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There Is No Such Thing As A "National ID Card"

By |2023-05-20T09:39:12-04:00May 22nd, 2007|

Below is a description of the provisions of what is inaccurately being called the National ID Act. These are minimum standards which all states are required to follow, as a matter of national security and illegal immigration. All states are free to have whatever requirements they choose, above and beyond these minimums.

The “Real ID Act of 2005” was actually passed as Section B of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005. It repealed a prior law that sought consultation between federal agencies and the states, to set standards for issuance of Drivers Licenses […]

Steyn: "America, Z Beautiful"

By |2023-05-20T09:39:13-04:00May 21st, 2007|

Columnist Mark Steyn has a must-read Op-Ed at the New York Sun today concerning illegal immigration. As he points out, sponsors of the recent accord between the White House and the Senate don’t like the word “amnesty” any more than the deal’s critics do. Rather, Steyn argues, we should call it “zamnesty.” As he writes:

That’s why the [proposed Z-1, Z-2, and Z-3] visa starts with the letter that’s furthest away from the one “amnesty” begins with. “Z” stands for zellout …no, hang on, zurrender or Zapatista, or some other word way up the other end of the alphabet from “amnesty”. But the […]

Sound Off on the Immigration Reform Deal

By |2023-05-20T09:39:13-04:00May 20th, 2007|

Wall Street, or at least the Wall Street Journal, seems quite satisfied with the immigration deal brokered late last week between the White House and the Senate. Said the opinion editors of the esteemed business journal, it “looks like the best chance in years to balance border security with human and economic realities.” In the article, “Immigration Opening: The Bush-Kennedy Proposal’s Vices and Virtues,” the editors look favorably upon the smooth glide path to legal status provided for the 12 million undocumented aliens living in the U.S., thinking that good for the American economy. However, the Wall Street Journal looks less favorably […]

Ed Meese on Immigration Reform

By |2023-05-20T09:39:14-04:00May 17th, 2007|

The Hon. Ed Meese, ACRU Policy Board Member and former Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, has co-authored an important paper with Dr. Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation concerning immigration reform.

The Backgrounder paper is titled “Where We Stand: Essential Requirements for Immigration Reform.” At a time when the Congress is considering a comprehensive immigration reform bill that reports indicate will do little to stem the tide of lawless immigration and will do much to reward those who have already breached our borders illegally, this is a much read.

In the paper, Mr. Meese and Dr. Spalding lay out several policy proposals and […]

Farmers Branch Ordinance Gets Another Poll

By |2023-05-20T09:39:14-04:00May 17th, 2007|

Yesterday, I had the privilege of discussing the Farmers Branch ordinance with Terry Lowry on his Houston radio show, “What’s Up.” There is more news today.

There appears on the MSNBC website a story about the reaction to Farmers Branch. As many readers will recall, the ordinance, which requires landlords to verify the legal status of renters, was adopted by Farmers Branch voters by a margin of 68% to 32%. The balloting was held after a campaign to, as ordinance opponents put it, “Let the Voters Decide.” These, incidentally, are the same opponents who, after the voters did decide, wasted no […]

AP: ACLU Engaging in 'Shakedown' Project

By |2023-05-20T09:39:18-04:00May 8th, 2007|

On 5 May, 2007, the Associated Press ran a story entitled “Local Immigration Laws Bring High Costs.” It described a nationwide shakedown project by the ACLU. Only the AP missed the larger story.

The story as written, said, “Cities across the U.S. are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars defending themselves against lawsuits and other challenges to ordinances enacted to keep out illegal immigrants.”

It went on to describe how at least 90 cities had considered ordinances like those of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, but that many were backing away in fear of the costs. And, those costs come in two varieties: the fees that cities […]

OneNewsNow.com: 'American Civil Rights Union Blasts Sanctuary City Policy'

By |2023-05-20T09:38:08-04:00April 12th, 2007|

OneNewsNow.com today features an article on the ACRU’s opposition to the distrubing trend of American cities declaring themselves “sanctuary cities” for illegal aliens. The article – “American Civil Rights Union Blasts Sanctuary City Policy” – comes out of their recent radio interview with Bill Otis, director of legal affairs at the American Civil Rights Union.

As Bill is quoted in the article,

“As serious as the problems of illegal immigration may be even more serious is the problem of officials in this country turning their back on the law.”

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