City officials in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento have passed ordinances that seek to economically punish the people of Arizona for taking steps to stop a wave of violent crime.  Arizona’s new law empowers local police to identify illegal aliens and turn them over to federal immigration officials for deportation. These California politicians apparently [...]

On Tuesday the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona in federal Court. The legal brief discloses some facts about sloppy practices in the government’s immigration “system” that most Americans do not know, but would be outraged if they did. Foreigners who are in the country legally are required to register with [...]

The long threatened suit was finally filed in federal court today by the Department of Justice. For weeks President Obama and several Administration officials, have hysterically charged that the Arizona law would facilitate or require or permit racial profiling.  Yet profiling is not the grounds for this suit.  Much of the 25 page legal brief [...]

The immigration debate is between two points of view: 1. Secure Borders:   This faction wants to use whatever means necessary to stop virtually all illegal border crossings before Congress considers any changes to immigration law. 2. “Comprehensive immigration reform.”  This faction wants Congress to start, not with securing the borders but with another of [...]

Two bits of seemingly contradictory news were reported on Tuesday. Republican Senate leaders met privately with President Obama to discuss border security and immigration issues.  After the meeting Republican Senator Brownback told reporters that the President was “not embracing” Republican calls for securing the border before Congress takes up so-called “comprehensive immigration reform.” Obama announced [...]