12 May, 2010 (00:30) | Crime & Punishment, Immigration, Politics | By: ricjames
Via HotAir we have a vid of a John McCain ad touting his support of border security and – seriously – the border fence: So Senator “Jam-Amnesty-Down-America’s-Throat”, Senator “I’ll build the g-ddamned fence if they want it” is the go-to guy on matters of border security and he’s perturbed that the border fence hasn’t been [...]
24 August, 2009 (23:11) | Immigration, Law, Politics | By: ricjames
ICE wants everyone who signed an agreement to participate in the 287(g) program to sign onto a new agreement. The Department of Homeland Security is requiring counties that participate in its illegal-immigration enforcement program to agree to a new focus on violent criminals. The agency is telling counties, including Prince William and Loudoun, to sign [...]
11 August, 2009 (18:49) | Human Interest, Immigration, Politics | By: ricjames
Former CO Rep Tom Tancredo was at the University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill this evening to give a speech – which he was invited to do by a UNC student organization – when the speech was cut short by a crowd of protesters shouting profanities, one of whom took to pounding on a [...]
23 June, 2009 (22:24) | Crime & Punishment, Immigration, Law, Politics | By: ricjames
Excuse me? But now some Latino leaders want illegal immigrants to boycott the national survey, claiming that being counted — but not represented — isn’t fair. “It doesn’t make any sense, in some way it is immoral that we are counting 12 million undocumented immigrants who have no benefit at all financially speaking,” said Rev. [...]
14 May, 2009 (11:04) | GWOT, Immigration, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
Team America PAC, an organization founded by former Congressman Tom Tancredo which seeks to support the election of candidates committed to enforcing border security and immigration laws, has announced their endorsement of John Brownlee for Attorney General of Virginia: Team America PAC endorses John Brownlee for Attorney General of Virginia. Brownlee is in a close [...]
28 April, 2009 (09:42) | Immigration, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
When I sat down at my desk this morning, my laptop had fired up and gone about accessing the various systems I’ve got it set up to do. E-mail is, of course, one of the primary chores it handles and I’ve got 3 accounts to manage. This morning’s deliveries included e-mails from 2 of the [...]
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22 April, 2009 (10:26) | GWOT, Immigration, Religion | By: ricjames
Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air has a post that’s just mind-boggling. In an interview this past weekend on CNN, Janet Napiolitano – the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security – explicitly stated to CNN’s Larry King that for a foreigner to cross the border of the United States outside the processes of our [...]
19 March, 2009 (12:01) | GWOT, Immigration, Law, Politics | By: ricjames
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, spent some time this past weekend meeting with illegal immigrants and telling them that enforcement of the existing US immigration laws is un-American. Oh, yes she did: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and their families that [...]
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19 January, 2009 (21:44) | GWOT, Immigration, Politics | By: ricjames
The two Border Patrol agents were, in my view, doing their jobs when they intercepted a Mexican national engaged in smuggling drugs into the United States. They stopped him and, as he was trying to make a run for it, they shot him. In the ass. Literally. For this, they were tried and convicted then [...]
17 January, 2009 (16:45) | Crime & Punishment, Immigration, Politics | By: ricjames
As part of a strong immigrations policy, we need to be able to control the flow of incoming foreigners such that people who have violated our laws before don’t get back in to do it again. This has long been one of the pillars of my own immigrations reform suggestions since a firm control of [...]