Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says he will introduce legislation to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining tax credits for illegal work once they have been granted Social Security numbers under President Obama’s executive amnesty Tuesday.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has introduced a measure that would end birthright citizenship. He added it as an amendment to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, a bipartisan bill currently under consideration in the Senate.
Vice President Joe Biden is reminding lawmmakers that the administration wants $1 billion for aid to Central America.
Good luck if you want to fire a fed, a new report says.
In the past year employment growth among Hispanics has outpaced that of both whites and blacks.
Roughly half the counties in Pennsylvania don’t bother to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to hold criminal immigrants beyond their release dates so the federal agency can check their status.
The border is a revolving door. Many previously deported criminal and illegal immigrants have illegally returned to the United States, according to a new report.
Once again, the jobs data released Friday showed the trend of net employment growth in the U.S. since the beginning of the recession going to foreign-born, not American-born, workers.
The African American unemployment rate for the month of February was 10.4 percent, compared to the white unemployment rate of 4.7 percent and national average of 5.5 percent.
Despite the seemingly rosy 5.5 percent unemployment rate, 92,898,000 Americans ages 16 and over were neither employed nor had made “specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week,” a record number of people out of the workforce.
It may not be allowed. But people are sledding on Capitol Hill, anyway.
A new report says illegal immigrants could claim about $1.7 billion in benefits under President Obama’s executive amnesty.
The Obama administration wants U.S. Federal Judge Andrew Hanen to reverse his prior decision and allow President Obama’s executive amnesty to go forward by Monday. If not, the administration says it will go to a higher court.
Stay off our yard! Despite a Thursday snow dump in Washington D.C., there will still be no sledding on U.S. Capitol Grounds.
Sen. David Vitter is reintroducing legislation that would amend existing law — specifically the Immigration and Nationality Act — to prevent children born in the U.S. to foreign parents from being automatically citizens. He’s speaking out about the bill after word that Chinese mothers are flying to the U.S. to have babies with American citizenship.
Beginning this fall, New York City Public Schools will soon begin recognizing some Muslim holidays.
DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson is thanking Congress for delivering on his request to fully fund his department, and President Obama’s legally questionable executive amnesty.
The government can move quickly when it wants to, apparently. The Obama administration admits it approved 100,000 applications under President Obama’s executive amnesty expansion before a federal court put the program on hold. All the approvals were granted between November, 2014 and February of this year.
Democrats are a minority in both Houses of Congress, but you wouldn’t know it. They’re crowing about forcing the House to accept a Senate-passed DHS spending bill that contains funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty.
The House passed full funding of DHS through September 30 — leaving President Obama’s executive amnesty untouched. The vote was 257-167 and the measure passed with majority Democratic votes. Seventy-five Republicans voted to pass the clean bill, 167 voted against passage.
Amid news that House Republican leadership intends to allow a vote on a so-called “clean” Department of Homeland Security funding bill, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) expressed dismay that Congress has surrendered its status as a co-equal branch and allowed President Obama’s executive amnesty to go ahead unchecked.
Now that the Senate has essentially rejected the House’s move to a conference committee, eyes once again return to the House and how House Republicans will respond.
Rep. Steve King says the House must act to preempt a little-known procedural rule that could allow a Democratic House Member to force a vote on the Senate’s clean Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.
President Obama’s executive amnesty would to more than allow illegals to stay. It would allow many to claim a big payday from the government. The acting head of the IRS is confirming that illegals given amnesty would be eligible to claim tax credits for up to three prior tax years for work they did illegally.
The federal government admits that a sharp increase in unaccompanied minors illegally migrating north was caused by their perceptions about U.S. immigration policy as well as a desire to flee violence and poor conditions in Central America.
