Immigration reform is one of President Barack Obama’s priorities for his second term, and for a wide-reaching package to pass, lawmakers need to be convinced that the border with Mexico is secure. But that is no easy sell. Apprehensions of
As the Obama Administration spun nightmare scenarios over the impact of sequester cuts, it was revealed that Homeland Security had released from custody illegal immigrants who were charged with crimes. The White House said these actions were taken in expectation
In the name of sequester-related budget cuts, the Obama Administration is moving forward with a controversial illegal immigration release program that, in the past, has produced fatal consequences. Last Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney claimed that the Homeland
By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned.
Is it a coincidence that Gary Mead, the director of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is suddenly retiring after DHS came under fire for releasing hundreds
(AP) DHS official retires after immigrants are freedBy ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced his retirement the same day the agency said that hundreds of people facing deportation
As hundreds of illegal immigrants were released from detention centers into a “supervised monitoring program” this week, the White House on Wednesday denied it had anything to do with the budget-cutting move. White House spokesman Jay Carney and a Department
The White House evidently took the temperature of the American public over Obama’s sequestration reign of terror, and decided that mass release of illegal aliens was a bit too much. Furious backpedaling has ensued, and a fall guy has evidently
Unions are willing to go very far indeed to attract immigrants to their ranks. In a dramatic new development, unions are actually protecting immigrants who are potential union members against America’s own labor and immigration laws. A recent example involves
On Feb. 25, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano warned that the pending sequester cuts will make the U.S. more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Napolitano claimed, “I don’t think we can maintain the same level of security with sequester compared to without
AP: The White House continued laying out in stark terms what the across-the-board cuts would mean for government services, dispatching Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to warn of the implications for critical security functions.
President Obama’s plan to revamp his popularity on the immigration issue by demagoguing it seems to be going smoothly. After watching Senate Republicans and Democrats come up with a plan on immigration that would include border security measures and a
Last night’s episode of CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles offered a veritable smorgasbord of liberal tropes–Tea Party types portrayed as terrorists, private healthcare insurance companies slammed and a potpouri of anti-capitalist themes. The episode started off in an interesting direction when
Something strange is going on. Federal non-military agencies have bought two billion rounds of ammunition in the last 10 months. The Obama Administration says that federal law enforcement agents need the ammunition for “mandatory quarterly firearms qualifications and other training
This week, President Obama continued to push forward his agenda on immigration reform, suggesting all the while that a pathway to citizenship need not be prefaced by better border security. In that vein, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced
The Southern and Southwestern United States can rest easy now; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that U.S. borders have “never been stronger.” Napolitano made her remarks during an immigration reform hearing in the Senate. She argued:
President Barack Obama made immigration reform a key part of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, talking about a path to citizenship that would be possible with new immigration laws. Yet Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member
Breitbart News has learned that one of the witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on immigration next week will be outspoken illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas–who will be seated at the same table as Chris Crane, leader of the
[update: although the link below is to IBD, Ace points out that the apparent original source is the kook site InfoWars. As such, consider it as unverified. – Iowahawk] Your taxpayer dollars at work: the same President who questions your
If Hillary really doesn’t run for president in 2016, it is so hard for the Washington Post to “imagine the presidential field without a woman contender” that the paper has decided to look at who might replace her. And the
Reports indicate Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is stepping down on Feb. 23. Sullivan has run the agency since 2006; he became embroiled in controversy following the Colombian prostitution scandal involving Secret Service agents in April 2012. His problem’s arose
New York Post: “If you are caught out in the open and cannot conceal yourself or take cover, you might consider trying to overpower the shooter with whatever means are available,” says the narrator in the video, which shows an
Using American children for props once again, today President Obama spoke at the majority Hispanic Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nevada to stump for a general amnesty plan for millions of illegal immigrants. Unlike the bipartisan framework presented
According to New York state Senator Greg Ball (R), the Department of Homeland Security is seeking 7,000 self-defense weapons–all of which are AR-15 variants. These are the very weapons Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Joe Manchin (D-WV), have
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul told Breitbart News on Friday that it’s “no surprise” Algerian terrorists are demanding a swap of the Blind Sheikh for American hostages. Militants seized a BP natural gas facility in Algeria on
