Category Archives: Immigration Reform

UPDATE: Cloture fails 52-44. DREAM is dead again. Harry Reid and his pals, especially Dick Durbin (who was once my Senator and who was the most useless elected official I ever dealt with) are pushing to invoke cloture on the DREAM … Continue reading →

The whole issue of illegal immigration is complicated by firmly held beliefs on both sides of the debate. One of these is the "immigrants do the jobs Americans won't". That is used as an excuse for the enormous numbers of … Continue reading →

Robert Samuelson points out that there is a trend in poverty data that is being ignored completely. It is hiding in plain sight because nobody seems to want to discuss it. Call it the elephant in the room. I disagree … Continue reading →

Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, has another of his highly readable analyses of issues that come up in polling results. This one is taking a look at a very hot topic: immigration reform. He points … Continue reading →

Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times entitled California without a Mexican. It's a bit of a scare piece about the crackdown on illegal immigration that is being rolled out … Continue reading →

One of the more galling things in recent years has been the way that the political class, usually so fond of paying attention to polls, has routinely completely ignored the will of the majority of Americans. Despite overwhelming support for … Continue reading →

There has been a fair amount of interest from bloggers about the arrest and deportation of Elvira Arellano, the woman who had been hiding in a Chicago church claiming "sanctuary" – a concept that is not, and can not be, … Continue reading →

Want any evidence that the Associated Press is firmly in the tank for illegal immigrants? Look no further. Apparently, they want everyone to feel really bad because a woman who repeatedly broke the laws of this nation is now in … Continue reading →

Mark Steyn reflects on the murder of three young people in Newark, New Jersey, lined up against a wall and shot execution-style. Iofemi Hightower, Dashon Harvey and Terrance Aeriel were executed by a group led by Jose Carranza, an illegal … Continue reading →

ABC News is reporting that we have a wee bit of a problem: The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing "Iraqis and other Middle Eastern" individuals across the Rio … Continue reading →

Tulsa, Oklahoma, more than 500 miles from the Mexican border, is an unlikely spot to be one of the real battlegrounds over illegal immigration. But citizens there are fed up with what they are seeing as a hostile takeover by … Continue reading →