Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the IRS should be abolished and joked IRS agents should be sent to the Southern border to deter illegal immigrants from crossing the border. Speaking at the “Audit the IRS” rally on Wednesday in Washington,
On Monday, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) called on his colleague Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to withdraw an advertisement they collaborated on pushing the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill because it contains false statements. “Indeed, Mr.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton announced his resignation, today, saying he will leave his post at the end of July. The embattled ICE director is slated to take a position at a private company. In 2010, following Morton’s memo to law
Last week, GOP pundit Karl Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal in support of the current Senate immigration bill, arguing it was much tougher on illegal immigrants than the 1986 law that granted amnesty to the three million illegals.
This week an overwhelming number of United States Senators decided to move forward with debate on the flawed immigration reform package supported by the Gang of Eight, known on Capitol Hill as S. 744. History very well might be repeating
Sen. Barbara Boxer is planning an amendment to the Senate’s immigration bill which would redirect funds committed to border security to reimburse state and local governments providing health care to newly legalized immigrants. Boxer plans to take $250 million, and
On Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said one reason illegal immigrants must be legalized as soon as possible is so they can help fund border security measures by paying taxes and fines. During an interview on “The Andrea Tantaros Show,” Rubio, as Byron
Rep. Steve King has told Breitbart News that illegal immigrants attempted to take over his Washington, DC office on Thursday. “They openly defy our laws,” Rep. King exclusively told Breitbart News. “It’s the most brazen lobbying I’ve seen since I
On Thursday morning, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the key Republican member of the so-called Gang of Eight behind the current immigration reform bill, said that he would drop his support for the bill if Democrats insisted on a provision allowing
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) resorted to using inaccurate attacks to attempt to derail a border security amendment to their “Gang of Eight” immigration bill offered by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Both McCain and Schumer claimed incorrectly
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made a move to formally kill an amendment Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) offered to the immigration bill. It would require border security before America’s at least 11 million illegal
Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Chuck Schumer admitted it will take “years and years and years” to secure the border. The chief negotiator behind the Gang of 8 immigration bill was speaking against an amendment offered by Sen.
Barack Obama offered his moral sagacity to America once again on Tuesday, this time regarding immigration. Obama said America “owes” some illegal aliens legislation that would offer them a “pathway to citizenship.” Obama said, “We owe it to America to
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate Minority Whip, introduced an amendment on Wednesday intended to improve the lagging border security aspects of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. The amendment would still allow illegal immigrants to be legalized, but would
On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, released the text of his amendment to the Senate’s immigration bill that would prevent illegal immigrants who become legalized after the bill’s passage from even applying for Green
On Tuesday, the Heritage Foundation launched an ad campaign against the Gang of Eight immigration bill. The $100,000 campaign will be entirely online, the Washington Post reported. Genevieve Wood, Heritage’s vice president of marketing, said that “the bill is an
In a speech on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul outlined his views on immigration reform. Acknowledging the need for some legalization process for the 12 million illegal immigrants already here, Paul stressed that border security had to come first. Under Paul’s
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke to Breitbart News at length on Tuesday following the passage of the cloture vote for the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill in the upper chamber. Breitbart News: The bill would allow most of the nation’s
After the U.S. Senate voted to pass the motion to proceed to floor debate on the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed that this bill would solve illegal immigration and secure the border. “Illegal immigration will
More than 20 Republicans joined the GOP members of the Gang of 8 to support the motion to proceed to the immigration bill. Supporting a motion to begin debate isn’t the same as supporting final passage, however. Many GOP Senators
A spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz told Breitbart News that her boss might just be suffering from a case of “Obamaphobia,” as Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) diagnosed earlier on Tuesday, depending on what the symptoms of such a condition are.
By a vote of 82 to 15 on Tuesday, the Senate voted for cloture to proceed to consideration of the Rubio-Schumer immigration bill. The vote begins consideration by the full Senate of the legislation that would legalize 11 million illegal
In advance of his successful reelection, President Obama took executive action to defer, for two years, deportation for illegal immigrants who entered the country as children. The result was a flood of requests to the immigration service for the temporary
Former Atlanta Braves great Chipper Jones did not mean any harm when he asked on Twitter last weekend whether illegal immigrants would stop crossing the Rio Grande if it was full of gators. But he apologized the next day anyway
