Media headlines are blaming the House leadership for preventing passage of the giant Intelligence bill designed to restructure homeland security, but negotiations bogged down on the question of what to do about illegal aliens.
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Time Magazine broke through the media silence about illegal aliens with a cover story on September 20 called “America’s Border: Who Left the Door Open?”
Continue reading →The Republican and Democratic parties could have stirred up more television audience for their national nominating conventions by allowing the delegates to debate their party platforms.
Continue reading →The compelling truth about the danger and devastation on America’s southern border is crying out to be told. Americans need to hear from the likes of Erin Anderson, whose family homesteaded in Cochise County on the Arizona-Mexico border in the late 1880s.
Continue reading →A favorite argument of those who support amnesty for illegal aliens is: current laws can’t be enforced (like Prohibition and the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit) so we might as well adjust to reality.
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The television news media bring us daily, graphic reports from Iraq, where valiant Americans are battling danger, death and destruction of property. So why don’t we get coverage about similar dramatic and scary confrontations taking place on the U.S. border?
Continue reading →When President Bush unveiled his “temporary foreign workers” plan, he got cheers from his carefully selected invitees in the East Room of the White House, but he’s getting jeers from everyone else from Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) to Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).
Continue reading →Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s shocking words were a broadside attack on current law: “We have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status some way.”
Continue reading →How many people will die before the Bush Administration realizes that the most humane act it can take is to close our southern border to illegal traffic and eliminate the incentive to unscrupulous smugglers who take the calculated risk that financial profits outweigh the costs of getting caught?
Continue reading →It happened again last week. Another illegal alien criminal, with four previous felony convictions and who had been deported several times, snuck back into the United States and committed a cold-blooded crime.
Continue reading →How many illegal aliens will die before the Bush Administration realizes that the most humane act it can take is to close our southern border to illegal traffic and eliminate the incentive to unscrupulous smugglers to take the calculated risk that financial profits outweigh the costs of getting caught?
Continue reading →The hottest controversy in state legislatures today regards allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses. Americans were shocked to discover that most of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 carried driver’s licenses from Virginia, Florida or New Jersey.
Continue reading →The National Republican Congressional Committee has just mailed a survey to a select list of grassroots Republicans soliciting their opinions on “issues of greatest concern” so that the Party can be strengthened “by getting more Americans involved.”
Continue reading →Smuggling illegal drugs into the United States has been a big money- making scheme for many years, but the industry of smuggling people may be getting even more profitable than marijuana or cocaine. Fees range from $1,000 for Mexicans to $4,000 for Central Americans and up to $50,000 for Chinese or Middle Easterners.
Continue reading →While Americans without health insurance struggle with the problem of how to pay for medical care, many Mexicans don’t have that problem.
Continue reading →Last year’s failed attempt to get Congress to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens has morphed into stealth amnesty. This devious plan is hidden behind a little card that looks like a California driver’s license and goes by a strange foreign name: matricula consular.
Continue reading →Social Security, the so-called “third rail” of American politics, has just become more incendiary. The Bush Administration is proposing a change that is even more controversial than offering younger workers the opportunity to invest a small percentage of their Social Security taxes.
Continue reading →The Daschle Democrats (bowing to pressure from their union constituency) resisted passing the Homeland Security bill prior to the election because President George W. Bush demanded wide authority to fire or transfer employees in the new 22-agency bureaucracy.
Continue reading →“They are coming after us, they want to execute attacks. . . . The threat environment today is as bad as it was the summer before Sept. 11.” In his October 17, 2002 appearance before the congressional joint intelligence committees, CIA Director George J. Tenet asserted that prior to 9/11 he was convinced that Osama bin Laden was planning to kill Americans, “and we reported these threats urgently.”
Continue reading →“They are coming after us, they want to execute attacks. … The threat environment today is as bad as it was the summer before Sept. 11.”
Continue reading →Bilingual education plays into the hands of the open-borders faction of both political parties.
Continue reading →How has 9/11 changed America, and what are we doing to make sure there is never a repeat attack?
Continue reading →The Republican National Committee’s mail-order fundraisers often contain a comprehensive multiple-choice survey so that prospective donors can give their opinions on topics of national importance. One issue, however, is conspicuously missing from the list: border security/immigration.
Continue reading →The watchword of the Bush Administration’s education reform is accountability. To receive federal funds, everyone in education must be accountable: teachers, students and schools. But whatever happened to accountability when it comes to border security and the admission of aliens to the United States?
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