Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is calling on his House colleagues to support the effort to remove an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act seeking to allow illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty to enlist in the military.
“Republicans in Congress need to slam the brakes on ObamaTrade because the last thing this Administration fast-tracked was ObamaCare, and they simply cannot be trusted to negotiate any international trade deal that puts American workers first,” Mike Huckabee says.
“Not only did the two Secret Service agents endanger their own lives and innocent civilians by choosing to drink and drive, their poor judgement also imperiled the entire White House complex by bumbling into an active bomb investigation,” Rep. Bob Goodlatte said. He adds that “more must be done” to address the problems at Secret Service.
A day after Senate Democrats put the brakes on an Obama-backed trade bill, Senate leaders announced a deal to move forward with the fast-track trade effort.
The report also identified several eyebrow-raising details about the administration’s use of prosecutorial discretion. For example, ICE officers revealed they cannot get the full information about an immigrant’s criminal history.
The president of the liberal National Organization for Women says President Obama’s recent comments about Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s opposition to his administration’s trade deal were sexist.
The trade effort has put Republican leadership in an unusual position, supporting an Obama agenda item as members of the President’s own party push against it — witness Obama’s recent public sparring with fast-track opponent Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
The number of family unit apprehensions for the first seven months of this fiscal year compared to the same timeframe last year is also down — with 16,997 apprehensions as the southern border compared to 26,341 family unit apprehensions in the same timeframe last fiscal year.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials revealed the plan to process amnesty applications with the Electronic Immigration System (ELIS) — a system currently devoted to services for lawful immigrants — last month.
The Obama administration violated U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction halting President Obama’s executive amnesty programs, Justice Department lawyers have admitted to the court.
All the net job gains among females since the beginning of the recession have gone to foreign-born women, according to data released Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In December 2007 the number of foreign-born workers was 22,810,000. By April 2015, the number had increased to 24,819,000 or a net job growth of more than 2 million. For native-born workers that number in December 2007 was 123,524,000 by April of this year the number of employed native-born Americans was 123,769,000 or a net job growth of 245,000.
A record number of women were not in the labor force in April, according to numbers released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last month, the number of women not in the workforce increased from the previous record of 56,131,000, registered in March, to a new record of 56,167,000.
For the second month in a row, the number of people not in the workforce hit another record high in April, according to jobs data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Sessions argued that Americans have been harmed by recent trade agreements, saying that the percentage of Americans with a job are at its lowest points since the 1970s, wages have declined since 2000 and family income has declined $3,000 since 2009.
On a near unanimous vote, the Senate approved a bill Thursday to the require that Congress review any final nuclear deal with Iran.
The Army confirms that the Obama administration has already enlisted dozens of illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty.
Now that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is embracing a path to citizenship and expansion of Barack Obama’s amnesty for illegal immigrants, the RNC is highlighting her previous position on illegals.
The Army has already accepted nearly 50 illegal immigrants into its ranks, according to a new report.
Wednesday the Department of Homeland Security submitted a proposal to Congress calling for the creation of a “United States Citizenship Foundation.” The legislative proposal would grant the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority to create such a foundation as a nonprofit corporation that would focus on promoting and encouraging U.S. citizenship among immigrants in the U.S.
American taxpayers spent $17,025 to transport Vice President Joe Biden to campaign for Democrats and celebrate shipyard builders in New Hampshire last September, according to documents obtained by a conservative watchdog group.
Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren explains that the faith community in the U.S. has been more eager to collaborate with the U.S. government than the government has been to work with it.
An interactive map from the Center for Immigration Studies details the locations and concentrations of immigrants removed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement from October 2008 through February 2015 as part of the Secure Communities program.
More than two dozen Republicans are calling on the House Rules Committee to eliminate an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would call on the Secretary of Defense to make illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty eligible to serve in the U.S. military.
The Hispanic population in the coming two decades is projected to reach 84,543,000, or 22.8 percent of the population, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently the Hispanic population makes up 17 percent of the U.S. population at 56,754,000.
The Obama administration is offering up to $3.3 million in taxpayer-funded grants to increase the use of food stamps at farmers markets. The grants are part of an ongoing effort by USDA to increase SNAP participants’ access to fresh, healthy food.
The Internal Revenue Service erroneously provided billions of dollars in educations tax credits to ineligible students, according to a new government watchdog report.
Hillary Clinton will endorse a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants during a campaign stop at a Nevada high school Tuesday, according to reports.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) should not be used as a vehicle to pursue allowing illegal immigrants to serve in the U.S. military, according Reps. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and Dave Brat (R-VA).
“America is a country, not a spreadsheet. A country puts the needs of its own citizens first,” Sen. Jeff Sessions writes to the Wall Street Journal.
The Obama administration is expressing regret to U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen — the man presiding over 26 states’ court challenge to executive amnesty — for not being entirely forthcoming about the implementation dates associated with the programs.
In 2013, China was the top country of origin for recent U.S. immigrants at 147,000. Indian nationals accounted for 129,000 immigrants, and 125,000 were from Mexico, according to a new study reported by The Wall Street Journal.
“[W]e send a clear message to these extremists: we will not be intimidated by violence, and we will not bow down to terror,” Rep. Michael McCaul says.
The abortion rate among immigrants is about on par with the abortion rate for native-born Americans, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies. Using data from the Guttmacher Institute’s Abortion Patient Survey, the report — authored
Of the 23 million children under the age of six in the U.S., one in four have immigrant parents according to a new Migration Policy Institute report.
In the wake of the ongoing events in Baltimore, the Justice Department Friday is announcing a $20 million body-worn camera pilot program for law enforcement agencies.
“It’s appalling that some members of the Republican conference, and frankly all members of the Democratic conference, place illegal immigrants on pedestals over American citizens, contrary to the needs and wishes of the American people,” Rep. Mo Brooks says.
Authorities have arrested one of the top 10 most wanted human traffickers. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Paulino Ramirez-Granados has been on its most wanted list since 2010. He’s been charged in the Eastern District of New York with sex trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy to import aliens.
A Democrat objects after the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee swears in Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas before his testimony.
Deportations of illegal immigrants from the U.S. are on track to hit the lowest level in a decade under the Obama administration, according to internal figures obtained by the Associated Press.