McConnell Says House Must Amend DHS Funding Bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on February 10 that because the House-passed legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security is “stuck” in the Senate, the only...
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Obama Administration Sets Up Complaint Hotline for Illegal Immigrants
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has established a hotline so that illegal aliens who think that their apprehension and pending deportation may not be in compliance with the...
Jeh Johnson Urges Congress to Relent on DHS Funding Dispute
During a February 8 interview with anchorwoman Dana Bash on CNN’s State of the Union, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson warned that approximately 30,000 DHS employees would be...
Almost Two-thirds of Journalists Think Government Spies on Them
Almost two-thirds of investigative journalists (64 percent) polled in a recent survey said they believe that the U.S. government has probably collected data about their phone calls, e-mails, or...
Republicans Oppose Cruz Quest to Block Loretta Lynch Confirmation
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a steadfast opponent of the Obama administration’s use of executive actions to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, is facing opposition from members of his own...
Snowden Warns Canadians About Proposed “Anti-terrorism” Law
Former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, speaking from Russia via a Google Hangouts link, warned students at a prestigious private school in Toronto on February 4 that they...
Obama Administration Gives Almost One Million Work Permits to Illegals
During the first six years of the Obama administration — from 2009 to 2014 — the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued 982,000 new work permits to illegal...
Rand Paul Accuses Jeb Bush of “Hypocrisy” for Marijuana Stand
After former Florida Governor Jeb Bush admitted in an interview with the Boston Globe that he had smoked marijuana when he was a student at Phillips Academy in Andover,...
Attorney General Nominee Lynch Defends Obama on Immigration
During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 28, President Obama’s nominee for the Cabinet post of attorney general, Loretta Lynch, said Obama’s executive actions on...
Houston’s Homosexual “Rights” Ordinance Now on Trial
A trial began on January 27 to determine if former Houston City Attorney David Feldman had illegally invalidated thousands of signatures on a petition to hold a repeal referendum...
CBP Data Shows “Rising Flow” of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
A report posted recently on the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website states: “CBP has seen an overall increase in the apprehension of Unaccompanied Alien Children from Central America...
More States Suing Feds Over Immigration Executive Orders
More states have joined the original 18 that filed a lawsuit on December 3 against the federal government and several federal officials seeking relief against the defendants’ violations of...
Border Patrol Agents’ Union Critical of McCaul Border Bill
The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), the union that represents some 17,000 Border Patrol agents and support personnel, announced on January 23 that they are opposed to the Secure...
Washington March Highlights Pro-life Battle
An estimated 500,000 to 800,000 pro-life activists from across the country — blessed with unseasonably mild weather and a newly energized base of supporters — participated in the 42nd annual March...
House Conservatives Prefer Cruz Over McConnell on Immigration
At the monthly “Conversations with Conservatives” event held by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on January 21, Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) expressed disappointment with the newly elected Senate Majority...
Obama Touches Briefly on Immigration; GOP Talks “Border Security”
President Obama mentioned immigration only briefly during his 2015 State of the Union address, touching on the highly charged issue only twice in his 6,500-word speech. As if to...
Is Iran Trying to Develop Nuke Weapons? Where’s the Proof?
Discussions between Iran and the P5+1 group of international mediators — consisting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany — resumed at a meeting...
Rice Testifies in Fed Case Against CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling
The federal government’s case against Jeffrey Sterling (United States of America v. Jeffrey Alexander Sterling) — a former CIA officer who is accused of revealing a covert agency operation...
Group Invokes Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Memory to Fight Illegal Immigration
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), an organization that has made a connection between lax federal immigration policies and California’s many socio-economic problems, has launched an ad campaign focusing on...
Congress Pushes for More Iran Sanctions
As Secretary of State John Kerry concluded a meeting with Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, voices rose in Congress to pass...