Immigration Blog

The Who's Who of Immigration Policy Making - the Senate Republicans

By David North, September 28, 2009

There are four Republicans, compared to five Democrats, on the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, a subset of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Read more...

E-Verify and IMAGE – Stimulating the Economy

By Ronald W. Mortensen, September 28, 2009

The federal government has spent huge amounts to stimulate the American economy. The theory is that massive government spending programs will put people back to work and increase consumer spending which is a major driver of economic activity in the United States. Read more...

The Who's Who of Immigration Policy Making - the Senate Democrats

By David North, September 26, 2009

There are five Democrats and four Republicans on the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, which is part of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

All five Democrats drew grades of F on the immigration policy votes followed by Numbers USA, the restrictionist organization. Read more...

Virginia Governor’s Race and Immigration Enforcement

By James R. Edwards Jr., September 26, 2009

Candidates in the race for governor of Virginia differ on the issue of state and local enforcement relating to illegal and criminal aliens. Former state Attorney General Bob McDonnell supports statewide involvement in the 287(g) program. Democratic State Sen. Creigh Deeds is unenthusiastic and vague. Read more...

Citizen? What's That?

By Mark Krikorian, September 25, 2009

The head of the Census Bureau said this week that trying to identify the illegal aliens in the upcoming census would not be practical. And he's right — it's not just that the forms have already been printed, but who's going to honestly answer that they're illegal? Read more...

Another Warning on Amnesty

By Mark Krikorian, September 25, 2009

There was an important vote on a minor procedural matter Wednesday on the floor of the House. Arizona's Rep. Raul Grijalva, a leftist open-borders guy (and I don't mean liberal — MEChA member, 100% rating from the ACLU, etc.) sponsored a bill to create new national-park area along the border. Read more...

The Who's Who of Immigration Policy Making - the House Republicans

By David North, September 24, 2009

The six Republican members of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law can be expected to struggle, probably in vain, to bring some restraint into proposed immigration legislation. The subcommittee is part of the House Judiciary Committee. Read more...

The Who's Who of Immigration Policy Making – the House Democrats

By David North, September 23, 2009

A congressional subcommittee may sound like a minor entity, but when it comes to lawmaking it is where much of the action takes place. Most of the provisions of any bill emerging from a subcommittee are likely to be in place when the parent body, the House or the Senate, takes final action on it. Read more...

Why Is the U.S. National Soccer Team So 'American?'

By David Seminara, September 23, 2009

If soccer is the world's sport, and America is the world's leading beacon for immigrants around the globe, why aren't immigrants making a bigger impact playing soccer for the Stars and Stripes? Consider the paucity of foreign born players on the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team. The team draws from a player pool of fifty eight men, only three (5%) of whom were born outside the U.S. Read more...

The Who's Who of Immigration Policy Making

By David North, September 21, 2009

Immigration policy is usually made by politicians, and not presidential ones.

As the Obama Administration shows signs of tackling the subject, it might be helpful to sketch the players who have strongly influenced the immigration policy scene in recent years, which I do in this the first of several blogs on the subject. Read more...