Laws.com
May 9, 2013

The so-called bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators has introduced legislation, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, that they say will reform the immigration system. This legislation promises, among other things, to tighten border security and controversially grant legal status to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Joe Guzzardi: Amnesty Would Devastate California; Nation Not Far Behind

March 21, 2013

Americans who support President Barack Obama and the Senate Gang of Eight’s amnesty proposal should take a hard look at California, especially the state’s public school system.

I’m a native Californian, born and raised in Los Angeles during the 1950s. Back then, Los Angeles had the nation’s highest percentage of Anglo-Saxon residents. During the half-century that’s passed since my youth, Los Angeles — and all of Southern California between Bakersfield and the U.S.-Mexico border — has been completely transformed. Los Angeles County is more than half Latino and represents one-third of the voters.

Nearly half of California’s births are Hispanic; 53 percent out of wedlock. In Los Angeles, the Hispanic birth total is 55 percent. The birth pattern, give or take a few percentage points, has been well established for decades. As the inevitable consequence, the most recent Census Bureau data put California’s Hispanic population (37.6 percent) at nearly equal to non-Hispanic whites (40 percent). During the decade from 2000-10, California’s Hispanic population grew by 28 percent.

By Daniel Strauss
03/19/13
The Hill

An group opposing immigration reform is airing ads in Arizona targeting Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for his efforts to help pass a bipartisan immigration deal.

The ad, from Californians for Population Stabilization, comes as McCain works with seven other Democratic and Republican senators to finalize a plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.

"This is an S.O.S. from the people of California to our neighbors in Arizona: Save our state. Your senator John McCain wants to bring in millions of workers to take our jobs," the voiceover in the ad says. "He wants more green cards. And amnesty for millions illegal aliens, giving access to Social Security benefits paid for by all of us."