Category: Immigration
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The “Resistance” Builds
This ARLNow article says it all. No need for editorial elaboration. “Amid immigration raids, a quiet resistance movement builds in Arlington” As fears of immigration arrests flare, a network of Arlington organizations has been quietly but rapidly mobilizing to help undocumented residents and hinder immigration enforcement. … Shortly after the inauguration, the Arlington County Board…
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Biden Dumped 20,000 Unaccompanied Minors in Virginia
by Victoria Manning School districts across the Commonwealth are sanctuaries for illegal aliens. They openly defy Virginia law that requires schools to notify law enforcement when any person enrolling a pupil fails “to present a certified copy of the pupil’s birth record.” The number of English language learners has skyrocketed in Virginia schools—including nearly half…
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More Pathetic Excuses
by James A. Bacon Democrats in the General Assembly are killing Republican bills right and left. In one incident that drew my jaundiced attention this morning, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted yesterday to spike a Republican-sponsored bill that would make it easier to deport convicted violent felons. I almost feel guilty writing about…
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Big Talk; Little Action
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Governor Youngkin is talking tough on immigration again, but he is not backing it up. In his State of the State address, he declared, “If someone is in this country illegally, and they commit a violent crime, they should get a one-way ticket back to where they came from. This should not…
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Youngkin’s No-Lose Proposition
by James A. Bacon Governor Glenn Youngkin wants to eliminate sanctuary cities in Virginia. He faces tough opposition from Democrats in the General Assembly, but I see the issue as a political winner no matter what the legislative outcome. The Governor announced yesterday that he plans to introduce a budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year…
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But, But… Illegal Aliens Are Mostly Peaceful
by James A. Bacon I have been assured by the smartest people that it’s a myth that illegal immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than native-born Americans. But it is indisputable that some illegal aliens do commit crimes. Here in Virginia, the individual arrested and charged in connection to a double murder in a Loudoun…
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Immigrants: The U.S. and Virginia Need Them
(Last in a series of articles) by Dick Hall-Sizemore The United States, including the Commonwealth of Virginia, has a demographic problem. Luke Rogers, chief of the Census Bureau’s Population Estimate Branch explains,“The first Baby Boomers reached 65 years old in 2011. Since then, there’s been a rapid increase in the size of the 65-and-over population, which grew…
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Undocumented Immigrants: Responses to Objections
Third article in a series by Dick Hall-Sizemore The politicians raising the alarm about the large number of immigrants in the United States, as well as those trying to get in, cite several reasons for blocking their entry or deporting those who have gotten in. They are criminals. They bring in fentanyl. They are terrorists. They are a…
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Undocumented Immigrants: How Many? Who? How Do They Get Here?
(Second article in a series) by Dick Hall-Sizemore Immigrants are human beings. The Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian tradition declares that God created human beings “in his own image.” One of the founding documents of the United States declares, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed…
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Immigration: The Open Borders of the United States
(First article in a series) by Dick Hall-Sizemore “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Emma Lazarus How quaint! Today’s sentiments toward immigrants range from Donald Trump labeling them as…
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FEMA To Helene Victims: Tough Luck. We’re Broke.
by Kerry Dougherty Perhaps you heard. FEMA – the Federal Emergency Management Agency – is broke. That’s right. Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas stood up this week and figuratively turned his pockets inside out, showing nothing but lint. You see, while you weren’t looking Joe Biden and Kamala Harris quietly transformed FEMA into a giant…
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Police Can and Should Cooperate with ICE, Miyares Says
by James A. Bacon State law enforcement officials have the authority to cooperate with federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in detaining illegal immigrants, said Attorney General Jason Miyares in an AG opinion released yesterday. Moreover, he added, they have a moral obligation to do so. But Virginia law enforcement is not required to…
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What the H-E-Double Hockeysticks?
by James A. Bacon The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) maps cities, counties, and states across the country whose practices obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Types of obstruction include not complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, denying ICE access to interview incarcerated aliens, or…
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Your Daily Illegal
by Kerry Dougherty Chances are until this week you’d never heard of Melody Waldecker. She’s the 54-year-old mother of four and grandmother of eight who was run over and killed Sunday morning in Sterling, Va. by a carjacker. His name? Jose Aguilar-Martinez, 21. He’s from El Salvador. In the country illegally. Thanks to failed border…
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Every State Is a Border State
by Kerry Dougherty File this under “Illegals Committing Crimes.” I know, I know, the Democratic Party line is that illegals commit fewer crimes than American citizens. Frankly, one violent crime by an illegal alien is too many. Fact is, if the southern border closed, crime rates would drop dramatically. Including in Virginia. Last weekend the…