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Latin America Tops Global List Of Most Emotional, Positive Nations

Gallup’s 2015 Global Emotions report released Thursday quantifies positive and negative experiences of 148 countries’ residents via 153,000 interviews conducted in 2014. The interviews probed residents on 10 questions to gauge their positive and negative emotions from the day before. Countries in Latin America top the list of the world’s most emotional and positive nations.

Joggers pass the Presidential residence in Guatemala city on August 27, 2015.

2016 Presidential Hopefuls Among Most Influential Marijuana Consumers

The eight candidates MPP reports “have said or strongly indicated that they have consumed marijuana” include Jeb Bush, Lincoln Chafee, Ted Cruz, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders and Rick Santorum. “In addition to potentially becoming our next president, these marijuana consumers are playing a major role in the national political dialogue,” Mason Tvert, spokesman for the pro-marijuana groups, said in a statement. “Win or lose, they are guiding the debate and influencing the positions of others both within and outside of their parties.”

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Dem. Rep. Chu: ‘Anchor Babies Is A Slur’

Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), the first Chinese-American woman elected to Congress, slammed GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush Tuesday for defending his use of the term “anchor baby” by arguing that the term “is more related to Asian people.”

U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) (2nd L) announces new legislation to protect a woman's righ

Biden’s Problem: Just One Sitting VP Elected President Since 1837

Joe Biden is running against history. According to the report from Smart Politics founder Eric Ostermeier, just one sitting vice president has been elected president in the past 175 years, while seven others have run and lost. That lone sitting vice president to be elected president was George H.W. Bush in 1988.

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U.S. Almost Alone In Granting Birthright Citizenship

While the left has attacked the idea of ending birthright citizenship in the U.S. as “extreme,” globally the U.S. is one of few countries that actually grant automatic citizenship at birth to illegal immigrants.

A man holds an US flag prior to taking the citizenship oath to become a US citizen during

Poll: Majorities Support Border Wall, Deporting Criminal Illegal Immigrants

A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released Wednesday reveal that 70 percent of likely Republican voters believe the U.S. should build a wall alone the southern border. Just 17 percent of GOP voters disagreed and 13 percent were undecided. The wall would be aimed at blocking illegal immigrants.

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GOP Rep: DHS Failing at Primary Task by Releasing Illegal Alien Criminals

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) slammed the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday for releasing three violent criminal aliens into Arizona.

“Our Department of Homeland Security needs to focus more on securing our homeland, not on cornering the market as a transportation option for illegal aliens in the United States,” Salmon said.

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Number Of Syrian Refugees To U.S. Expected To Quadruple

In written responses to the Senate Judiciary Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee Republicans obtained by Breitbart News, the State Department reveals that it is expecting the U.S. will accelerate its acceptance of Syrian refugees next year. “As of July 30, the United States has admitted 1,042 Syrian refugees in FY 2015 and anticipates admitting a total of 1,500-1,800 Syrians this fiscal year. We anticipate admitting 5,000-8,000 Syrian refugees in FY 2016,” the State Department wrote.

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Border Patrol Caught 135 Illegal, Unaccompanied Children Daily In July

The new figures show the pace of illegal immigration by UACs and parents with children — while still less than last year’s surge — increasing. On average, border patrol apprehended 135 UACs each day in July, the highest monthly level of UAC apprehensions this fiscal year.

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Massachusetts City Moves To Enact Sanctuary Policies

Despite recent murders blamed, in part, on sanctuary city policies, a city council in Massachusetts has voted in favor of becoming the latest locality to adopt a policy of limited compliance with federal immigration officials.

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DHS Watchdog Unable To Verify Total Illegal Amnesties Issued After Injunction

A DHS Inspector General audit released Thursday did not find any evidence that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services deliberately violated U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen’s executive amnesty injunction when it continued to issue prohibited three-year work permits to illegal immigrants granted deferred action, as opposed to the acceptable two-year permits.

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EB-5 Immigration Program Susceptible To Fraud

The immigration program for wealthy investors — the Employment-Based Fifth Preference Immigrant Investor Program or EB-5 — is vulnerable to fraud, new a Government Accountability Office report reveals.

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Illegals Sue U.S. For Millions Of Dollars Over Detention

Andrew Free, the immigration lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told the AP that the government’s use of family detention violates their rights and that the government fails to provide the “standard of care that they owe to these detainees. We expect this will be the first in a large set of filings on the mistreatment of these women and children on behalf of the government.”

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Sessions, Cruz Press Admin. On Immigration, Terrorism ‘Nexus’

In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson, and Secretary of State John Kerry dated Wednesday, the pair seek immigration data on foreign-born individuals the government has identified as being associated with or engaged in terrorist activity since February 26, 1993 — the date of the first World Trade Center bombing.

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Report: GOP Divided On Mandatory Minimums For Previously Deported Illegals

Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) would like to see legislation that would impose a mandatory minimum of five years on illegal immigrants who re-enter the country illegally after being deported. Last month Cruz introduced “Kate’s Law” that would apply such minimums.

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Report: Jeh Johnson Spared From Court Over Illegal Amnesties

U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen will spare Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson from appearing before his court later this month to answer for the Obama administration’s illegal issuance of amnesty documents.

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GOP Sen.: Obama Missed Chance To Oust Cuban Criminals

Cuba has consistently refused efforts to accept back its nationals who have been ordered deported from the U.S. According to Grassley, Cuba’s refusals have caused some tens of thousands of Cubans with deportation orders to remain in the U.S., many with criminal records.

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Dual U.S./Jordan Citizen Aimed To Form ‘Small Army’ For ISIS

Nader Saadeh, a former resident of Rutherford, New Jersey, has been charged following an FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) investigation into a group of individuals living in New York and New Jersey allegedly conspiring to assist ISIS.

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Obama Admin. Launches Media Campaign To Deter Illegal Immigration

In recent months and years illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have flooded the U.S.-Mexico border believing they could stay in the U.S. and thinking that the “Notices to Appear” handed to them by immigration officials before being released into the interior of the U.S. were “permisos” or free passes.

In this July 7, 2015, file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered th

24,710,000 Foreign-Born People Employed In U.S.

The number of foreign-born people employed in the U.S. dipped slightly in July but remained about three times higher than the number of unemployed native-born Americans, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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DHS Updates Visa Waiver Program in Response to Foreign Fighter Threats

The Department of Homeland Security is instituting new security requirements for those countries in the Visa Waiver Program — or countries whose nationals do not need visas for short visits to the U.S. — due to the threats posed by foreign fighters, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson announced Thursday.

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Socialist Bernie Sanders to Address Liberty University

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking his message to one of the most conservative colleges in the U.S., Liberty University. The Vermont socialist is slated to address the evangelical university on September 14, as part of the

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