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    Protesters, Politicians Spar at Supreme Court Over Obama’s Immigration Program

    Mercedes Garcia would be eligible to benefit from President Barack Obama’s 2014 immigration executive actions, with the opportunity to earn quasi-legal status that would allow her three U.S. citizen daughters to not worry about their mother being arrested. Rep. Ken Buck, a Republican congressman from Garcia’s home state of Colorado, doesn’t believe Garcia—who is living…
    Josh Siegel
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    Senate Amendment Seeks to Plug Holes in Cuba Immigration Policy

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. has introduced an amendment aimed at curtailing the widespread abuse of welfare benefits by Cuban migrants. The measure, introduced as an amendment to a bill funding the Federal Aviation Administration, is aimed at reforming the core of the current Cuba immigration policy: the outdated notion that all Cuban migrants are political…
    Ana Quintana
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    US Immigration Agency Returns ‘Freedom of Religion’ to Naturalization Exam

    Sen. James Lankford has made a small vocabulary victory that he believes will have a significant impact on religious liberty. The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it plans to replace the term “freedom of worship” on all naturalization materials with “freedom of religion.” The Oklahoma Republican began pushing DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson to make…
    Philip Wegmann
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    The Challenge of Tracking Money Sent to Other Countries From Illegal Immigrants

    Two recent reports by the federal government’s watchdog shed light on one of the more overlooked elements of immigration to the United States: the money migrants send to the country from which they came. The U.S. is the largest source of these money transfers sent overseas by foreign-born residents, known as remittances, with an estimated…
    Josh Siegel
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    The Sneaky Way Obama Administration Is Making It Look Like Fewer Illegal Immigrants Are Skipping Court Dates

    Four out of 10 illegal immigrants never show up for their court hearings. That’s according to Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council (which represents border patrol agents). Judd testified that illegal immigrants show up to their required court hearings only 60 percent of the time after being issued a “notice to appear” at…
    David Inserra
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    The Immigration Crisis of Unaccompanied Minors Never Really Ended

    The crisis of unaccompanied Central American children illegally crossing the United States’ southern border does not end when they enter this country. As the children arrive and settle in the U.S. and wait to hear their fate in immigration court, some are placed into homes where they are sexually assaulted or forced to work. Meanwhile,…
    Josh Siegel
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    Obama’s Response to Surge of Illegal Immigrants Is Inadequate

    Record numbers of unaccompanied alien minors and adults traveling with minors are again surging across our southern border, overwhelming federal and state resources, creating a border security nightmare, and ensuring record profits for the criminal organizations that control the drug and human smuggling and trafficking business along the border. More than 152,000 unaccompanied minors and…
    Rep. Bob Goodlatte
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    Senator Sinks Obama Court Nominee Over ‘Uncomfortable’ Views on Illegal Immigration

    A U.S. senator has scuttled President Barack Obama’s nomination of a pro-amnesty judge from his home state of Georgia in the latest skirmish over judicial nominees. Citing Judge Dax Lopez’s work with an organization supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., last week torpedoed Obama’s nominee to the U.S. District Court for Georgia….
    Philip Wegmann
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    The Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Administration’s Immigration Actions

    The Supreme Court will hear a case brought by Texas and 25 other states challenging President Barack Obama’s attempt to give legal status and work authorizations to more than four million illegal immigrants. In a brief order today, the Supreme Court directed the government and the states to address whether the Obama administration’s program “violates…
    Elizabeth Slattery
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    New Obama Executive Action to Shred Immigration Caps

    President Barack Obama has announced another brazen, illegal executive action. As Americans gathered with loved ones to wish each other a more prosperous new year, the president issued an edict to put that longed-for prosperity farther out of reach. President Barack Obama has announced another brazen, illegal executive action. In a proposed federal rule published…
    Jeff Sessions
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    What’s Driving the Latest Surge of Illegal Immigration From Central America

    In a reprise of the humanitarian crisis of summer 2014, rising numbers of Central American children and families are crossing the Rio Grande Valley into Texas, causing a reckoning over whether the U.S. is facing a “new normal” of illegal migration from countries facing violence and poverty. Though the U.S. is better prepared to handle…
    Josh Siegel
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    You Only Think You Know How Many Illegal Immigrants Live in the US

    Call any journalist, pundit, anchor, strategist or lobbyist and ask: 1. How many illegal immigrants are in the United States? 2. What is your source for that number? Almost without exception he or she will answer: 1.  11 million. 2. The Pew Research Center. For a decade now, no number has been given greater certitude and less…
    William Campenni
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    Why This Senator Accuses Paul Ryan of ‘Blithely Dismissing’ Americans on Immigration

    Speaker Paul Ryan’s honeymoon with fellow conservatives has been tested in the House over the contentious omnibus spending bill, and it’s come to a jolting halt for one member of the Senate. After the House passed the massive spending bill Friday, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., attacked Ryan by name over permitting an expansion of the H-2B…
    Philip Wegmann
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    Conservatives ‘Shocked’ by Change to Immigration Law Tucked Inside Spending Bill

    House conservatives are up in arms over a provision in the omnibus spending bill that could allow more than a quarter-million temporary guest workers into the U.S.   As a significant change to immigration law, the measure stunned conservative lawmakers, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told The Daily Signal. “It came out of nowhere, completely out of…
    Philip Wegmann
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    How Well Is US Vetting Social Media of Immigrants? San Bernardino Attack Sparks Debate

    In the aftermath of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, a debate has emerged over how social media should be used in the vetting of foreigners who wish to visit or immigrate to the U.S. FBI Director James Comey confirmed this week that the husband-and-wife attackers were “showing signs in their communication of their joint commitment…
    Josh Siegel
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    Syrian Immigration Poses ‘Grave National Security Threat,’ Conservative Leaders Say

    Conservative leaders, including a former U.S. attorney general and a previous chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, are warning that the United States is putting its national security at risk unless it strengthens the vetting of Syrian refugees. The 66 leaders who signed Monday’s memo from the Conservative Action Project believe that currently, “there is no possible way…
    Leah Jessen
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    Obama’s Unilateral Immigration Amnesty Plan Gets to the Supreme Court

    On Friday, the U.S. Justice Department filed a 35-page petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Texas v. U.S., the case filed by 26 states against President Obama’s immigration amnesty plan. The government is appealing a preliminary injunction that stopped implementation of Obama’s amnesty plan, which was issued by a federal district court and…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Illegal Immigrant, Deported 3 Times, Charged With Running Over Police Officer

    A man deported from the United States three times is accused of running over a Dallas police officer and backing into a second cop. The illegal immigrant, Eduardo Gonzalez-Rio, is being held in the Dallas County Jail, according to The Dallas Morning News. Gonzalez-Rio, 29, was escorted out of a nightclub early Mondaymorning. He got into…
    Leah Jessen
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    Leaked DHS Memo Reveals Attempt to Skirt Immigration Law; Senate Republicans Demand Explanation

    Senate Republicans are asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain a leaked agency memo reportedly revealing that federal officials are planning to evade a federal court order barring pieces of President Barack Obama’s executive immigration actions. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, led eight others on the committee in a letter sent to DHS Secretary Jeh…
    Natalie Johnson
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    Republican Committee Chairmen Want Answers About Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Who Allegedly Raped a Woman

    Congressional Republicans continue to press the Department of Homeland Security for answers on how that agency handles the deportation of illegal immigrants suspected of violent crime. On Friday, the chairmen of both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson concerning a twice-deported man who allegedly kidnapped, trafficked,…
    Philip Wegmann
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