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Border Patrol Making Arrests

Most Illegal Immigrants Caught at Border Non-Mexican and Adult

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.

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Tech Insider Blasts Industry

None other than a prominent TechCrunch contributor called out tech industry insiders who push for massive increases in guest-worker visas while falsely claiming that there is a shortage of American high workers.

Illegal Immigration/Unaccompanied Minors

Over 90 Percent of Illegal Immigrants from Border Surge Skipped Hearings

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.

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EXCLUSIVE—Pete Sessions Fires Back: I’m Not Pro-Amnesty, I’m Not a ‘Boehner Guy’

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas, Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) pushed back against critics who view Congressional Republican leadership as weak on amnesty, and defended the planned homeland security appropriations bill that will come up for a vote in the new Congress as a strong tactic against President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty orders.

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White House: Republicans Know Plan To Defund Amnesty Will Fail

White House Senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer doesn’t think that Republicans will succeed in defending President Obama’s executive amnesty in 2015. Pfeiffer suggests that Republicans won’t have the political momentum to sustain a mini-shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

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US Chamber of Commerce Threatens GOP on Immigration, Spending

Not only does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce think it is the only reason the GOP won anything in November, it is now threatening Republicans with opposition next go round if they don’t lay down and give the Chamber precisely what it wants, including on immigration, increased spending on transportation, and economic deals that sweeten the pot for big business.