Sixteen indicted in Houston-area drug, alien smuggling organization
On October 17, 2012, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) posted a news release on its website that bore the headline that serves as the title for this commentary. Here is a quote from the news...
View ArticleImmigrants are Often the Victims of Crimes Committed by Transnational Gangs...
All too often, romanticized accounts about how illegal aliens are simply seeking their share of the “American Dream” fail to deal with the true stories about the criminals and their victims. Often the...
View ArticleFile this Under “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”
According to Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, the two countries are within days of announcing a new initiative that will allow Mexican trucks bound for the U.S. to circumvent...
View ArticleSeparate that family but not this one
On Monday, the Archdiocese of Atlanta called on the Obama administration to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Speaking on behalf of one million Georgia Catholics, Archbishop Wilton Gregory lauded...
View ArticleFormer INS employee, 6 others indicted in marriage fraud scheme
Immigration discussions usually focus on lax border security or on the need to punish employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. Rarely discussed is the flawed process by which aliens are granted a...
View ArticleICE deports leader of multinational human smuggling network
On December 20, 2012 ICE issued a news release that reported on the deportation of Orlando Escobar-Leon, aka Eduardo Morales Esquivel, an illegal alien possessing dual citizenship in Mexico and...
View ArticleAudit: Feds’ immigration check system fails 12 percent of the time
On December 18, 2012 the Washington Times published a story about a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report that incompetence and ineptitude at USCIS is so rampant that criminal aliens...
View ArticleDHS Releases Criminal Aliens: “On What Authority?”
From the moment President Obama authorized thousands of criminal aliens released, outrage has boiled over. Even though detaining criminal aliens costs peanuts, an average $164 daily, Department of...
View ArticleHow a Liberal Became an Enforcement Advocate: My Story
As a new blogger, I thought it best that I introduce myself to let you know a little about me. I grew up and went to college on the east coast. I was in college during the Viet Nam War years. Like...
View ArticleUnlicensed Immigrant Killed My Son, S. 744 Pardons Criminals
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744, is filled with lies of commission. Chuck Schumer and his Gang of 8 tell us that aliens will be required to pay back...
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