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Goodlatte: Obama Immigration Policies Have Created ‘A Public Safety Crisis’

“The actions taken by the Obama Administration to weaken the interior enforcement of our immigration laws have created a public safety crisis,” Goodlatte said in a statement to Brietbart News Wednesday. DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson is slated to appear before Goodlatte’s committee next week to testify about the Obama administration’s enforcement efforts.

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Immigration Attorney on Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Court Summons: ‘It’s a Total Slap in the Face’

Washington D.C. based Immigration attorney Kyle Barella responded to U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen’s (appointed by President George W. Bush) summons of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and four other immigration enforcement officials, ordering them to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of court for violating his court order, as Breitbart News previously reported.

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Senate Judiciary Republicans: Obama Program To Release More Criminal Immigrants; Sessions: Immigration Enforcement Should Not Be ‘Russian Roulette’

The administration announced the elimination of the highly successful Secure Communities program and put PEP in its place last year in conjunction with the executive amnesty programs President Obama offered up in November. “Under PEP, countless criminal aliens who have managed to evade conviction will be released, endangering our communities. More crimes will be committed, and precious resources will be spent to re-apprehend these individuals, a process that significantly endangers the safety of your officers and agents,” a group of Senators wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson Tuesday.

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Donald Trump Surging in Breitbart Primary After Immigration Controversy

Businessman Donald Trump has surged into second place in July’s Breitbart Primary poll after making illegal immigration and border security a central part of his presidential campaign. In last month’s inaugural Breitbart Primary, 55,000 people voted, and Trump finished in sixth place with

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Obama Admin. Launches Ad Campaign Encouraging Immigrants To Become Citizens

The campaign is part of an Obama administration push to encourage immigrants to become citizens. In recent months, the Obama administration has partnered with six cities including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, and Atlanta to promote naturalization. Print and digital advertisements will be in English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese. Radio public service announcements will be heard in Spanish and Chinese and video public service announcements will be in English and Spanish.

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More Than 347,000 Convicted Criminal Immigrants At Large In U.S.

In 2013 the Obama administration released 36,007 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. Those convictions included 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, and 1,075 aggravated assault convictions. In 2014 the administration released another 30,558 criminal immigrants, who had a total of 79,059 convictions.

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Boehner Talks Immigration Reform In Ireland

According to the Irish Times report, Boehner also spoke about how Ireland’s leader, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, has often pressed him on the immigration matter. There are about 50,000 Irish immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, many having overstated their visas.

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SHOCK: Arizona Paper Decries Border Fence as Too High for Mexicans to Safely Jump

A mainstream Arizona newspaper is decrying the small section of the Arizona-Mexico border that has a 14-foot-high primary fence because it is too high for illegal immigrants to safely cross. The article, “Border Fence Jumpers Breaking Bones,” includes the claim that sections of the border with a 14-foot-high fence are “as tall as a two or three-story house” and tells the stories of several women who broke bones and were treated extensively to healthcare and surgeries at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. The writer never mentions any lives directly lost as a result of there not being a border fence in most sections, such as when Mexican nationals crossed into the U.S. and murdered father and husband Robert Rosas, a U.S. Border Patrol agent.