“Immigration” on The Daily Caller

Time magazine begged me to participate in yesterday’s “What’s a Conservative?” symposium with Ann Coulter, Ken Blackwell, Grover Norquist, etc. But I said, “No! No, Time magazine! I’ll do this at The Daily Caller.” So here I am to respond. Time posed three questions: “What does a conservative believe?” “Is there a crisis in the conservative movement?” and “What’re the three most important action items for the next president?” I’ll leave the first two to conservatives (I’m a Manhattan moderate). But here are three things that the next president should do if he wants to make a real difference: (more)

White House press secretary Jay Carney today doubled down on President Barack Obama’s support for more immigration of high-tech workers, despite growing public concern about the displacement of the American white collar workforce. (more)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano praised President Barack Obama’s administration for taking the “most serious” and “sustained actions” to secure the border in U.S. history. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Hispanic-American U.S. senator from Florida who’s considered a rising star in the Republican Party says too much is being made of the significance of immigration to his community. (more)

Some Americans whose forebears came to the United States illegally are putting their bodies where Mitt Romney‘s mouth is: They’re deporting themselves. (more)

Alabama’s unemployment rate continues to drop amid state-wide enforcement of a new immigration law, despite Democratic efforts to block and stigmatize the popular reform. (more)

Now that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination, the liberal media is trying to paint him as a right-wing extremist. Last week, The New York Times editorial page used the occasion of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s endorsement of Governor Romney to charge that he has “lurched toward the extremist right.” (more)

An official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Daily Caller that ICE agents are no longer allowed in Cook County jail, and haven’t been permitted to enter the premises since the beginning of last summer. That shocking revelation comes as local and national officials deal with the aftermath of a vehicular homicide case involving a criminal alien released instead of being turned over to federal authorities for deportation. (more)

Under the Obama administration, skilled foreign professionals like doctors and software engineers find dim hope in Emma Lazarus’s poetic lamp lifted “beside the golden door.” These huddled, high tech masses are, quite often, told by Washington policymakers to consider launching their careers in other countries. (more)

Three years ago, on election night in Grant Park, the new president-elect famously offered his constituencies a blank slate, onto which each group was invited to write the message of its choice. For Hispanics, the words in chalk to which we’d pinned our hopes consisted of Obama’s promise to make immigration reform a “top priority in my first year as president.” (more)

President Barack Obama hasn’t reduced youth unemployment, so his officials are now pressuring companies to let him announce a wave of new summer jobs and internships. (more)

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday that he would veto legislation that would allow certain illegal residents to become American citizens. (more)

In the upcoming presidential election, two issues are more important than any others: repealing Obamacare and halting illegal immigration. If we fail at either one, the country will be changed permanently. (more)

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense confirmed during a Tuesday morning conference call with members of Congress that the administration will be reducing the National Guard troop presence on the border with Mexico by 75 percent, according to Texas Republican Rep. Ted Poe. (more)

Alabama’s unemployment rate fell at a record pace in November amid stepped-up efforts by President Barack Obama’s deputies to frustrate enforcement of the state’s popular new immigration reform. (more)

The campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is looking to woo Hispanic voters, a must-win constituency for President Barack Obama in 2012, with a uniquely energized and focused outreach operation for the primaries and beyond. (more)

This week two organizations, the Heartland Alliance’s National Immigration Justice Center and the National Coalition for Human Rights, issued a joint report entitled “Not Too Late for Reform” calling on the Obama administration to close several immigration detention facilities. The two organizations are advocacy groups that assist immigrants (they don’t use the term “illegal” on their websites) by several methods, including by providing direct legal services. (more)

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain told The Daily Caller that troops on the U.S.-Mexico border are “still needed” to deal with the “very serious problems” of “drug smuggling” and people “dying in the desert.” (more)

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry had harsh words for President Barack Obama and his administration’s plan, floated Tuesday, to significantly reduce the 1,200 National Guard troops stationed at the U.S.–Mexico border as a way to cut spending. (more)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has shared exclusively with The Daily Caller descriptions of three violent illegal immigrants recently released from custody in Cook County, Ill., instead of being forwarded to immigration jails and processed for deportation. (more)