“Some” of the Paris terrorists who killed 130 people in November would have been prevented from traveling to the U.S., a Customs and Border official testified Wednesday before a Senate Panel.
Of the 237 Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. since the attacks in Paris just one has been a Christian. The rest have been Muslims.
Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) is calling for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race.
The nation’s efforts to screen refugees, asylum seekers and visitors are broken and expose the nation to potential terrorist attacks, says a report from The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
The Obama administration is encouraging the 8.8 million eligible lawful permanent residents to become U.S. citizen with efforts aimed at raising awareness about the process and pressing more immigrants to naturalize. The citizenship agency released two versions of a video: one in English and one in Spanish.
President Obama misidentified the visa path by which Tashfeen Malik — one of the San Bernardino terrorists — entered the U.S. in his Oval Office address to the nation Sunday night.
Sen. Rand Paul’s amendment would have designated 33 countries as “high risk” and placed moratoriums on refugee resettlement and visa issuance to nationals from those countries until the Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence certify and new processes to identify security risks.
According to the BLS, the African American unemployment rate remained more than twice as high as the unemployment rate among white workers, which declined from 4.4 percent in October to 4.3 percent in November. African American unemployment increased from 9.2 percent to 9.4 percent from October to November.
A record number of American men were outside the labor force last month, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Based on historical data, the 38,151,000 American men not in the labor force is a record going back to the first available data in June of 1976 when just 15,349,000 men were out of the workforce.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in November 56,295,000 women (ages 16 and older) were neither employed nor had looked for a job in four weeks. The number represented a decline of 245,000 from October’s level and a decline of 352,000 from September’s record level of 56,647,000 women not in the workforce.
The number of foreign-born people employed in the U.S. hit a record high in November, according to data released Friday by Bureau of Labor Statistics.
While the economy added 211,000 jobs in November, the number of Americans not participating in the work force exceeded 94 million for a fourth month in a row, according to Labor Department data released Friday.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are calling on the Obama administration to disclose the immigration histories of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the alleged San Bernardino attackers.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says President Obama needs to accept that radical Islam is a problem and that his immigration policies have left the the U.S. open to attacks.
“Gun violence is a crisis of epidemic proportion in our nation,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday. “We’ve had far too many moments of silence on the floor of the House and while it is right to respectfully acknowledges the losses, we can no longer remain silent.”
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) offered his thoughts and prayers to the victims of the San Bernardino shooting that left 14 dead Thursday but noted that the final motive has not yet been determined.
Most voters oppose accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S., but they see homegrown terrorists as a greater threat, according to a new poll. A majority of voters believed the security vetting for Syrian refugees should be increased both with and without and explanation of how the government currently screens refugees — however fewer said it should be stricter with the description: 69 percent said the screening should be stricter without the description and 53 said it should be stricter with a description.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) complained Wednesday about the administration’s failure to deport a Haitian criminal who was subsequently charged with the murder of a 25-year-old constituent.
A tense exchange erupted in fireworks Wednesday between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sarah Saldana during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldana struggled to explain why the deportations of criminal aliens from the U.S. have declined to nearly half the level removed in 2011.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Republicans Wednesday as a party of “hatred and division.”
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that would impose additional requirements on the Visa Waiver Program – which allows citizens of participating countries to travel to the U.S. for 90 days or less without a visa — as a means of helping to prevent terrorists from entering the U.S.
Since the start of the Syria’s civil war in the spring of 2011, the U.S. has admitted 2,311 Syrian refugees and resettled them in 36 different states.
The State Department says that all of the refugees admitted to the U.S. from Syria since the November 13 Paris terror attacks have been Sunni Muslims.
A CBS News report reveals that refugees in Minneapolis have become a source for Islamic extremist recruitment. Earlier this month the outlet highlighted the Cedar Riverside community, which boasts the largest Somali population in the U.S. as one such breeding ground.
