Rep. Lamar Smith Highlights Rapid Decrease in Workplace Enforcement Rep. Lamar Smith Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has issued a press release highlighting the deplorable state of the Department of Homeland Security’s workplace enforcement efforts. According to Rep. Smith’s release, between FY 2008 and FY 2009, • Administrative arrests...
*** WNO SOUNDBITE ADVISORY *** Video: Rep. Steve King Says Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants Will Hurt Economic Recovery Who : Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Vanderbilt Professor Carol Ann Swain What : House Immigration Subcommittee Republican Forum When: Thursday, November 19 th , 2009 Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Soundbite: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants Will Hurt Economic...
Tip of the Iceberg, Indeed My first reaction to the headline , "Report: ACORN Mismanaged Grant Money," in the Washington Times , was to wonder how the hell anyone can talk about proper management of stolen property. And then I read the following quote from Texas Republican Lamar Smith: "The Justice Department IG's report may prove to be just the tip of an iceberg-sized fraud." You...
House Immigration Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve King R-IA, with Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith R-TX led a forum, questioning whether all immigration should be stopped–legal and illegal, until the country was back from unemployment insolvency. E-Verify could become mandatory if NumbersUSA President Roy Beck’s urgent plea be recognized by Congressional conferees, who listened...
Well looky here : The community organizing group ACORN mismanaged about $200,000 received from the Justice Department, which failed to track how the allocated money was used, according to a report by the department's watchdog. The news is the latest blow to a group whose public image has taken a beating in recent months after some of its employees were caught on video trying to help a couple posing...
When you hear about ACORN getting help from the Justice Department (DOJ), most people hope it refers to the community organizing group getting an nice small room with bars, a warm bed and three squares a day. Unfortunately this is about the criminal enterprise ACORN, receiving money from the US department charged with maintaining law and order. The Office of the Inspector General of the Justice Department...
Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and immigration-enforcement stalwart, wheedled updated statistics out of DHS and found that, in the words of the Washington Times story: Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009. And note that Obama's...
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas gets it . He says, “each time ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detains and deports an illegal immigrant worker, ICE creates a job for an American worker.” Unfortunately, the Obama administration has ended workplace...
Washington Times: Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009. The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away...
Two senior House Republicans want the Justice Department to make public any reports or statements given to internal investigators by the career department lawyers who brought a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) that later was dismissed by President Obama's political appointees. Reps. Lamar Smith of Texas, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Frank R. Wolf of...
Congressional Forum to Discuss Impact of High Immigration on Unemployment NumbersUSA Founder and President Roy Beck will be testifying on Thursday in front of a Congressional Forum. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) called the forum – American Jobs in Peril: The Impact of Uncontrolled Immigration – to explore the relationship between high immigration [...]
From America's Voice: Lamar Smith, Steve King, and Anti-Immigrant Allies Panic Increased Activity by Mass Deportation Crowd Reflects Concern Debate has Shifted Washington, DC – Leading anti-immigrant zealots in Congress, and controversial allied organizations like the Center for Immigration Studies...
US Rep. Lamar Smith — Washington Times Obama encourages illegals If we were to listen to the complaints about the Obama administration by advocates of amnesty for illegal immigrants, you might think our nation’s immigration laws were actually being enforced. To the contrary, the administration has systematically taken [...]
http://tinyurl.com/ybdevw6 Immigration Reform Next On White House Agenda Posted by John Romano and Laura Glendinning in Politics on November 15, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. ( YBH.ME ) – Washington's "Gang of 100″, led by Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, has gotten the ear of the White House and then some recently. The Gang's letter last month to President Obama urging "CIR,"...
From this source , all emphasis mine: Declaring success in border security and immigration enforcement, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the federal government has done its work and now it's time for Congress to pass a broad bill to legalize illegal immigrants. Really? Well huzzah. I guess whenever we have a problem we can just SAY it's solved and it will...
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