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Of the 380 foreign-born individuals, at least 24 came to the U.S. as refugees and at least 33 were in the U.S. illegally on expired visas. According to the Subcommittee, at least 62 of the foreign-born terror convicts were from Pakistan, 28 were from Lebanon, 22 were Palestinian, 21 were from Somalia, 20 were from Yemen, 19 were from Iraq, 16 were from Jordan, 17 were from Egypt, and 10 were from Afghanistan.

The phenomenon of more older Americans working bucks overall employment trends — even as the percent of the population with a job has declined the share of employed older Americans has steadily increased. Overall the percentage of adults with a job — 59.9 percent — has failed to recover to pre- Great Recession levels, meanwhile the share of older Americans with a job has soared.

According to a CAIR analysis of voter information, there are currently some 824,000 registered Muslim voters. CAIR arrived at this figure by marching the voting records against a list of 43,538 traditionally Muslim names. In 2012, CAIR used the same methodology to estimate that there were around 500,00 Muslim voters.

“You might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman, he’d be better prepared to handle the economy,” Hillary Clinton told supporters in Columbus, Ohio. “Well it turns out, he’s dangerous there too. Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy.”

The Obama Administration should keep its nose out of the United Kingdom’s referendum on membership in the European Union, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).

Last month CBP detained 40,366 illegal immigrants attempting to cross into the U.S. unlawfully, the most in a single month since July 2014. This fiscal year to date, CBP has apprehended 264,192 illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of State Department data, the U.S. has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1975.

President Barack Obama’s policies are “directly responsible” for the terrorist attack on an Orlando gay bar because he allowed for the expansion of ISIS, Sen. John McCain said Thursday.

According to State Department data, since June 12, 441 Syrian refugees have been resettled in communities across the U.S. Just five of the recent arrivals are Christian the rest are Muslim, including 434 Sunni Muslims and one identified as simply “Moslem.” One is listed as having “no religion.”

“There is an Islamic element here,” Barney Frank told The Times. “Yes, the overwhelming majority of Muslims don’t do this, but there is clearly, sadly, an element in the interpretation of Islam that has some currency, some interpretation in the Middle East that encourages killing people — and L.G.B.T. people are on that list.”

The steady decline of illegal immigrants deported after overstaying a visa since President Barack Obama took office is tantamount to amnesty, according to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).

In a letter to the State and Homeland Security departments, Senator Grassley is requesting information about Mateen’s contacts with law enforcement and travels abroad, including criminal convictions, travels to the Middle East, presence on terror watch lists, and ability to work for a U.S. government contractor.

“I’m concerned there are unidentified national security and public safety risks in a population that large, which has historically been the primary means for terrorist entry to the United States,” Rep. Martha McSally said Tuesday at a subcommittee hearing examining the national security risks posed by illegal immigrants who overstay their visas.

“The worst thing you can do is engage in trying to point fingers at one group or one form of sectarianism or another or one division or another. Those are not the values of our country,” John Kerry told reporters Monday in advance of a meeting with Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides.

The average man with a full-time job in 2014 earned less than the average man in 1973, according to the Brookings Institution. The think tank’s economy-focused Twitter account revived a striking statistic over the weekend, shedding additional light on the

In a video posted early Monday, CBS reports, Seddique Mir Mateen — the father of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen — expresses sadness for the shooting during Ramadan and says that he was “not aware what motivated [his son] to go into a gay club and kill 50 people.”

The Department of Transportation has approved American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines, and Sun Country Airlines to begin scheduled flights between the U.S. and Cuba starting as early as this fall.

While even notoriously liberal San Francisco voters have rejected past efforts to grant voting privileges to illegals, Fox News reports that Mar thinks the backlash against Donald Trump will yield a strong turn-out of Latino and anti-Trump voters to the polls to pass his proposed charter amendment.

Barack Obama’s administration and the international community are using “alternate legal pathways” to bring more Syrian refugees to the United States outside of the refugee resettlement program, including encouraging colleges and universities to award scholarships to Syrians refugees.

According to ICE, the items seized by special agents with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) during the month-long operation included t-shirts, caps, team flags, and decals with counterfeit branding.

There’s been a decades-long drop in wages paid to American workers facing competition from foreign guest-workers on H-2B visas, belying claims of a shortage of U.S. workers, according to Steven Camarota, at the Center for Immigration Studies.

Rules requiring U.S. employers to hire Americans workers before looking abroad for low-skilled temporary labor are insufficient and unenforced, an Economic Policy Institute researcher testified Wednesday before a Senate panel.

With disastrously low labor participation rates, the United States does not have a shortage of American workers who are unable to fill low-skilled jobs, but rather too few Americans are working in those low-skilled jobs currently open to temporary foreign workers on H-2B visas, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

In recent years the southern border has experienced as surge in unaccompanied minors and “families” — largely from Central America — illegally crossing into the U.S. Under current policy minors from noncontiguous countries are granted special treatment including being placed with sponsors and family members in the U.S. while they await immigration hearings. Additionally, a case settled nearly two decades ago — known as the Flores agreement — mandated the swift release of minors in custody.

A federal judge has agreed to delay the sanctions he ordered against the Obama administration for misleading his court about the implementation dates for executive amnesty.

The Visa Waiver Program allows foreign nationals from 38, largely European, countries to travel to the U.S. without a visa for tourist and businesses stays up to 90 days. The program requires participating countries to enter into information sharing agreements to report travel threats. The GAO reports, however, that many VPW countries are not living up to their ends of the bargain.

Chinese nationals represent the fifth-largest population of illegal immigrants in the U.S. but not all of them are undocumented because they overstayed a visa. Many are arriving in the U.S. illegally via the southwest border. The phenomenon is on the

As the Globe notes, the 30 percent recidivist rate it uncovered in New England alone is higher than the rate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for interior immigration enforcement, has touted in the past.

Pew reports that from 2010 to 2014 the number of people in the U.S. who speak Arabic at home grew by 29 percent and is on pace to continue growing. By comparison, the number of Spanish-speakers grew by six percent in that 2010-2014 timeframe. Arabic is currently the seventh largest non-English language spoken in the U.S.

The dismal May jobs numbers the Labor Department reported Friday “is unacceptable,” according to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

According to not seasonally adjusted BLS data, 25,274,000 foreign-born people we employed in the U.S. in May, down 186,000 compared to April. The level continued a trend of decline from the record high of 25,741,000 set in March.

The BLS reports that last month 94,708,000 Americans were neither employed nor made an effort to find employment — due to discouragement, retirement, education, or otherwise — last month.

The Boston Herald reports that the Republican Baker administration is lifting the 2014 policy prohibiting state police from holding illegal immigrants at the request of federal immigration officials.

According to the Justice Department, the Villa Rancho Bernardo Care Center (VRB) discriminated against lawful permanent residents applying for work with the facility by requiring them to produce a permanent resident card (or green card). U.S. citizens were allowed to produce any valid form of work authorization.

In the first PSA of the campaign, released this week, the Spanish-language message from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to would-be migrants warns that the 1,600 mile journey north is dangerous. The PSA makes no mention of the illegality of the practice nor offers any warnings that migrants attempting the trip will be sent home.

In a court filing Tuesday, the Justice Department argued that District Court Judge Andrew Hanen “far exceed the bounds of appropriate remedies for what this Court concluded were intentional misrepresentations” when he ordered government lawyers to undergo ethics training and turn over the immigration records of the illegal immigrants who benefited from the government’s implementation snafu.