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House Speaker is delaying the vote on his amnesty bill from Thursday to Friday, amid growing evidence that tens of GOP legislators prefer the bill drafted by Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte.

The GOP establishment has used progressives’ obsession over child detentions to divert media attention from the economic details of the unpopular amnesty bill which will transfer wealth from ordinary Americans to investors, say critics.

President Donald Trump’s new Executive Order does not back down on his “zero tolerance” enforcement of border laws, and it directs his lawyers to challenge the 1997 Flores court settlement which forces the Department of Homeland Security to release migrants with kids in just 20 days.

Three national airlines have announced they oppose the transport of migrants’ children from the so-called “cages” in spartan border-facilities to the government’s safe dormitory-like shelters in California, New York and other states.  

Three business groups are denouncing House Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty bill for making modest and popular cuts to the legal immigration programs which provide business with extra consumers, renters, and workers.

The GOP legislator who is managing the House GOP’s 2018 campaign is urging President Donald Trump to suspend border enforcement while “families with children [are] immigrating to the United States.”

Sen. John McCain has joined the elite push to minimize enforcement of border laws and is calling the President to stop detaining migrants who bring children northwards. 

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has drafted a “Protect Kids and Parents Act” that would end the separation of migrant parents from their children and would offer emotional solace to the many Democrats, Hollywood figures and establishment GOP players who are urging that something be done. 

The Democrats’ leader in the Senate says House Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty bill is “doomed to fail” because it cuts future immigration into the United States.

More than 50,000 illegals got DACA work-permits and Social Security Numbers even though they had an arrest record, says a new report by the Department of Homeland Security.

GOP legislators should tell voters that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty bill is not an amnesty bill, says Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chairwoman of the House Republican Conference.

House Speaker Paul’s Ryan’s amnesty bill would reduce long-term immigration – but without reducing the caps on migration programs.

President Donald Trump’s policy detaining migrant parents while sheltering their children elsewhere means he is just like Adolf Hitler, according to a tweet from former intelligence chief and NeverTrump activist Gen. Michael Hayden.

President Donald Trump will meet with House GOP legislators on Tuesday to talk about the two pending amnesty bills in the House, White House officials say. Trump will likely use the meeting to show legislators that he is willing to take

Voters should insist that Congress provide taxpayer-funded lawyers to all foreign children who arrive at the border without parents, says the New York Times’ editorial board.

Democrats must shame Republicans into ending the separation of migrants and their children at the border, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal says.

Marc Short, the President’s liaison to Congress, will leave as early as this summer, says the Wall Street Journal.

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty plan compromises on several key elements of President Donald Trump’s ‘four pillars’ immigration reform, even though Ryan says his plan would implement the President’s populist vision. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan and his aides are claiming that President Donald Trump supports his unpublished draft amnesty plan.

House Speaker Paul Ryan announced late Tuesday that he will allow votes on two amnesty bills next week.

GOP House Whip Steve Scalise said Tuesday that GOP leaders’ backroom talks will help keep a breakaway group of GOP legislators from reaching their 25-signature target on the amnesty discharge-petition. 

So-called “moderate” Republicans have rejected proposals to combine their amnesty with popular immigration reforms, including greater use of E-Verify, and border-law changes to reduce migration of people from Central America, says a report in Politico.

Pro-migration advocates turned their outrage meter up to max after Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed President Barack Obama’s rules allowing Central Americans to get asylum if they say they are threatened by domestic violence or by gang violence.

Fundamental disputes over the scale of legal immigration and border security are stalling the push by GOP leaders for a quick amnesty deal that could allow some form of legal status to at least 1.8 million young illegals.

The GOP’s deficit in the generic ballot score has spiked from just 3.2 points to 7.6 points in the last week as business donors and House Speaker Paul Ryan push for a wage-cutting amnesty.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi is hammering the GOP for slow growth in wages just as House Speaker Paul Ryan prepares an amnesty that will help stall the upwards movement of blue-collar wages. 

The amnesty bill now being drafted by House Speaker Paul Ryan would trim chain-migration by far less than sought by President Donald Trump, according to details buried in a Politico report. Trump says ending chain-migration for extended families is a

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is opening another 1,600 jail beds to house economic migrants who are now facing prosecution after being caught while crossing the border, according to Reuters. 

President Donald Trump wants a concrete-and-steel border wall, but the scant details about Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty briefing on Thursday prompted intra-party debates over the design, funding, and priority of the border-barrier project, according to reports from Capitol Hill. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he hopes to quickly write up an amnesty bill and get it passed through the House.

President Donald Trump excluded a variety of domestic Islamic groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood from his first White House annual Islamic ‘Iftar’ dinner.

The House GOP leadership is trying to stampede Republicans into supporting an open-ended amnesty bill that will not curb immigration, but which will instead import more foreign professionals to the get the well-paid jobs sought by American college-graduates, sources tell Breitbart News.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is praising the wage growth in President Donald Trump’s economy, marking a huge shift from his prior ‘economic-growth-first’ rhetoric to justify cheap-labor immigration. 

The nation’s 800,000 warehouse workers have won a 9.4 percent pay increase amid President Donald Trump’s pro-American migration policy, forcing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to raise wages for his many warehouse employees.

A large group of NeverTrump investors and cheap-labor CEO donors are promising to go on strike until House Speaker Paul Ryan schedules passage of a cheap-labor amnesty for June 25. 

GOP leaders are betting their House majority on voters’ supposed gratitude for the 2017 tax cut, but GOP candidates are betting their seats on public opposition to more cheap-labor immigration in 2019.