Posts Tagged ‘ Attrition through enforcement ’

My good friend Joanna Marzullo, president of New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement, has alerted me to some recent changes on her organization’s official website. NY ICE was extremely active in 2011, especially in the New York/Tri-State Area, and has continued to serve as an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration in a city where...
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Months of strenuous campaigning, millions of dollars in political advertising, and countless days of retail politicking will culminate in just a few hours, when a select few will decide who will be awarded the first presidential delegates of the 2012 Republican race for President of the United States. Although not always an accurate gauge...
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Today’s roundup is chock full of news, including a laughable attempt by the Mexican government to demonstrate its bona fides on border security by arresting a potential border-crosser from an infamous family. However, we begin with a much more serious story involving the continued obstruction of Congress by this administration with regard to the...
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I wasn’t planning on discussing this issue today, but we do address important foreign policy issues on this site when the occasion demands it. Needless to say, President Obama’s insistence that the state of Israel, which has heretofore been our most trusted and reliable ally in the Middle East, return to annihilatory borders  is such an occasion.
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Yet more empirical evidence that allowing local enforcement officials to pursue suspected illegal aliens enhances the safety of Americans comes to us from the Commonwealth of Virginia. In this case, Prince William County, which has had a law compelling police officers to verify the immigration status of criminal suspects once in custody for the...
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One of the interesting things about conventional wisdom is that very often it turns out to be based upon assumptions that are false. A case in point being the widespread misconception that all Americans whose family origins lie in Latin America and the Caribbean are reflexively pro-mass immigration and in favor of amnesty, when...
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One of the chief conceits of the open borders lobby is that our position, i.e., deportation through attrition, is an unworkable strategy whose logical consequences have not been properly considered. The only problem with that line of reasoning is that it’s not accurate. Gradualism has been plotted out meticulously by those with an expertise in...
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