, also known as the Davis-Oliver act, in memory of two law enforcement officers who were killed by illegal aliens. Labrador is vice-chairman of the House Judicial Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee. Among its provisions, H.R. 2431 legally clarifies the right of localities to assist immigration law enforcement, penalizes sanctuary jurisdictions, and authorizes the hiring of 12,500 more ICE officers.