Posts Tagged ‘ Mexico ’

Immigration news never takes a break, but the Daily Rattle certainly did over the weekend, as does our mascot — only for much longer. News both exhilarating and terrifying comes to us from home and abroad: •  The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrat (SD) party has thrown that country into political limbo. Doubling their electoral results...
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For those of you unfamiliar with the contemporary history of Mexico, the title of this post is drawn from the battle cry uttered by the man whose likeness you see in the picture above. Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, a Roman Catholic priest, issued his call to arms in 1810,
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Politicians at home and abroad play immigration for political gain, sometimes for good and sometimes for bad.  And while rattlesnakes live only in our hemisphere, their slithering cousins are everywhere: •  The Atlantic is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is bundling in the DREAM Act, which provides a path to citizenship...
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National Public Radio, which is one of the more reliably biased English-language broadcast networks on the subjects of immigration and border issues, aired a story today about Operation Streamline, a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2005,  and continued by the Obama administration during his first two years of office.
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I’m always sceptical of open-borders politicians who suddenly have epiphanies related to immigration the minute their careers are imperiled. Such is the case with Senator John McCain, who’s decided to call out President Obama for his administration’s indifference to border issues.
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Courtesy of the Huntsville Times, we learn of yet another case where an illegal alien murdered two innocent Americans. Perhaps even more offensive than the relatively lenient sentence doled out to Felix Ortega-the killer in question-is the fact that this case is not exceptional in the least.
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One of the National Geographic Channel’s best new programs recently began its second season. The documentary-style program is called Border Wars and it chronicles the inherent struggle in policing the nearly 2,000 mile-long Mexican-American border from the perspective of the Border Patrol and Customs agents whose job it is to protect us.
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Today’s edition of the Dallas Morning News carries a fascinating story about a survey just released by the Pew Hispanic Center, which documents two seemingly parallel trends. Namely, a decrease in the number of foreigners entering the United States illegally, and an increase in the percentage of illegal aliens living in the state of...
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Michel Evanchik, the creator and publisher of this website, made an interesting proposal recently that would, if implemented successfully, address a small part of the current problem posed by the unauthorized presence of millions of foreign nationals within this country.
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From the New York Times, we learn that border security activists have decided to highlight the most pressing domestic policy issue of our time by heading to the border themselves. Putting aside the reflexive use of the word “controversial” as a synonym for bad, this story highlights a few important points.
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