Get Ready for Denials
Securing our border is not only an immigration issue but, more importantly, a national security issue.
A Modest Proposal for Housing Illegal Immigrants
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 18, 2014 on The Washington Times website.
Attention, illegal-immigrant children, gang members and drug smugglers who are still pouring over the border into Texas:
If you’re looking for a place to stay while President Obama figures out a way to turn you all into welfare-dependent Democrats, I have just the place. Actually, several.
First, head for San Francisco. It’s beautiful this time of year. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, recently proclaimed in Texas that not only was the border between Mexico and the United States meaningless (“It’s a community with […]
The Kindness of Strangers Has Its Limits
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 11, 2014 on The Washington Times website.
TURNER, MAINE — They say the South is the friendliest place in America, and they’re probably right. The Midwest isn’t far behind, but the civility line defies latitudes or longitudes.
It comes down roughly to the difference between city and country folk — although exceptions abound. Across the USA and Canada, I’ve found that people outside core metropolitan areas are much more likely to initiate or respond to friendly entreaties.
On my family’s recent trip back to the D.C. area from Western Maine, we stopped at […]
John Armor Discusses Illegal Immigrants
John Armor will be discussing the latest ACLU Outrage, The ACLU siding with illegal immigrants, with Elaine Lawson and The PartyLine on WILO/WSHW in Frankfort, KY. He will be on from 8:30-9:30am EST January 18.
ACLU and US Unions Protect Illegal Aliens' Employment
It is well-known that illegal aliens often use false Social Security numbers in seeking employment in the US. Research has shown that in some instances, hundreds of illegals are using the same number, often taken from a real and employed American. To deal with this, Homeland Security adopted a new regulation requiring employers to take action when notified that an employee had an apparently false Social Security number.
The ACLU and the AFL-CIO claimed that this would be used as “an excuse” for employers to fire employees. But the law allows the employee 90 days to correct the problem before they would be […]
Attorney General of New Jersey Fronts for the ACLU
The Attorney General of New Jersey has done the work of the ACLU in telling the Mayor of Morristown that his police should not check the immigration status of people pulled over for traffic stops or minor crimes. Mayor Donald Cresitello first proposed that in a letter to US Attorney Christopher Christie.
The US Attorney’s reply claimed that this plan “directly contradicted” plans by the Attorney General of New Jersey, Anne Milgram, to check the immigration status of people charged with serious crimes or drunk driving. The US Attorney also wrote that checking status for less serious crimes is “something our office thinks […]
Illegal Aliens Sue for $100 a Day for Jail Time
News Channel 5 in Nashville, TN, published an article on its website on 10 July about illegal aliens suing local officials for illegally arresting them. They are claiming $100 a day for their incarceration until they are thrown out of the US in their suit against the Maury County Sheriffs’ Office, and the Sheriff himself.
Nowhere does the article describe these as “illegal” immigrants. But they would not be in jail, awaiting deportation, if their status were legal.
The illegals were arrested during a raid conducted by the Sheriff and immigration officers at a mobile home park near Nashville. They were searching […]
Senator Obama Lets It Slip
Today’s print edition of the Washington Times, in the “Inside Politics” section, quotes Senator Barack Obama as congratulating the Bush Administration on opening talks with our peace-loving friends in Iran (peace-loving, that is, when they’re not engaged in acts of piracy, hostage taking and building The Big One). Senator Obama is quoted as saying, “I have to give the administration credit, which I rarely do….[It’s] not because I trust the Iranians, but because I think they have a self-interest. They don’t want to see Iraq completely collapse because they’re going to have millions of people pouring over their borders,” he said.
How’s […]
Paul Mirengoff Speaks Up on Immigration
Our ACRU bloggers have attempted to bring to this site the views of exceptionally bright and intellectually honest conservative thinkers concerning the immigration debate going on in Congress and around the country. Eric Langborgh has posted a videotaped discussion by former Attorney General (and ACRU Board Member) Ed Meese, and I have posted the views of Thomas Sowell and Charles Krauthammer. In this enty, I post the views of Paul Mirengoff, a brilliant and wonderfully clear-thinking legal and cultural analyst. Few people can hang with Paul in a debate — I know, because he routinely routed me in the hallway debates we had in […]
Charles Krauthammer Speaks Up on Immigration
In keeping with the ACRU’s commitment to a free and robust exchange of ideas (no speech codes in these parts), I re-produce below, from RealClearPolitics, Charles Krauthammer’s views on the current debate in Congress on illegal immigration. Dr. Krauthammer believes that the bill under consideration does indeed create amnesty, but does not per se oppose it on that account. On the other hand, Dr. Krauthammer’s take on amnesty comes with a twist: