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Illegal Aliens Crash Nancy Pelosi’s DACA Press Conference: ‘All of Us or None of Us!’

Joel B. Pollak

2017-09-18

Tags:

illegal immigration, amnesty, DACA, illegal aliens, government, Congress, political, Democrat

A group of illegal aliens calling themselves the “Immigration Liberation Movement” crashed a press conference by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Monday, warning the Democratic Party not to “sell [us] out.”

The group shouted down Rep. Pelosi, who struggled to maintain control of the meeting, and unfurled a large banner calling for all illegal aliens to be legalized.

Others held up signs, including: “Fight 4 All 11 Million,” referring to the estimated total of all illegal aliens in the U.S.

In the “mic check” call-and-response style popularized by...

Jeff Sessions can't withhold grant money from sanctuary cities, judge rules

Fox News Politics

2017-09-15

Tags:

enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

A federal judge in Chicago has ruled Attorney General Jeff Sessions can't withhold public grant money from so-called sanctuary cities for refusing to follow federal immigration policies.

U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber made the ruling Friday, in which he granted Chicago's request for a temporary "nationwide" injunction.

The ruling means the Justice Department cannot deny grant money requests until Chicago's lawsuit against the agency is concluded. Leinenweber wrote that Chicago has shown a "likelihood of success" in its arguments that Sessions overstepped his...

Motel 6 stops calling ICE on illegals after newspaper publicizes the practice

Jill Cueni-Cohen

Dennis Michael Lynch

2017-09-14

Tags:

enforcement, ICE, illegal aliens

Motel 6 announced it will stop sending customer lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday after its corporate office was made aware of the practice at some locations.

The company’s announcement came just hours after the Phoenix New Times reported that at least two Arizona Motel 6 locations were sending guest lists to ICE agents every morning, prompting ICE sting operations at the businesses.

At least 20 undocumented immigrants have been arrested under this practice, the New Times reported.

“This was implemented at the local level without the...

Pres. Trump rescinds DACA program

2017-09-05

Tags:

DACA

President Trump announced today, September 5, that “…in the best interests of our country, and in keeping with the obligations of my office, the Department of Homeland Security will begin an orderly transition and wind-down of DACA, one that provides minimum disruption. …” Read the Presidents’ statement here. At the same time, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced “that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama Administration is being rescinded.” His statement, which gives a good explanation of the rationale for rescinding the program, can be read here...

The DACA Amnesty Must Be Ended

Kris Kobach

Breitbart

2017-08-30

Tags:

economy, jobs, illegal immigration, DACA, Congress

An important deadline is approaching for the Trump Administration. By September 5, President Trump must decide whether or not to repeal President Obama’s DACA (“Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”) executive amnesty for illegal aliens.

The deadline was set by ten States, whose attorneys general (or governor, in the case of Idaho) wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanding an end to the illegal amnesty. The States are Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. If DACA is not terminated, the States will...

ICE CHIEF WANTS TO SLAP SMUGGLING CHARGES ON LEADERS OF SANCTUARY CITIES

Stephen Dinan

The Washington Times

2017-07-28

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crime, drugs, drunk driving, fraud, enforcement, ICE, illegal aliens

The country’s top immigration enforcement officer says he is looking into charging sanctuary city leaders with violating federal anti-smuggling laws because he is fed up with local officials putting their communities and his officers at risk by releasing illegal immigrants from jail.

Thomas Homan, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also told Americans to expect more work site enforcement targeting unscrupulous employers and more 287(g) agreements with willing police and sheriff’s departments that want to help get illegal immigrants off their streets...

As California’s labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots

Geoffrey Mohan

Los Angeles Times

2017-07-22

Tags:

jobs, agriculture, illegal aliens

Driscoll’s is so secretive about its robotic strawberry picker it won’t let photographers within telephoto range of it.

But if you do get a peek, you won’t see anything humanoid or space-aged. AgroBot is still more John Deere than C-3PO...

Now, the $47-billion agriculture industry is trying to bring technological innovation up to warp speed before it runs out of low-wage immigrant workers.

California will have to remake its fields like it did its factories, with more machines and better-educated workers to labor beside them, or risk losing entire crops,...

ICE chief: 80% jump in illegal targets, readies national 'sanctuary' crackdown

Paul Bedard

Breitbart

2017-07-19

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crime, drugs, drunk driving, fraud, terrorism, enforcement, Homeland Security, ICE, illegal aliens

Empowered by a president who has "taken the handcuffs off of law enforcement," the nation's chief immigration official revealed Tuesday that deportation targets have surged and that he's planning to deploy more agents and resources to "sanctuary cities" to arrest illegal criminals.

Thomas D. Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in an interview that since Trump entered office, illegal border crossings have crashed by almost 70 percent, "an historic low," arrests inside the country have jumped 40 percent and that demands for illegal criminals in local...

DHS to Expand Controversial H-2B Visa Program, Breaking Trump Campaign Promise

RJ Hauman

FAIR

2017-06-27

Tags:

economy, jobs, election, visas, Congress

The Trump administration has decided to expand the controversial H-2B visa program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last week. (ABC News, June 21, 2017). DHS spokesperson David Lapan said Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has yet to decide how many additional H-2B visas will be made available, but that the number should be set soon. (Id.) Lapan said the department expects to start issuing visas as soon as late July, setting the stage for the betrayal of a key Trump campaign promise—protecting American workers from cheaper foreign competition. (Id.)

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Top Justice Official Scoffs at Immigrant Crime Reporting "Chilling Effect"

Jessica Vaughn

Center for Immigration Studies

2017-06-26

Tags:

enforcement, ICE, illegal aliens

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week on the growth of the MS-13 gang and the nexus to immigration enforcement failures, a senior Department of Justice official strongly rebuffed assertions by two senators that cooperation between local police and ICE causes immigrants to fear reporting crimes.

This spurious claim, known as the "chilling effect", is the number-one rationale offered by sanctuary jurisdictions to try to justify their non-cooperation policies. The origins of the theory are unknown, but I first noticed it soon after stricter immigration enforcement...

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