I have no doubt that America’s Catholic bishops are nice people and that they mean well.  But their callous indifference to America’s unemployed and low-wage workers is astounding when it comes to their lobbying on immigration policy.  The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is going to expend another $800,000 of … Continued

NumbersUSA CEO Roy Beck points out that both the Gang-of-Eight and the Obama plans will give INSTANT ANMESTY and work permits to illegal aliens while remaining silent on the impact on 20 million Americans who cannot find full-time work.http://www.thetribunepapers.com/2013/03/02/immigration-reform-deception-the-negligible-distinction-between-two-really-bad-plans/By Mike Scruggs in The Tribune Papers

The claims in our TV and radio ads about Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) and his Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform proposals are so shocking that some South Carolina news outlets are saying they must be false. Well, they ARE shocking.  But, sadly for South Carolina’s and the nation’s workers and taxpayers, the information in the ads is … Continued

Numbers USA, a group that supports lower levels of legal and illegal immigration, released a new radio ad Tuesday criticizing Graham for supporting the plan, calling it “amnesty and welfare for millions of illegal aliens.” The ad, backed by a six-figure buy, will start running statewide Wednesday in South Carolina on broadcast and cable outlets.”Who … Continued

Our new television ad that challenges Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his support of the Gang of Eight’s amnesty plan has been featured in today’s Wall Street Journal. The story appears on both the front pages of the paper and the website. The article, “The GOP’s Immigration Dilemma”, reports on the disconnect between Republican Gang … Continued

Executive Director Roy Beck says support has only grown since his group defeated comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. Five years ago, the group had just over 300,000 members. Today its ballooned to more than 1.4 million, Beck says.Beck says his group’s greatest asset is not connecting lobbyists with hill staffers, but connecting concerned constituents directly … Continued

Sen. Jeff Session (R-Ala.) said on Monday that the White House immigration proposal leaked over the weekend is very similar to the outline presented by the Gang of Eight last month. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has tried to distance the Senate plan from the White House’s, but Sen. Sessions noted that both plans grant all … Continued

It was nice to see Republican Senators Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham indicate that the leaked White House amnesty outline over the weekend was far too radical to even consider.But — as many commentators have already noted — the Obama outline was pretty similar in key respects to what these pro-amnesty Republicans have been saying.For … Continued

The President’s State of the Union address and the Republican and Tea Party responses were supposed to focus on the need to put Americans back to work.  But I was not surprised to hear very little compassion for the jobless when they talked about immigration. Nonetheless, the sense of inevitability of an amnesty  passing this year seemed … Continued