Welcome to BAN Amnesty Now
B.A.N. – Ban Amnesty Now – is a national, conservative research and educational organization. Our mission is to unite Americans behind stopping federal, state or local governments from enacting policies granting Amnesty to illegal aliens residing in the United states, and to promoting policies which support securing the U.S. border.
B.A.N.’s daily operations are run by a dedicated team led by Senator Russell Pearce, President, primarily out of our Phoenix, Arizona-area office.
Top Stories
The Hill
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by Erik Wasson
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday predicted overwhelming congressional passage of an immigration reform bill. “I think we are going to have a political breakthrough, that Congress is going to pass immigration reform,” Graham said on NBC's Meet the Press.
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Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican behind the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill, says he “probably should have been more artful in the use of terms” when he said in a Spanish-language interview last weekend that the bill first provides for legalization of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and then, after that, for increased border security.
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The response from pro-amnesty Republicans has so far amounted to, “Don’t worry about the cost of amnesty to American taxpayers. We’ll reform all those big government entitlement programs later.”
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Breitbart
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by Matthew Boyle
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Monday, April 29, 2013
The immigration bill introduced to the Senate a week and a half ago would, if passed, allow illegal immigrants to access state and local welfare benefits immediately, Breitbart News has learned. The financial impact of allowing potentially millions of immigrants onto state and local public assistance could overwhelm these programs' budgets.
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“I am very, very optimistic that we will have an agreement among the eight of us next week,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told Chuck Todd yesterday on Meet the Press. “Senator Leahy has agreed to have extensive markup and debate on the bill in April. And then we go to the floor in – God willing, in May.”
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Amnesty advocates argue that our immigration system is broken and can only be fixed by legalizing millions of illegal immigrants. But they ignore the real problem plaguing our system today: lack of enforcement of laws already on the books.
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The “Papers, please” provision of Arizona’s SB1070 is now in effect. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton signed the formal order Tuesday dissolving the injunction she issued more than two years ago blocking the state from enforcing key provisions of the 2010 law. And she refused to reconsider a request by civil rights groups for a new injunction on different grounds.
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A MS-13 gang leader charged with running a teenage prostitution business after one of the girls made a daring escape is expected to plead guilty Monday. According to charging documents filed in federal court in Alexandria, Yimmy Anthony Pineda Penado was the leader of the Pinos Locos Salvatrucha clique who headed up a group of about 25 members of the El Salvadorian-based Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang.
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Reuters
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by Tim Gaynor and David Schwartz
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
A U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday that a controversial Arizona "show-your-papers" immigration provision that has been upheld by the Supreme Court may go into effect, but in a split ruling blocked another measure making it a crime to harbor illegal immigrants.
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Seventeen illegal immigrants or immigrant fugitives have been arrested in Maryland. The arrests, announced Friday, took place in Prince George's County and surrounding areas and are part of a three-day enforcement operation run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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