We’ve documented extensively on this site the dysfunctional nature of our nation’s immigration courts. They face endemic problems that are made much worse by this administration’s willful disregard of the law and penchant to rule by executive edict, making any appointments to the immigration bureaucracy-however competent-all but irrelevant. The latest amnesty bill only exacerbates...
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This month’s Rattle brings us a host of stories that the mainstream media didn’t cover sufficiently-preferring instead to shower accolades upon the man responsible for abandoning immigration enforcement in the name of political opportunism. We’ll cover everything from the latest spate of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens to Barack Obama’s continued roll out of administrative amnesty, which now...
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Today we’re introducing a new feature on American Rattlesnake: the Crime Blotter. It’s where we’ll catalogue the litany of crimes committed by illegal aliens whom the federal government, in its infinite wisdom, has decided not to deport. If you have any news about absconders who’ve subsequently committed crimes, feel free to send your tips at...
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Today is the National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Illegal Aliens which is an opportunity to spotlight the scores of lives that have been prematurely ended through the wanton disregard for this nation’s laws by our ostensible representatives. Sponsored by the FIRE Coalition, Victims of Illegal Alien Crime Memorial, as well as dedicated...
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This woman is smiling because she is a newly naturalized American citizen. I caught her exiting the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, which houses an office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, as seen below:
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A story so familiar to us that I almost hesitate to post it. Yes, yet another community-not a community of Americans, mind you-is outraged that the federal government is enforcing laws that criminalize being a criminal.
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We have some new ones, courtesy of some recent appointments by President Obama. The Executive Office of Immigration Review-and for those of you who aren’t aware of just what this agency does, you can peruse a brief description on the Department of Justice’s website which explains its functions-now has an acting director named Juan P....
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In yet another move that brings discredit to what should be a creditable organization, the Diversity Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists has decided that the technically accurate, descriptive term for people who are not legally permitted to remain in this country should be verboten.
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It turns out that the furor surrounding the Obama administration’s plan to enact amnesty through executive fiat is not simply an exercise in political hysteria by the the President’s opponents, but an understandable reaction by people who’ve witnessed his administration’s unwillingness to enforce immigration laws throughout his first term.
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Courtesy of our friends over at the Center for Immigration Studies. Remember, you can’t take action until you have all the facts, and no think tank or public policy organization in this country is better at assembling and synthesizing the facts about the multi-faceted issue of immigration than Mark Krikorian and the CIS.
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