Written by David E. Smith
The number of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border continues at a frightening rate, and the Biden Administration continues to pretend it isn’t a major problem. Meanwhile, the persisting surge has only served to increase havoc in border states and big cities across the nation.
There is no question about it: the Biden Administration has encouraged this border crisis from the very beginning of his term. Almost four years later, voters are increasingly worried about illegal immigration and the loss of our American identity.… Continue Reading
Tags: Biden Administration, Border Crisis, Bret Baier, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese nationals, Ecuador, Merrick Garland, Mike Tobin, Susan Collins
Executive Branch, Immigration | David E. Smith | April 18, 2024 10:00 AM | Comments Off on 7K% Spike in Chinese Nationals Crossing Border
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Four years ago this month, we learned that a state has practically unlimited power to make decisions about our lives, liberties, and property in the name of public health. During the COVID-19 crisis, courts confirmed that states can enforce regulations like controlling our breathing, requiring vaccinations, closing essential services, eliminating jobs, banning religious gatherings, and even imposing travel restrictions between states. If a state can do all this and even block residents from other states, then why can’t it also prevent people from entering from places where diseases are rampant, such as Haiti and Western Africa?… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
When George Floyd died under disputed circumstances in 2020, a spontaneous, rapturous global movement emerged to lionize him and use his death to demand changes to our policing and criminal justice system. The movement succeeded, and it resulted in the worst crime wave in a generation.
Laken Riley, a young nursing student in Georgia, was brutally murdered last week, allegedly by an illegal alien from Venezuela. Where are the cries of “justice for Laken”?… Continue Reading
Tags: Biden Administration, Border Crisis, Border Patrol, border security, catch-and-release, CWB Chicago, Diego Ibarra, George Floyd, Homeland Security, illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, Jose Antonio Ibarra, Laken Riley, Tren de Aragua
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | February 27, 2024 10:00 AM | Comments Off on Joe Biden’s ‘Sanctuary Nation’ Policies Made Laken Riley’s Death Possible
Written by Debra J. Saunders
How bad is the situation at the Southwest border?
I attended a hearing Thursday of the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs on the consequences of the current “catch and release” policies to observe how members of both parties address an issue that troubles American voters.
The situation at the border is so downright scary, Jessica Vaughan of the pro-enforcement Center for Immigration Studies testified, that Mexican cartels now are making more money from human trafficking than drug trafficking.… Continue Reading
Tags: Border Crisis, border security, Donald Trump, drug trafficking, Glenn Grothman, Homeland Security, human traffickers, human-trafficking, illegal immigrants, Jamie Raskin, Jessica Vaughan, Joe Biden, Kurt Leptich, New York Times, Robert Garcia, Sheila Leptich
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | February 17, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on There Is Chaos at the Border and Finger-Pointing in Congress
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
In this episode of Spotlight, IFI’s Executive Director, David Smith, sits down with Darren Bailey.
Darren Bailey is a former state representative for the 109th district in Southern Illinois, and is now running for U.S. Congress for the purpose of fighting for Southern families, defending the Second Amendment, Protecting the Sanctity of Life, Demanding Border Security, and much more.
In this conversation, David Smith focuses on the issue of border security and asks Bailey what he would do to ensure the safety of the southern border.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
There’s more than meets the eye to the Democrats’ erasure of the nation’s southern border.
Sure, the Biden administration plans to keep allowing millions of aliens to enter the United States illegally, hook them on government aid, and turn them into permanent Democratic voters.
This is so obvious that denying it makes the Democrats and their media look ridiculously dishonest.
But I submit that it’s even more sinister. The aim is not to establish permanent, one-party Democratic power, although that’s crucial.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACORN, Alejandro Mayorkas, Antifa, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Border Crisis, Catherine Rampell, Cloward-Piven Strategy, COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump, Frances Fox Piven, Human SERVE, illegal immigrants, international security, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Motor Voter Act, New Deal, Project Vote, Richard Andrew Cloward, Robert Knight, the Great Society, Washington Post
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | February 6, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Erasing The Southern Border is About More Than Flooding Voter Rolls
Written by Robert Knight
Whenever I hear the White House insist the border is secure, inflation is no problem, and that boys are really girls if they feel like it, I look around for Rod Serling.
You half expect to see the vintage TV show host emerge from a misty backdrop to say, “What you’re seeing is a replica of reality, not reality itself. You have been transported to a parallel universe where evil is good, wrong is right and bitter is sweet.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alejandro Mayorkas, Amy Coney Barrett, Border Crisis, border security, Brett Kavanaugh, Chip Roy, Clarence Thomas, Donald J. Trump, Elena Kagan, Greg Abbott, illegal immigrants, impeachment, John Kennedy, John Roberts, Josh Hawley, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Neil Gorsuch, Obamacare, Rod Serling, Ron DeSantis, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Ted Cruz, Texas, Twilight Zone, U.S. Supreme Court
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | January 29, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on A Twilight Zone America Endures The Border Crisis
Written by David E. Smith
The Biden Administration’s intentional and flagrant disregard for national security has dramatically fostered and escalated an ongoing crisis at our southern border as record levels of illegal immigrants and deadly drugs pour into our nation. We also cannot overstate the egregious problem of human trafficking that has exploded in scope over the past few years.
Additionally, more than a few political pundits have expressed their grave concerns about the alarming number of military-age men streaming in through the southern U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alejandro Mayorkas, Associated Press, Border Crisis, border security, continuing resolution, Darin LaHood, Donald Trump, H.R. 2, Israel, Joe Biden, Mary Miller, Mike Bost, Mike Johnson, Secure the Borders Act, Taiwan, Ukraine
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | January 20, 2024 7:54 AM | Comments Off on Suicide by “Migration”
Written by David E. Smith
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is back in front of his liberal friends in the news media to complain about the immigration crisis, which is trickling up to the Midwest.
As you may remember, Pritzker sent an open letter to President Joe Biden three months ago begging for federal tax resources to deal with the so-called “asylum seekers” being bussed to Illinois from Texas. Not once in this three-page appeal did he ask the administration to shut down the border or reinstate the quasi-successful “Remain in Mexico” policy of the Trump Administration.… Continue Reading
Tags: Austin American-Statesman, Gov. JB Pritzker, Greg Abbot, Joe Biden, Remain in Mexico, Trump Administration, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | January 16, 2024 9:12 AM | Comments Off on Pritzker’s Myopia Ignores Open Borders
Written by Nancy Hayes
According to a recent report from WBEZ Chicago, there were unprecedented record numbers of illegals apprehended at the southwest border in the last week of December 2023. In fact, it was reported in the last five days of December alone that over 50,000 illegals crossed our southwest border.
One might ask: when did we decide it would be good for the U.S. to become the number one WELFARE COUNTRY in the world?… Continue Reading