
House Votes Down Stop-Gap DHS Funding Bill, DHS Shutdown Hours Away
House members voted down a stop-gap funding bill on Friday, leaving funding for DHS unclear as a midnight deadline looms.

House members voted down a stop-gap funding bill on Friday, leaving funding for DHS unclear as a midnight deadline looms.

House Speaker John Boehner is asking Afghanistan’s recently elected president to address Congress next month.

Senate Democrats will not allow a bill to prevent funding for President Obama’s most recent executive amnesty to come to the floor for consideration.

Sen. Charles Grassley wants answers from the Department of Homeland Security about how an individual with alleged gang ties was able to win amnesty under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

The House and Senate are on different paths — with the House considering a short-term DHS funding bill, and the Senate having passed one that would fund the department through FY2015, but doesn’t stop President Obama’s amnesty.

Rep, Steve King challenges Senators to take up a House-passed DHS funding bill. “If you don’t have enough grit to defend the Constitution maybe you ought to think about going home.”

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called out President Obama for warning immigration enforcement officials against failing to comply with his executive amnesty.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is warning House Republicans against adding provisions to block President Obama’s executive amnesty to the “clean” Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill the Senate is expected to pass.

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insists the House will hold the line in the fight against President Obama’s executive amnesty, even as a Friday DHS funding deadline looms.

Two Republican senators want to know more about why ICE released an illegal immigrant, who’s alleged to have committed a murder after he was freed.

Some 30 House Republicans are telling their leaders to hold the line on a DHS funding bill.

The murder of Grant Ronnebeck, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, “is a clear example of why we need to address the failed catch-and-release policies of the Obama administration,” Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) argued Wednesday during an Oversight and Government Reform panel hearing.

Illegal immigrants might earn more than amnesty. A new report indicates they could collect tens of thousands in tax credits, if the president’s amnesty program moves forward.

The father of an American murdered by an illegal immigrant made an impassioned plea to Congress Wednesday to adopt policies to prevent it from happening again.

Rep. Jim Jordan is ripping the DHS secretary for skipping a hearing on the department’s processing of illegal immigrants.

Senate Democrats have been refusing to even consider a House-passed Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill. So they’re now charging Senate Republicans with holding up DHS funding, because the GOP has not offered a “clean bill.”

This May, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to extend eligibility to certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B nonimmigrations for work permits as part of President Obama’s executive amnesty.

If at first you don’t succeed, try something different. After Senate Democrats blocked a House-passed Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill for a fourth time Monday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is offering a potential alternate route.

For a fourth time, Senate Democrats have succeeded in preventing a DHS funding bill from even coming to the floor. Funding for the agency runs out this week.

The Obama Justice Department has officially asked Judge Andrew Hanen to stay his injunction that is preventing the administration from moving forward with executive amnesty.

Pressure from a purple state: Eight House Reps. from Virginia are encouraging their two Democrat senators to help lift a filibuster of the House-passed DHS funding bill.

New details about a “shadow work-permit system” are emerging. The Center for Immigration Studies finds that between 2009 and 2014, the Obama administration issued 7.4 million new work permits, above the annual 1.1 million new legal and 700,000 guest workers admitted to the U.S.

The Independent Women’s Forum is responding to Patricia Arquette’s faulty argument about equal pay and equal rights for women.

While President Obama was in Chicago bragging about the strong economy, the Census Bureau quietly announced that one of every five children is on food stamps, up from one in eight when the president was elected.

Pro-amnesty organizations are cheering the Obama Administration’s decision to seek an emergency stay of a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily halted the president’s executive amnesty.