In 2010, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) advocated on the Senate floor for ending the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S., a term that he now claims insinuates racism.
While the White House remains open to an immigration deal with the Republican establishment and Democrats, leaders in the Democratic Party have started fighting over politically correct language.
Paul Ryan said he does not plan to attach a DACA illegal alien fix to a spending bill, stating, “That’s just not good government.”
“View from our building today reminds me that despite all the sh*t, American values will shine through,” Lloyd Blankfein tweeted.
President Trump said on Tuesday that proposed legislation designed to trade off legal status for 800,000 illegals who have obtained temporary work permits under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in return for greater immigration control and border security “should be a bill of love.”
Paul Ryan called Trump’s “shithole” comment “very unfortunate, unhelpful” at a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee event on Friday.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) used the term “chain” migration in a White House immigration meeting, despite now denouncing President Trump’s use of the term, which is used to describe the process where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. with them.
Billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that he will donate $33 million to create college scholarships for 1,000 Illegal Immigrants
What Democrats have done by allegedly leaking Trump’s “shithole countries” comment is to ensure meaningful bipartisan negotiations never happen again.
President Donald Trump restated his promise to make Mexico pay for his big wall on the Southern border, suggesting that they would do it by renegotiating NAFTA.
President Donald Trump admitted that he used “tough language” during his immigration reform meeting with members of Congress but hinted that reports of his “shithole countries” comment were not accurate.
Marc Short, White House legislative director, said President Donald Trump supports amnesty for 800,000 illegal aliens protected under DACA.
Thursday at her weekly press conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said “five white guys” were negotiating immigration, referring to the ongoing discussions that included House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Majority
A senior Republican aide has shot down accusations that President Trump’s top adviser Stephen Miller was trying to block a deal on immigration between the GOP establishment and the White House.
President Donald Trump immediately shot down an amnesty plan offered by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and several GOP Senators, according to a Washington Post report.
Senate Democrats claim they have developed a new bipartisan amnesty plan for young ‘dreamer’ illegals – and their plan also offers a quasi-amnesty to the illegal-immigrant parents who brought the 3.25 million ‘dreamer’ illegals into the United States.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) argued that “we have an absolute obligation to these DACA kids” and said that while she will negotiate on increased border security, “building a useless wall” is not something she’s
Just weeks after winning a corporate tax cut they promised would help American workers, corporate chiefs demand amnesty for illegal workers.
Establishment leader Sen. John Cornyn is elbowing a core group of GOP immigration reformers out of the critical closed-door negotiations with Democrats, setting the stage for a huge political failure, say pro-American reformers.
A leaked memo from the left-wing organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, admits that passing an amnesty for the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is “a critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success.”
“If this bill passes as is, we will be in a better position,” said Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations for NumbersUSA, of the Republican-led Securing America’s Future (SAF) Act. The proposed bill grants amnesty for illegal alien recipients of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is scolding Republicans in Congress for considering amnesty for illegal aliens despite it likely “disproportionately” harming working-class black Americans.
President Donald Trump has effectively endorsed the House GOP’s immigration reform bill, just one day after he invited Democrats and Republicans from both House and Senate to negotiate a deal.
In August 2015, during the Republican primary ahead of the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Donald J. Trump mocked former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s comments that illegal immigration to the U.S. was an “act of love.”
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Vice President Mike Pence told host Martha MacCallum there was “no deal on DACA without a wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border. Pence said, “I think the president’s been very clear. There’s no deal
Populist conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham is warning President Trump against accepting a deal with the Republican establishment and Democrats that gives amnesty to the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action from Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
A Republican-led bill that would give amnesty to the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the DACA program is the first legislation on the issue that would make E-Verify mandatory for all U.S. employers, thus barring illegal aliens from the American workforce.
Rep. Lou Barletta told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview, “We finally have an opportunity to end the problem of illegal immigration.”
Democrats leader Chuck Schumer claimed January 10 that President Donald Trump is weakening on immigration reform and suggested Democrats will block the 2018 budget unless a DACA amnesty is added to the funding bill.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said Tuesday he would not support DACA amnesty sans other immigration reforms.
“Until the United States can implement laws that can stop [illegal immigration], you’re always going to have this problem,” said David, a recipient of a temporary work visa via the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that while he will vote for money for barriers along the border, he’s still a fiscal conservative and won’t vote to spend $40 billion on these barriers. Rand said, “I
Federal immigration officers visited roughly 100 7-Eleven stores on Wednesday morning to start payroll audits, further pressuring CEOs around the nation to stop hiring illegals.
Actor James Woods took to Twitter Tuesday to issue a stern warning to President Donald Trump: cave to Democrats on the immigration issue and become a “one-term president.”
The White House responded to a ruling issued by a federal district court in San Francisco demanding that President Donald Trump immediately reinstate DACA.
The number of families apprehended by Border Patrol agents grew by 625 percent from a low point in April 2017. The figure fell sharply during the first four months of the Trump Administration but has risen steadily thereafter.
Tuesday during a monologue on his Fox News Channel show, host Tucker Carlson criticized President Donald Trump for what seemed to be a different approach to how to handle immigration in a meeting that aired to the public with a bipartisan group
Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin criticized President Donald Trump for his remarks earlier in the day at a meeting directed at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Trump indicated he would sign what was
A federal district court in California on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately reinstate DACA, in a lawsuit brought by former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano against current DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
A group of House Republicans has drafted an ambitious immigration bill which offers a token amnesty in exchange for a deep reform of immigration rules to ease deportations, promote civic integration, end chain migration, end the visa lottery, build a border wall and raise Americans’ wages.
