The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has demonstrated a “troubling pattern” of threatening immigration officials who highlight the Obama administration’s “non-enforcement” immigration policies, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
Immigration and Customs and Enforcement officers in Utah are holding a twice-convicted sex offender with multiple deportations to his name.
More than 3,000 Cuban migrants traveling through Central America — hoping to reach the United States — will be airlifted from Panama to Mexico to continue their migration to the U.S., according to a new report.
While the budget for deportations has grown substantially over the past four years, the number of actual removals has plummeted.
As the influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors from Central America has increased, so too has the cost to assist each migrant, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
According to Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, as legislation cracking down on sanctuary cities works its way through the state legislature, “several persons” have testified that the Justice Department “mandated” the Big Easy enact the very sanctuary city policies the legislature is considering banning.
The illegal immigrant now charged with killing 21-year-old Sarah Root while street-racing drunk in Omaha entered the U.S. as an “unaccompanied minor.” The Obama administration then placed him in the custody of his brother, another illegal immigrant.
The Obama administration has not discouraged Central American countries from airlifting thousands of Cuban migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a senior State Department official.
A recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that struck down a law preventing “habitual drunkards” from being considered people of “moral character” in immigration benefit determinations was a “brazen display of judicial activism” that “endangers” communities, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
Millennials are officially America’s largest living generation, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Department of Health and Human Services — the agency which places unaccompanied minors with relatives and sponsors in the U.S. — is pushing back against a proposal to fingerprint parents who claim custody of the migrant children, saying it could cause delays in family reunification.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is considering “alternative” ways to admit more Syrian refugees to the United States, beyond the current refugee resettlement program, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
A woman from Guatemala has been sentenced to three years in prison for her role in a smuggling operation that recruited illegal immigrants in India and smuggled them through Central America into the United States.
A new Judicial Watch report reveals that the Centers for Disease Control warned government employees that the unaccompanied minors flooding across the border in recent years are carrying diseases, a claim dismissed by immigration activists.
Border Patrol apprehend 33,335 illegal border crossers last month and saw an uptick in apprehensions of “unaccompanied children” and so-called “family units.”
As the United States shifts its posture toward Cuba, and evidence of rampant welfare abuse by some Cubans is mounting, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says the country can no longer justify its policy of automatically granting Cubans refugee status once they reach U.S. soil.
Customs and Border Protection officials in Puerto Rico apprehended more then 46 migrants attempting to make it to the U.S. by sea in two separate incidents earlier this week.
Nearly half of the U.S.-born population of Latinos in the U.S. and 80 percent of the U.S.-born Asian population are children of immigrants, according to the Pew Research Center.
An overwhelming percentage of criminal aliens the Obama administration knows are in the U.S. are not detained but are instead living in neighborhoods and communities across the country, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
Comprehensive immigration reform — including a path to citizenship — will likely be on the table next Congress, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Eighty percent of the unaccompanied minors apprehended illegally entering the U.S. in recent months have been placed in the care of other illegal immigrants, according to data obtained by the Associated Press.
Michelle Root, the mother of 21-year old Sarah Root, spoke about the devastation of losing her daughter at the hands of Eswin Mejia, an illegal immigrant who killed Root while street-racing drunk. Mejia was able to flee when Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to detain him and he was able to post bail.
The mother of a teenage son who was tortured and murdered by an illegal immigrant broke down in tears Tuesday before a House panel, begging for the government to enforce immigration law.
There are more illegal immigrant criminals in the United States than the population of major U.S. cities, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) argues, expressing frustration at the Obama administration’s focus on the plight of illegal immigrants rather than the victims of their crimes.
The Department of Homeland Security is retaliating against the head of the union representing Border Patrol agents who protested the administration’s policy of releasing recent border crossers, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
A day after the Obama administration argues for an extension of amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants before the Supreme Court, the mothers of victims murdered by illegal immigrants will appear before a House panel to call for tougher immigration enforcement.
President Obama’s executive amnesty represents a “threat” to America’s very system of government, according to House Speaker Paul Ryan.
While the number of unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has boomed — growing by more than 1,200 percent in the past four years — few have been returned to their home countries, according to a new government report.
Nearly one in 14 children in the U.S. live with a parent who is an illegal immigrant, according to the Migration Policy Institute’s annual compilation of “Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States” released this week.
The government’s failure to fully implement a biometric system to track the entry and departure of foreign visitors to the U.S. due to protestations from special interests is an example of the reason behind Congress’s low approval ratings, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
The percentage of foreign-born workers in the U.S. civilian labor force has more than tripled over the past four decades.
The Department of the Treasury has frozen the U.S.-based assets of the Mexican Laredo Drug Trafficking Organization, a major trafficker of heroin to the U.S.
The bipartisan sentencing reform push in Congress would cause the premature release of many criminal aliens without a guarantee of deportation, according to NumbersUSA.
Immigration authorities are holding more than 40 criminal aliens in New Jersey, all convicted of sex crimes against children.
Sen. Jeff Sessions is pushing an amendment to a routine airline-regulation bill that would help reveal whether tourists, guest-workers and other legal visitors have properly gone home once their visas expire.
The government should consider individuals’ financial resources when setting the bond amount for aliens in removal proceedings, the ACLU argues.
The percentage of Americans who say they worry about race relations has reached its highest level in 15 years, according to a Gallup survey released Monday.
Democrats, immigration activists, and business leaders cheered President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. However, as quickly as Obama moved to block millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, a future president could not only revoke Obama’s orders but also implement dozens of pro-immigration enforcement actions that would make former executive amnesty cheerleaders grimace.
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) says the Obama administration employed “bait and switch tactics” to deceive the American people in order to admit unvetted refugees from terrorist hot-spots to the U.S.
Companies’ demand for foreign white-collar guest workers is so high that they have reached the 85,000 annual quota just two weeks after the yearly process began April 1.
