The Boston Marathon bombing suspects are no longer a threat. One is dead and the other is inside the same hospital as some of the Boston Marathon victims. Like many journalists from across the country, I stayed up all night on Thursday listening to Boston scanner traffic and updating the events as they unfolded. While tapping away on my keyboard, there was little time to think about why the horrific act of terror was committed. In between keystrokes, I just sent prayers and good thoughts to the police, firefighters, and EMS staffers who were involved
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Religious freedom is apparently not on the top of the Obama administration’s priority list. One legal immigrant family from Germany fled to the United States so they could raise and educate their children in a manner consistent with their Christian beliefs. Following the immigration rules was a long and tedious process, but the family jumped through all the government hoops and were finally able to buy a little bit of farmland in Tennessee. The thankful family thought all the hurdles to their battle for religious freedom was over, and then the Obama administration waved the
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Arcadia, CA – The Santa Anita Inn in Arcadia, California, has made a lucrative business out of charging foreign, non-citizen mothers thousands of dollars so they can give birth to American citizens, and it isn’t alone in the questionable practice. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship to those born in the country. While the practice of “birth tourism” does not violate federal law, some are questioning the ethics surrounding the practice. Birth tourism is popular with wealthy mothers-to-be from several countries, including China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey. Most mothers return home
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama administration has consistently touted its successes in lowering the number of illegal aliens crossing U.S. borders, but how those crossings are measured may be suspect. In testimony released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) it was revealed that the Department of Homeland Security no longer sees control of our physical borders as its measure for the effectiveness of Border Patrol enforcement. The Border Patrol says it has “operational control” of a mile of border when it can not only detect illegal border crossers there, but also actually intercept them
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DALLAS, TX – Chris Crane and nine other fellow ICE deportation officers are suing Janet Napolitano, Director of Homeland Security Secretary and John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director over a directive that orders ICE officers to “violate federal law”. During a conference call this past Thursday Crane, president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, told reporters, “We’re not enforcing law anymore. It is pretty much just let everyone go,” he told reporters during a conference call on Thursday. The ten ICE officers are seeking an injunction to block Napolitano’s June 15, 2012
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Immigration policy shapes the destiny of the nation. —Anthony Kennedy, Arizona v. the U. S. (2012) Self-sufficiency has been a basic principle of United States immigration law since this country’s earliest immigration statutes. —USC Title 8, Ch. 14 §1601 (1996) The Story of Ruth      There was famine in Israel.  A man named Elimelech took his family out of Bethlehem in Judah into the pagan land of Moab on the other side of Jordan (Ruth 1).  There he died.  His two sons married nice Moabite girls, and then both brothers died as well.  Only Elimelech’s wife
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This isn’t your typical survival story. The people I’m going to tell you about didn’t make it out alive from an earthquake, they didn’t survive a political upheaval, and they didn’t come out the other end of a financial devastation smelling like roses.