In the last fiscal year — which ended on Sept. 30 — U.S. authorities encountered 5,585 Haitians, 3,940 Cubans and hundreds of other nationals from the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries attempting to illegally enter the United States, the Coast Guard revealed in an Associated Press report.
Thousands of illegal immigrants flooded California’s DMVs on Friday as the Golden State began processing appointments and giving exams that will grant approximately 1.4 million driver’s licenses over the course of the next three years.
Many illegal immigrants at a Northern California DMV reportedly were failing the written exam when applying for driver’s licenses on Friday. Under the AB 60 law that Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed in 2013 and took effect at the start of
In 2016, especially after President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, Democrats may be on even thinner ice with white voters, especially white working-class males. Though the mainstream media wants to gin up the narrative that Republicans have trouble winning minorities, the
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
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has hired some 900 new employees and opened four new license processing centers to deal with the expected onslaught of undocumented immigrants who will be eligible for a driver’s license this new year. Starting Friday, under a new law requiring the California DMV to provide illegal immigrants driver’s licenses, the state DMV is bracing for the newly eligible applicants.
In 2014, for the first time ever, U.S. Border Patrol records show that more non-Mexicans than Mexicans were apprehended at the border. Additional noteworthy information in the Border Patrol reports from this past year includes how, despite the fact that the news about unaccompanied children dominated the summer news cycle, adults were actually the vast majority of the illegal immigration problem.
A top Jeb Bush ally claims the former Florida governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate is not for “amnesty” for illegal immigrants. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, a publication that has often demeaned Americans opposed to massive amnesty legislation
Florida Governor Jeb Bush will reportedly skip an important forum in Iowa, which hosts the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating caucuses and where voters are much more conservative than Bush on illegal immigration. Citing a “scheduling conflict,” Bush reportedly declined an invitation
Among the thousands of families and unaccompanied alien children (UACs) who streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border this year who were ordered removed from the country but had not been retained in custody, over ninety percent of those removal orders are not being completed because the immigrants failed to appear at the required hearing and, in most cases, officials have no real answers about how to track them down.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who has pushed comprehensive amnesty legislation as a “Gang of Eight” member, is trying to advance the notion that a Republican cannot win the White House without supporting comprehensive amnesty legislation. He even suggested that pro-amnesty
National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran blasted Mexico for its “double standard” on border enforcement and argued that Mexico’s southern border is “probably a little more intimidating than our border is” on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto”
Immigrants detained illegally entering Arizona across the southern border are becoming more likely to lash out aggressively at the Border Patrol agents who stop them, according to the president of the union that represents agents in the state. “Now, when we stop two or three people, often we find that, at least, one of them is aggressive,” he said.
During the immigration crisis of 2014, Mexico, a country known as an illegal immigration corridor used by human and drug smugglers, increased its deportation efforts and ended up surpassing the number of Central Americans that the United States deported during the year.
Monday in an interview with National Public Radio host Steve Inskeep, President Barack Obama discussed a “nativist trend ” in the Republican Party, which he believe is blocking immigration reform. Partial transcript as follows (courtesy of NPR): INSKEEP: In an
The vast majority of the families and minors who where apprehended illegally entering the United States during the border surge of 2012-2014 have vanished to the interior of the U.S., becoming part of the illegal population.
After failing to get its desired comprehensive amnesty legislation last Congress, the Chamber of Congress wants Republicans to act on an immigration bill immediately in the next Congress. And it may try to oust GOP lawmakers who try to get
A plurality of Republicans are less likely to support former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for believing that illegal immigration is an “act of love.” A recent CNN/ORC survey of mostly soft and moderate Republicans found that even 42% of those respondents
President Barack Obama claimed that illegal immigrants do not burden taxpayers and are not a drain on public resources. In an interview with National Public Radio (NPR), Obama also slammed and dismissed those who are concerned about the negative impact that illegal immigration
The flow of families and unaccompanied alien children (UACs) illegally crossing the border into Texas appears to be increasing again.
The Department of Homeland Security will reportedly track more illegal immigrants with GPS devices because a whopping 70% of illegal immigrants who traveled to America as a family unit failed to show up to their immigration hearings. This summer, illegal immigrants
A Philadelphia church has joined the sanctuary movement to shield an illegal immigrant from deportation. When Angela Navarro, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was given deportation orders a decade ago, she defied it and “began living in the shadows to
To incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), it is more important for Republicans to be the party of yes than go all-out to defund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. According to the New York Times, McConnell “acknowledges that changing the
For the first time, more immigrants illegally crossing the southern border of the United States came from countries other than Mexico. Central Americans from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras accounted for 239,229 of the FY 2014 apprehensions while the number
Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio came on the Breitbart News Sunday Show on Sirius XM Patriot radio to talk about the national war on police with host Stephen K. Bannon. “America’s toughest Sheriff” started off with a bang telling Breitbart’s Executive
