Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) slammed the immigration implications of the year-end spending bill Wednesday, saying the omnibus represents a “betrayal” of voters that fully funds President Obama’s immigration agenda while also increasing the number of low-skilled foreign guest workers allowed.
The Department of Homeland Security has a new terrorism advisory system, aimed at providing updates about potential threats to the American people. DHS issued its first “Bulletin” warning Wednesday.
The year-end spending deal unveiled early Wednesday morning includes a provision that would increase the number of guest worker visas available to unskilled foreign nationals seeking employment in the U.S.
The share of Americans who say the government is fairing well in reducing the threat of terrorism has plummeted by 26 percentage points since the start of 2015, reaching its lowest level since September 11, 2001, according to a new Pew Research Center poll.
In advance of the release of Congress’ year-end spending package, the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions is highlighting some terrorists who were recently granted access to the U.S. through the nation’s immigration system.
Although President Obama’s executive amnesty programs remain held up in the courts, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched a nearly $8 million initiative to provide legal assistance to the illegal immigrant community in the city and prepare them for executive amnesty.
President Obama warned against the immigration mistakes of the past Tuesday, comparing Syrian refugees to the Jewish refugees who fled the Holocaust and the plight of Mexican immigrants to the discrimination faced by Catholic immigrants in the past.
The year-end spending bill is the last change Congress has to put the breaks on President Obama’s plan to admit at least 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. despite concerns about the vetting vulnerabilities and national security implications, according to Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).
Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) have introduced bipartisan legislation that would cut the annual number of H-1B visas by 15,000 and allocate the visas to the highest-paying employers.
As a growing group of unaccompanied minors from Central America are apprehended illegally entering the U.S. at the border, the Department of Health and Human Services is warning Congress that it might not have enough money to house them all,
A government accountability organization has sued the Obama administration for records regarding refugee resettlement in the U.S.
The number of unaccompanied minors apprehended at the southern border during the first two months of this fiscal year is more than twice the number apprehended last year during the same timeframe, according to data reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Homeland Security Jeh Johnson reportedly refused to end a “secret” policy prohibiting immigration officials from reviewing the online posts of all foreign nationals seeking a U.S. visa in early 2014 due to concerns about “bad public relations” for the administration,.
Amnesty activists are engaged in a new effort to encourage immigrants in the U.S. to naturalize and register to vote.
Americans’ confidence in government to keep citizens safe from terrorism has hit an all time low, according to a new poll released Friday.
In the wake of recent abuses of the H-1B visa system, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) have introduced legislation aimed at protecting American workers from being replaced by foreign workers.
A group of Republican House members have introduced legislation that would temporarily suspend the refugee resettlement program by blocking its funding.
Alabama’s senior and junior senators took Attorney General Loretta Lynch to task this week for saying her “greatest fear” following the San Bernardino Islamic terrorist attacks is of anti-Muslim backlash.
An illegal immigrant from the United Arab Emirates is facing charges in Florida for illegally possessing ammunition, the U.S. United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida A. Lee Bentley, III revealed Thursday.
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation to express the sense of the Senate that the country must not prohibit people from entering the U.S. based on their religion, approving what opponents argue is a move toward the creation of a human right to migration.
The vast majority of the Syrian refugees vetted for admission to the U.S. have been approved, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director León Rodríguez revealed Wednesday.
House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) took U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Leon Rodriguez to task Wednesday for failing to demonstrate a commitment to American interests.
The San Bernardino terrorist who came to the U.S. on a fiancé visa cleared all applicable security checks required for admission to the U.S., a State Department official detailed Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
“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.
