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Sessions: If Not For Sanctuary Cities And Obama Admin. Immigration Policies Kate Steinle ‘Would Be Alive Today’

“If not for sanctuary cities and the Obama administration’s continued destruction in other areas of immigration enforcement, Kate and others surely would be alive today,” Sen. Jeff Sessions said on the Senate floor. “Her death could have been prevented. But the extreme open borders ideology that rejects even the deportation of criminals — that is, people who commit other crimes than the crime of entering the country illegally — has led to her death, as it has led to the death of many others.”

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Goodlatte: Obama Immigration Policies Have Created ‘A Public Safety Crisis’

“The actions taken by the Obama Administration to weaken the interior enforcement of our immigration laws have created a public safety crisis,” Goodlatte said in a statement to Brietbart News Wednesday. DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson is slated to appear before Goodlatte’s committee next week to testify about the Obama administration’s enforcement efforts.

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GOP Rep. On Sanctuary Cities: ‘Enough Is Enough’

Barletta’s bill, the Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act, would strip federal funding for a minimum of one year to any state or locality that has laws or policies in place obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law. The jurisdiction would only regain their federal funding once the attorney general verifies full compliance.

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Flashback: Hillary Clinton’s Longtime Support for Sanctuary Cities

In the wake of the murder of Kate Steinle at the hands of a multiple-deportee, multiple felon — Hillary Clinton is now saying cities should cooperate with federal officials. But as a presidential candidate, she has been a supporter of sanctuary city policies in the past.

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Senate Judiciary Republicans: Obama Program To Release More Criminal Immigrants; Sessions: Immigration Enforcement Should Not Be ‘Russian Roulette’

The administration announced the elimination of the highly successful Secure Communities program and put PEP in its place last year in conjunction with the executive amnesty programs President Obama offered up in November. “Under PEP, countless criminal aliens who have managed to evade conviction will be released, endangering our communities. More crimes will be committed, and precious resources will be spent to re-apprehend these individuals, a process that significantly endangers the safety of your officers and agents,” a group of Senators wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson Tuesday.

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Obama Admin. Launches Ad Campaign Encouraging Immigrants To Become Citizens

The campaign is part of an Obama administration push to encourage immigrants to become citizens. In recent months, the Obama administration has partnered with six cities including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, and Atlanta to promote naturalization. Print and digital advertisements will be in English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese. Radio public service announcements will be heard in Spanish and Chinese and video public service announcements will be in English and Spanish.

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More Than 347,000 Convicted Criminal Immigrants At Large In U.S.

In 2013 the Obama administration released 36,007 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. Those convictions included 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, and 1,075 aggravated assault convictions. In 2014 the administration released another 30,558 criminal immigrants, who had a total of 79,059 convictions.

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GOP Rep. Slated To Introduce Legislation Targeting Sanctuary Cities

Hunter’s bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to restrict funding to any state or locality that has in place a law, policy or procedure in contravention of federal immigration law, preventing “state or local law enforcement officials from gathering information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.

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GOP Rep.: ‘Sanctuary cities’ Are ‘Havens For Everyone But Law-Abiding Citizens’

“My heart breaks for the family and friends of Kate Steinle, as they have seen a promising young life ended too soon, and the suspect is a criminal who should never have been in this country in the first place” Barletta said in a statement Monday. “That her accused killer is a seven-time felon, was deported five times, and was prevented from being deported a sixth by San Francisco policies, is as maddening as it is inexplicable.”

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Boehner Talks Immigration Reform In Ireland

According to the Irish Times report, Boehner also spoke about how Ireland’s leader, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, has often pressed him on the immigration matter. There are about 50,000 Irish immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, many having overstated their visas.

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24,816,000 Foreign-Born People Employed In U.S.

Since the beginning of the recession in December of 2007 — ending June 2009 — the foreign-born population has outpaced the native born population in net job growth by nearly two to one, with the native born population netting 1.3 million jobs since December 2007 and the foreign-born population netting just over two million in that same time frame.

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Gay Rights Adaptation Of Iwo Jima Marines Sparks Outrage

Freeman received disapproving responses to his when he posted on Facebook that Friday, “When I took this picture almost ten years ago, it never, never occurred to me that it would someday come to symbolize the victory we are celebrating today. Congratulations to all of us! Love to you all.”

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Obama Admin. Still Has Not Recovered Illegal Amnesties, In Violation Of Judge’s Orders

At a hearing last week, U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen was outraged that the matter had yet to be cleared up. “I expect you to resolve the 2,000; I’m shocked that you haven’t,” he said at a hearing in Brownsville, according to the San Antonio Express-News. “If they’re not resolved by July 31, I’m going to have to figure out what action to take.”

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Bush, Trump On The Rise In CNN Poll; Clinton Top Dem

The poll has Bush leading the pack with 19 percent of the GOP vote, up from 13 percent in May before he announced for president. Trump has jumped to second place with 12 percent of the vote, up from three percent before his announcement. The pair are the only two candidates in the GOP field with double digit support nationally.

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Report: Manufacturing Decline And Low Skill Immigration Have Depressed Wages

Gould reveals that changes in wages, employment, and income inequality have been impacted by the shifts in manufacturing, immigration and trade, and concludes that an area already being hit by a decline in manufacturing will be see more inequality if there is more low-skilled immigration.

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Coulter: ‘I’m Offended’ Is Not An Argument Against Trump, Facts Back Him Up

Coulter, who devotes a goodly portion of her new book to immigrant crime and the media’s failure to report fully on the “immigrant crime wave,” points out that arguments against Trump amount to a straw man claim that “not all Mexicans are rapists.” “The point is: Why should America be taking in ANY RAPISTS?” Coulter wrote in an email to Breitbart News.

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Dubious Judges To Consider Executive Amnesty

The panel of Fifth Circuit judges slated to consider President Obama’s executive amnesty programs include Republican appointed Judges Jennifer Walker Elrod and Jerry Smith, who ruled against the emergency stay last month. The third judge on the panel is Democratic appointee Judge Carolyn Dineen King.

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Newly Discovered Clinton Emails Adds Fuels To Congressional Investigation

Committee chairman Trey Gowdy last week called the reevaluation significant and troubling. “These new messages in many instances were Clinton’s responses, which clearly show she was soliciting and regularly corresponding with Sidney Blumenthal—who was passing unvetted intelligence information about Libya from a source with a financial interest in the country. It just so happens these emails directly contradict her public statement that the messages from Blumenthal were unsolicited,” he said in a statement.

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Report: Admin. Predicted Another 127,000 Illegal Immigrant Children In 2015

An internal PowerPoint presentation prepared for Congress, dated April 22, 2014 and obtained by the Washington Examiner reveals that last year the Obama administration anticipated the number of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children would reach 127,000 in 2015. The document also correctly anticipated that the number of unaccompanied children would reach 60,000 in 2014.

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DNC Fundraises Off SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decision

In a fundraising email to supporters — with the subject line: “Love won.” — DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz cheered the decision, requesting supporters “add your name in support of marriage equality.”

RNC Warns Ruling Must Not Be Used To Violate Religious Liberty

“As a Party, we believe in the importance of traditional marriage between a man and a woman and remain committed to finding common ground to champion the family’s role in society,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement Friday. “Marriage is critically important to strengthening our country and our communities.”

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Boehner: Obamacare ‘Fundamentally Broken,’ ‘Struggle Will Continue’

“The law is broken. It’s raising costs for American families, it’s raising costs for small businesses and it’s just fundamentally broken. And we’re going to continue our efforts to do everything we can to put the American people back in charge of their own healthcare and not the federal government,” Boehner says.

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Mark Meadows Reinstated as Subcommittee Chair

In a reversal from last week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has returned the chairmanship of the Government Operations Subcommittee to Rep. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).

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Estimated 96 Percent of Border Surge Illegals Remain In U.S.

The data shows that more than 77,000 illegal immigrant adults and minors were apprehended and served Notices to Appear between July 18, 2014 and May 26, 2015. Just over 3,000 appeared before a judge and were ordered removed.

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