The Republican Party has for years been in a quandary about how to address the issue of illegal immigration honestly and firmly without sounding racist. A good place for the party to start would be to knock off the brown-face minstrel show routine they
Less than 24-hours after Texas State Senator Dan Patrick released a video asserting his opposition to illegal immigration, the candidate for Texas Lt. Governor stands accused of having hired four illegal aliens in a bar he previously owned. Earlier today
The immigration reform debate appears to have achieved equilibrium according to a new poll released this week by Gallup. Americans are placing priority on addressing the “immigration status” question over border security by 44 to 43 percent, respectively. Breitbart News recently reported
On Monday, Fox News Channel’s The Kelly File took up my article from Friday in which I reported that California’s state Obamacare exchange, Covered California, is recruiting illegal aliens to enroll in the program. I cited the Covered California website, where
In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) apologized profusely to the White House for shouting, “You lie!” as President Barack Obama told Congress that Obamacare would not cover illegal immigrants. Now it would appear that the White House owes Wilson an
Sen. Sessions spoke on the Senate floor on Monday to discuss the Pryor amendment, which would restore the pension cuts from the Ryan-Murray spending agreement but would violate that law’s spending limits in doing so. As Sessions noted, Senate Democrats
A draft version of an immigration bill from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) would give millions of illegal aliens permission to stay in the United States for up to six years, according to a one page outline of the bill. The
Let’s be honest: if he could, Speaker John Boehner would bring immigration reform to the House floor tomorrow. So while his announcement Thursday that he’s hitting the brakes on his push for a big immigration reform bill was a huge
Immigration as a top concern for American voters currently polls somewhere around two or three percent, according to the latest Gallup survey. That is right down there with “lack of respect for each other” and “hunger.” And remember, a good
Democrat pundit Bob Shrum made a point that was both useful and incendiary on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday morning, when he likened the Republicans’ new immigration principles to “apartheid.” Shrum’s point was that granting millions of illegal aliens a kind
Somehow immigration reform – i.e. amnesty for illegal aliens – keeps coming back from the grave, every time it’s pronounced dead. I believe we’re up to at least five distinct “amnesty is dead” proclamations from Capitol Hill insiders and pundits
Real estate magnate, television star, and conservative provocateur Donald Trump is a confirmed speaker for the upcoming 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Breitbart News has learned. Trump has been a hit at several recent CPACs, with the crowd loving
Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles read aloud the letters of children of illegal aliens that were addressed to Pope Francis and collected by a coalition of groups seeking rights for illegal immigrants. Gomez said he hoped the letters would
Appearing on Fox News Thursday morning, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said that he thinks House Republicans should insist that the border actually be secured before they even consider discussing anything to do with “legal status” or citizenship for illegal aliens in
The long-awaited House GOP leadership immigration “principles” document has surfaced. Titled “Standards for Immigration Reform,” the document breaks down each of the pillars of what House GOP leadership is pushing, including a claim that America’s “national and economic security” depends
In an unusually aggressive move, top immigration hawk Sen. Jeff Session (R-AL) is moving to preemptively arm House Republicans with anti-amnesty talking points and other materials ahead of a major planning session at the House GOP’s Maryland retreat tomorrow. Sessions’
More immigrants facing deportation in immigration courts across the nation are having their court cases closed because of Obama’s prosecutorial discretion policy, researchers at Syracuse University found. Meanwhile, the number of removal proceedings initiated in immigration courts by the U.S.
As House Republican leaders prepare an immigration proposal that could go much further towards amnesty than their prior public stances, conservative lawmakers are quietly plotting to push back. Aides from over a dozen House offices secretly convened today on the
House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy became the first member of House GOP leadership to back “legal status” for illegal aliens, telling a Bakersfield, California television station that Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the leadership team may follow suit
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) apprehended a total of 414,397 illegal immigrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at and between ports of entry in FY 2013, a fourteen percent increase from the previous year. About 57 percent (235,567) of all
The omnibus spending bill that just passed the U.S. Congress slashes the budget of a program that pays to incarcerate illegal aliens who have committed crimes in the United States, the Arizona Republic reports. “A massive 2014 federal spending bill
According to Democrat congressman Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), House Speaker John Boehner called conservative Rep. Steve King (R-IA) an “asshole” for opposing amnesty. Castro made the revelation in a lengthy article he wrote about his short time in Congress for
A new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), provided exclusively to Breitbart News, shows that Texans are footing a massive financial bill because of illegal aliens in the state. “After a brief hiatus that coincided with the
Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) announced Tuesday that the “fix” Washington politicians developed to stop cuts to veterans’ pensions actually still slashes pensions for more than 90 percent of retired members of America’s armed forces. Millions
