On Monday, twelve states defended President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty in a “friend of the court” brief in response to a lawsuit filed by 25 states against Obama’s executive amnesty. As The Hill noted, “Attorneys General from California, Connecticut, Hawaii,
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) lashed out at Republican plans to use the upcoming Department of Homeland Security funding bill to combat President Obama’s executive amnesty.
While promoting her new film “Spare Parts,” a true story about undocumented Mexican high school students’ robotics club, Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays the school’s principal, weighed in on the immigration debate, saying she “really respects” President Barack Obama for
The Obama administration believes President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is beyond judicial review. That is what administration lawyers, who believe a lawsuit filed by 25 states against Obama’s executive amnesty should be thrown out, argued in a court filing. According
House Republicans expect to vote on legislation to take on President Obama’s executive actions on immigration next week. The GOP plan, Politico reports, will be unveiled Friday and will use the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill to take on not only Obama’s November executive amnesty but also the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhoods Arrivals and the Morton memos by blocking their funding.
The Obama administration released two fliers Thursday in a variety of different languages aimed at raising awareness of President Obama’s executive amnesty. The first flier warns against immigration scams: “Beware of anyone who offers to help you submit an application or request at this time based on the President’s announcement—it may be an immigration scam,” it reads.
Senior conservatives in Congress are rallying around a bill from Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) that aims to block funding for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty while forcing the administration to start enforcing immigration laws. Sessions has issued a lengthy statement explaining the problem with executive amnesty and reminding his colleagues of Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus’ pre-election promise to block funds for Obama’s amnesty.
House Speaker John Boehner is renewing a vow to take on President Obama’s executive amnesty. The Speaker argues that stopping the President Obama’s unilateral actions are a priority.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson vowed that President Obama will not defund his executive action on immigration and criticized Republicans for using DHS funding as a “political football,” a concern that he said House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX)
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said that he and other Republicans would work out a deal to avoid shutting down the Department of Homeland Security when its funding expires in March on Wednesday’s “Situation Room” on CNN.
The terrorist attack on a newspaper in Paris is a “wake up call” and should serve as a reminder Republicans should protect funding for vital Department of Homeland Security efforts as they consider ways to take on President Obama’s executive amnesty, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), tells reporters. Republicans are expected to target Obama’s executive actions on immigration in upcoming legislation to fund DHS. Appropriations for the massive department run out in February.
Immigration attorneys in some parts of the country are expecting business to improve because of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. In Nebraska and Iowa, law firms and legal clinics are reportedly hiring more immigration attorneys, expecting an influx of business
How can any legislator, after taking the same oath, then elect as House Speaker a man who contributed to presidential lawlessness as Boehner did in the lame duck session alone?
Whoever runs for the Republican leadership of the U.S. House on Tuesday must communicate on paper how Congress is going to lead on the big issues. The American people elected us to solve trillion-dollar problems, not to kick the can down the road with only symbolic votes.
President Obama has repeatedly plunged our nation into a constitutional crisis. No past president has so cavalierly violated his own oath and through naked political calculation, willfully violated the Constitution. When a president does violence to our Constitution, those who also take an oath to our Constitution have an absolute duty to defend it. We need a Speaker of the House who carries in his bones the conviction of our oath.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will kick off his nationwide executive amnesty educational tour in Rhode Island in two weeks. Gutierrez will reportedly join Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and other local leaders for an “immigration forum” on President Barack Obama’s executive
A 2013 law that allows undocumented immigrants to attain driver’s licenses will go into effect on Friday, marking the first time in 20 years that individuals who are living in California illegally will be permitted to apply for one.
Since the Obama administration altered the nation’s immigration enforcement policies in November with the president’s executive actions, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released more than 600 detained immigrants from custody.
Every generation of conservative leaders must rise to the occasion to confront the challenge of the time. The challenge at present is to stop Obama’s war on our borders and thereby his war on the rule of law. Will conservatives rise to the occasion?
Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) declared that Republican leaders in Congress “need to get on board” with defunding the president’s executive action on immigration on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “Some of us wanted a contract that would include
Back in 2005, two business-school professors, Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins, published a thoughtful book, Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them. A decade later, we can look ahead to the Predictable Surprises of 2015—and beyond.
The incoming, bicameral congressional GOP leadership team may be working out a plan to fund President Obama’s executive amnesty in totality through 2015 and even beyond, therefore enabling its implementation once and for all.
Farmers in California are worried that President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration will exacerbate a labor shortage problem in the Golden State’s agriculture industry.
On Friday’s “Special Report,” Fox News Media Analyst and host of “MediaBuzz” Howard Kurtz said that President Obama’s unilateral actions have received “sympathetic” media coverage. He began by stating “the president’s approval rose only four points, within the margin or
While conservative are angling to defund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, the administration is already at work creating the new infrastructure that will implement its unilateral changes to immigration law.
