Written by David E. Smith
On December 18th, officials at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a record number of foreign nationals at the southern border, with over 12,600 apprehensions in a single day. Those apprehended are often processed and released — which allows “undocumented” immigrants to remain in the U.S. while awaiting immigration proceedings. CBP agents are mandated, by executive order, not to hold illegal aliens for more than 72 hours. We are now learning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement asylum hearings are being scheduled eight years from now.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alejandro Mayorkas, border security, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Customs and Border Protection, Drug Enforcement Administration, Eagle Pass, El Paso, fentanyl, illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Joe Biden, Lukeville, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mary Miller, Ron Vitiello
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | December 21, 2023 11:00 AM | Comments Off on Hordes of Illegals Continue to Surge at Border
Written by Robert Knight
Most pundits credit the Democrats’ election victories last Tuesday to the nation’s apparently unquenchable lust for abortion.
They have a point.
Democrats kept the focus off potent issues such as crime, raging inflation, millions of illegal immigrants, the war on domestic energy production, and President Biden’s bizarre behavior.
Using abortion like a club, Democrats in Virginia flipped the state House and kept the Senate, albeit by paper-thin majorities. They kept control in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andy Beshear, Babylon Bee, Bernie Sanders, Big Brother mandates, Bob Anderson, Border Crisis, Buta Biberaj, Crime, Dan Balz, Donald Trump, Ed Romaine, flash mob shoplifting, George Soros, illegal immigrants, Joe Biden, Monica Hesse, New York Post, raging inflation, Roe, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington Post, Weaponized Government
Illinois Politics, Political | David E. Smith | November 14, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on GOP Must Go On The Offensive and Call Out Democrats’ Extremism to Win 2024 Elections
Written by David E. Smith
Democrat Governor JB Pritzker recently sent a three-page letter to Democrat President Joe Biden complaining about the so-called “asylum seekers” and “refugees” being bussed to Chicago from Texas. However, the majority of immigrants breaking our federal laws are not refugees seeking asylum. Most are impoverished foreigners who are seeking the American dream and job opportunities.
And with our open border, who could blame them?
The U.S. already has a generous immigration policy to assimilate good people from around the world.… Continue Reading
Tags: asylum seekers, Border Crisis, Brian Hopkins, CWB Chicago, humanitarian crisis, illegal immigrants, JB Pritzker, Joe Biden, Rahm Emanuel, refugees
Crime Culture, Federal Issues, Illinois Politics, Immigration | David E. Smith | October 3, 2023 11:00 AM | Comments Off on “Untenable” Immigrant Crisis Created by Democrats
Written by Daniel Horowitz
The central lesson of 9/11 is that we had too many dangerous people who should never have been in the country who were able to operate and plot evil acts undetected. We needed to focus on our own border and immigration system rather than saving the world. Yet we did the exact opposite. We squandered two decades refereeing Sunni-Shia civil wars and then bringing in dangerous people from both sides of them.… Continue Reading
Tags: 9/11, arlos E. Corrales-Ramirez, Border Patrol, border security, criminal aliens, Daniel Hernandez Martinez, Daniel Horowitz, FISA, Hermanio Joseph, ICE, illegal immigrants, Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, Patriot Act, Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act, September 11th, The New York Post
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | September 12, 2023 6:18 AM | Comments Off on The Open Border Reveals Our Backward Homeland Security Mentality 22 Years After 9/11
Written by Brian Wencle
Should a thief be allowed to become a police officer? How about someone who sells drugs on the streets? Any sane person would answer both of these questions with a resounding “no.” It shouldn’t need an explanation, but there are a few main reasons why those who break the law shouldn’t be in law enforcement. The first is that they are either immoral or even worse, they know what they’re doing is wrong and simply don’t care.… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
When in global history has a sovereign nation’s own government aided an invasion against its own people? At this point, we could build a 2,000-mile border wall up to the heavens, but if we don’t neutralize the malfeasant leadership at the DHS, they will simply bring the invaders through the front door.
Much like gas prices, which spiked to biblical levels and then settled at a very high and unacceptable baseline, the border numbers are still extremely high, but slightly off their peak.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bill Melugin, Border Patrol, DHS, Donald Trump, Fox News, illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Rio Grande River, terror watch list, Todd Bensman, tuberculosis, U.S. Constitution
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | August 1, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on As Biden Admin Undermines Texas Border Security, States Should Fight Back
Written by David E. Smith
According to the far left-leaning news source, NBC News, illegal border crossings exceeded 2.7 million during the 2022 fiscal year. In their report, they claim these waves of immigrants “were driven in part by increases in the number of Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans making the trek north.” Of course that trend continues today and many conservatives believe those numbers are, in reality, much, much higher.
U.S. Representative Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) sent a video report to Fox News showing “how migrants are moving to the U.S.-Mexico… Continue Reading
Tags: Alex Newman, Biden Administration, border crossings, Carlos Gimenez, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration, drug trafficking, fentanyl, Fox News, human-trafficking, ICE, illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Joe Biden, Mexican cartels, NBC News, Thomas Homan
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | July 12, 2023 9:00 AM | Comments Off on Open Borders: A Top National Security Threat
Written by David E. Smith
Can the incompetence of the Biden Administration be any clearer than the alarming humanitarian situation we have on the southern border with Mexico?
Some estimates show thousands upon thousands of immigrants steaming across the border every day. Recent reports claim that those numbers are even higher than that.
A robust, well-regulated immigration policy is not only a benefit to our nation but a legacy we ought to continue into the future.… Continue Reading
Tags: Biden Administration, Chicago, humanitarian crisis, illegal immigrants, immigration, Mexico, New York, open border, Open Border Op-Ed
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Immigration | Alyssa Sonnenburg | May 18, 2023 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Open Southern Border: Irresponsible and Foolish
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court will likely “give permission” for the president to obey immigration law and not Obama’s illegal amnesty, both parties will now clamor to enact the amnesty in a lawful manner. But there is no sense of urgency in Congress to enact immigration legislation to reinforce current laws and protect Americans from the ill effects of illegal immigration.
From reading the current media narratives, one would come away with the impression that nobody exists other than illegal alien “dreamers,” most of whom are valedictorians and the highest order of creation.… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Why is it that every single law designed to keep out illegal aliens gets turned on its head and every legal loophole gets magnified and exploited? That is because illegal aliens have tens of thousands of pro bono lawyers to distort the law on their behalf, but the sovereign American citizen has no legal help to enforce the laws that are being ignored or violated. One game-changing idea would be to give certain Americans standing to sue when immigration law is violated.… Continue Reading