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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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    16 Photos of the Refugees Stranded in Hungary Amid Migrant Crisis

    Thousands of migrants from Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, have fled to Europe. As European countries grapple with the situation, Hungary has become the epicenter of the crisis, with many on trains or at train stations. Many of the migrants have resisted going to a refugee camp. 100s of #refugees stuck inside…
    Kelsey Lucas
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    Study: Half of Immigrant Households Used at Least One Welfare Program

    The majority of immigrants in the U.S. receive some form of government welfare, significantly outpacing native-born Americans who use benefit programs, according to a study released Wednesday. The Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit organization that advocates for decreased immigration, reported that 51 percent of immigrant households used at least one welfare program in 2012…
    Natalie Johnson
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    Ann Coulter on Why Immigration Is the Only Issue That Matters

    Political commentator Ann Coulter believes that immigration is the most important issue facing America today. If we don’t get it right, she says, debates over economics, foreign policy, and other issues just won’t matter. Coulter makes the case in her new book, “Adios, America,” that it has been the goal of liberals for decades to…
    Genevieve Wood
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    Study: 87% of Illegal Immigrants Won’t Be Deported Under Obama’s Executive Actions

    A new study has found that of the unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. already, most of them will be spared from deportation under Obama’s recent executive actions. A report released last Thursday from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think-tank in Washington, found that 13 percent of an estimated 11 million immigrants without papers—1.4 million…
    Chelsea Scism
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    Illegal Immigrant Sex Offenders Are Escaping Deportation, Not Having to Join Sex Offender Registry

    The murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco by a seven-time felon and five-time deportee has sparked a nationwide debate about sanctuary cities and immigration policy. We recently learned that in one eight-month period in 2014, more than 8,100 deportable aliens were released by sanctuary jurisdictions. Of those, three thousand were felons and 62 percent…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Obama Administration to Take Back Work Permits From Illegal Immigrants

    The Obama administration is rushing to comply with a federal court order, dispersing officials throughout the U.S. to personally seize more than 2,000 work permits that were granted to illegal immigrants under the president’s executive actions. The federal immigration authorities will make personal home visits to caution immigrants that their deportation protections will expire at…
    Natalie Johnson
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    Obama Administration Seeks Expansion of Student Visas for Immigrants

    President Obama has proposed to extend the time some immigrant students can stay and work in the United States after they graduate from college, and some in Congress are unhappy because they say these students take and keep jobs that should go to Americans. The Optional Practical Training allows students to stay in the United…
    Leah Jessen
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    Before Skeptical Lawmakers, Officials Defend ‘Legality’ of Obama’s Immigration Actions

    Top government officials were called before Congress today to answer a series of questions about illegal immigration enforcement since President Obama announced his plan to grant legal status to millions here illegally. Obama’s executive actions on immigration—introduced in November—are currently on hold due to a federal court ruling. “President Obama made far-reaching, unilateral changes to…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Senator Pressures Government to Add ‘Freedom of Religion’ to US Immigration Exam

    Marking the anniversary of when the First Amendment right to “freedom of religion” was introduced, Sen. James Lankford is pressuring the Department of Homeland Security to change language used in a U.S. citizens exam. “It is my understanding that the answer choice ‘freedom of worship’ has been used since 2008, when [the U.S. Citizen and…
    Kelsey Bolar
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    The Obama Administration Was Handed a Huge Immigration Defeat. Here’s Why It Matters.

    A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Obama administration a huge defeat this week. It denied the government’s request for an emergency stay of a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of President Obama’s immigration amnesty program. This is not a decision on the merits of the lawsuit filed against the administration…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Federal Appeals Court Keeps Hold on Obama’s Immigration Actions

    A federal appeals court has decided to keep a hold on President Obama’s immigration executive actions, preventing the program from at least temporarily going into effect. Two of three judges on a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled to uphold an injunction on Obama’s 2014 immigration actions. Judge Andrew…
    Josh Siegel
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    Can Marco Rubio Make Peace With Conservatives on Immigration?

    Some conservatives wrote off Marco Rubio as a prospective candidate for president because of the Florida Republican’s work on, and advocacy for, the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill. The first-term senator began to talk about that legislation as a mistake, though, as he moved toward his April 13 announcement that he was formally entering…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Did Obama Administration Really Accidentally Disobey Judge’s Order on Immigration?

    The Justice Department’s latest filings in the immigration lawsuit brought by 26 states in the Southern District of Texas are a little hard to believe—and somewhat comical, in a way. Back in February, Judge Andrew Hanen issued a preliminary injunction against the implementation of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration. Now, in an attempt to…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    House Approves Defense Spending Bill After Removing Controversial Immigration Provision

    The House of Representatives today passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which is annual legislation that funds the Department of Defense. The final version of the legislation stripped out language that would have asked the Pentagon to consider allowing young immigrants who came to the country illegally as children to become eligible for service in…
    Kate Scanlon
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    GOP-Led House Considers Bill Encouraging Illegal Immigrants to Serve in Military

    The National Defense Authorization Act, currently making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House, includes language encouraging the secretary of defense to allow immigrants who are in the country illegally to serve in the military. The provision asks Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to consider making those who were approved for deferred deportation under President Obama’s…
    Kate Scanlon
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    Defense Funding Bill Shouldn’t Allow Illegal Immigrants to Enlist in the Military

    Despite the fact that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted down repeated attempts to encourage the recruitment of illegal immigrants into the military, we are seeing yet another attempt to encourage such recruitment recently inserted into a must-pass defense funding bill. Even worse, the push to recruit illegal immigrants is happening at a time…
    Rep. Dave Brat
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