Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) has demanded that any bailout of the financial industry include provisions that prevent taxpayer funds from being used to assist illegal alien homeowners. Tancredo also wants safeguards to prevent illegal aliens from benefiting from federally backed home loans.
America's economic downturn and increased immigration enforcement has caused the number of immigrants entering the United States to drop significantly. According to new Census Bureau estimates, only 500,000 immigrants came to the United States in 2007 -- a marked decrease over 2006's total of 1.8 million.
Since its creation in 1996, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 287(g) program has been a remarkable success with local and state law enforcement agencies making more than 68,000 immigration-related arrests.
Senate Majority Leader Reid has two honorable choices: (1) Bring Sen. Menendez's backroom filibuster to the Senate floor for a vote. If he does this, there easily will be the 60 votes necessary to stop Menendez and allow a vote to pass H.R. 6633 (a clean E-Verify reauthorization). (2) Avoid a vote altogether by talking to Menendez privately, persuading him that what he is doing is threatening the reputation of the Democratic Party just before elections and get him to withdraw his "hold" on H.R. 6633.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made raids in the San Francisco area and in Chicago. Both raids resulted in the arrest of 21 suspected illegal aliens.
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week upheld an Arizona law that requires businesses to use E-Verify to check worker eligibility and revokes the business licenses of those who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
A California court has ruled that a law granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens is unconstitutional and ordered the state to start charging 80,000 out-of-state students the lower in-state rates. This ruling can be used to challenge similar laws in nine other states.
A Rhode Island Superior court judge has rejected the ACLU's attempts to prevent Gov. Don Carcieri from requiring businesses who serve as state contractors to use the E-Verify employment verification system.
Just as we had seemed to push back attempts for massive increases in foreign workers by the U.S. House last week, we now learn the danger has risen to Orange Alert level in the Senate. Let's take a look at some of the millions of Americans who are being ignored by Senate staffers as they negotiate behind closed doors to bring in additional permanent immigrant workers next year:
The global population is skyrocketing and depending more and more on the United States to help provide a stable source of food as it has done for over one-hundred years. However, due to America's increasing population (due in large part to out-of-control immigration), the United States is unable to fulfill this role.
