A man accused of hitting and killing a bicyclist while driving drunk — and continuing to drive after the cyclist flipped over his windshield and into the bed of his truck — had been in deportation proceedings since 2013.
A majority of Democratic voters believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote, according to a striking new Rasmussen Reports survey.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting Republicans in key congressional districts with Spanish-language robocalls decrying their recent vote against encouraging the Pentagon to consider allowing illegal immigrants to serve in the military.
As Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attempts to relate to the electorate, the Republican National Committee is out with a new chart pitting the “‘Dead Broke’ Clintons’” income against the income of “Everyday Americans.”
The Obama administration continues to release deportable criminal aliens from custody “at a rapid pace,” according to Center for Immigration Studies expert Jessica Vaughan.
Should Hillary Clinton support the trade effort, Richard Trumka warns, working people would take notice.
Following a major legal blow to President Obama’s executive amnesty programs, the administration will allow the process to play out in lower courts.
With support from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), 136 House Democrats are calling for an end to family detention for illegal immigrants.
One of the most vocal advocates for amnesty says he remains confident that illegal immigrants will one day be able to benefit from President Obama’s executive actions, despite the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal to lift a lower court’s injunction on the programs.
Goodlatte was one of many Republican lawmakers who praised the Tuesday ruling.
“By acting unilaterally to rewrite our nation’s immigration laws, President Obama has disregarded the will of the American people and violated the Constitution. Such lawlessness must be stopped so that we preserve the separation of powers in the Constitution and protect individual liberty,” Goodlatte says.
The Department of Homeland Security is now accepting employment authorization applications for certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders.
A federal appeals court has upheld a district court’s injunction preventing the the Obama administration’s executive amnesty programs from moving forward.
Complete with a website devoted to the agency’s 80th birthday, Colvin said the agency will be offering a menu of activities to mark the occasion, including encouraging people to offer their stories about how Social Security has benefited them and SSA employs to tell, “Why I Serve.”
“Where, as in Texas, large numbers of non-voters swell the population of certain geographic locations, the exclusive use of total population as the apportionment base will fail to protect the individual constitutional right to cast an equally weighted vote,” the appellants lawyers argue.
A left turn? The percentage of American who say they are socially liberal is equal to the percentage who identify as socially conservative for the first time since Gallup began asking Americans to describe their social views in 1999.
In a Facebook post Friday, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee affirmed his wife Janet and he support the Duggar family and chastised the media for a lack of consideration for the victims and lack of forgiveness.
In 2014, the unemployment rate for foreign-born people was 5.6 percent, compared to 6.3 percent for native-born Americans. Both groups experienced declines in unemployment from the year prior when foreign-born unemployment was 6.9 percent and native-born was 7.5 percent.
The president’s executive amnesty is so complex and unwieldy that not even the Obama administration itself truly knows what is actually happening, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues.
Foreign nationals with terrorist ties could be trying to manipulate the U.S. asylum process, according to the heads of four House committees.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pressing the Obama administration for answers on an illegal immigrant allegedly granted executive amnesty who’s now charged with child molestation and distributing child pornography.
Deal making in the Senate: Mitch McConnell promises a vote on the Ex-Im Bank in order to move the controversial TPA bill ahead.
The trade push has made unusual bedfellows of Republicans and President Obama as well as provided some uncomfortable exchanges between Obama and the more progressive wing of his party, which opposes the trade effort.
With the Senate poised to vote to end debate on Obama’s fast-track trade legislation, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is continuing his assault on the effort. Wednesday, Sessions took on arguments for the trade deal with a series of what he office says
President Obama is giving short shrift to real threats as he focuses on climate change as a national security issue, according to Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX).
While all 37 alleged gang members have been indicted on racketeering conspiracy charges, 22 of them are charged with additional crimes including those violent felonies Rose indicated.
The liberal group’s analysis — which also claimed there is an economic benefit to DAPA — concludes by calling for 2016 presidential candidates to offer positions on executive amnesty and encouraging the government to further expand amnesty for illegal immigrants.
In the wake of recent events, law enforcement officers are at a “tipping point” that could spell dangerous consequences for the communities they serve, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke testified before a House panel Tuesday.
“It is time to begin a vigorous analysis of our conduct of trade,” Sen. Jeff Sessions says. “Do our policies and TPP concede too much to our mercantilist competitor allies?”
One of the greatest struggles in prosecuting crimes in minority communities is the lack of witnesses willing to testify, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) highlighted during a House panel on policing.
Tuesday is the day one of President Obama’s executive amnesty programs would have taken effect, had a federal judge not halted the programs. So activist groups are planning to mark the occasion with protest.
State and local law enforcement should not be involved in immigration enforcement, President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing concludes in part.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is firing back at The Wall Street Journal for a second time this month. On this occasion, the Alabamian is responding to a WSJ editorial accusing him of “scare mongering” the fast-track trade deal before Congress and hurting the Republican cause.
More than 15 years after Cuba’s Elian Gonzalez was rescued off the coast of Florida and later embroiled in an international custody battle, Gonzalez says he would like to return to the U.S. for a visit.
The Obama administration says it violated a federal’s judge’s injunction blocking President Obama’s executive amnesty programs from taking effect due to computer problems, according to reports.
Less than a week into her Senate candidacy Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is apologizing for using an offensive gesture while making comments about Native Americans.
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) lambasted conservatives seeking to remove immigration language from the National Defense Authorization Action as reminiscent of the demanding mouse in the children’s book “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.”
Illegal immigrants should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says.
The EB-5 visa program — wherein foreign investors can be placed on a path to citizenship by investing and creating at least 10 full-time jobs in U.S. — is a scam, University of Chicago Law School professor Eric Posner concludes.
The House voted to strip language from the National Defense Authorization Act that would have called on the Pentagon to consider allowing illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty — via Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)— to serve in the U.S. military.
After filibustering a top Obama trade item Tuesday, a number of Democrats relented Thursday afternoon as the Senate voted to bring Trade Promote Authority to the floor. Exceeding the 60 vote threshold, the motion passed to proceed to the trade
