H-1Bs: Still Not the Best and the Brightest

In pressuring Congress to expand the H-1B work visa and employment-based green card programs, industry lobbyists have recently adopted a new tack. Seeing that their past cries of a tech labor shortage are contradicted by stagnant or declining wages, their new buzzword is innovation. Building on their perennial assertion that the foreign workers are “the best and the brightest,” they now say that continued U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) hinges on our ability to import the world’s best engineers and scientists. Yet, this Backgrounder will present new data analysis showing that the vast majority of the foreign workers — including those at most major tech firms — are people of just ordinary talent, doing ordinary work. They are not the innovators the industry lobbyists portray them to be.

Read entire article, May 2008

Illegal Immigrant Found Stranded on Makeshift Cart Under El Paso Border Bridge, 4-22-08

A Chilean man was halfway to freedom when his alleged border-crossing attempt was derailed.

The man, who was deported from the U.S. once before, was using a makeshift cart Sunday to shuttle himself along the support beams of an international bridge over the Rio Grande. But a wheel on the cart broke, stranding him on the span at least 20 feet above the ground, the Border Patrol said Monday.

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The Real Cost Of Immigration, 4-04-08

Immigration: As some experts tell Congress to fight a possible recession with more immigrants, a respected economist warns that immigration's costs are grossly underestimated -- because the government won't study them.

Set for release Tuesday is a report published by Social Contract magazine, "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: An Analysis of the Costs to 15 Federal Departments and Agencies."

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Stop immigration flood

Nearly 200 people attended a Rohnert Park conference Saturday about maintaining American sovereignty in the face of rising globalism, and stemming the tide of illegal immigration from Mexico.

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Immigration event draws hundreds to Depot, 3-29-08

Get informed, get organized and get on the horn to your legislators.

That was the general message relayed by Eagle Forum officials to a capacity crowd at the Albertville Depot during a town hall meeting Thursday night.

With an estimated 300 residents packed inside the building, the conservative lobbying organization delivered a 90-minute presentation about the adverse effects of illegal immigration and how citizens can fight the problem at the local, state and national levels.

Read entire article, 3-29-08

Justices Rule Against Bush on Death Penalty Case, 3-25-08

WASHINGTON — In a death-penalty case that has become an international issue, the Supreme Court declared on Tuesday that President Bush had no power to tell the State of Texas to reopen the case of a Mexican who has been condemned for murder and rape.

By 6 to 3, the court ruled that the president went too far in 2005, when he decreed that the states had to abide by a 2004 decision by the World Court. That decision found that several dozen Mexican citizens who had been sentenced to death in the United States had not been given the assistance from Mexican diplomats that they were entitled to receive under an international treaty.

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Eagle Forum Praises GOP Leaders Forcing Immigration Debate, 3-12-08

WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eagle Forum, the
grassroots public policy organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, praises
House Republican leadership for introducing a discharge petition to force a
floor debate on the Secure America through Verification and Enforcement
(SAVE) Act, H.R. 4088. The SAVE Act, sponsored by Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC),
requires a phased-in employer verification system called E-verify, as well
as beefs up the border with additional technology and border patrol agents.

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The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence, 12-19-07

Do you know the story of the Incredible Disappearing Border Fence? It's an object lesson in gesture politics and homeland insecurity. It's a tale of hollow rhetoric, meaningless legislation and bipartisan betrayal. And in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, it's a helpful learning tool as you assess the promises of immigration enforcement converts now running for president.

Read entire article, December 19, 2007

Small Towns Grapple with Diseased Immigrants, 12-09-07

The incidence of a Somali meat packer in Kansas who died from tuberculosis has officials calling for better health screening for the waves of unskilled immigrant workers flooding smaller American communities.

In the wake of the January death at a Tyson Foods plant in Emporia, Kan., public health officials found 160 cases of latent TB among the facility’s 500 Somali workers, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.

Read entire article, December 9, 2007

Support Builds for Pro-Enforcement Immigration Bill, 12-06-07

Urge your Congressmen to Support the SAVE Act!

Even though the House and Senate have yet to finish 11 of the 12 spending bills this year, there is at least one Member of Congress who has not been dilly-dallying around. Representative Heath Shuler (D-NC) has been hard at work crafting legislation to properly and seriously confront the illegal immigration issue. Eagle Forum is proud to support and endorse Mr. Shuler's bill, which is gaining many co-sponsors especially after the Senate's disastrous attempt to "reform" immigration over the summer through amnesty.

Read entire alert, 12-06-07

Eagle Forum Endorses Shuler Bill to SAVE America from Illegal Immigration, 12-05-07

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eagle Forum, a leading
pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, fully supports and
endorses the Secure America with Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act,
H.R. 4088, recently introduced by Representative Heath Shuler (D-NC). For
years, Eagle Forum has been a tireless advocate of an enforcement approach
in remedying the illegal immigration problem in the United States. The
introduction of this bill is exciting because it is the first to seriously
address the issues of border security and interior enforcement since the
stunning defeat of the Senate's "Grand Amnesty" plan this past summer.

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Letters: Taking sides on immigration, 12-02-07

View Opinion Letters about Immigration, Dallasnews.com, December 2, 2007

U.S. exporting jobs and importing disease, drugs and poverty, 11-29-07

One Reporter’s Opinion -- Illegals Pose Health Risks

...Little did Emma Lazarus know how foolishly that golden door has been flung open and how often. Millions of illegal aliens have crossed America’s borders and we have learned the tragic consequences.

Among those who have come are the diseased. Our late-great friend, Dr. Madeleine Cosman, with degrees in both law and medicine, warned of the illegals crossing into America unexamined. We pretty much know what they carry in their backpacks. However, we do not know what they carry in their bodies.

Read entire article, November 29, 2007

Community College In-State Tuition Decree for NC Illegal Aliens opposed by ALIPA, 11-28-07

The Raleigh based national organization ALIPAC, which was credited with helping to defeat in-state tuition for illegals in NC (2005), is taking aim at the administration of Governor Mike Easley (D-NC) for the recent decree that illegal aliens will now be allowed in all community colleges. The Easley administration is known nationally for giving hundreds of thousands of licenses to illegal aliens, an issue that NY Governor Spitzer was pummeled for even considering.

NC Community College Attorney, David Sullivan who issued the order, falsely claims that this move will not cost NC taxpayers because the illegal aliens will be charged out of state tuition. Unknown to most North Carolinians, provisions were secretly placed into law years ago that qualifies illegal aliens for in-state tuition for community colleges in NC.

Read entire article, November 28, 2007

Border chief in TB row to retire

The federal official in charge of the El Paso, Texas, border crossing — where a Mexican national with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis was allowed to enter the U.S. 76 times since August 2006 — has announced his retirement.

Luis Garcia, director of field operations in El Paso, said his retirement is not related to a Senate inquiry as to how Amado Isidro Armendariz Amaya traveled more than 20 times into the U.S. after his illness was discovered by health authorities on April 16.

Read entire article, November 6, 2007

No TB testing at U.S. border

Legal or not, immigrants not screened when entering country

Whether here legally or not, the Wayne Farms employees with active tuberculosis disease probably would not have had to submit to medical screening before entering the United States.

An immigration lawyer said the guest worker visa most legal poultry workers have does not require TB tests or other medical screening.

Read entire article, Nov. 6, 2007

Drug-resistant TB could lead to global disaster

Crisis could occur if killer strains are not contained, WHO official says

CAPE TOWN - The world is at risk of a tuberculosis crisis if killer drug-resistant strains of the disease are not contained, a senior World Health Organization official warned on Thursday.

"Scenarios of apocalyptic nature are not, let's say, likely, but they might happen. They are not ... impossible," said Mario Raviglione, director of the World Health Organization's Stop TB department.

Read entire article, Nov. 8, 2007

Chicken-plant workers test 'positive' for TB

212 out of 765 processing employees infected – company says HIV-privacy laws nix screening

Alabama health officials have identified 212 workers who have tested positive for tuberculosis at a single poultry plant owned by one of the largest processors in the U.S.

In two batteries of skin tests last month, given to 765 fresh processing employees at the Decatur, Ala., plant owned by Wayne Farms LLC by the State Department of Public Health's Tuberculosis Control Division, 28 percent were found to be infected, including one with active tuberculosis disease, which is contagious. Doctors have yet to evaluate X-rays for 165 current workers who tested positive to determine if any more are contagious.

Read entire article, November 4, 2007

What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America?

That's a good question – it deserves an answer. Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? The answers may surprise you!

In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupted hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested.

Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominate language again.

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"United States Is Stupid"

"United States is stupid...I come back every time." Those words were spoken by Mexican national Rolando Mota-Campos to an immigration agent after his latest and 11th arrest in the United States. Incredibly, Mota-Campos has been deported three times and has vowed to return again after completing his prison term and yet another obviously meaningless deportation to Mexico.

Mota-Campos whose face is adorned with a teardrop tattoo, stood in a Norfolk, Va. federal courtroom last week to be sentenced for threatening to cut off a social worker's head with a machete. U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. said: "The defendant has expressly stated that he has no respect for the United States and that once deported he will reenter again and come back to Newport News where his history of alcohol abuse will further endanger the residents of this district." Judge Morgan sentenced Mota-Campos to 14 1/2 years in prison.

Read entire article, (10/29/07)

Dream Act Is Backdoor Amnesty

The American people rose up out of their usual apathy this year and soundly defeated the Bush-Kennedy-McCain-Kyl bill to give amnesty to illegal aliens. Now, some Senators are trying to get Congress to pass a backdoor amnesty by calling it the DREAM Act, and it's really a nightmare for Americans.

The cutesy title DREAM, which is meant to be a double entendre, is an acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (S.774).

Continue reading Phyllis Schlafly's 10-17-07 column.

Bush backs Mexico, rapist-murderer

International court seeks to block death penalty in Texas

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday in which the Bush administration will seek to overturn the death penalty of a convicted rapist-murderer at the behest of the International Court of Justice.

Jose Medellin confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime. WorldNetDaily.com, October 8, 2007

Fewer migrants mean more benefits

Immigration hawks have been on a winning streak lately. An unprecedented surge of public outrage at the prospect of amnesty for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in June of the Senate immigration bill and the probable end of President Bush's dream for comprehensive immigration reform.

And that was merely the latest in a series of victories for supporters of tighter controls, including the Real ID Act of 2005, the Secure Fence Act of 2006, proliferating enforcement efforts at the state and local levels and a new package of modest but meaningful enforcement measures announced in August by the Department of Homeland Security. Star-Telegram.com, Sep. 30, 2007

Stay of illegal-immigrant hiring rule is extended

A judge keeps authorities from using mismatched Social Security data to go after employers who hired undocumented workers.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday extended a temporary restraining order preventing immigration authorities from using mismatched Social Security data to go after employers who may have hired undocumented workers.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said the planned federal crackdown would cause "serious irreparable harm" to immigration and labor groups that filed a lawsuit against the federal government. LATimes.com, October 2, 2007

Mexican president calls migration "inevitable,"

PUERTO PENASCO, Mexico — Mexican President Felipe Calderon told U.S. governors Thursday that immigration is an inevitable, natural phenomenon and he urged the U.S. Congress to approve reforms that would allow more Mexicans to work legally north of the border.

Calderon demanded that the United States respect "the right to work wherever one can make the greatest contribution." AP Texas News, Sept. 27, 2007

Mexican curriculum in Oregon schools stirs debate

Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico's public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. history.


The Oregon Department of Education and Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education are discussing aligning their curricula so courses will be valid in both countries. Associated Press, September 20, 2007

Amnesty for illegals back for another try

Amendments to defense funding bill subject of debate in Senate this week

President Bush's comprehensive immigration reform, defeated in June, will make a second appearance this week when the Senate takes up various pro-amnesty amendments submitted to the Department of Defense funding bill, H.R. 1585, which is scheduled for debate.

While not "comprehensive" reform, the latest initiative attempts to pass key provisions of the earlier immigration measure piece by piece by attaching amendments to unrelated bills, a process critics characterize as "stealth."

WorldNetDaily.com, September 16, 2007

Dobbs: Mexican president's blatant hypocrisy

Mexican President Felipe Calderon Sunday demanded the United States surrender its sovereignty, abandon the rule of law and accede to Mexico's inherent supremacy.


In his state of the union address to the Mexican nation, Calderon established his imperialistic imperatives: "I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico. And, for this reason, the government action on behalf of our countrymen is guided by principles, for the defense and protection of their rights." CNN.com

City calls illegal immigrants sleeping or hanging out at Municipal Park a messy nuisance

McALLEN — Sprawled across a concrete picnic table at the center of the park, a group of young men recently arrived from Honduras and Nicaragua to share a beer and discuss where they might find a room for the night.

The conversation drifts to the availability of work in New Orleans before a police car passes through the park’s parking lot, turning everyone silent. TheMonitor.com, August 27, 2007

Mandatory deportation has illegals on the run

State law limiting benefits looms, an estimated 25,000 take to road

Thousands of Hispanics have fled the Tulsa, Okla., area in the shadow of a looming state law that limits benefits and mandates deportation for illegal aliens, according to a report from KTUL television in Tulsa.

The state of Oklahoma recently approved a new law that requires deportation for illegal aliens who are arrested, and limits benefits and jobs to those individuals. The report said in East Tulsa, where a community of Hispanics has grown over recent years, there's been a sudden drop in population. WorldNetDaily.com, August 25, 2007

Mexican Senate sides with mom deported from USA

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year. USAToday.com, August 23, 2007

Child-abusing Elvira Arellano

The headline read, "Deported activist vows to carry on cause." The headline should have read, "Convicted felon and child abuser deported." Where are Marian Wright Edelman, Hillary, Rosie O'Donnell and the Children's Defense Fund when you need them?

While some are hailing Elvira Arellano as a modern-day Rosa Parks, she should be looked at as a child abuser of the worst kind. Neglect and abandonment of any child should be looked at as a crime. Quite to the contrary with Ms. Arellano. Using and exploiting an innocent child to further her agenda are her stock-in-trade. And worse yet, religious leaders are encouraging her to do so. WorldNetDaily.com, August 22, 2007

Illegal Immigration Rage -- Local and National Frustrations

After the immigration bill was killed, we let ourselves breathe a little easier. But just because that battle was conquered doesn't mean we don't have a long way to go. Last week's deportation of Elvira Arellano -- an illegal immigrant who'd been hiding out in a church for over a year -- has lifted the issue to the bubbling surface of controversy once again.

My own Montgomery County is the center of a specific battle right now. An ID card is apparantly being issued by immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland. According to the Washington Examiner, the group has provided more than 10,000 ID cards to illegals over the past 10 years. HumanEvents.com, 8-21-2007

No Spanish? No job, teachers told, 8-17-07

'I know what the trend is, and it's not looking good,' educator says

Spanish-speaking students are flooding into an Illinois school district so fast that teachers who educate in English only are being involuntarily transferred, and they believe there will come a time when they no longer will have a job.

"I know what the trend is, and it's not looking good," Valerie Goranson told the Chicago Tribune. "Even if my job was saved this year, what about next year?"

She has twice lost a teaching assignment in the Waukegan district because she doesn't speak Spanish, she said. Last year, after teaching 5th grade at North Elementary for six years, district officials moved her to Clark Elementary to make room for a Spanish-speaking teacher at North. WorldNetDaily.com, August 17, 2007

The Nation cover story denies Superhighway

Nevertheless acknowledges massive Texas project to accommodate NAFTA, WTO

In a cover story for the current Nation magazine, Christopher Hayes is the latest to join a growing list of those who deny a NAFTA Superhighway exists.

"There is no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway," Hayes declares.

The remainder of the article, however, shows how the Trans Texas Corridor under construction parallel to Interstate 35 is specifically designed to accommodate the steadily growing volume of NAFTA and World Trade Organization traffic pouring into Texas from China and the Far East through Mexican ports on the Pacific such as Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas. WorldNetDaily.com, August 15, 2007

Sanctuary Nation Or Sovereign Nation: It's Your Choice

Will the execution-style murder of three young students in Newark, N.J., finally turn the tide in the immigration enforcement debate? Will we at last abandon the deadly, chaotic, lawless sanctuary nation experiment and restore America's lost status as a sovereign nation under the rule of law? GOPUSA.com, August 15, 2007

Terrorists teaming with drug cartels

Islamic extremists embedded in the United States — posing as Hispanic nationals — are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report. WashingtonTimes.com, August 8, 2007

Illegal Aliens Declare War on the United States

While the current administration, as well as Democrats and Republicans in Congress, focus on the war on terror and the war in Iraq, a greater real-time threat to our way of life and the rule of law in the United States, is manifesting itself just down the road a bit from the White House and the Capitol building . In Prince William Country, Virginia, illegal aliens have just basically declared war on the county, law and order, and the very livelihood of innocent Americans. They have done so, and no one in Washington really seems to care. by Douglas MacKinnon, August 1, 2007

GOP resolution rejects amnesty for illegals

State Republican officials from across the country on Thursday will formally break with the desire of President Bush and other top Republican leaders to include amnesty and other benefits for illegal aliens in immigration-reform legislation.

So far, 47 members of the 168-member Republican National Committee have signed a resolution that unequivocally opposes the Bush-backed policy that would grant legal residency to millions of illegal aliens. Washington Times, 7-31-07.


Download Eagle Forum's resolution in PDF format or Word file. Read instructions on how to present the resolution on "silent amnesty."

U.S. Congress blocks key transport initiative

Just weeks before the Canadian, U.S. and Mexican leaders meet in Montebello, Que., to discuss the Security and Prosperity Partnership, U.S. legislators moved to block a key part of the trilateral trade initiative. The Ottawa Citizen, July 30, 2007

Now Cheney chimes in: Ain't no superhighways

VP latest to make official denial, some call it 'gaming semantics'

Despite evidence to the contrary, Vice President Dick Cheney says there is no "secret plan" to create a continent-crossing superhighway to help facilitate a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada. WorldNetDaily.com, July 29, 2007

New Haven Gives ID Cards To Illegal Aliens

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Dozens of people lined up at City Hall yesterday for municipal identification cards, the first city-issued ID cards specifically designed to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows and give them access to community services. NYSun.com, July 25, 2007

Impending crackdown on illegals suspected

Reports that the country's largest chicken processing company has begun firing undocumented workers in East Texas have business leaders and immigration experts bracing for a nationwide crackdown on employers who hire illegal aliens. Star-Telegram.com, July 24, 2007

Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit

Document reveals plan for meeting of U.S., Mexico, Canada leaders

A multinational business agenda is driving the upcoming summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, according to a document obtained through an Access to Information Act request in Canada. WorldNetDaily.com, July 24, 2007

Visa Fraud Results in Illegal Immigration Crisis

Watch Lou Dobbs: Visa Fraud Results in Illegal Immigration Crisis

Waukegan stands by deportation decision

WAUKEGAN -- Despite the presence of opponents inside and protesters outside its chambers, the Waukegan City Council voted Monday to stand by a controversial decision to join federal efforts to deport violent undocumented offenders. SunTimes.com, July 17, 2007

July 07 Phyllis Schlafly Report

Trade Demands a Level Playing Field

Colorado illegal immigrants will get college aid in N.M.

Fort Collins - At least 10 illegal immigrants from Colorado will get to attend classes at the University of New Mexico this fall, with many not having to pay for tuition or books. Denverpost.com, July 16, 2007

Al-Qaida infiltrating America as patients

Clinics warn of medical visa scam by foreigners looking to get in U.S.

Medical clinics across the country have been flooded with requests from foreign nationals from Pakistan and other Muslim countries to help them gain visa entry into the U.S. as patients. WorldNetDaily.com, July 15, 2007