With no regard to the prospect of massive fraud, abuse and delays, the DHS has changed a long-standing policy that denied claims of asylum based on non-political situations such as domestic abuse. The change comes in the case of a Mexican woman who fled her abusive husband in Mexico, and is a sop to "gender-asylum" advocates who want to use the asylum system to pursue a broader political agenda.

Bonnie Erbe explains in her latest column that despite a near doubling of U.S. population in the last 50 years, no one wants to focus on the obvious impact this has on our nation's water resources. As she notes, regions that used to be considered to have abundant potable water are not experiencing drought conditions, like Georgia.

Today's testimony by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in support of S. 1261, Providing Additional Security in States' Identification Act of 2009 (PASS ID), is the latest calculated step by the Obama administration in its relentless campaign to dismantle the immigration enforcement capability of the country. "When it comes to our nation's security, PASS ID would turn the clock back to September 10, 2001," warned Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "The main beneficiaries of this legislation would be terrorists, people seeking to evade our immigration laws, and state bureaucrats who continue to resist implementing a 21st century system for establishing people's true identities." Read FAIR's press release here.