Republican lawmakers are warning the Obama administration against taking executive actions to raise taxes after White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest indicated “the President is very interested in this avenue generally.”
Of the 2,059 criminal immigrants arrested in a recent nationwide sweep, 23 were beneficiaries of President Obama’s 2012 amnesty, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to a new DHS report.
Sen. John McCain wants Sen. Dick Durbin to apologize for comments he made about the Loretta Lynch nomination.
Republican lawmakers file a brief in support of a federal district court’s decision to block President Obama’s executive amnesty while the matter works its way through the courts.
Liberal pressure groups and some U.S. senators claim that the holdup over Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be attorney general is another front in a supposed Republican “War on women.”
Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, reaches for Civil Rights-era language to attack Republicans. The Senate won’t vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be attorney general until after it passes a human trafficking bill that Democrats are filibustering.
Nothing’s moving in the Senate. Democrats won’t allow a human trafficking bill to come to the floor, so GOP leaders won’t allow a vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination for attorney general.
Two more GOP senators now say they’ll vote against Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be U.S. attorney general. She needs to win at least four Republican votes to be confirmed.
House Speaker John Boehner helped craft the strategy to use the DHS spending bill to push back against President Obama’s executive amnesty. But he now says “shutting down the Department of Homeland Security was not a way to get to the answer there.”
The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive amnesty would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation expert Robert Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance by Breitbart News.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is reminding his fellow senators of Loretta Lynch’s support for amnesty, and encouraging them to oppose President Obama’s nominee for attorney general.
Rep. Steve King recently traveled to Egypt at his own expense. According to King, shortly before he was scheduled to leave for Egypt with a congressional group, his office received a call indicating that the Speakers Office had ordered his trip approval be rescinded.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for delaying a vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch’s confirmation until the Senate clears a human trafficking bill.
Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch will likely be confirmed — but it is shaping up to be a tight vote, according to reports.
There will be no Senate vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch until Democrats stop blocking a human trafficking bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says.
A pair of Republican senators want to know how many illegal immigrants have been granted Social Security Numbers and whether amnestied illegal immigrants have applied for and received benefits under either the Social Security Disability Insurance program or the Supplemental Security Income program.
Fourteen, largely blue, states are calling on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court’s ruling and allow President Obama’s executive amnesty to go forward.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says an amendment to eliminate birthright citizenship is “stupid.” But he’s supported such efforts in the past.
The Obama administration is appealing to a higher court in an attempt to get its executive amnesty program started again.
The human trafficking bill currently under consideration in the Senate contains a provision that would exempt individuals convicted of trafficking crimes from new $5,000 penalty if they facilitate the illegal immigration of a family member into the U.S.
Legal immigrants are waiting in line behind illegal immigrants under President Obama’s executive amnesty, a new report shows.
A report released Wednesday by the State Department’s Inspector General concludes that the department’s employees are not saving enough of their emails for “official records.” The report comes as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is under scrutiny for using a personal email address and server during her time at Foggy Bottom. The report did not mention Clinton.
A Congressional memo confirms that amnesty beneficiaries would not only be able to claim Social Security benefits but would be able to receive credit for work they did before their status was adjusted. That is: illegal work.
The Republican National Committee is pressing the offensive following what it is calling former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “Deceptive Press Conference.”
The percentage of foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the last four decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s population it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants.
