I’m tellin’ a story to a man named Jeh.

Sunday, March 16th, 2014

President Obama on Thursday ordered his Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson,  to review the government’s immigration policies to determine ways to make them more humane, a response, some speculate, to mounting pressure from advocates to stem deportations of illegal immigrants. Here’s the problem. There are lots of people in the United States who have entered the United States with visas and overstayed them and lots of people who entered illegally. Most came to work. Many married and started families, started businesses, bought homes. Some…

It’s all for the same reason.

Sunday, January 12th, 2014

Congressmen and commentators complain about alleged spiking of  asylum fraud at our borders. l The Obama administration is allowing young people who finished high school to remain in the U.S. without fear of removal. Immigration courts are administratively closing proceedings rather than ordering aliens out of the country. These three trends have made the news in recent weeks. While it may appear at first blush that the second and third trend are the manifestation of soft-hearted (or humane, take your…