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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings with Obama

Dallas Mayor Echoes Obama: ‘We’ve Got to be a New America’

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings insisted,“We’ve got to be a new America,” during a public radio show interview Monday in which he posited “xenophobia,” the fear of outsiders, would grip the nation unless citizens welcomed Syrian refugees and Central American illegal immigrants.

Leaked Immage of Unaccompanied Minors

Report: Admin. Predicted Another 127,000 Illegal Immigrant Children In 2015

An internal PowerPoint presentation prepared for Congress, dated April 22, 2014 and obtained by the Washington Examiner reveals that last year the Obama administration anticipated the number of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children would reach 127,000 in 2015. The document also correctly anticipated that the number of unaccompanied children would reach 60,000 in 2014.

Unaccompanied Minors in DHS Holding Facilities, June, 2014

Texas Rep Proposes Stopping Funds to Central America Over Illegal Immigration

Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX) has re-introduced a bill to hold Central American nations accountable for illegal immigrants from their countries by cutting off foreign aid. The bill (H.R. 439, attached below) is in response to last summer’s invasion of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

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.

AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz, File

A Flu Epidemic of Unknown Origin

The Centers for Disease Control declared a flu epidemic this week, as the death toll from “influenza-like” complications rose to 15 children. The flu season began early—part of a troubling pattern stretching back across several years—and the current strain seems resistant to commonly available vaccines.