Category Archives: Illegal Immigration
Just an Organically Organized Caravan
Yeah, right. Check this out: Migrants traveling to US sue Trump, government; claim violation of constitutional rights. A dozen migrants traveling by foot from Honduras to the U.S. to seek asylum filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against President Trump, the Department … Continue reading
Saturday Open Thread
Love it. After decades of promoting & courting singles, single moms, and teaching the young to hate their families of origin, here we are. LMAO. Trump knows what he's doing. #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch — Lola (@lovelalola) June 30, 2018
Illegal Immigration is a Child Welfare Issue
I want you to think of the kids. It’s for them that separation is necessary, regardless of system-generated trauma. I used to work for CPS. I removed children from their families for a variety of reasons, at all times of … Continue reading
BOHICA
Bend over, here it comes again: HENSARLING: GOP-CONTROLLED CONGRESS SHOULD MASSIVELY INCREASE GUEST-WORKER PERMITS FOR FOREIGNERS If Republicans gain control of Congress, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) wants more guest-worker visas for high-tech and low-skilled workers in addition to a piecemeal … Continue reading
STEM the Tide of Immigration
From “The Fate of STEM PhDs (and More)” by Norm Matloff at Normsaysno: My second item before turning to the NSF report is this job-seekers advice column by Laszlo Bock, Senior VP of People Operations (read “HR”) at Google. (I … Continue reading
Flood Control
From the Department of How Stupid Do They Think We Are?: Mexico concerned about Texas’ plan to deploy National Guard on border The Mexican government on Tuesday expressed its “concern” over the decision by Texas authorities to send 1,000 National … Continue reading
Define “Reform”
From the list of Shit That Pisses Me Off: Poll: Republican voters back immigration reform? While immigration reform may not be high on voters’ lists of priorities heading into the 2014 midterms, a new survey of a variety of critical … Continue reading
Who’s Who in Hispanics and Some Useful Spanish/Spanglish Terms
If you have been following the immigration crisis online you have probably seen a lot of propaganda and misinformation, mostly coming from the left. Here are a few things you should keep in mind: South of the U.S. border there … Continue reading
What is the Obama Administration Trying to Hide??
Jamie Dupree at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: As members of Congress and reporters ask to visit federal facilities housing children who have been apprehended by the U.S. in recent months, federal officials are slapping limits on members of the news media … Continue reading
Wealthy Racist Tea Party Bigots Block Shelter for Abandoned Brown Refugee Children Seeking a Better Life
Seriously. NBC Chicago: Thousands of children who cross the United States border without their parents won’t be housed in a former monastery in Olympia Fields. The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday said the facility on Governors Highway … Continue reading
Catch and Release
NBC Los Angeles: Protesters Block Bus Carrying Immigrants Buses carrying migrant families were rerouted to a U.S.-Mexican border station after being blocked by protesters waving American flags in a suburban Southern California city Tuesday. Protesters, some yelling, “They’re not born … Continue reading
100% Accurate
cons are using some very dangerous rhetoric re: the border problem. "invasion" "hordes" "disease-ridden" these are people. — Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 28, 2014 Oliver is an Obama blogger and a writer for Media Matters. He always has the latest OFA … Continue reading
What a Load of Crap!
How stupid do they think we are? The NY Times: California Farmers Short of Labor, and Patience HURON, Calif. — When Chuck Herrin, who runs a large farm labor contracting company, looks out at the hundreds of workers he hires … Continue reading
Follow the Money
Breitbart: McCain: We’ll Try to Pass Immigration Changes After GOP Primaries Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave the clearest indication that proponents of comprehensive immigration reform may make their final–and strongest–push to get legislation passed next year after House Republicans make … Continue reading
Think of the poor children!
New strategy: Young Girl Tells Republican Congressman Her Father Is An Undocumented Immigrant A young girl told Tennessee Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais at a town hall last week that her father was an undocumented immigrant. The girl was asking what … Continue reading
Let’s Annex Mexico!
My muse showed up, drunk and angry: McCain: We Will Have ‘Most Militarized Border Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall’ John McCain is so confident in the Corker-Hoeven amendment’s strengthening of the border that he compared it to another … Continue reading
Cruzin’ With Ted
Senator Ted Cruz was busy today: U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was invited on to the Rush Limbaugh Show, this afternoon, to discuss the problems with the Gang of Eight’s immigration legislation. “This gang of 8 bill is a disaster”, … Continue reading
Rant of the Week – Immigration “Reform”
This week’s ROTW goes to WMCB: On the whole immigration reform kerfluffle, I only have this to say, with a lot of bad words: I support NOTHING, not even reforms I might agree with in principle, until the border security … Continue reading
“Illegal Alien” is an accurate descriptive term
David “M-m-m-my” Sirota at Salon: There are no “illegal immigrants” As one of the world’s largest news outlets, the Associated Press’s linguistic mandates significantly shape the broader vernacular. So when the organization this week decided to stop using the term … Continue reading
