Immigration and Customs Enforcement has edited a statement defending the release of more than 36,000 criminal immigrants last year, adding language saying the detained aliens had already served time for their crimes and slightly changing an apparently incorrect statistic. The
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), one of the most important Republicans on the immigration issue, expressed outrage about the Department of Homeland Security releasing thousands of criminal aliens from detention. Now he’s planning to bring DHS Sec. Jeh
Over 36,000 criminals, including almost 200 murderers, were released back into the U.S. by immigration officials in 2013, according to fresh federal statistics obtained by Breitbart Texas. The figures, which were gathered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), were outlined in
On Tuesday, Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security, met with business leaders and representatives of various pro-amnesty groups, including Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, to discuss the need for “commonsense immigration reform” and “[to underscore] the importance of Congressional action to pass”
(AP)Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is weighing limiting deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who don’t have serious criminal records, according to two people with knowledge of his deliberations. The change, if adopted following an ongoing review ordered
The AP reports that according to two sources, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is considering limiting deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who don’t have serious criminal records. The change, if adopted following an ongoing review ordered by President
The man tasked with enforcing the nation’s immigration laws found himself face-to-face with a self-proclaimed “illegal alien” Monday in a meeting with far-leftwing activists from the protest group CODEPINK. “I’m an ‘illegal alien,’ that’s how you refer to us in
In his speech at the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made an extraordinary statement about illegal immigrants in the United States. (h/t CNS News)
From CNS News: Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.” “An earned path
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) — The Senate voted by a wide margin Monday to make Jeh Johnson the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The vote was 78-16, ABC News reported. Johnson will succeed Janet Napolitano, who is
Speaking to an audience at Oxford University on Friday, the Pentagon’s top lawyer Jeh Johnson signaled the Obama administration may soon transition from handling terrorism as an act of war to handling it as a criminal matter. Johnson broached this
The United States must prepare for a time when it no longer is at war with Al-Qaeda and when sweeping legal powers ushered in after the September 11, 2001 attacks come to an end, the Pentagon’s top lawyer said. The
By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterWASHINGTONThe Pentagon’s top lawyer on Thursday informed the former Navy SEAL who wrote a forthcoming book describing details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets
