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Lame-Duck Lawmakers Leave Coal in New Jersey’s Stockings by Introducing Sanctuary Bills

David Jaroslav — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:05:55 +0000

As the New Jersey legislature headed home for the holidays, one member of each chamber decided to leave a particularly dangerous gift behind for their constituents – a couple of bills to make the Garden State a permanent sanctuary for illegal aliens. New Jersey has a troubling tradition of pushing off controversial legislation, including contentious [...]

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Think You Can’t Make a Difference? Just Ask Edward Durr

Shari Rendall — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:14:47 +0000

Who is Edward Durr, you wonder? He’s the truck driver who just defeated the president of the New Jersey State Senate in Tuesday’s elections. Even more remarkable than knocking off the person who was arguably the second most powerful elected official in the Garden State is that Mr. Durr accomplished this feat with a campaign [...]

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Will Gov. Ron DeSantis Keep The Great Promises He Made To Floridians?

David Jaroslav — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:43:35 +0000

On January 8, in an inauguration ceremony on the steps of the Old Capitol in Tallahassee, and with much pomp and fanfare, Republican former Congressman Ron DeSantis was sworn in as Florida’s 46th governor. His inaugural address, like many of his speeches on the campaign trail, promised real and sweeping improvements to the enforcement of immigration [...]

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‘Birthright’ Babies Outnumbered Births in 16 States

Bob Dane — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:14:11 +0000

Though births by illegal aliens are, by definition, difficult to quantify with exactitude, recent research estimates that 297,000 “birthright babies” were born in this country in 2014.

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States and Localities Take Two Paths on Immigration

Jennifer G. Hickey — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:51:26 +0000

The election of Donald Trump may have heated up discussion about immigration reform, but Congress remained coolly distracted by attempts to repeal Obamacare, tax cuts and the Russia investigation. Their inaction resulted in a dramatic uptick of lawmaking (and lawsuits) on the state and local level in 2017 – a trend which is certain to [...]

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Missouri Committee Advances E-Verify Bill

FAIR Staff — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 18:17:22 +0000

The Missouri Special Committee on Employment Security passed House Bill 264 this week to require all employers in Missouri to use E-Verify to verify that new employees are authorized to work in the United States. E-Verify is a free, federally run program, operated online, that allows employers to electronically verify the Social Security numbers of [...]

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