The Heritage Foundation https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:03:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg The Heritage Foundation https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Illinois House Democrats Approve In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/04/illinois-house-democrats-approve-in-state-tuition-for-illegal-aliens/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:00:46 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=31830 Written by David E. Smith

Illinois House Democrats are once again advancing sanctuary policies that place the interests of non-citizens ahead of law-abiding citizens.

During debate on House Bill 5093, lawmakers approved legislation removing key residency requirements for in-state tuition eligibility at public colleges and universities. While presented as a technical adjustment, the real effect is clear: expanding taxpayer-subsidized tuition benefits to individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.

The bill’s sponsor, State Representative Barbara Hernandez (D-Aurora), acknowledged that the measure eliminates the requirement that a student be an Illinois resident while still allowing eligibility for those who attended and graduated from an Illinois high school.… Continue Reading

]]> 31830 Remembering the Victims of Communism https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/remembering-the-victims-of-communism/ Tue, 27 May 2025 09:00:18 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=24782 Written by David E. Smith

What was the most evil regime of the 20th century? Many people instantly picture a crazed Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich rounding up millions of Jewish men, women and children in an attempt to systematically exterminate them. An estimated six million were murdered across German-occupied Europe. That’s truly evil. Yet, if we’re looking at death tallies, consider the human toll inflicted under Communism:

  • Sixty million dead in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
… Continue Reading ]]> 24782 American Education and Intellectually Bankrupt Schools https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/10/american-education-and-intellectually-bankrupt-schools/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:02:19 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=12593 Written by Dr. Everett Piper

In a recent Washington Times column, titled “Is San Francisco the future of America?,” Lee Edwards, distinguished fellow at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation, asked, “What has happened? Why is America slouching like some rough beast — not toward Bethlehem, but Gomorrah?”

This is a question we hear almost every day. “How did this happen so quickly?” It is as if we’ve have awakened from what we thought was a bad dream only to find that the nightmare is real.… Continue Reading

]]> 12593 Report Finds Thousands of Non-Citizens Were on Voter Rolls in Virginia https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/report-finds-thousands-of-non-citizens-were-on-voter-rolls-in-virginia/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:00:08 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=7616 Written by Rachel Del Guidice

A conservative legal organization has uncovered that Virginia election officials removed thousands of voters between 2011 and May 2017.

In a report released Tuesday, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group, found 5,556 voters were removed because they were noncitizens and that one-third of the removed citizens voted illegally.

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a board member of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, told The Daily Signal in an email that the findings of the report are alarming.… Continue Reading

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