Forgetting Past Mistakes is to Repeat Them
The Pew Hispanic Center reports that 73% of illegal immigrants’ children are U.S. citizens, an increase of 10% in the last 5 years and a jump of 1.3 million in absolute numbers over the same period. Conversely, the number of juvenile illegal immigrants actually declined by 100,000. All told, there are at least 16 million illegal immigrants and their children living in the U.S.
Ruben Navarrette has consistently said that American businesses who employ illegal workers are a big part, perhaps the biggest part, of the problem that brings so many illegal immigrants to the United States. This is certainly true. But Navarrette is in denial when he says that “The reason for the Hispanic exodus from the GOP…
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants to expel what she calls “criminal aliens” from the United States, starting with those already in custody. Napolitano also says that she’s looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting their money’s worth. The agency estimates there are now as many as 450,000 criminals in…
In 2005, U.S. Border Patrol Agents Nacho Ramos and Jose Compeon stopped Oswaldo Aldrete-Davilla, a Mexican drug smuggler in the U.S. illegally, while the latter was in possession of nearly a half-ton of contraband. A struggle ensued and Davilla was shot in the buttocks. Ramos and Compeon, concerned about reporting the matter, foolishly attempted to…
Take MSNBC’s modified version of the U.S. citizenship test and let me know how you scored. These are all basic questions that every American should be able to answer. FWIW, I got a 95. Missed the question about the number of amendments to the Constitution by changing my answer at the last second. Poor test-taking…
Geraldo Rivera, he of the Al Capone vault television mega-flop, has an over-the-top article up at the Huffington Post in which he condemns the recent raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that resulted in the arrests of hundreds of illegal immigrants. The Wall Street Journal called the raids "immigration theater" and I’m inclined to…
The NY Times reports that immigration officials have been running a rapid-fire prosecution program aimed at illegal aliens who’d fraudulently used other people’s identification to gain employment with Agriprocessors Inc. Nearly 400 people were processed through the special court. 94 were convicted on Wednesday alone. For the math-challenged, that’s nearly 12 convictions per hour. That…
Roberto Lovato’s new Ode to Juan Crow is a must-read simply because it’s Americans’ responsibility to know what the people who are actively seeking to undermine our country are doing. Unfortunately equating the racial discrimination faced by Black Americans under Jim Crow to current anti-illegal immigration laws fails on one simple point: the illegals are,…
Why do advocates think that people who speak out against illegal immigration are guilty of using hate speech? When you stop and think about it, the United States is a pretty safe and civil place to live. Even so, many of us, whether black, white, or brown, have been harassed about the color of our…
In the NY Times, Julia Preston writes that the immigration problem is defying politicians’ attempts to answer it easily. Coinciding with the mood of apprehension following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the new immigration has provoked more than the traditional suspicion that foreigners are taking jobs from American workers. For many voters in the…