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President Joe Biden is currently considering granting amnesty to illegal migrants in a bid to act on the worsening immigration crisis, according to Politico. Biden and his administration are weighing several ideas to take a tougher stance on the southern border crisis and illegal immigration amid criticisms he has thus far failed to act on either. The administration could start dolling out green cards to illegal immigrants who have long stayed inside the United States, thereby giving them amnesty to stay in the country, three people familiar with the planning told Politico. The plan would grant migrants who have been...

The New York City Council is begging an appellate court to authorize more than 800,000 foreign nationals to vote in the city’s municipal elections. In January 2022, Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved an ordinance to give more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days. Following lawsuits over the ordinance, the New York Supreme Court in June 2022 ruled that giving local voting rights to foreign nationals violated the state’s constitution,...

A single county in central Texas accounted for nearly three-fourths of the 206 undocumented immigrants who were released. Travis County authorities freed 142 people who entered the United States illegally and were subject to deportation. A homicide suspect, a convicted arsonist, and multiple individuals convicted of aggravated assault were among those released by local law enforcement across 118 jurisdictions between Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed The Daily Caller Tuesday that a man arrested last week for allegedly sexually assaulting and robbing several young girls is an illegal immigrant. Daniel Omar Mejia-Reyes, 27, was arrested in Long Branch, N.J., last Wednesday after attacking three girls, ages 12, 14 and 16, in one afternoon, according to a criminal complaint obtained by TheDC. According to the complaint, Mejia-Reyes grabbed the 14-year-old victim “and attempted to drag her away from her location, while grabbing her vagina, and making lewd sexual comments.” He allegedly took the 12-year-old’s cellphone and touched her genitalia. He also committed...

An executive order on “sanctuary cities” signed by Donald Trump on Wednesday has placed in the crosshairs over 400 cities and counties that offer some form of safe haven to America’s 11 million undocumented migrants. These localities include some of the largest, most progressive metropolises in the United States, many of which have already begun preparations to fight one of Trump’s most aggressive campaign pledges – to force compliance with federal immigration agencies in a bid to ramp up deportations. The beginnings of that pledge that have now been formalised by executive action within Trump’s first week in office. The...

20 arrested as crowd turns violent outside rally in California Hundreds of demonstrators filled the street outside the Orange County amphitheater where Donald Trump held a rally Thursday night, stomping on cars, hurling rocks at motorists and forcefully declaring their opposition to the Republican presidential candidate. Traffic came to a halt as a boisterous crowd walked in the roadway, some waving American and Mexican flags. Protesters smashed a window on at least one police cruiser, punctured the tires of a police sport utility vehicle, and at one point tried to flip a police car. About five police cars were damaged...

TRUMP OPPONENTS TAKE NUANCED VIEW OF CHILD RAPE July 22, 2015 There are few sexual perversions not celebrated by our media today, but I gather, from decades of flood-the-zone coverage of even the most preposterous allegations of rape, that liberals are still on record as being against rape. So it's worth examining the cultures we're introducing to America for the purpose of giving the Democrats votes and businesses cheap labor: -- Seventy-seven percent of reported sexual assaults in Lima, Peru, are against child victims, according to the Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (REDLAC). --...

I'm old enough to remember when amnesty shills were promising that illegal aliens would become a fabulous source of tax revenue as soon as they were legalized. We were sternly commanded to ignore all those studies showing the legalized alien population would be a staggering drain on our immense welfare state. The authors of such studies were torn to shreds for their alleged short-sightedness and xenophobia. The amnesty shills, who spent years telling us illegal aliens were a poor and oppressed minority eking out a sparse existence from predatory employers while living miserably “in the shadows,” have recently spun on...

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. -- A Regional fire truck from station No. 586 was returning from a traffic collision at about 1:30 a.m Thursday when a white Cadillac Escalade failed to make a full stop at the intersection of Kleck and Overfield roads. "There was a vehicle approaching from east to west, temporarily paused at the stop sign and then California-rolled through it and was creeping through the intersection," firefighter John Hemmings said. "As I applied the brakes, the truck started to swerve a little bit." The 400-gallon tanker truck slid into a ditch, rolled over and flipped end-over-end, Chief Steven...

Three Mexican men who turned themselves in to authorities in connection with the 2009 murder of an American teenage girl have been transported to an Arizona jail, authorities said. Officials from the Tucson Police Department said 20-year-old Orel Vasquez, 26-year-old Christian Betza Vasquez and 29-year-old Juan Carlos Leon were taken to the Pima County Jail on Monday, two days after they surrendered to authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. Authorities have said the men are accused of breaking into a Tucson home in August 2009...The men later realized they had entered the wrong house and fled before trying...

“Portrait of poverty” Denver Post, O’Connor, 12/15/10 As George Sura in Colorado said, “Immigration is the most formidable weapon of mass destruction threatening America today. Ironically, invaders have put our country at risk without firing a shot. The White House, the heavies in Congress and the smaller fish in state legislatures do not seem to have the collective intellectual depth or common sense to see what is upon us and how rampant immigration will degrade the lives and opportunities of our progeny. Everyday brings America closer to irreversible chaos. Behind this issue are blind forces to reckon with. No politician,...

As we saw this morning, American citizens are not faring too well in the era of the Eric Holder Justice Department. But aliens — especially those who are illegally in our country, or who commit crimes in our country — continue to thrive. The Legal Times is reporting that Attorney General Holder has reversed the ruling by Attorney General Mukasey that aliens in immigration removal proceedings have no right to effective assistance of counsel. As Mukasey explained back in January, in a well-reasoned 34-page opinion which carefully analyzed the pertinent law, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies only to...

For many conservatives, John McCain is not their favorite Republican. They think he's built a career at their expense, painting them as fools and bigots. They resent his holier-than-thou attitude. And they're not inclined to trust anyone who has been so fawned over by the national media. Curiously, a lot of liberal Democrats feel the same way about McCain. He isn't their favorite Republican either -- but it's because they know he'll be tough to beat in November. They would have preferred to run against someone more extreme and easier to demonize. That's not John McCain. first met McCain 10...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently said, "We're inviting people to come out of the shadows and take advantage of services." Newsom could have said -- just as easily -- that he's inviting people to come out of the shadows and take advantage of the taxpayers! Believe it or not, the City of San Francisco just launched a $83,000 public relations campaign that will actively encourage waves of illegal aliens to sneak across the border. This media blitz will include television and radio ads, billboards and bus signs and brochures distributed at police stations and hospitals. And what's the goal?...

Tonight, a mom is grieving after police say the person who was supposed to be taking care of her child may have caused his death. Ethan Gibbs would've celebrated his second birthday at the end of March. On Wednesday, his mom says she dropped him off at his baby sitter's apartment, but the baby sitter left Ethan with the man who police say severely beat the little boy. WBTV's Michael Handy sat down with Ethan's mom who says she blames herself more than anything. -------- "He didn't kill my son, he tortured my son," said Amanda Gibbs, who is the...

Joe can go back to tending his garden properly; Jenny can pick up the needlepoint all over again. All over America today the American people are breathing a sigh of relief and starting to resume their lives. We won another battle to keep our country strong, we fought back the foes who would sell out our country and we did so with such heat and enthusiasm, that we shut down the senate phones because so many Americans dropped what they were doing and stood up to the government and told them you work for us. This is proud day, a...

Thanks, but maybe no thanks. That's the refrain among many undocumented immigrant farm workers interviewed in Homestead on Friday, a day after learning of a possible deal struck in Congress to repair the nation's broken immigration system. Some said the thousands of dollars of fines and fees contemplated in the proposal would impose significant financial hurdles -- one said it would cost $10,000 to pay the legalization costs for her and her husband. ''I've started to save money, but I don't think I'll have enough once it becomes law,'' said Lucía de la Crúz, a Homestead farm worker from Guatemala....

MEXICO CITY - President Bush will travel to Mexico in March to meet with President Felipe Calderon, the government said Wednesday. The Foreign Relations Department said in a statement that Bush will be in Mexico March 12-14 as part of a tour of Latin America. Bush and Calderon met for the first time at the White House on Nov. 9, before the Mexican president had been sworn in, and discussed border security and illegal migration, among other topics.

Some parishioners of St. Patrick's Church were surprised by a letter they found on their windshields after attending a recent Saturday evening Mass. The missive, written by Grass Valley resident Ed Yarborough, accused the church's priest, the Rev. Tim Nondorf, of encouraging illegal immigrants by offering special services, including Mass in Spanish. "Do you believe it's ethical for a clergyman to help criminals break the law?" Yarborough wrote in his public letter. "Aren't illegal aliens criminals? Their very presence in this country is a violation of federal law. Does that not concern you? Didn't Jesus say 'render unto Caesar'?" In...

During the pro-illegal alien rallies in cities across the US last Spring, activists were hard at work registering illegal aliens to vote as Democrats. In New York, a city that doesn't require proof of citizenship to vote, activists registered tens of thousands of illegal aliens during a huge demonstration in Manhattan. News reporters on the scene ignored the illegal voter registration, preferring to give Americans a distorted view of the illegal alien issue. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus in the US House of Representative, declared in a press statement that he introduced a bill that...