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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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    Most Illegal Immigrants Crossing Border Believe They Are Eligible for Legal Status. Obama’s Actions Make That No Surprise.

    Families caught illegally crossing the border into the United States recently are telling government agencies they did so in part because they thought they would be allowed to stay. According to data from Customs and Border Protection, which recently interviewed illegal border crossers, families “consistently” believed they were eligible for some sort of legal “permisos,”…
    David Inserra
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    Deportation Numbers Have Dramatically Fallen. Is This Related to Obama’s Immigration Actions?

    Deportations have fallen to the lowest point since 2006, according to unreleased government deportation data the Associated Press recently acquired. Furthermore, criminal immigrants being removed have also fallen to the lowest point of the Obama administration. These figures put two huge holes in the administration’s excuses for not enforcing immigration laws and could even be…
    David Inserra
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    Conservatives Dispute Civil Rights Commission Report Citing ‘Inhumane’ Conditions at Immigrant Detention Centers

    The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released an extensive report Thursday urging President Barack Obama to release undocumented immigrant women and children from detention facilities, citing “abuse” and “inhumane” conditions. The commission found that several of the facilities had violated federal requirements regarding the treatment of detained immigrants, including poor medical care standards, inadequate sexual…
    Natalie Johnson
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    Five Questions Sen. James Lankford Wants Obama to Answer About His Immigration Actions

    Sen. James Lankford will send a letter to the White House on Thursday asking the president to clarify his remarks that there will be “consequences” for government officials who do not comply with his executive order on immigration. This is the second attempt Lankford, R-Okla., has made to have President Barack Obama explain his statement….
    Kate Scanlon
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