In the last fiscal year — which ended on Sept. 30 — U.S. authorities encountered 5,585 Haitians, 3,940 Cubans and hundreds of other nationals from the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries attempting to illegally enter the United States, the Coast Guard revealed in an Associated Press report.
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) says he will not vote for House Speaker John Boehner’s reelection as speaker. In a lengthy statement, the Oklahoma lawmaker laid out some of his issues with Boehner’s current tenure. He specifically cites the “Cromnibus,” the government-funding measure that passed before lawmakers ended the 113th Congress in December.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has hired some 900 new employees and opened four new license processing centers to deal with the expected onslaught of undocumented immigrants who will be eligible for a driver’s license this new year. Starting Friday, under a new law requiring the California DMV to provide illegal immigrants driver’s licenses, the state DMV is bracing for the newly eligible applicants.
Customs and Border Protection’s recruitment effort to bring more female Border Patrol agents into its ranks have yielded over 5,500 applications from women, according CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske.
Since the Obama administration altered the nation’s immigration enforcement policies in November with the president’s executive actions, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released more than 600 detained immigrants from custody.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) offered his support for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) following revelations that the Louisiana lawmaker once spoke to a group of white supremacists in 2002.
Immigrants detained illegally entering Arizona across the southern border are becoming more likely to lash out aggressively at the Border Patrol agents who stop them, according to the president of the union that represents agents in the state. “Now, when we stop two or three people, often we find that, at least, one of them is aggressive,” he said.
Rep. Michael Grimm’s (R-NY) decision to resign from Congress is “honorable,” House Speaker John Boehner says. Monday the embattled New York lawmaker announced his intention to step down. He’d pleaded guilty to tax evasion earlier this month.
The controversial spending deal the 113th Congress passed before the end of the year also included a little over $2 billion in funding for the operation of the House and Senate. According a USA Today report, Congress’ 2015 budget is 11 percent less than its 2010 operations budget. Back then the cost came in at $2.3 billion.
The vast majority of the families and minors who where apprehended illegally entering the United States during the border surge of 2012-2014 have vanished to the interior of the U.S., becoming part of the illegal population.
While conservative are angling to defund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, the administration is already at work creating the new infrastructure that will implement its unilateral changes to immigration law.
On this Christmas Eve, three in four Americans identify as Christian, according to surveys conducted this year. Gallup reports that, based on 173, 490 interviews conducted as part of its daily tracking from Jan. 2 to Dec. 21, the vast
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) is calling on Sony Pictures to screen “The Interview” at the U.S. Capitol as a demonstration of solidarity with the company, support for free speech, and an educational activity for members.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) must call on Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) to resign. According to reports, Grimm will plead guilty to federal tax evasion Tuesday. “Now that the election is over, Congressman Grimm
President Barack Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio should start defending the police, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) stressed Monday. “This is an absolute tragedy and I think it’s important that the mayor and all the officials in New York City
Fully half the states in the union are now part of a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal immigrants. Less than a month after Barack Obama visited Tennessee to announce his action, Attorney General Herbert Slatery announced that
The outgoing chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Marcia Fudge (D-OH) is offering her condolences after the murder of two New York City police officers. “I am deeply grieved to learn of the murders of New York Police Department Officers
Former New York Governor George Pataki is placing blame for the deaths of two New York City Police Officers squarely at the feet of outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. In a tweets
The gloves are off. Two possible contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination are taking shots at one another by name over their respective stances on the Obama administration’s decision to begin to normalize relations with Cuba. Sen. Rand Paul
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is officially inviting President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union before a Joint Session of Congress in January. In a letter to Obama Friday, Boehner extended the invitation for Obama to appear
A decision by Sony Pictures to cancel the release of its upcoming movie poking fun at the leader of North Korea was ultimately a result of the Obama administration’s “failure to satisfactorily address the use of cyber weapons by our
Sen. Rand Paul is separating himself from other possible 2016 presidential contenders, signaling tacit support for President Barack Obama’s move to begin normalizing relations with Cuba. “In the end, I think opening up Cuba is probably a good idea,” Paul
New York State’s government is on a mission to ensure all the unaccompanied minors apprehended illegally entering the U.S. and transported to the Empire State receive a free education without any barriers. “Schoolhouse doors must be open to every student
Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state and failed Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, says she is prepared to take Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to court if he attempts to run for both reelection and president in 2016. Weeks after
The recent court opinion declaring portions of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration to be “unconstitutional” bodes well for future litigation against the president’s recent order, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte tells Breitbart News. Tuesday, District Court Judge Arthur
While the release of U.S. aid worker Alan Gross is a welcome news, the Obama administration has made the underlying issues with the Castro regime in Cuba “worse,” according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). “Fidel and Raul Castro have just
The Obama administration’s exchange of American aid worker Alan Gross for three Cuban spies poses a threat to national security and is a “slap in the face” to the families of the men they killed, according to Cuba-born Rep. Ileana
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) slammed the Obama administration for exchanging imprisoned aid worker Alan Gross with Cuba for three Cuban spies. Menendez calls it a dangerous precedent and one that absolves the Castro regime’s behavior.
A Pennsylvania district court’s ruling that President Obama’s actions are “unconstitutional” is a positive development and likely the first of many court rebukes, according to Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA). “Though this is the first of presumably many court rulings
Sen. Marco Rubio is expressing concern and frustration with the Obama administration’s plans to restore relations with Cuba. “Today’s announcement initiating a dramatic change in U.S. policy toward Cuba is just the latest in a long line of failed attempts
Sen. Marco Rubio is expressing concern and frustration with the Obama administration’s plans to restore relations with Cuba. “Today’s announcement initiating a dramatic change in U.S. policy toward Cuba is just the latest in a long line of failed attempts
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized President Obama for swapping three Cuban spies for imprisoned American Alan Gross on Wednesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel, calling President Obama the “worst negotiator” since Jimmy Carter. Rubio stated the swap “does
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) won’t explain why he voted against Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) constitutional point of order on President Obama’s executive amnesty, telling reporters the vote is old news. “I’m not going to go back and
A federal district court judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that portions of President Obama’s executive amnesty are unconstitutional, according to the Washington Post. Western Pennsylvania District Judge Arthur Schwab concluded in his opinion that Obama’s executive actions go “beyond prosecutorial
While President Obama touts his executive amnesty and Republicans rail against it, many of the implications and plans are still unknown, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies. Legal policy analyst Jon Feere of the anti-amnesty group
Despite criticism from conservatives that House Leadership has demonstrated a less than forceful opposition to President Obama’s executive amnesty, House Speaker John Boehner’s office continues to attack Obama for his unilateral actions. In a dispatch from the Speaker’s office Tuesday
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush writes that he has “decided to actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States.” In a Facebook post the Republican offered holiday greetings and a note about his conversations with his
The hostage situation in an Australia cafe carried out by an Iranian gunman should galvanize America and her allies against the threat of Islamic extremism, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) says. “What we’ve witnessed in Sydney
Sen. Mike Lee is defending the weekend’s acrimony-inducing Senate session, explaining that it was important to get a vote on the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive amnesty. “It’s always worth it when you stand behind the American people, who want
More than 300 former Obama campaign staffers have signed onto a letter calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016. “We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016,” the letter declares. The staffers cited income
