Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) has sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding that they stop releasing criminal illegal aliens onto the streets, enabling them to commit more crimes. The response from Rep. Salmon comes after learning that the administration had released three violent criminal illegal aliens into Pinal County just south of Phoenix.
The first day of media coverage of Donald Trump's new stand against birthright citizenship has mostly included misinformation and faulty analysis. Here are the big facts that need to emerge to clear up the confusion that many in the media (especially on TV) are sowing.
The weight of Donald Trump's front-runner status and his detailed plan released over the weekend tipped the balance among the Republicans' 2016 Presidential field so that the dominant position now is that immigration policy is a jobs and wage issue.
And he joins several candidates in raising the question in one way or another of whether LEGAL immigration ought to be reduced.
Several candidates had already been advancing the idea in recent months that federal policies on LEGAL immigration are not serving the interests of the American worker.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has agreed to detain illegal aliens in state custody for pickup and eventual deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). His predecessor, Martin O’Malley (D), last year established a policy of refusing ICE detainer requests, which resulted in the release of criminal aliens from the state-run Baltimore City Detention Center onto the streets.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against DHS in a lawsuit over the regulation that allows non-student foreign labor to compete with American workers.
A recent poll by CareerBuilder/Harris Poll of 2,321 hiring and human resource managers show that 73 percent of employers disapprove of issuing more H-1B visas for foreign workers.
The Center for Immigration Studies released a new report, based on monthly Census Bureau data, that shows the legal immigrant and illegal alien population in the second quarter of this year reached a record of 42.1 million.
U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen has decided to excuse top DHS officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, from the August 19th court hearing concerning the issuance of executive amnesty work permits in violation of his injunction.
Author and columnist Ann Coulter appeared on The O'Reilly Factor last night and insisted that candidate Donald Trump is maintaining his lead because he has made immigration a central issue. Coulter argued that voters have wanted less immigration for a long time and the issue is there for the taking. She stated, "If they want to undermine Trump, take his issue. Please, take it, Republicans. But they won’t."
Coulter argued that voters are tired of being ignored:
Five days after being released from jail on a weapons charge illegal alien, Victor Aureliano Martinez, with illegal alien Jose Fernando Villagomez assaulted and killed Marilyn Pharis, a civilian Air Force contractor. Local law enforcement blames conflicting state and federal laws regarding immigration detainer requests as the reason why Martinez, who has been arrested multiple times, was allowed to remain in the US illegally.
