Why do we make things so much harder than they need to be? If there is one thing that all reasonable Americans should be able to agree on, it is that we have a crisis on the southern border that cannot continue. When even the New York Times has admitted (here, and here) that this […]
Category: Immigration
It’s About Time Someone Acknowledged the Border Crisis as a National Emergency!
After decades of neglect, political grandstanding, phony promises, and absolutely nothing happening to improve the crisis on the American-Mexican border, President Trump this week declared a national emergency in order to finally take meaningful steps to continue construction of the much-needed border wall. This action, of course, raises a number of important questions, not the […]
Illegal Immigration Caused This Domestic Violence Nightmare
I was in court the other day and I was talking to a young Puerto Rican girl who was there to get a restraining order on her husband, who is also the father of her children. She had been with him for several years and the abuse had been ongoing. I asked her why she […]
The Border Wall Speech Trump Should Have Given
Like him or not, one has to concede that President Trump’s speechwriting team does not do him any favors. This was perhaps never more evident than during the President’s primetime speech to the nation this past week, wherein he made his strongest plea yet for a border wall. It could have been, and needed to […]
It’s the President’s Job to Interpret the Birthright Citizenship Clause, and Trump’s Interpretation is Correct
President Trump made news this past week by declaring that his Administration would break from the longstanding interpretation (or rather, indifference) of previous administrations with respect to the requirements of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause, arguing that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on children born on American soil to parents without permanent legal […]
Barack Obama: America’s First Latino President
As the Obama Administration struggles with its latest self-created crisis, aimlessly fumbling about in its attempts to house and feed and clothe the tens of thousands of poor immigrant children who have streamed across the border in recent months, the American public is hearing an oft-repeated narrative about these children and their (literally) countless predecessors […]
A Conservative Case for Tuition Equality for Children Brought Here Illegally
In recent months the issue of tuition equality has come to the forefront of the political debate in New Jersey. In short, proponents seek to change the laws to allow children of immigrants who have come to this country illegally and reside in this state to attend public universities and colleges at in-state rates. I […]