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Federal Court Ruling Against Obama Amnesty Could Break Democrat Blockade of DHS Funding Bill

Before a federal judge in Texas ruled President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty unconstitutional—and ordered its implementation immediately halted—Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said such a ruling would mean Democrats must stop obstructing the passage of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill.

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Sen. Jeff Flake Lays Out Plan For GOP To Cave To Obama’s Amnesty

In a lengthy Senate floor speech on Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) spoke against House-passed biill that would defund President Obama’s executive amnesty. Instead, Flake lobbied for his own bill, which mirrors a controversial House measure that doesn’t build a border fence and does nothing to stop Obama’s catch-and-release of illegal aliens.

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Jeb Bush Gives ‘Impassioned’ Speech to Defend his Support for Common Core

As Republicans of all stripes and the main-stream media are predicting that Jeb Bush’s support for the Common Core standards will be among his greatest obstacles to a potential 2016 GOP nomination, Bush himself went off-script during remarks at the Detroit Economic Club Wednesday, emotionally defending the highly unpopular education initiative and his own education reform record.

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Statewide Anti-Deportation Protests in CA

Anti-deportation groups organized protests in three California cities Wednesday, demanding that California Attorney General Kamala Harris stop deportations and push the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of California.

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Sessions to Lynch: Big Problem Your Supporting Obama’s Amnesty

Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told President Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, her “defending” the “indefensible” immigration executive action the president took is a “big problem.” Sessions said, “Frankly the Attorney General of the United States should

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Lynch Backs Obama’s Amnesty Under Prosecutorial Discretion

Wednesday, President Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she has reviewed and agrees with the legal assertions put forward in the president’s

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White House Targets California with Amnesty Tweets

The White House’s official promotion of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty policy used California as its poster child in a tweet Monday touting individual states’ “benefits” following the aggressive–and unconstitutional–move.