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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) vowed to give amnesty to all illegal aliens living in the United States, specifically those who “work in the fields,” during Thursday’s Democrat presidential primary debate in Houston, Texas.

There are at least six million illegal aliens who arrived in the United States the same way seven of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist hijackers came to the country: by overstaying a visa.

Spokane Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a human smuggler and two Mexican migrants after they illegally entered the U.S. from Canada. In a separate incident, agents found a Yemeni migrant at a bus station in Spokane.

A foreign national charged with the murders of 12 elderly women in Texas is named as a suspect in the murder of a 19th elderly victim.

Immigration laws exist to protect American workers’ conditions and wages, said former immigration judge Art Arthur on Breitbart News Tonight.

Sri Lankan immigration authorities revealed this week that nearly 50 foreigners without valid visas are among the hundreds deported by the South Asian island nation in the wake of the Islamic State (ISIS)-linked attack that primarily attacked Christians on Easter Sunday.

President Trump is ordering a crackdown on the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who overstay their visas after arriving in the United States with a presidential memorandum.

Houlton Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican nationals after they illegally crossed the Canadian border into Maine. One of the migrants had previously been deported.

The United States is projected to add about 1.5 million illegal aliens to the American population by the end of the year, should current rates of Catch and Release, border crossings, and visa overstays pan out.

Conservative powerhouse Michelle Malkin took aim directly from the CPAC main stage Friday, at the lack of immigration focus while delivering fuel for the fight against longstanding abuses of the American immigration system.

Illegal immigrant Javier da Silva allegedly confessed to the murder of 24-year-old Valerie Reyes of Westchester County, New York, whose body was found in a suitcase.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents responded to a call from police officers at the Laredo International Airport after they arrested a Canadian national for allegedly attempting to enter the secured area with a handgun. The Canadian man’s immigration visa is reportedly expired.

Foreign nationals attempting to enter the United States through various visa programs will now have to prove they have the means return to their native countries as federal law mandates.

A new investigation reveals that a North Carolina fundamentalist church allegedly used student and tourist visas to bring foreign nationals to the United States as slaves.

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) states that visa overstays more than doubled in the last fiscal year, surpassing 600,000 total.

A recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows just how much the federal government has done to handicap ICE agents who are working to find those who are illegally in the country because of visa overstays. Estimates reveal there are 1.2 million of these individuals in the country. Two of the 9/11 terrorists overstayed their visas.

A recent U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report reveals the information technology (IT) used by the government is ineffective to keep tabs on those who overstay visas. Moreover, the lag also causes a delay in determining whether a visa holder poses a national security threat. There is a backlog of more than 1.2 million visa overstays.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, told Breitbart News exclusively in a pre-September 11th interview that the United States government has dropped the ball in the 15 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks when it comes to keeping potential terrorists from getting into America.

From October 2015 to June 2016, Venezuelans filed 10,221 applications for asylum. By comparison, over that same period last fiscal year — October 2014 to June 2015 — just 3,810 Venezuelans filed applications for asylum in the U.S.

The steady decline of illegal immigrants deported after overstaying a visa since President Barack Obama took office is tantamount to amnesty, according to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).

“I’m concerned there are unidentified national security and public safety risks in a population that large, which has historically been the primary means for terrorist entry to the United States,” Rep. Martha McSally said Tuesday at a subcommittee hearing examining the national security risks posed by illegal immigrants who overstay their visas.

While the law has dictated for well over a decade that the government implement a biometric tracking system for foreign travelers in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security still has no date set for its implementation, according to a Customs and Border Protection official.

The Obama administration investigated just 3,000 visa overstays out of an estimated population of some six million illegal immigrants who remained in the U.S. after their visa expired last year, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official testified before a Senate panel Wednesday.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) expressed outrage at the Obama administration’s enforcement of immigration visa violators Wednesday following the release of data revealing half a million foreign nationals overstayed their visas last fiscal year.

Nearly half a million foreigners overstayed their visas last year and thousands of them were from countries associated with terrorism, according to a new Department of Homeland Security report.

Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio argued the US needs to address loopholes in the H-1B visa system and “absolutely” deport people who overstay their visas on Wednesday’s “Mark Levin Show.” Rubio said there are two problems with

The report, authored by CIS senior fellow David North and obtained in advance by Breitbart News, reveals that the number of visas issued to nonimmigrants such as tourists, students, temporary workers and the like increased from 5.8 million in fiscal year 2009 to 9.9 million in FY 2014. “Although visa overstayers account for 40 to 45 percent of the illegal alien population, it became easier during those years to secure these visas — the percentage of visa denials to all visa decisions dropped from 18.6 percent in FY 2009 to 15.3 percent in FY 2014, according to State Department data,” North writes.