Illegal Immigration News

After Congress tonight approved a one-week funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security just hours before a midnight deadline, Republican lawmakers still struggled over how to fund the agency beyond seven days while fulfilling their stated goal of stopping President Obama’s immigration actions. “I am not sure how it is all going to end,”…

As the Friday deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security nears, House Conservatives are fighting a new Senate plan for preventing a partial shutdown of the agency. Under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposal, his chamber would vote first on a measure to fund Homeland Security and then hold a separate vote on a…

For each side in the debate over funding the Department of Homeland Security, the answer is simple—at least in their own minds. “I think the bill we passed is the right position, plain and simple,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, who won’t support anything other than House-passed legislation that funds Homeland Security only if Congress revokes…

A federal judge’s ruling Monday halted President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, stopping—at least temporarily—the government’s attempt to grant legal status to an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew S. Hanen’s ruling, in response to a lawsuit from 26 states, comes just days before the Obama administration planned to implement the…

Would-be successors to President Obama wasted little time aligning themselves with a federal judge who blocked the president from unilaterally allowing up to 5 million illegal immigrants to stay here and get work permits. Although neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor any other Democratic hopeful was out front with a reaction, some of the likeliest Republican…

A federal judge’s ruling yesterday halted President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, stopping—at least temporarily—the government’s attempt to grant legal status to an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew S. Hanen’s ruling, in response to a lawsuit from 25 states, comes just days before the Obama administration planned to implement the…

Twenty-six states are suing the federal government over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, but U.S. senators representing 10 of those states are taking the opposite approach in Washington. “We have senators from states going against what their constituents want and what their state attorney generals or governors are doing,” says @HvonSpakovsky Lawmakers in Florida, Indiana,…

Conservatives in the House of Representatives issued a stern message to their Senate counterparts today and emboldened them to “start fighting” and pass legislation that rolls back President Obama’s immigration policies. “It’s high time that Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and others decide that they’re going to start fighting, using the procedural rules in the…

Who are the 11.4 million immigrants living in the United States illegally? Last week, the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute released data profiles that provide an answer. The study focused on immigrants who stand to benefit from President Obama’s recent executive actions, which defer deportation for up to 5.2 million illegal immigrants and grant them work…

HERSHEY, Pa. — Just one day after the House of Representatives passed legislation rolling back several of President Obama’s immigration policies, GOP lawmakers from both chambers of Congress are expressing skepticism about whether the bill will win approval in the Senate. “We want to give our members an opportunity to vote and express their opposition…

The GOP-led House voted today to undo major portions of President Obama’s immigration policy, including his recent executive actions and an earlier program that allowed immigrants who entered the country illegally as children—a group known as Dreamers—to stay. In voting 236-191 to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through the end of…

An outspoken conservative senator said today that he expects “some” Democrats to join him in supporting an expansive plan by the House of Representatives to block President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, would not speculate if Republicans could count on enough Democrats to ultimately pass legislation in the Senate defunding Obama’s…

House Republicans will vote on far-reaching legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security through September and undo President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. After considering several proposals, the agreement favored by House leaders would prevent Obama from implementing his recent executive actions to defer deportation for up to 5 million immigrants living in the…

House Republicans, bolstered by a bigger majority, are moving quickly to block President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Acting on the party’s promise to confront Obama on his unilateral actions to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportations, GOP leaders plan to move on legislation as early as next week. “The House will soon take…