Immigration News

A the behest of a left-wing student group a Dartmouth University, the Library of Congress will no longer refer to illegal aliens as illegal aliens. The preferred terms now will be non-citizen and unauthorized immigrant. The Dartmouth group said that it hopes that journalists and politicians will do likewise. This manipulation of language is part of an overall effort by open-border advocates to make illegal immigration not seem like a crime.

The Hungarian government says there are 900 'no-go' areas in Europe where immigrants prevent national authorities from governing. Among cities with no-go zones are Paris, London, Berlin and Stockholm. In these zones, says Hungary's government, "[N]orms of the host society barely prevail."

John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, stated in an interview that open borders are "destroying this experiment" [known as America] and that "the consequences will come sooner than later, and they will be negative in their entirety. He also observed that "There's a philosophy . . . and it's kind of conventional wisdom on International Left, that international borders . . . are just kind of there, and really people should be allow to go anywhere they want."

The Obama Administration is working with an "immigrant rights" umbrella group to naturalize as many immigrants as possible before the November elections. This organization, the National partnership for New Americans, has labeled proposals to stop illegal immigration as "hateful." Critics charge that this is an attempt to build a new Democratic voting bloc for open borders and mass immigration.

Sixteen states now have foreign-born populations higher than 15 percent. Six have populations than 26 percent. In 1970 no state had a percentage higher than 15 percent.

A growing number of forecasters predict that a very large percentage of jobs now done by people will be automated in the near future. Meanwhile, immigration advocates tell us that mass immigration must continue indefinitely because supposedly we will suffer from a "labor shortage."

Wendy Wilson is a public school teacher in Nashville Tennessee, a city with a large immigrant population. While local elites praise this "diversity," Wilson sees a number of problems with it in the schools. She asks, "[H]ow much immigration diversity is too much?"

The Obama Administration has put out word to Border Patrol agents to release illegal aliens without trying to send them home. The excuse for doing so is that they will clog up the court system. Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said that this "catch and release" policy "amounts to amnesty."

Figures from the Department of Homeland Security reveal that the Obama Administration issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim countries during the past five years. If Current policy doesn't change, 680,000 will arrive during the next five years.

In testimony before Congress, Harvard economist George Borjas revealed that immigration, by depressing wages, brings a massive transfer of wealth from workers to employers--a total of one-half trillion dollars. Said Borjas, "What immigration really does is not so much increase the pie, as redistribute the wealth."