By Bryan Griffith,
February 9, 2010
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1. Judge questions prosecutions
2. OK officials assess court ruling
3. Arpaio to expand enforcement
4. TX co. leaders support amnesty
5. Bar Assoc. wants new system Read more »
By Jerry Kammer,
February 9, 2010
Jorge Castaneda, Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000 to 2003, indicated that he's not likely to be a candidate in the 2012 presidential election. But he certainly is sounding like a candidate as he crisscrosses Mexico, promoting a new book and outlining a made-for-campaigning program for change. Read more »
By David North,
February 8, 2010
The generally-accepted concept in the restrictionist community is that federal agencies and courts nearly always rule in favor of the alien. I think that's true.
But I found an exception: a series of recent decisions by the Department of Labor's (obscure) Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA).
Truth to tell it was in the middle of the weekend blizzard and I was unconsciously looking for something useful to do other than shoveling snow. Read more »
By Jerry Kammer,
February 7, 2010
Jorge Ramos grilled the mayor of Juarez today on his Spanish-language television program, Al Punto. The Univision newsman expressed indignation at the unrelenting violence that drug traffickers have inflicted upon that border city across from El Paso. He asked why the mayor hadn’t resigned. Noting the five thousand killings in Juarez during the last two years, Ramos asked Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, "Isn't that a terrible sign of failure?" Read more »
By David North,
February 5, 2010
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offers much detailed information to Haitians and their advocates on how the temporary legalization fees of $470 can be waived in the Haitian Temporary Protected Status program.
It offers considerably less information on fee waivers to the Congress. Read more »
By Bryan Griffith,
February 5, 2010
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1. Feds execute major sweep
2. Arpaio facing sanctions
3. Election forum tackles issue
4. Activists assail detentions
5. Tea Party targets amnesty Read more »
By Janice Kephart,
February 4, 2010
In the president's new proposed budget, funding has been zeroed out for the one tool on the books that can help secure domestic aviation by assuring that people are who they say they are. While the president accuses those who work for him of not "connecting the dots" to stop a terrorist attack, he and his Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, seem to continually fail to do so themselves. This is the case even though Secretary Napolitano seems sincere in her desire to strengthen aviation security. Read more »
By David North,
February 4, 2010
What do you do with a middle-sized visa program when two different government agencies find that 30 to 33 percent of its applications are fraudulent?
If you are Congress, you renew it. Read more »
By Bryan Griffith,
February 4, 2010
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1. Virtual Fence in jeopardy
2. ICE executes smuggling raid
3. Poll: CA down on amnesty's odds
4. WA group to press restrictions
5. Obama's Aunt seeks leniency Read more »
By Mark Krikorian,
February 4, 2010
If you think the Haitian illegal aliens and legal visitors to whom the administration has granted "Temporary" Protected Status (TPS) are ever going back, look at the experience of the Liberians.
About 3,000 or so of them were granted this status (which allows them to live and work here legally) in 1991 because civil strife back in Liberia supposedly made the normal enforcement of our immigration laws impossible. The civil war there ended in 2003. After repeated renewals, their TPS was finally allowed to expire in 2007. Read more »
By David North,
February 3, 2010
While some restrictionists may think that immigration lawyers always win their cases, this is not so.
The highest immigration judicial authority in the land, the Executive Office of Immigration Review, an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, publishes a little list, available to all, of 374 immigration lawyers (at the time of this writing) who have been disciplined by EOIR. Read more »
By Jerry Kammer,
February 3, 2010
Janet Muguia, the National Council of La Raza's President and CEO, appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal yesterday, making a sales pitch for "comprehensive" immigration reform that would legalize illegal immigrants and provide channels for future flows of low-wage workers into the U.S. job market. She said her organization is "disappointed and frustrated" that President Obama skipped past immigration in his State of the Union Address. Read more »
By Bryan Griffith,
February 3, 2010
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1. OK sanctions partially upheld
2. Judge upholds detention suit
3. ABA report critiques system
4. MD co. passes resolution
5. Haitians' future unknown Read more »
By Jerry Kammer,
February 2, 2010
Rep. Luis Gutierrez is calling for a massive demonstration next month in Washington to demand that President Obama push Congress to move on immigration reform.
In a Monday visit to Los Angeles, where he made an appearance on a nationwide Spanish-language radio program and met with local leaders and AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Maria Elena Durazo, Gutierrez expressed frustration that President Obama gave scant attention to immigration last week in his State of the Union Address. Read more »
By Bryan Griffith,
February 2, 2010
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1. Rep. says voters may abstain
2. NY candidate attacked on issue
3. Lawsuit questions program
4. NC gov. rejects English-only
5. Haitians helped in Creole Read more »
By Jon Feere,
February 2, 2010
The Green Party has called for reducing future immigration to a more sustainable level. Unfortunately, it's the Australian Greens, not the U.S. ones.
In response to a new government plan to dramatically increase Australia's population, the Greens' leader, Senator Bob Brown, said the following: Read more »
By James R. Edwards Jr.,
February 2, 2010
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has proposed $75 million in the state budget to fund health insurance for thousands of legal immigrants. This represents a 25 percent spending increase, amidst a crippling economic recession. The Democratic governor's proposal illustrates some of the problems in larger issues of government health care and coverage of legal immigrants. Read more »
By Jerry Kammer,
February 1, 2010
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union say the are still hopeful for an immigration reform bill this year and are calling for public efforts to push Congress to move ahead with that effort. In interviews broadcast on Sunday's Al Punto program on the Spanish-language Univision network, they told newsman Jorge Ramos that they are convinced that President Obama remains committed to the reform, even though he gave scant attention to the issue in last week's State of the Union Address. Read more »
By Bryan Griffith,
February 1, 2010
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1. VA gangs driven to MD
2. MD leaders want verification
3. Amnesty in spotlight
4. Activists to press on
5. Jewish, Latino leaders Read more »
By Jon Feere,
January 31, 2010
There is no question that we should treat illegal-alien detainees as humanely as possible. Our system should expedite the removal process so that individuals are not detained any longer than is necessary. But while improvements can certainly be made, detention centers serve an important purpose and should not be abandoned, regardless of how loudly the open-border crowd yells. Read more »
By Janice Kephart,
January 31, 2010
Ever since the facts trickled out that Christmas Day attacker Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had a valid visa to the United States despite his father's in-person intelligence provided to CIA officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, the issue of why his visa was not revoked has been a top priority issue for the president, the press, and those of us that do national security policy development in Washington. During the discussions of why Abdulmutallab's visa was not revoked, we heard a dozen different excuses. Here are some of the best. Read more »
By Jessica Vaughan,
January 29, 2010
Last week ICE completed its largest anti-gang operation ever, arresting 517 people in 83 cities across the country (476 were involved in gangs). Dubbed Project Big Freeze, ICE teamed with other federal and local law enforcement agencies to target gangsters involved in cross-border drug trafficking, under an ongoing program known as Operation Community Shield. Read more »
By Bryan Griffith,
January 29, 2010
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1. Haiti adoptions expedited
2. Schumer talks issue Dobbs
3. GOP rep. warns of amnesty
4. AZ turns prisoners over
5. Case shows terror threat Read more »
By Janice Kephart,
January 29, 2010
Janice Kephart was featured in an interview with Security-News.tv regarding ID security in the wake of the alleged Christmas Day plot. You can listen to the interview in either an mp3 or m4a format. Read more »
By Janice Kephart,
January 28, 2010
The REAL ID Act of 2005 sought to secure state driver license ID issuance practices and require those secure IDs be presented at airports to create a more hardened aviation security system. Although unsaid, it is well-documented that any federal officer at a portal with no means other than a black light, some minimal training, and eyesight, is significantly curtailed in identifying fraud. Read more »
By Bryan Griffith,
January 28, 2010
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1. Obama pitches amnesty agenda
2. White House to talk with Cuba
3. Nationwide sweep rounds up 476
4. MA Gov. calls for more funding
5. CA county seeks reimbursement Read more »
By David North,
January 28, 2010
Why should the application period for the Temporary Protected Status for Haitian illegals be extended over 180 days?
This was among my thoughts over the last few days as I attended a DHS "Stakeholders Meeting" on fee waivers for TPS applicants in Washington, and as I was interviewed by both NPR, on the left, and Fox News, on the right, regarding this program. Read more »
By Mark Krikorian,
January 28, 2010
Since I knew His Majesty wouldn't say much of anything about immigration, and I can no longer stand the sound of his voice, I just went to bed. But he said even less than I expected:
We should continue to work at fixing our broken immigration system to secure our borders and enforce our laws and ensure that everyone who plays by rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nation. Read more »
By Stephen Steinlight,
January 27, 2010
Following CIS's release of the survey "Religious Leaders vs. Members: An Examination of Contrasting Views on Immigration," the usually loquacious spokespersons for the Jewish Establishment have had little to say other than to downplay findings which reveal a Jewish community split down the middle over immigration between enforcement and legalization. What's more, lopsided majorities of respondents took positions on key policy questions strongly predictive of opposition to amnesty. Read more »
By Janice Kephart,
January 27, 2010
The State Department last week downplayed the decision to drop the 2004 visa revocation of Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan, enabling him to reapply for a visa. Only during questioning of the new policy during a January 20 press conference covering many other topics (principally Haiti) was it made clear that if Ramadan reapplies for a visa, any possible terrorist ties will simply not be considered – ties which rendered him inadmissible in 2004. Read more »
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