Tag: Illegal Immigrants

Republicans are working with Democrats in the Virginia legislature to try to enact the state’s version of the DREAM Act this year. The legislation would provide in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants who have lived in the state for three

The first attorney in history to receive admission to a state bar association despite being in America illegally says practicing law isn’t the limit for him; he might run for governor of California. Sergio García, who was brought into the

On Meet the Press Sunday, CNBC host Jim Cramer suggested that members of the permanent political class that are zealously pushing comprehensive immigration reform do not care about American workers.   “David, don’t you find it interesting that the dogma is

The chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration wrote Wednesday that passage of immigration reform that would legalize millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is a “win-win for both immigrant workers and their

In Washington, it is often said that the parties can’t get along. As the country found out with the terrible Ryan-Murray budget deal that just passed Congress, the only thing that’s worse than the parties not getting along is when

Organizing for Action, the community organizing group rebooted from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign remnants that uses BarackObama.com as its website, has thanked House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and other Republicans supporting amnesty

A national Breitbart News/Judicial Watch poll has found that a majority (51%) of Americans oppose sanctuary cities, where local laws “prohibit law enforcement officers from helping to enforce federal immigration laws.” Of the 51% of Americans opposed to sanctuary cities,

When I was a kid I used to pray for the snowy days of winter. When the other kids were dreaming of a day free from the drudgery of school and the fun of sledding and snowmen, I was thinking

After immigration reform supporters in New Jersey accused him of breaking his campaign promise, Governor Chris Christie signed his state’s version of the DREAM Act today. “Shame on all of you who accused me and others of playing politics with

On December 17 Democratic senators successfully blocked a Republican attempt to shift spending cuts away from military pensions into a billion-dollar IRS credit sometimes claimed by illegal immigrants.  This sets the stage for a final vote on the budget bill

In an unaired interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that illegal immigrants who are “here without sufficient documentation”–including those who have overstayed their visas–should not be deported. She also said she was “hopeful” that

Lobbyists and the GOP political establishment applauded Speaker John Boehner’s strident attacks against the Tea Party and conservatives as the House prepared to approve the Ryan-Murray budget deal. Boehner had said that conservative groups had “lost all credibility” for opposing a budget

An illegal immigrant felon with a checkered criminal history was finally deported after eight years in America’s legal system in 2012. But after illegally re-entering the country again, she is now free while her asylum hearing is pending because federal

Mike Bloomberg is not shying away from the spotlight in his post-mayoral career. The now-former New York City mayor appeared on Fusion to discuss, among other things, immigration reform with host Jorge Ramos, whom he told that anything less than

On Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden said that he has illegal immigrants in his family tree. “My great-great grandparents came escaping the famine and they didn’t all come here legally,” Biden stated. “They didn’t all come legally. And the existence

In August, three dozen illegal immigrants filed a lawsuit demanding a judge tell Georgia’s state university Board of Regents to give them in-state tuition. On Thursday, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Mark Anthony Scott said he needs more information and time

Catholic bishops from the border region of Mexico, Texas, and New Mexico have sent an open letter to “Catholics and All People of Good Will” to urge them to engage in advocacy for the protection of the rights of immigrants

An immigration judge allowed President Barack Obama’s illegal immigrant uncle, who had been ordered to be deported and arrested for drunk driving, to remain in the United States on Tuesday. U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro ruled that Onyango “Omar” Obama,

The 24-year old illegal immigrant who heckled President Barack Obama on Monday did not enter the country illegally. In fact, Ju Hong and his family entered the country legally and overstayed a tourism visa, highlighting how dramatically increasing the number

(AP) Gov’t to allow another group of immigrants to stayBy ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONSome immigrants who have stayed in the United States longer than they were allowed can soon apply to keep living in the U.S. under another immigration policy

A day after President Barack Obama told a heckler that he did not have the power to end all deportations with an executive action, the White House did not rule out other executive actions Obama may use on immigration.  At a

After he was heckled by a protester on stage with him on Monday, President Barack Obama conceded that he did not have the executive power to stop all deportations at a time when immigration rights activists are pressing him to