More than 120 convicted criminals who were supposed to be deported from the U.S. after they were released from custody between 2010-2014 face murder charges, new Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show.
Senate Republicans are pressing the Obama administration on its newly revealed plans to use a facility initially leased to house employees who would process executive amnesty — currently blocked by a court injunction — as a general immigration service center
Thursday Grassley revealed that whistleblowers say Abarca Torres Alvaro — arrested in February 2013 and convicted of statutory rape that October — received DACA in April 2013. “He retained DACA even after he was convicted of the crime and served prison time,” Grassley wrote in a letter to DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson dated Wednesday.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is expressing concern at the Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to establish what he calls a “shadow” guest worker program known to be susceptible to fraud and abuse.
Early Friday morning, Border Patrol agents arrested a man as he attempted to illegally force his way into the United States over the southern border near the Calexico Port of Entry. Upon a records search, it was discovered that he was convicted of sex offenses in Utah and is a citizen of Mexico.
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.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is bringing attention to numerous whistleblower allegations that the United States Marshals Service is mismanaged and rife with personnel actions.
Immigrants with gang ties should be absolutely barred from receiving executive amnesty, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-NC), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) argue.
Since Fiscal Year 2013, at least 282 recipients of Deferred Status for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have been kicked out of the program due to criminal or gang affiliations, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) highlighted Tuesday.
The Obama administration is admitting it granted executive amnesty protections to a known gang member — one charged with four counts of murder — and is now reviewing prior approvals to double check that other gang members have not also been approved for deferred status.
Thursday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest called the words of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) “duplicitous” when he was speaking about the delay on confirming Loretta Lynch as Eric Holder’s replacement for attorney general. Earnest was referring to
A trade deal that some are attempting to fast-track through Congress might contain controversial immigration procedures.
On Tax Day, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pressed the Obama administration for an update on the criminal investigation into the alleged misconduct of IRS personnel in the handling of conservative organizations’ tax exempt status.
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.
Friday on Iowa Public Television, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) said the debate over state versions of The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 is “both liberals and conservatives” promoting their agendas and he said, “That’s sad.” Grassely stood behind the
A group of Republican senators say they are aware of allegations of workplace retaliation against Homeland Security personnel who — in conflict with the administration’s immigration policies — are “faithfully discharging the duties of the offices in which they serve.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wants to make sure the Department of Homeland Security holds its Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable for actions he took while director of USCIS. Specifically, granting EB-5 visa benefits to Democratically connected foreign investors.
Agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have admitted to attending “sex parties” with prostitutes that were hired by drug cartels while on assignment in Columbia. The admission came during an investigation by the Department of Justice that began after a 2012 prostitution scandal in Columbia was uncovered that involved agents of the United States Secret Service.
After a DHS Inspector General report which uncovered political favoritism in the processing of EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program visas by Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Republican lawmakers want Mayorkas held accountable.
The murder suspect in the slaying of several people in North Carolina, including former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant Mijana Puhar, is an illegal immigrant shielded from deportation by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
A so-called “war on the American worker” has intensified in the Golden State. Massive layoffs are being spearheaded by the multi-billion dollar Southern California Edison utilities company, which is terminating scores of American IT workers and replacing them with immigrant IT workers, from a slew of foreign counties, who are willing to work for far less compensation. These immigrants are in the U.S. on an H-1B visa program.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says he will introduce legislation to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining tax credits for illegal work once they have been granted Social Security numbers under President Obama’s executive amnesty Tuesday.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pushed anti-human trafficking legislation during the GOP’s Weekly Address on Saturday. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “I’m U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. This year, thousands of minors will be sexually trafficked in the
President Obama’s executive amnesty would to more than allow illegals to stay. It would allow many to claim a big payday from the government. The acting head of the IRS is confirming that illegals given amnesty would be eligible to claim tax credits for up to three prior tax years for work they did illegally.
Sen. Charles Grassley wants answers from the Department of Homeland Security about how an individual with alleged gang ties was able to win amnesty under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Two Republican senators want to know more about why ICE released an illegal immigrant, who’s alleged to have committed a murder after he was freed.
WASHINGTON — An estimated 5,000 aliens were either arrested for committing crimes or absconded over a three year period while they were participating in a supervision program that allowed them to be released from detention and into U.S. communities, the latest publicly available data shows.
On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said that the House bill to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security while defunding President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is “a check on the executive branch” and an example of Republicans keeping their
The Department of Homeland Security says 1,000 illegal immigrants released in FY 2013 committed fresh crimes.
President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General dodged important questions about the president’s executive amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, but indicated that the legal argument was “reasonable.”
Three Senate chairmen are demanding to know exactly how much President Obama’s executive amnesty will cost and where that money will come from.
The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is thanking House leaders for pulling the controversial border security legislation from the schedule this week.
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) once supported President Reagan’s amnesty for illegal aliens back in the 1980’s, but has since stated that he and others made a mistake in doing so. He now supports a piece-meal approach to immigration reform as opposed to a comprehensive approach to fixing the existing immigration problem.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to block re-entry into the United States by any citizen who has fought alongside Islamic Terrorists in foreign countries. He also introduced a bill to help American military members who are engaged in the West African Ebola fight.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), another immigration hardliner, will serve as that subcommittee’s deputy chairman. Sessions says he’s renaming the subcommittee: Immigration and the National Interest.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will speak at the Iowa Freedom Summit at the end of January hosted by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Citizens United, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The ranking member on the Senate committee which oversees immigration policy is calling foul over the Obama administration’s latest executive action, to bring tens of thousands of new Hatian immigrants to the United States as part of a new family
In a race that may determine which party controls the U.S. Senate, Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst has taken a six-point lead over Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) in the Des Moines Register‘s Iowa Poll that was released on Saturday.
The Center for Immigration Studies has tracked down the names of the cities and towns associated with the 169 criminal immigrants the Obama administration released last year. In an analysis of the data by CIS’ director of policy studies Jessica
We already know that Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley doesn’t think much of farmers, given that he called Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) a “farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” at a January fundraiser. Now, given new video