According to a Pew analysis of U.S. Census data, since 1980 Baby Boomers and their antecedents have cast the most votes in each presidential election. As the number of older voters decline and younger voters — supplemented by naturalizations of foreign-born adults — increase the electorate has experienced a shift toward Millennial and Generation voters.
The illegal immigrant who allegedly carjacked two elderly women at gunpoint and led police on a high-speed car chase in Kansas City, Missouri earlier this month had a prior felony record and multiple contacts with federal immigration officials, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
Those criminal aliens Philadelphia released and ICE officials later re-arrested had prior criminal convictions for crimes including DUI, aggravated assault, weapons offenses and narcotics manufacturing.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, DACA beneficiary Martín Batalla Vidal — represented by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the Make the Road New York (MRNY), and Yale Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) — seeks to exempt New York residents from the Texas v. United States injunction.
Over 2 million foreign visitors travelled to the nation’s capitol last year, the highest level of foreign travel to the Washington D.C. area to date, according to the city’s tourism marketing bureau.
“What message is being sent to those aliens who already have an incentive to lie to obtain an immigration benefit and now are emboldened even more by DOJ’s apparent acquiescence to this type of egregious criminal conduct?” Goodlatte wrote in a stinging letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch last week.
A decision handed down recently from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erodes the government’s ability to detain criminal aliens and must be challenged, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
A majority of the illegal aliens the Department of Homeland Security attempted to remove from the United States so far this fiscal year have been shielded from deportation by immigration judges.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has arrested 58 criminal aliens in the New York metropolitan area, in an operation targeting deportable foreign nationals who have committed crimes sufficiently bad to warrant removal under President Barack Obama’s “priorities” for enforcement of existing laws.
Border agents in Mexico and the United States are apprehending an increasing number of African, Asian, and Middle Eastern illegal immigrants attempting to enter the countries’ southern borders than previous years, according to Reuters.
Republicans are closing the gap on Democrats’ long-held voter registration lead in Florida, according to local reports.
Nearly half of the more than 63,000 refugees admitted to the U.S. this fiscal year are Muslim, representing the largest share of refugees resettled on American soil in that timeframe, according to government data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.
Few Americans support resettling Syrian refugees on United States soil, but a majority favor a limited military action to take on ISIS in Syria, according to a survey The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released Monday.
The number of adults traveling with minors and “unaccompanied minors” apprehended illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border increased again last month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB).
Due to the Obama Administration’s effort encouraging immigrants to become U.S. citizens to “fully participate in civic life” and a desire to vote in the 2016 presidential election, the number of naturalization applications have increased substantially in recent months, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
More than 728,000 illegal immigrants have been shielded from being deported and granted work permits through President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty program, according to the Migration Policy Institute. With the four year anniversary of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
The new PSA features a 19-year-old Central American man’s testimonial about the perils of the journey he made with his father and smugglers to get to America illegally, saying that after several hours of walking his father got terribly sick.
The Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to admit tens of thousands of refugees from Syria and other hotbeds of terrorism endangers the safety of the United States and has already had dire domestic consequences, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest warns.
A Cuban resident in the United States with more marriages to her name than Zsa Zsa Gabor has been indicted for fraud, after allegedly receiving payment to wed to least 10 illegal immigrants.
According to CBP, agents apprehended the 43-year-old convicted felon when they responded to to a report Monday afternoon of three people climbing over the border fence near Jacumba Hot Springs, California.
An illegal immigrant whom Philadelphia police released from custody last year and is now charged with raping a child under the age of 13-years-old should be a wake up call for the city to end its sanctuary policies, according to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA).
According to the Justice Department, late Friday a federal jury convicted Olga Sandra Murra aka “Olga Sandra Capon-Meneses”— a 64 year-old woman who immigrated to the U.S from Mexico in 1997 — on two counts of forced labor and two counts of harboring an illegal alien.
From October 2015 to June 2016, Venezuelans filed 10,221 applications for asylum. By comparison, over that same period last fiscal year — October 2014 to June 2015 — just 3,810 Venezuelans filed applications for asylum in the U.S.
The tech industry has been lobbying for increases to the number of temporary foreign workers allowed to come to the U.S. on H-1B visas for years by stressing that there are simply not enough American workers available to fill the needed positions.
The BLS reports that 25,984,000 foreign-born people had a job in the U.S. last month, up 133,000 compared to the previous record set in June.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 94,333,000 Americans were neither employed nor had made an effort to find work in July — down 184,000 compared to the month prior.
A previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico — who was released from local custody last year after officials ignored a federal immigration request to hold him — has been charged with raping a child under the age of 13.
A record number of foreign travelers visited the United States last year, up three percent over 2014, according to new government data.
While normally parole is an immigration benefit selectively offered to largely inadmissible aliens for only “urgent humanitarian reasons” or in cases of “significant public benefit,” the Obama Administration has been allowing DACA recipients to seek advance parole — allowing re-entry to the U.S. after traveling abroad — for “educational purposes, employment purposes, or humanitarian purposes.”
The government attributes the growing incidents of this brutal practice in the U.S. to increased immigration from countries — largely in Africa and the Middle East — where FGM/C is practiced.
The Department of Homeland Security is redesigning and extending Temporary Protected Status to thousands of Syrian nationals already residing in the United States, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson announced Monday.
During the first quarter of 2016, nearly 48.5 million working-age, native-born Americans were not in the labor force. In other words, 28 percent of American-born citizens ages 16 to 65 years old were neither employed nor looking for work.
According to ICE, several had prior felony convictions, others had multiple or “significant” misdemeanor convictions, and one was a previously deported criminal alien.
Hillary “Clinton’s plan is another troubling example of her eagerness to ignore the inconvenient truth that we live in dangerous times,” the National Border Parol Union issued in a statement Thursday.
President Barack Obama’s decision to invite Central American relatives of traditionally unqualified immigrants — including the illegal immigrants protected by his executive amnesty — to the United States is unlawful and will worsen the tide of migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border, says Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
The State Department says it is growing the list of aliens eligible for the administration’s existing Central American Minors program.
Three senators have introduced legislation in the memory of Norwich, Connecticut woman Casey Chadwick, murdered by an illegal immigrant from Haiti who Immigration and Customs Enforcement failed to deport.
In a fact-check of the fact-checkers, Vaughan took The Washington Post, Politifact, and the Los Angeles Times to task for their challenges to the data Trump cited as examples showing that illegal immigration is a problem.
According to the MCCA survey, the police departments of major cities reported a total of 2,308 homicides during the first half of 2016 compared to 2,001 during the first half of 2015. Additionally aggravated assaults increased from 68,990 in the first half of 2015 to 70,809 so far this year, non-fatal shootings grew from 6,362 to 6,965 this year to date, and robberies have also increased from 46,182 during the first half of 2015 to 47,294 this year.
The media watchdog group says it is taking its message to Hillary Clinton’s party in Philadelphia this week. It’s spending some $200,000 on billboards, taxi tops, taxi tv ads, sidewalk graphics and mobile building projections during the Democratic National Convention this week.
