SocietyNews
If ‘bin Laden’ Could Cross the Border, ‘Do You Feel Safe?’
A new video in which filmmaker James O’Keefe crosses from Mexico into the U.S. while costumed as Osama bin Laden dramatizes the need for better… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Krauthammer: Wrong and Right on Border Security
On Fox News, conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer rightly took President Obama to task for his tragic mismanagement of border security and immigration reform. With the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A Border Agent Was Murdered. Genevieve Wood Weighs In.
“Under President Obama, just in 2013, ICE, which is responsible for getting people and deporting them, released over 30,000 criminals, illegal aliens who had committed… Read More
EducationNews
State Puts Schools on Notice: Undocumented Children Entitled to Free Public Education
When school starts in September, Virginia taxpayers will find themselves footing the bill for some of the thousands of undocumented school-age children who have come… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Ignore the Fearmongering: Illegal Immigrants Crossing Border Won’t Bring Ebola
“I don’t think there’s any concern today at all about ebola coming in through the southern border.” Watch the full interview about what Americans should… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A Governor’s Dilemma: Illegal Immigrants Divert Resources From State’s Own Citizens
On June 13, the first bus of illegal immigrant minors, aged 12-17, arrived at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The state of Oklahoma was given no formal… Read More
SecurityNews
Krauthammer: Build a Border Fence, Then We Can Talk Amnesty
If Charles Krauthammer had his way, he would legalize the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States—but only after the border was… Read More
SocietyNews
Military Bases to Stop Holding Border-Crossing Children
As fewer unaccompanied children cross the southern border to enter the United States, officials say they no longer need to house them at military facilities…. Read More
SocietyNews
Rubio: Senate Immigration Plan ‘Never’ Will Get Enough House Votes
Congress should approach immigration reform in stages rather than in one big package that “never” will attract enough votes in the House, Sen. Marco Rubio,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Did George W. Bush Cause the Current Border Crisis?
On Dec. 23, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act into law. White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony… Read More
SecurityNews
13 Years Ago, This Operation Stifled Illegal Immigration From Central America
More than a decade ago, a cooperative effort between Washington and Mexico City resulted in the arrest and repatriation of thousands of illegal immigrants, reduced… Read More
SecurityNews
House Conservatives Curb Obama’s Deportation Delays as Price of Border Deal
House Republicans worked overtime last night to pass two bills addressing the border crisis — measures all but certain to die in the Senate —… Read More
SocietyNews
Taxpayers Cover Cost of Flying Immigrant Children to Hawaii
HONOLULU—Although 2,500 miles from the continental United States, Hawaii has joined the list of states temporarily housing unaccompanied minors from Central America who have illegally… Read More
SocietyNews
Terry McAuliffe Underestimates Child Immigrants in Virginia
Gov. Terry McAuliffe said the border crisis is a federal problem, not Virginia’s, and that undocumented children are only being housed at one location in the state—even… Read More
SecurityNews
Split on Border Spending Bill Prompts Republicans to Delay Recess
On their last scheduled day in session before leaving for August recess, House Republican leaders pulled legislation to address the border crisis after conservatives criticized… Read More
SocietyNews
Bachmann at the Border: ‘Bills Don’t Stop the Problem’
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., traveled to the Texas border with Mexico last weekend to get a close-up look of the border crisis. In an exclusive… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Genevieve Wood: It’s Not ‘Inhumane’ to ‘Want to Secure the Border’
“One of the reasons we have these political shenanigans that we do is that people are almost told that you’re somehow anti-immigrant, that you’re inhumane… Read More
SecurityCommentary
How Should Washington Address the Border Crisis?
Join us at 9:30 a.m. ET for a discussion with representatives from Heritage Action and The Daily Signal on today’s border crisis vote in the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Obama’s Self-Made Border Crisis
“You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” In the case of the ongoing crisis along America’s southwest border, that someone is President Obama…. Read More
SecurityNews
Exclusive Interview: Rick Perry Says Deploying Troops to Border Sends a ‘Powerful Message’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry compares the role of National Guard troops at his state’s border to the deterring effect that cop cars stationed along neighborhood… Read More
InternationalNews
Guatemala Wants $2 Billion for Border Crisis. Why One Activist Says U.S. Should Ignore It.
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina says $2 billion in federal aid and other U.S. investment in Central America could help end the flood of immigrants across… Read More
EducationNews
Schools Brace for Flood of Immigrant Children
MIAMI—With thousands of Central American children newly arrived in the United States, and more expected to come, school officials have asked the federal government for a helping… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I Played by the Rules on Immigration. Why Is the U.S. Making It So Hard for Me to Become a Doctor?
Fifteen years ago, when I was 6, my parents and I moved to the United States from Canada, where I was born. Since moving to… Read More
SecurityNews
Oklahoma Congressman Fights Plan to House Illegal Immigrants at Military Bases
Rep. Jim Bridenstine, a freshman congressman and Navy pilot whose military awards decorate his Capitol Hill office, holds a special affection for fellow servicemen. The… Read More
SocietyNews
Will Congress Delay August Recess to Address Border Crisis?
Despite repeated prodding from “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, Rep. Steve Scalise wouldn’t definitively say whether the U.S. House would delay its month-long August recess and… Read More
SecurityNews
‘Send Them Back’: Wealthy Cape Cod Town Rejects Plan to House Immigrant Children
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has answered the call to shelter immigrant children, but Cape Cod residents aren’t having it. Last week, the Democratic governor announced… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Our President Is Missing in Action
Serious fires are burning around the world and President Obama is playing golf, fundraising and issuing unnecessary executive orders regarding sexual orientation and gender identity…. Read More
SocietyNews
Backlogged Immigration System Prolongs Road to Deportation for Unaccompanied Minors
As lawmakers debate how to handle the surge of immigrants crossing the country’s southern border, unaccompanied minors denied asylum face a long road back home…. Read More
SecurityNews
Newt Gingrich: ‘Absolutely’ Send Unaccompanied Children Home
The United States should “absolutely” send unaccompanied children back home, said Newt Gingrich in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal. Accusing the Obama administration of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
What’s Right and What’s Wrong About Republicans’ New Border Crisis Policy Proposal
House Speaker John Boehner’s Border Crisis Working Group released Wednesday its recommendations on what should be done on the border crisis. The group, which is… Read More
