Caroline May - Page 31

The government can move quickly when it wants to, apparently. The Obama administration admits it approved 100,000 applications under President Obama’s executive amnesty expansion before a federal court put the program on hold. All the approvals were granted between November, 2014 and February of this year.

The House passed full funding of DHS through September 30 — leaving President Obama’s executive amnesty untouched. The vote was 257-167 and the measure passed with majority Democratic votes. Seventy-five Republicans voted to pass the clean bill, 167 voted against passage.

Amid news that House Republican leadership intends to allow a vote on a so-called “clean” Department of Homeland Security funding bill, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) expressed dismay that Congress has surrendered its status as a co-equal branch and allowed President Obama’s executive amnesty to go ahead unchecked.

Now that the Senate has essentially rejected the House’s move to a conference committee, eyes once again return to the House and how House Republicans will respond.

President Obama’s executive amnesty would to more than allow illegals to stay. It would allow many to claim a big payday from the government. The acting head of the IRS is confirming that illegals given amnesty would be eligible to claim tax credits for up to three prior tax years for work they did illegally.

The federal government admits that a sharp increase in unaccompanied minors illegally migrating north was caused by their perceptions about U.S. immigration policy as well as a desire to flee violence and poor conditions in Central America.

House members voted down a stop-gap funding bill on Friday, leaving funding for DHS unclear as a midnight deadline looms.

Senate Democrats will not allow a bill to prevent funding for President Obama’s most recent executive amnesty to come to the floor for consideration.

Sen. Charles Grassley wants answers from the Department of Homeland Security about how an individual with alleged gang ties was able to win amnesty under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

The House and Senate are on different paths — with the House considering a short-term DHS funding bill, and the Senate having passed one that would fund the department through FY2015, but doesn’t stop President Obama’s amnesty.

Rep, Steve King challenges Senators to take up a House-passed DHS funding bill. “If you don’t have enough grit to defend the Constitution maybe you ought to think about going home.”

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) called out President Obama for warning immigration enforcement officials against failing to comply with his executive amnesty.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is warning House Republicans against adding provisions to block President Obama’s executive amnesty to the “clean” Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill the Senate is expected to pass.

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) insists the House will hold the line in the fight against President Obama’s executive amnesty, even as a Friday DHS funding deadline looms.

Two Republican senators want to know more about why ICE released an illegal immigrant, who’s alleged to have committed a murder after he was freed.

Some 30 House Republicans are telling their leaders to hold the line on a DHS funding bill.

The murder of Grant Ronnebeck, allegedly by an illegal immigrant, “is a clear example of why we need to address the failed catch-and-release policies of the Obama administration,” Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) argued Wednesday during an Oversight and Government Reform panel hearing.

Illegal immigrants might earn more than amnesty. A new report indicates they could collect tens of thousands in tax credits, if the president’s amnesty program moves forward.

The father of an American murdered by an illegal immigrant made an impassioned plea to Congress Wednesday to adopt policies to prevent it from happening again.

Rep. Jim Jordan is ripping the DHS secretary for skipping a hearing on the department’s processing of illegal immigrants.

Senate Republicans are ready to cave in on DHS funding. But Minority Leader Harry Reid may prove to be a sore winner.

Senate Democrats have been refusing to even consider a House-passed Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill. So they’re now charging Senate Republicans with holding up DHS funding, because the GOP has not offered a “clean bill.”

This May, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to extend eligibility to certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B nonimmigrations for work permits as part of President Obama’s executive amnesty.

If at first you don’t succeed, try something different. After Senate Democrats blocked a House-passed Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill for a fourth time Monday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is offering a potential alternate route.

For a fourth time, Senate Democrats have succeeded in preventing a DHS funding bill from even coming to the floor. Funding for the agency runs out this week.

The Obama Justice Department has officially asked Judge Andrew Hanen to stay his injunction that is preventing the administration from moving forward with executive amnesty.

Pressure from a purple state: Eight House Reps. from Virginia are encouraging their two Democrat senators to help lift a filibuster of the House-passed DHS funding bill.

New details about a “shadow work-permit system” are emerging. The Center for Immigration Studies finds that between 2009 and 2014, the Obama administration issued 7.4 million new work permits, above the annual 1.1 million new legal and 700,000 guest workers admitted to the U.S.

The Independent Women’s Forum is responding to Patricia Arquette’s faulty argument about equal pay and equal rights for women.

While President Obama was in Chicago bragging about the strong economy, the Census Bureau quietly announced that one of every five children is on food stamps, up from one in eight when the president was elected.

Pro-amnesty organizations are cheering the Obama Administration’s decision to seek an emergency stay of a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily halted the president’s executive amnesty.

The Obama administration admits it sent some 800,000 Obamacare users the wrong tax information, a glitch that will cause delays in their tax refund and that Rep. Diane Black says is yet another problem for the failing program.

Actor Wilmer Valderrama is urging illegal immigrants to continue to prepare for executive amnesty and sign up in droves when it is available.

A group of House Democrats are calling on House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to postpone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress next month.

As the deadline for funding DHS approaches later this month, dueling letters are making the rounds on the Hill. House Democrats are pressing House Speaker John Boehner to bring a new, “clean” funding bill to the House floor, while House Republicans have asked Senate Democrats to allow an already-passed bill to come to the floor.

Sen. John McCain warns that the Department of Homeland Security shouldn’t be shut down because of a battle over funding President Obama’s executive amnesty.