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Al Sharpton and women civil rights leaders say they are launching a fast to pressure lawmakers to vote and confirm President Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch.

In a letter to Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ben Sasse (R-NE), exclusively obtained by Breitbart News, the Social Security Administration (SSA) reveals that by the end of Fiscal Year 2014 the Obama administration “had issued approximately 541,000 original SSNs to individuals authorized to work under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy since its inception” in 2012.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña struggled to explain the reasons behind the Obama administration’s release of thousands of criminal immigrants when pressed by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) offered a scathing opening statement about the decline in interior immigration enforcement under the Obama administration at an oversight hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is welcoming another Senate colleague to the growing field of Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for president.

What are the odds? Two of the three judges that will consider the Obama administration’s appeal to stay a lower court’s preliminary injunction on its executive amnesty programs were appointed by Republican presidents. The third was appointed by Barack Obama.

Unless Congress moves to limit current legal immigration rates, the U.S. will add at least 10 million more legal immigrants over the next decade — more than the combined populations of seven major cities, according to GOP staffers on the Senate’s Immigration subcommittee.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s Friday memo warning Justice Department employees against soliciting prostitutes did not go far enough, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says. His concern is the memo does not establish a “zero tolerance policy” at DOJ for employees who purchased sex, as he called for shortly after the report’s release.

In case they were not clear on the concept, Attorney General Eric Holder is warning Justice Department employees against soliciting prostitutes.

While Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) appears to be currently safe from a primary challenge from his left, there remains a “real” Democratic divide in the state as liberal groups target the incumbent over upcoming trade deals, according to Roll Call’s Rothenblog.

With a record 3.8 million black immigrants from around the world currently living in the U.S., there are four times more black immigrants in the U.S. today than in 1980, according to a new Pew Study.

A University of California, Davis professor is scoffing at a new report from the libertarian Niskanen Center that claims the importation of high-skilled immigration helps job creation in the U.S.

Following Breitbart News’ report about the training immigration activists planned to help illegal immigrants prepare for executive amnesty, the Committee for Immigration Reform Implementation has removed the materials from public view.

A series of powerpoint presentations from the Committee for Immigration Reform Implementation sheds some light on how groups supportive of President Obama’s executive amnesty are strategizing to get people to sign up and defend the president’s actions.

Expect another surge of illegals. Although the Obama administration has adopted a range of efforts to stop Central American children from illegally coming to the U.S. — including implementing a program to fly them here instead — a new report projects 39,000 unaccompanied minors and 35,000 family units will be apprehended at the southern border this fiscal year.

A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Dick Durbin (R-IL) called on top Obama administration officials to launch an investigation into the alleged abuse of a visa program to lay off and replace American workers with cheaper foreign workers.

The Social Security Administration improperly paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits to sexual predators involuntarily confined in Special Commitment Centers, according to a new audit from the agency’s Inspector General.

The shooting death of an unarmed black man in North Charleston, South Carolina by a police officer was an “execution,” according to pediatric neurosurgeon and potential presidential candidate Ben Carson.

More than 400 people have applied to have their children living in Central America be brought to the United States as refugees or parolees through the Obama administration’s recent Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program and there is no limit on the number of immigrants who could be approved, Breitbart News has learned.

The Department of Homeland Security has arrested nearly 1,000 gang members and their associates in a multi-week, multi-city operation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says.

Two Democratic House members are questioning Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) leadership in the wake of recent electoral defeats, suggesting she should step down.

Sign of things to come? A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a dismissal of a challenge to President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Although Republicans hold a supermajority in the Georgia State Senate, the body recently voted down an amendment that would have barred illegal immigrants from obtaining driver’s licenses.

Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin expressed excitement at Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential run Tuesday.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) welcomes Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) into the race for the Republican nomination. “I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary,” Cruz, the first in the 2016 presidential cycle to announce his bid for the White House, said in a statement.

”I have decided to run for re-election,” Sen. John McCain said. “I’m ready. I am more than ready. In some ways, I am eager.”

More than 15,640 unaccompanied minors were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. from October 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015 according to updated government figures. The new data show an increase of 3,138 unaccompanied minors over previous totals in February at 12,509 unaccompanied minors.

More than 70 cities and counties have signed on to a legal brief in support of President Obama’s executive amnesty.

A majority of likely voters say the government is “not aggressive enough in deporting those who are in this country illegally,” according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll.

A group aimed at bringing Congress more to the center is launching a new effort to support Republican House members who have bucked conservative pressure in favor of House leadership proposals.

With a second surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally entering the U.S., there is new chatter about a previously obscure Obama administration program.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March job’s data released Friday — as in previous months — again shows that net employment growth in the U.S. since the beginning of the recession has gone to foreign-born workers. From the beginning of the

Along with the national increase in Americans not in the workforce the number of women, African Americans, and Asians not in the workforce also experienced an increase in March.

March was the first month on record where the number of people not in the labor force — whether due to discouraged worker, baby boomers hitting retirement or otherwise — surpassed 93 million.

Speaker John Boehner is skeptical about the nuclear agreement with Iran, and says Congress will continue to hold the administration to account on the deal.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) says he will support President Obama’s attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch.