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The United States admits more than twice the number of immigrants from majority-Muslim nations than from countries in the European Union, according to a Senate analysis of Department of Homeland Security data.

Federal officials accuse 21 individuals of allegedly participating in a “pay to stay” scheme in which they conspired with more than a thousand foreign nationals to fraudulently remain and work in the U.S. by posing as students.

The southern border represents a potential vulnerability that terrorists could use to gain access to the U.S., according to Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI).

An Arizona liberal arts college is levying a new, mandatory student fee to fund a scholarship for illegal immigrants.

The illegal immigrant charged with killing 21-year-old Sarah Root while street-racing drunk, entered the U.S. as an “unaccompanied child” three years ago, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Unaccompanied Central American minors leaving their home countries to migrate north are turning down Mexico’s offer of refuge and instead seeking to make it all the way to the United States, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies.

While the economy added jobs and the national unemployment rate was relatively unchanged, the African American unemployment rate remained more than twice as high as the white unemployment rate and nearly double the national unemployment rate, according to Labor Department data released Friday.

The number of Americans not participating in the workforce in March dipped again compared to the previous month but was still higher than it was a year ago, according to Labor Department data released Friday.

The Library of Congress is dropping the terms “illegal alien” and “alien” from its subject headings after a group of college students and the American Library Association protested the words’ usage.

Americans born in the U.S. are more likely to have a high school education or higher, compared to foreign-born people living in the U.S., but slightly less likely to have an advanced degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In

David North of the Center for Immigration Studies argues that not only does the H-1B visa system unfairly harm American workers, it is also discriminatory because it favors nationals from one country over the rest of the world.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is adding the illegal immigrant arrested and then released after killing 21-year old Sarah Root while street-racing drunk to ICE’s Most Wanted list, according to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE).

America’s immigration enforcement agency is getting a lesson in tolerance and cultural understanding. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 20 of the agency’s “high-level managers” underwent a three-day cultural awareness program this month at Los Angeles’ Museum of Tolerance (MOT).

President Obama is intent on admitting thousands of refugees from terrorist hotspots to the U.S. but House Republicans failed to negotiate screening protections for the influx in last year’s omnibus spending bill, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).

Immigrants and their young children now make up more than 25 percent of the population in six U.S. states, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

More than 1,100 criminal gang members have been arrested in a multi-week Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, netting transnational gang members allegedly involved in crimes like human smuggling, sex trafficking, murder, drug trafficking, and racketeering.

Forty-two House Republicans are pressing appropriators to defund sanctuary jurisdictions that protect illegal immigrants by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. In a letter to the committee heads that oversee Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department funding, the

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that chronic alcoholism cannot be a factor tied to the “moral character” of aliens the government seeks to deport — striking down a long-held facet of immigration law.

The number of immigrants denied admission to the U.S. as legal permanent residents due to their risk of becoming primarily reliant on welfare for subsistence has plummeted since the late 1990s, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Federal officials in California have seized a 400 yard cross-border tunnel, 1,500 pounds of marijuana and made six arrests this week after law enforcement monitored the construction of a home drug traffickers paid to have built to conceal the drug tunnel opening.

A day after the radical Islamic terrorist attacks in Brussels, more than 50 Republican House members are calling on appropriators to include language in an upcoming spending bill to enhance refugee-screening measures.

More than 99 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. since the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris — which killed 130 people — have been Muslim, just .04 percent have been Christian.

The federal government issued 680,000 green cards to migrants from majority-Muslim countries from 2009 to 2013, according to the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. Federal data from the Department of Homeland Security shows that the U.S. issued

Mexico’s government is actively encouraging its citizens who are eligible for citizenship in the United States to naturalize.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained 15 criminal aliens this week in Northern Illinois. Over a two-day enforcement sweep, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 14 illegal immigrants from Mexico and one illegal immigrant from Uruguay. All 15 illegal

The House approved legislation Thursday authorizing House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on the House’s behalf in opposition to President Obamaa’s executive amnesty.

Illegal and low-skilled immigration disproportionally harms the job prospects and wages of black Americans, Peter Kirsanow, a commissioner on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, told a Senate panel Wednesday.

Immigration is another form of wealth redistribution, according to Harvard University economist George Borjas.

The economy cannot sustain the current levels of legal and illegal immigration to the U.S., Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) argues.

The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are pressing the Obama administration on how a previously deported illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record — now charged with murdering five people — was able to evade deportation for years.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than two dozen criminal aliens throughout central Florida, at least one of whom was previously deported from the United States.

Criminal aliens the government released, rather than deported, went on to be charged with 124 homicides within a five year timeframe, according to a new analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.

President Barack Obama’s administration has unveiled a new rule that will allow foreign graduate of U.S. universities to work in white-collar jobs for three or six years.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is slamming Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her promise not to deport any illegal immigrants — save for violent criminals and terrorists — if she is elected president.

There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in the pivotal state of Florida, due in some measure to an increasing population of Hispanics who identify as Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew reports that between 2006 and 2016,

There was an increase in the number of illegals apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border last month, however the number of apprehended unaccompanied minors and “family units” remained stable compared to the month of January, according to the Department of Homeland Security.