Tag: Congress

After being denied an impromptu tour of the Health and Human Services facility housing up to 1,200 unaccompanied minors at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) will be get a tour this Saturday. Last week, security guards and HHS

In his office in the Rayburn House Office Building, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) hands me a bookmark-sized card with a gold, embossed congressional seal and his name at the top. On it are the 24 current members of the GOP

If an illegal alien has a child on American soil, the Constitution does not require the child be granted American citizenship. Congress can give citizenship to anyone it wants, but the Fourteenth Amendment only commands citizenship to persons born on

Kelly Parker was thrilled when she landed her dream job in 2012 providing tech support for Harley-Davidson’s Tomahawk, Wisconsin, plants. The divorced mother of three hoped it was the beginning of a new career with the motorcycle company. The dream

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is suddenly permitting Congress to visit a Texas immigration detention center at the Joint Base San Antonio Lackland Tuesday morning, according to Fox News.  The permission comes after HHS denied Oklahoma GOP

Possible presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who came up with the idea and led the start-up of the “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” as a federal watchdog to prevent financial institutions from abusing U.S. consumers, is now at the center

On the day before the Fourth of July, President Barack Obama dropped by a Washington, D.C. tech startup called 1776 to promote amnesty legislation.  Obama reportedly only gave 1776 “about an hour’s heads-up” and spoke about the need for “comprehensive

Although the Obama administration and Democrats on the hill describe the flood of illegal immigrants coming over the border as mainly Unaccompanied Alien Children, more images like the one below sent by Michael Dozier, an analyst from the intelligence gathering

Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry warned members of Congress Thursday that transnational gangsters and terrorists are looking to exploit the border crisis, which he said endangers the nation’s security. At a House Homeland Security Field Hearing at South Texas College

Some five security guards responded to Congressman Jim Bridenstine’s (R-OK) visit outside the Health and Human Services facility housing unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, this week, barring his entry. The secrecy surrounding the federal facility has the

The chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration has called upon the Obama administration to halt any plans to send back unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors who have been flooding across the U.S. border. “This is a very vulnerable population

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reacted to Thursday’s jobs report by charging that Republican failure to pass immigration reform is costing Americans jobs.  Thursday the Bureau of Labor Statics reported that the economy added 288,000 jobs last month, and the

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), who is seen as one of the rising stars in his party, believes some of the illegal immigrant children flooding across the border from Central America should be considered for asylum.  “I think the children who

A glance at current headlines reveals that Central American children are flooding across our porous Southern border at an alarming rate, thanks to the Obama White House refusing to enforce existing immigration laws. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the federal

As we near the 238th anniversary of U.S. independence, many Americans are wondering if we are indeed an independent nation with sovereign borders, given that tens of thousands of unaccompanied children are streaming across the southern border. Have we become

Overshadowed by Hobby Lobby, minutes before the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision, another case was denied review by the Court but with a signal that it was ready to be taken at a later date. If the justices