The proposed Gang of Eight immigration bill is unfair and costly, Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint said Sunday on ABC News’ This Week.

The study you’ll see from Heritage this week presents a staggering cost of another amnesty in our country and the detrimental effects long-term that will have. There’s no reason we can’t begin to fix our immigration system so that we won’t make the problem worse.

But the bill that’s being presented is unfair to those who came here legally, it will cost Americans trillions of dollars, it will our unlawful immigration system worse. …

Heritage is the only organization that has done an analysis of the cost. Unlawful immigrants make up about 2 percent of our GDP, and they consume most of that. If you consider all the factors of amnesty and unlawful immigration, the cost will be in the trillions of dollars over the lifetime of these unlawful immigrants.

And he warned that the contents of the bill aren’t as advertised: “I think if people read the bill, that it will be blocked. Because once you get into it, just like Obamacare, it is not the way it’s been advertised.”

What do you think? Is the immigration plan similar to Obamacare?

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Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint will appear Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He plans to discuss Heritage’s research on the cost of granting amnesty to illegal immigrants under the Gang of Eight proposal.

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The “Gang of Eight” immigration proposal is “unfair, it costs too much, and it’s going to make the problem worse,” Heritage President Jim DeMint told Larry Kudlow last night on CNBC.

Not only does the plan not secure the borders, but it opens the door to massive new spending. The plan’s backers argue that it won’t grant benefits to unlawful immigrants at first. But we’ve heard these kinds of promises before. Continue Reading »

Congress should slow down its consideration of the Gang of Eight immigration bill and evaluate the plan’s costs, Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto today.

Speaking to Cavuto by phone, DeMint urged lawmakers to reconsider the amnesty-first Senate proposal. The way this bill works, he said, amnesty is enacted first and “then we have to hope that the President and the Congress actually carry through on fixing our immigration system.”

What do you think of the Gang of Eight plan? Tell us in the comments.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto will interview Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint this afternoon about the Gang of Eight immigration bill and the cost of granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.

Watch the segment live today at 4:13 p.m. Eastern on Fox News.

Heritage Foundation experts have been hitting the airwaves to provide insights into the tragedy in Boston and the ongoing investigation into Monday’s bombing.

A full list of media appearances is below.

For Heritage’s take on the attacks, please read today’s Morning Bell. Continue Reading »

Heritage Foundation national security expert James Carafano appears in four episodes of the new documentary series “Bullet Points,” which premiers tonight on the Military Channel.

Carafano, who serves as Heritage’s E.W. Richardson Fellow, weighs in on the history of conflicts including the Battle of the Pacific in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm.

“Bullet Points” premiers tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern on military and runs for five weeks.

Ed Feulner built The Heritage Foundation from a scrappy startup in 1973 into the powerhouse it is today.

Conservative historian and Heritage scholar Lee Edwards tells the story of how Feulner built Heritage in the book “Leading the Way.”

Edwards and Feulner recently sat down with Heritage members to discuss the book and his legacy.

That interview will air on C-SPAN 2′s Book TV on Sunday, April 14 at 6:45 pm.

Get more information about the interview on Booktv.org and purchase your copy of Leading the Way.

After debating Piers Morgan and Suze Orman on CNN earlier this week, The Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson is by now accustomed to hostile interviews about traditional marriage. Last night, though, Anderson had a much more civil debate about marriage on “Real News from the Blaze.”

Anderson explained how supporting traditional marriage advances the cause of limited government: Continue Reading »

“It’s a train wreck that we see unfolding in Cyprus,” one which could spell the end of the Eurozone, Heritage Foundation expert Nile Gardiner said yesterday on CNBC’s Kudlow Report.

The new European Union-dictated bailout is “evidence of the growing centralization of political power in Europe, which is unhealthy,” said Gardiner, who directs Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.

Read more analysis of the Cyprus bailout and Europe’s single-currency challenges on The Foundry.

What do you think? Is the Euro doomed?