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The United States is the largest source of remittances — or funds sent overseas by foreign-born residents — in the world, according to the Government Accountability Office.

President Obama ended the policy banning people with HIV from entering the U.S. in 2009, and now the administration is eliminating the entry ban for another three sexually transmitted diseases, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) says President Obama should nominate and the Senate should consider a replacement to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Immigration activists are pushing for illegal immigrants to be granted the right to vote in New York City, and say legislation to that effect could be introduced later this year.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been an unreliable ally and even, at times, enemy of the Latino and immigrant communities, according to Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL).

The number of U.S.-born, working-age Americans who are out of work has risen by 14.3 million since the year 2000, according to a new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of Labor Department data.

The Obama is no longer doing enhanced Ebola screenings for travelers from West Africa, because that the World Health Organization (WHO) has determined the region is now Ebola free.

The overwhelming majority of illegal immigrant children ordered removed by judges over the past year and half simply did not show up for their final hearings, according to the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).

Travelers from Visa Waiver Program countries who have visited Libya, Somalia, and Yemen will need to obtain a visa in order to travel to the U.S. under new Department of Homeland Security travel restrictions.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hugs the crying child of illegal immigrants in a new campaign ad set to begin airing in Nevada Thursday, according to ABC News.

More than 40 lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the China’s Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group’s purchase of the Chicago Stock Exchange, citing concerns that the takeover could allow the Chinese government to manipulate U.S. equity markets.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) are already predicting Senate Republicans will back away from their initial vows to block President Obama’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The United States and Cuba have signed an agreement restoring commercial airline service between the two countries, as part of the Obama administration’s effort to normalize relations with the island nation.

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) once tried to convince Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to abandon the Supreme Court to run as Sen. Bob Dole’s running mate in the 1996 presidential election.

Justice Antonin Scalia’s bench chair and the bench in front of it at the Supreme Court are draped with a black wool crepe in his memory.

“Pursuing their radical strategy in a quixotic quest to deny the basic fact that the American people elected President Obama — twice — would rank among the most rash and reckless actions in the history of the Senate. And the consequences will reverberate for decades,” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wrote in an op-ed published at The Washington Post.

The government is providing some illegal immigrant families with smartphones to temporarily use as they travel throughout the United States to their “destination” cities.

Protecting the nation’s manufacturing base is essential to national security, the senior policy adviser for GOP front-runner Donald Trump argued Friday.

The government provides more green cards to immigrants each month than South Carolina — the next GOP primary state – issues high school diplomas each year, according to a new chart released Thursday by Republicans on the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest.

Nearly two dozen Hispanic celebrities say they have signed on to an open-letter urging the Latino community to reject Republican presidential candidates because they are “pandering to the anti-immigrant base of the Republican Party.”

Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants the government to provide certain illegal immigrants with government-funded lawyers.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) have joined forces on another immigration effort, this time seeking to increase funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Republican lawmakers want to block the Obama administration from housing illegal immigrant minors on military bases across the U.S.

Two Republican committee chairmen are demanding the immigration histories of two murder suspects in Massachusetts who are thought to have ties to the notorious MS-13 gang.

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina became the latest contender to suspended her campaign Wednesday.

Rep. John Katko (R-NY) accused a repetitive committee witness of sounding like presidential candidate Marco Rubio during the last Republican debate.

House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) expressed frustration and outrage Wednesday at the Obama administration’s move to exempt Iran and other terror hot spots from a new law enhancing security measures in the Visa Waiver Program.

Eight illegal immigrant “family units” the federal government took into custody during last month’s immigration enforcement raids have been released from custody as their cases continue, according to a coalition of immigration advocacy groups.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is calling for a Justice Department investigation into allegations that a northeastern utility company fired hundreds of workers and forced them to train their less expensive foreign replacements.

They are on opposites sides of the aisle, but House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-OH) is considering taking up the Congressional Black Caucus’s plan to fight poverty, according to The Hill.

At a campaign rally in the final hours before the New Hampshire primary former President Bill Clinton said “sometimes” he wishes he was not even married to the candidate, Hillary Clinton.

The government’s Obamacare program gave up $750 million in taxpayer subsidies to roughly 470,000 illegal immigrants and individuals without verified immigration status, says a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report obtained by Fox News.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to more than a half million illegal immigrants last year, the first year illegal immigrants were eligible for driving certification in the state.

More than 80 criminal aliens were arrested in Utah during a multi-day sweep across the state last week for crimes the Obama administration has deemed serious enough to warrant deportation proceedings.