Immigration News

Politico reveals that fwd.us, an organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and other pro-immigration billionaires, will spend as much $10 million over the next year in a media campaign to attack Donald Trump and other GOP presidential candidates who oppose amnesty and propose less legal immigration. The Politico article inaccurately describes opposition to amnesty and mass immigration as immigration "reform." Thearticle states, "Fwd.us is looking to counter the anti-immigration reform rhetoric in the GOP primary and lay the groundwork for an overhaul of the country’s immigration laws in early 2017 once the next president takes office. Formed in 2013 by tech giants including Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman and Eric Schmidt, among others, the group accounted for 75 percent of all paid media spent in 2013 and 2014 to support immigration reform and had field operations in 29 states and 149 target House districts at the peak of the debate."

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) strongly denounced the pending "omnibus' appropriations legislation as it pertains to immigration. He stated, “As currently written, this year's appropriations bills – which will be combined into a catch-all 'omnibus' by December 11th – amount to a blank check for the President to carry out his refugee resettlement plans. Not only will the President be allowed to bring in the 85,000 refugees he has announced on top of current record immigration levels, but this will include at least 10,000 refugees from Syria who will subsequently be able to bring in their foreign relatives. All refugees are eligible for lifetime government assistance and can draw funds from Social Security and Medicare at Americans' expense. More than 90 percent of recent Middle Eastern refugees are on welfare. And they are on a fast-track to becoming voting U.S. citizens.

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A University of Texas/Texas Poll found that illegal immigration was the top concern of Texas voters. Twenty-two percent said that illegal immigration was the greatest threat to the U.S. followed by 18 percent who said that terrorism was the greatest threat. Co-director of the poll, Daron Shaw, observed that "Even before the terrorist attacks in Paris . . . Texans expressed deep concern over border security."

In response to claims by federal officials that they can detect refugee applicants who are lying through interviews, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) observed that there are now five million illegal aliens in the U.S. who broke their promises to leave the U.S. after their temporary visas expired. If interviews were not effective in detecting their intentions, he asked, then how can we be sure that vetting refugees through interviews will work?

A Bloomberg Politics national poll found that 53 percent of U.S. adults oppose the Obama Administration's proposal to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. Twenty-eight percent said they support the proposal, which has no religious restrictions. Eleven percent said they would support a limited program to accept Syrian Christians, who face persecution from Muslims in their home country. President Barak Hussein Obama says that the idea of excluding Muslims is "shameful" and un-American.

The federal government does not have the ability to screen out terrorists from the Syrian refugees that President Obama wants to bring into the country, said FBI director James Comey in a statement last month before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing. He observed that “We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban charges that left-wing elites in both Europe and the United States hope to utilize growing numbers of immigrants as voting blocs to increase their power. These elites, he charges, have little sympathy for the rights of native-born people to maintain their cultures and national identities.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, the governors of 15 U.S. states have announced that they will not admit Syrian refugees. Authorities have revealed that at least one of the terrorist attackers in Paris was a Syrian refugee.

Friday's Muslim terrorist attacks in Paris are described by activist Pamela Geller as Muslims declaring war on France and the inevitable result of admitting...