December 29, 2007 – 8:01 am
Good news from Michigan Illegal immigrants are ineligible for driver’s licenses, Michigan’s attorney general said Thursday in an opinion that affects one of the few states that have been granting licenses to undocumented residents. Attorney General Mike Cox’s opinion is legally binding on state agencies and officers unless reversed by the courts. It was not […]
December 18, 2007 – 7:42 am
It’s bad enough that the Feds are dragging their heals in an apparent move to mimic the NY Giants offense on building the border fence. Now…… Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather […]
December 13, 2007 – 4:24 pm
I actually saw this on the news briefly the other day, and, like Steve Elliot at Grassfire, I am livid I don’t recall ever having been more outraged than I am right now. I have just received a special “Media Advisory” from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s (R-CA) office condemning the President’s snub of Ramos and Compean. […]
December 8, 2007 – 1:35 pm
OK, not every Democrat is for amnesty for illegal aliens, but, darn near! House Democratic leaders are being whipsawed on immigration policy by two groups within their caucus — Hispanic lawmakers who want an end to Democratic support of enforcement-only immigration bills and vulnerable Democrats from swing districts who say a “get tough†approach is […]
December 8, 2007 – 8:32 am
Kudos to Bill Dellahunt (democrat) President Bush should immediately commute the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted in the shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect, says the chairman of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Rep. Bill Delahunt, Massachusetts Democrat who heads the subcommittee on international organizations, human rights and oversight, said in […]
December 3, 2007 – 1:18 pm
What’s going on A panel of federal appeals court judges will hear arguments today in the controversial case of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents sentenced to more than a decade in prison for shooting a suspected drug smuggler and then trying to cover it up. The hearing in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals […]
December 3, 2007 – 7:52 am
Buenos Monday! The start of a new work week. Time to get busy, revolutionize outside the box, shift a few paradigms, be productive. How ’bout a beer? Illegal aliens – can’t really call them undocumented workers, since so many of them steal valid social security numbers and/or get legal drivers licenses – are raising a […]
December 1, 2007 – 4:05 pm
Without preamble, the Washington Times brings you A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Prince William County’s [Va.] new ordinance denying services to illegal aliens. Judge James C. Cacheris said during a brief hearing at U.S. District Court in Alexandria that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the resolution passed […]
November 29, 2007 – 5:49 pm
Legal immigrants too Both immigrants and illegal aliens are more likely to be poor and to use welfare programs than native-born Americans because they come to the country with lower levels of education, according to a new study looking at U.S. Census Bureau data. “The problem here is not work, or a lack of willingness […]
November 24, 2007 – 1:27 pm
And they have good cause to be Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were indicted two months after shooting a drug-smuggling suspect as he fled back into Mexico, but it took the Justice Department more than two years to bring charges against the suspect, and the head of the National Border Patrol Council wants to know […]