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Uncle Joe, You Have Diminished the Value of My Citizenship

Dear Uncle Joe: Mr. President, while you are not my uncle Joe, we did grow up in the same neighborhood in Scranton. I know Scranton’s values well. Unfortunately, you lost those values many years ago. You remind me of my old, crazy uncle Timmy. He was an embarrassment to us all. He was a danger…

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Ron Paul: We don’t need Trump’s wall to stop illegal immigration [VIDEO]

This morning on Ron Paul discussed the current government shutdown situation on CNBC’s Squawk Box and how he disagrees with President Trump’s idea that a massive border wall would halt illegal immigration. “I don’t like walls,” Paul added. “I don’t want to wall people in and wall people out.” “But I don’t want free open…

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Cash-Strapped California Schools Under Fire For Asking Citizenship Questions

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Civil rights groups called out school districts in nearly three dozen California counties last week for inquiring about students’ citizenship and immigration status, raising the issue of how public schools deal with their obligation to educate the state’s enormous immigrant population. California Rural Legal Assistance and the…

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Trump To Keep Policy That Grants Citizenship Through Military Service

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The Trump administration will keep in place a policy that allows immigrants to earn expedited U.S. citizenship by serving in the military, a Department of Defense (DOD) official confirmed to Fox News. A 2002 executive order issued by former President George W. Bush opened the door for…

Report: Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship At Record Rates

Report: Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship At Record Rates

Blake Neff A record number of Americans are renouncing their U.S. citizenship in 2015, new figures released by the federal government show. Since 1996, the IRS has published a list of citizens renouncing their citizenship every three months. The most recent IRS report, released Monday, reveals that 1,426 Americans ditched their citizenship in the past three months. That…