Demand aid in investigation of Fast & Furious program By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Friday, May 18, 2012 House Republican leaders on Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. demanding he comply with the GOP’s official investigation into Obama administration gun-running operation Fast & Furious, which allowed hundreds of guns [...]

May 13, 2012 By Michael Bargo Jr. When Arizona’s state senate passed SB (Senate Bill) 1070i, the Obama administration immediately sued and enjoined the state from enforcing parts of the bill.  As the issue is argued before the Supreme Court, political questions remain: why did President Obama sue Arizona so quickly, and could the legal [...]

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press PHOENIX May 10, 2012 (AP) Federal authorities said Wednesday that they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos. The U.S. Justice Department has been seeking an agreement requiring Arpaio’s office to train officers in how [...]

May 8, 2012 By The Wall Street Journal SAN ANTONIO – South Texas is seeing a rise in children from Central America who have slipped across the border unaccompanied into the US from Mexico after that country began deporting fewer kids who arrived without visas, some experts say. The influx across the US border is [...]

Published May 08, 2012 Associated Press SAN DIEGO –  The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of people entering illegally from Mexico dropped to a 40-year low.  The new approach — outlined in a 32-page [...]

By Ann Coulter (Archive) · Thursday, May 3, 2012 On no issue is the elite/American divide so great as on immigration. For decades, a majority of Americans have wanted to decrease immigration. Not just illegal immigration — all immigration. Nearly three times as many Americans support reducing immigration as want it to stay the same, [...]

April 29, 2012 By Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Arizona v. United States, involving the constitutionality of the State’s effort to combat illegal immigration.  In one sense, it was a rematch between former Solicitor General Paul Clement, arguing for Arizona, and [...]

By Christopher Sherman Associated Press Updated: 8:04 a.m. on Saturday, April 28, 2012 McALLEN, Texas (AP) — An unprecedented surge of children caught trudging through South Texas scrublands or crossing at border ports of entry into the U.S. without their families has sent government and nonprofit agencies scrambling to expand their shelter, legal representation and [...]

Apr 27, 2012 – Scott Rasmussen As the U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with the Obama administration’s challenge of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration, the overall issue of immigration remains misunderstood by both political parties in Washington. Many Washington Republicans confuse voter opposition to illegal immigration with opposition to all immigration. Their remarks often contain an [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, April 27, 2012 With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law, we’re once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen — and non-citizen. Rather than come at it from the usual angle, I [...]