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4,600 Migrants Rescued Off Libyan Coast In Three Days

More than 4,600 people have been plucked to safety from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast over the past three days, the Italian coastguard said Sunday, as migrants took advantage of calmer waters to attempt the perilous journey across the

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Tennessee Gov. Haslam Not Yet Offering Constitutional Challenge to Syrian Refugee Settlement

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam is apparently off the list of possible plaintiffs—governors of the 12 “Wilson-Fish alternative program” states where non-profit VOLAGS, not state governments, run the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program—the Thomas More Law Center says it is looking to represent in a constitutional legal challenge to the program.

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GOP Legislators Push Plan That Could Replace Americans, Import 264,000 Foreign Workers

The complex bill is a gift to donors and businesses because it allow them to reduce wages, thus justifying their demand for cheaper H-2B visa workers. It also provides a huge loophole that technically keeps the current annual cap of 66,000 H-2B workers — but excludes from the cap any H-2B workers who got a H-2B visa in the prior three years. That clever loophole would allow employers to simultaneously hire up to four years of H-2B workers, or 264,000 foreign workers in place of 264,000 Americans.

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Pakistan Refuses To Take Back Europe’s Rejected Migrants

The Pakistan government has refused to accept a specially chartered plane of rejected migrants sent from Europe, turning it round and sending it right back again. Remarkably the Pakistani government seemed to be capable and willing of doing what Europe

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Paul: We Need to Put a Pause on Immigration from Middle East

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued for a “pause” on allowing immigration from the Middle East. Paul said, “This is precisely why I introduced an amendment yesterday in