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Paul Ryan called for a clean slate and regular order in the House as he was sworn in as Speaker Thursday morning.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), tissue box within reach, took to the House floor Thursday morning to offer his farewell as House Speaker.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCory has signed legislation banning so-called sanctuary cities and limiting the kinds of identification documents acceptable to determine an individual’s identity or residency.

“The proposed debt deal takes as much as $150 billion from the Social Security Trust Fund for retirees and transfers the cash to the fraud-ridden disability program,” Sen. Sessions and Rep. Brooks write. “There is no ‘surplus’ in the retirement Trust Fund to spend somewhere else – Social Security will be insolvent by 2034 and has a $9.4 trillion unfunded liability.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is calling on President Obama to rescind his push to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees over the coming year until the administration can assure no terrorists will be admitted.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) should do his job as senator or resign and stop cheating the state, the Sun-Sentinel argues in an editorial slamming Rubio, often addressing him directly.

“Immigration, counting both new admissions and births to immigrant women, was responsible for three-fourths of the growth in our population this century,” the report published this week by the immigration reduction group Negative Population Growth reads. “If current trends continue, immigration will add another 100 million people to the United States in the next 50 years.”

DHS expanded family detention last year in response to the unprecedented run on the border by illegal immigrant adults with children. The government had pointed to detention as a deterrent to the ongoing influx of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border — which has seen more than 108,000 family unit members apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. over the past two fiscal years.

At current immigration levels, the U.S. will add approximately the population of Los Angeles very three years within the coming decade, according to Republican staff on with the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest.

Cesar Vargas—an activist and undocumented immigrant able to work in the U.S. due to President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program—accepted a job with the Sanders campaign last week, according to multiple reports. “I joined the campaign because the senator believes not only that we should meet DREAMers but that DREAMers should be part of the conversation to champion policies for the Latino community,” Vargas said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.

The CHANGE Act would replace the term “alien” with “foreign national” and replace “illegal alien” with “undocumented foreign national” in federal materials.

Customs and Border Protection revealed Friday that earlier this week Border Patrol Agents from the Santa Teresa Station intercepted five individuals climbing through a hole in the border fence. The agents chased the five subjects, finding them as they tried to hide in desert brush. One of the five illegal immigrants was Mario Perez-Contrera who had, what CBP described as, an “extensive criminal history.”

While the word “alien” has been used to refer to foreign nationals in the U.S. for more than 220 years, the term dehumanizes immigrants and should be stripped from federal law, according to Rep. Joaquin Castro (R-TX). He’s introduced a bill to replace “alien” with “foreign national” and “illegal alien” with “undocumented foreign national” in federal law and executive agency documents.

Two foreign nationals allegedly engaged in smuggling illegal immigrants to the U.S. on commercial flights are in custody after an undercover sting in New Jersey, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

“By placing domestic politics ahead of our troops, President Obama has put America’s national security at risk. This indefensible veto blocks pay and vital tools for our troops while Iranian terrorists prepare to gain billions under the president’s nuclear deal,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said following Obama’s veto. A vote to override the veto has already been scheduled in the House for November 5.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has reintroduced legislation establishing mandatory minimum sentencing for illegal immigrants who reenter the U.S.

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (R-IL) chastised Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels on the House floor Wednesday for scheduling Donald Trump to host Saturday Night Live (SNL).

During September, the final month of the fiscal year, nearly 10,000 unaccompanied minors and family unit members were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. through the southern border. That is, Border Patrol intercepted 4,476 unaccompanied minors and 5,273 illegal immigrant family unit members.

The murder of Kathryn Steinle and congressional efforts to block funding for sanctuary cities has not deterred San Francisco.

The Department of Homeland Security must remove the thousands of criminal immigrants slated for release from federal prison next month from the U.S., according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is pledging to Republican lawmakers that, if elected House Speaker, he would not attempt immigration reform, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon.

Illegal immigrant students have a right to a quality, taxpayer-funded education that prepares them for college and a career, according to the Department of Education.

More than half of U.S. states experienced job losses last month, according to data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The Bureau of Labor Statics reported that employment dropped in 27 states. Twenty states and the District of Columbia saw employment increase and three states had employment figures that remained unchanged.

One of the most vocal Donald Trump opponents in Congress is calling on the heads of Comcast and NBC Universal to “disinvite” the Republican presidential frontrunner from his planned Saturday Night Live hosting appearance in November.

The legislation would restrict federal funds and grants to sanctuary cities and channel the funding to jurisdictions that comply with immigration authorities. It would also affirm local law enforcement’s right to comply with immigration officials and establish a mandatory minimum sentence for criminal immigrants convicted of illegally re-entering the U.S.

Senate Democrats who block legislation targeting sanctuary cities will be choosing partisanship over the lives of innocent Americans, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) charged on the Senate floor Tuesday.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing an expansion to a program that allows foreign students with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degrees to work in the U.S.

In advance of a procedural vote on legislation targeting jurisdictions that do not cooperate with immigration officials — sanctuary cities — Senate Judiciary Committee staffers are highlighting the support the legislation is receiving from the families of criminal alien crime victims.

A criminal justice reform bill under consideration in Congress could lead to the release of criminal aliens, say warnings from immigration-enforcement officers and crime experts. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s “Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015” would reduce prison sentences

America’s current “autopilot” immigration system that quietly admits millions of new foreign workers to the U.S. annually callously fails to serve the needs of the American people, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Rep. David Brat (R-VA).

The next Speaker of the House should push for the immigration concerns of the American people, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

With the Senate poised to take up legislation targeting criminal aliens who illegally reenter the U.S., the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are expressing concern about a recent incident in which a multiple felon illegal immigrant was apprehended attempting to illegally re-enter the U.S. and then released.

Hillary Clinton’s debate performance is yielding positive results, at least in New Hampshire where the former secretary of state is now in a dead heat with democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), according to a new survey.

The tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors apprehended illegally entering the U.S. over the past two years have added to the already substantial backlog of immigration court cases, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

The “Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act” is not comprehensive enough to address the myriad problems with immigration enforcement under the Obama administration. However it is an adequate response to the specific problem of sanctuary cities, according to the Center for Immigration policies.

Three illegal immigrants, shielded from deportation by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, are suing three Missouri colleges, charging the schools’ tuition is too high.