House Votes to Defund DACA and Other Obama Actions
The House of Representatives voted on January 14 to approve an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security’s funding bill that would deny funds for new or renewed applications...
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Customs and Border Protection Documents Reveal Non-deportation Policy
Internal training documents used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and shared by a CBP agent reveal that agents are now receiving guidelines instructing them that the overwhelming...
Illegal Immigrants Swamp DMV for California Driver’s Licenses
Thousands of immigrants who are in the United States illegally started lining up on January 2 at Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offices across California to apply for driver's...
House Republicans Plan Strategy to Block Obama Executive Amnesty
In a closed-door meeting on January 7, House Republicans discussed the best strategy to prevent President Obama from implementing his administration’s executive action on immigration policy. That policy, put...
Education Expert Says College Freshmen Read at Seventh-grade Level
Dr. Sandra L. Stotsky, professor emerita at the University of Arkansas, recently said that Renaissance Learning’s latest report revealed that a large number of college freshman are reading at...
House Members Introduce Bills to Undo Obama Amnesty Program
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), is prepared to introduce legislation in the 114th Congress that would reverse President Obama’s executive action to defer deportations and grant work permits for up...
Obama Meets With Mexican President Peña Nieto
President Obama hosted a bilateral meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico on January 6, during which he will reportedly seek the Mexican leader’s advice on implementing administration...
McConnell Goal: Public Should Not Regard GOP Majority as “Scary”
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told members of the press in a pre-Christmas interview that he doesn’t want the American people to think the possibility of electing...
Jeb Bush’s Position on Immigration Gets Scrutiny
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who has topped most recent opinion polls gauging public opinion of likely candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, has been criticized by conservatives...
VOA Calls Prospects of “Immigration Reform” in 2015 Unlikely
A report in Voice of America (VOA) on December 29 predicted that President Obama’s recent executive action to protect some illegal aliens from being deported may actually have killed...
Obama Describes “Nativist Trend” in Parts of GOP
In an interview with NPR broadcast December 29, President Obama posed the rhetorical question: “By me having taken these [executive] actions, does that spur those voices in the Republican...
U.S. and Iran Now Allied in Iraq Against ISIS
In an odd turnabout that few might have predicted a year or more ago, the United States now finds itself allied with Iran in the battle to defeat the...
Illegal Immigrant Seeks Sanctuary in Philadelphia Church
Angela Navarro, who has been living in the United States illegally since 2003, has recently taken up residence in a Philadelphia church to avoid deportation. It is an unofficial...
DHS Report Admits Deportations Declined in FY 2014
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its fiscal year (FY) 2014 enforcement statistics on December 19 in an ICE report that indicated that “overall removals” (deportations) had declined....
UK Supreme Court Rules Against Midwives Objecting to Abortion Duties
The UK’s Supreme Court handed down a decision on December 17 that overturned a previous ruling made in favor of two midwives in greater Glasgow, Scotland, who had objected...
Government Statistics: 65 Percent of Children Receive Federal Aid
A Census Bureau report released in the past week indicated that 65 percent of American children lived in households receiving aid from one or more federal programs, as of...
Federal Judge Declares Obama Immigration Actions “Unconstitutional”
In an opinion filed on December 16, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, federal Judge Arthur Schwab said President Obama’s immigration actions are invalid,...
Obama Says Nation Has Marked a Milestone in Afghanistan
Speaking to both military and civilian personnel at Joint Base McGuire Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey on December 15, President Obama thanked the troops for their extraordinary service and noted...
Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Counter Obama Executive Amnesty
Senator Rand Paul today introduced the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act on December 12. The bill (which has not yet been assigned a bill number, but has been...
Immigration Action Applications to Start In February-May 2015
Leon Rodriguez, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), told Spanish-speaking reporters during a conference call that “undocumented” (illegal) immigrants should be able to start applying for...