“I’m disappointed that not more people are utilizing this, and I believe that we need to promote the new program better,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
The Obama administration has created a new immigration path to the U.S. without Congressional approval, Sen. Jeff Sessions says. “I just want to say, Congress rejected this. So the President is executing it on his own,” Sessions said.
More than 350,000 refugees in the United States are on food stamps, according the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
A Senate panel will look into a new Obama administration program to fly the Central American children of lawfully present parents— including amnestied illegal immigrants — to the United States.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is circulating a letter with his colleagues that demands the immediate termination of President Obama’s Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program.
With a second surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally entering the U.S., there is new chatter about a previously obscure Obama administration program.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with the US State Department, had launched a program that would allow Central American minors (CAMs). The program is formerly referred to as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to reach the US safely
A federal judge appointed by President Obama has blocked detainment of Central American women and children on the U.S.-Mexico border who allege they are seeking asylum. The judge enjoined the government “from detaining class members for the purpose of deterring future immigration to the United States and from considering deterrence of such immigration as a factor in such custody determinations.”
Democrat Texas State Representative Ana Hernandez (D-Houston), has filed a bill that would require a Texas Supreme Court committee to develop an educational guide that would assist judges in determining which children are eligible for “special immigrant juvenile status” (“SIJS”). Federal law gives special protections to eligible unaccompanied immigrant children (“UACs”) who have entered the country illegally.
The Obama administration’s budget, due to be released Monday, will ask Congress to pony up $1 billion to help Central America.
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.
