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Immigration reform activists met with Obama administration officials at the White House today, as House Republicans voted to on a House bill to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty. Following the meeting, the activists challenged Republicans for trying to roll back

Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan predicted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will back down in the battle against President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty. Buchanan said, “Boehner and those folks up on the

AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Rick Perry announced on Wednesday an executive order requiring all Texas state agencies to use “E-Verify” to check the employment eligibility of current and prospective employees. The announcement was a reversal of his past public comments

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) reported that the president’s executive action on immigration would clean the slate for “the vast majority” of the 900,000 illegal immigrants who “are under deportation orders and have not appeared” on Wednesday’s “Morning

Representative Dennis Ross (R-FL) said that a government shutdown is “not even a topic I think we’re going to discuss at this point” and “bait” that the GOP would not take in a clip broadcast on Tuesday’s “Wolf” on CNN.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is flat out denying that President Obama’s executive action on immigration was amnesty. During a House Committee hearing on the department, Johnson was asked: “Is this amnesty?” by Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA). “No.” Johnson replied

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com On Tuesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, Gov.-elect Greg Abbott (R-TX) discussed his proposed lawsuit against the Obama administration for his proposed action on President Barack Obama’s executive order changing immigration

President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he intended to enact immigration reform by executive order, granting millions of illegal immigrants protection from deportation, was immediately the subject of sharp criticism, not just from Republicans and immigration hard-liners, but also

Niger Innis, Executive Director of TheTeaParty.net and National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, declared President Obama the “most racially divisive and divisive president that we have had since Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the federal offices across the country” on

Monday on KFYI AM in Phoenix, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said President Barack Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to upwards of 5 million illegal immigrants already living in the United States was “outrageous,” and an illegal example of Obama’s “imperial

DREAMers upset that President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty didn’t cover their illegal immigrant parents are soliciting donations to push Obama and Congress to grant their parents amnesty. As soon as Obama, in a move constitutional scholars have said was an

President Obama’s executive amnesty for an estimated five million illegal aliens is, from the perspective of Republicans, an unconstitutional power grab that threatens the republic. In Obama’s telling, over soft piano music in a campaign-style YouTube video, it “just comes

The presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, the leading source countries of illegal immigrants in the United States, hailed Obama’s executive decree to stop the deportation of many of their compatriots. Obama’s unilateral measures will shield nearly five million

On ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” President Barack Obama seemingly taunted congressional Republicans to shutdown the government by saying it was their “habit” to do so with every disagreement like the one he just caused with his executive order

On Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday,” Gov.-elect Greg Abbott (R-TX) said President Barack Obama’s executive order that essentially grants amnesty to upwards 5 million illegals already living in the United States is the, “epitome of lawlessness.” Abbott said, “What

AUSTIN, Texas — After President Barack Obama announced on Thursday his intention to enact immigration reforms by executive order, his plans are being criticized by construction companies in Texas, who say that this approach is inadequate to address their hiring

Following Obama’s speech on Thursday evening — during which he announced that he will unilaterally protect some 5 million illegal aliens from deportation — Central American media outlets ran front-page articles describing the president’s order. Nearly every top online newspaper in Central

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” made fun of President Obama’s executive action on immigration with an updated version of the “Schoolhouse Rock” song “I’m Just a Bill.” The sketch starts out like the “Schoolhouse Rock” song, with a child discovering a

Bristol County, MA Sheriff Thomas Hodgson (R) reported that President Obama’s executive action on immigration will “make it impossible for us to be able to notify ICE when we have people that ought to be detained and deported” on Saturday’s

What can a chronicler of barbarian invasions, writing in the 18th century, explain to Americans in the 21st century?What lessons can we learn today from the fall of an ancient empire? Plenty. Many. Indeed, as immigration is a hot issue

On Friday, HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that Republican outrage over President Obama’s executive action on immigration was unwarranted because Obama “reached out” to the GOP. “He [Obama] purposely reached out to the Republicans in his executive order.

SEIU celebratory rallies held across California continued throughout Friday taking names of those who don’t qualify under President Obama’s new and expanded legal status for millions of illegal aliens while heralding his iron fisted legal status declaration. SEIU California announced

President Obama’s executive action on immigration will have a “dramatic impact” on Border Patrol agents, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) told Breitbart Texas. Shawn Moran, Vice President of the NBPC, told Breitbart Texas, “This issue will obviously have a dramatic

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) argued that the Republican Party will win elections if it focuses on appealing working class voters on Friday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” “The bread and butter of what makes my state work and I think makes this

Friday on Newsmax TV’s “America’s Forum,” former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson said President Barack Obama’s executive order amnesty is part of his “nefarious agenda,” that will cause illegal immigrants to flood the welfare roles and create a new wave

As “Emperor Obama”–to cite a title applied to Barack Obama by House Speaker John Boehner, Senator Jeff Sessions, and others–proceeds with his plan to trample the Constitution by issuing an Executive Order on amnesty for illegals, perhaps it’s worth looking back to

When an American president threatens to govern by Executive Order, he has really declared he will govern by arbitrary power: his will instead of the will of the people. We are witnesses to the subversion of popular government when the

Arizona State Representative Steve Montenegro (R) who is a legal immigrant from El Salvador, argued that President Obama’s executive order on immigration was ” a slap in the face to immigrants” on Thursday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel.

Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) declared President Obama’s executive order on immigration “offensive” to the Constitution, African-Americans, and Hispanics on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “[The executive order] is such an offense to the Constitution, and by the way,

The Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor” anchor Bill O’Reilly said that President Obama’s executive order was “compassionate” but “may not be a just move” in an interview with illegal immigrant and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas on Thursday. O’Reilly started by

Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama’s executive order on immigration was telling legal immigrants that they were “chumps” on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “I think on the policy, it is very clear that he is

Former Border Patrol National Deputy Chief Ronald Coburn declared that the President Obama’s executive order on immigration will put Border Patrol agents “at much greater danger” and that the president is “ready to go off the cliff” on Thursday’s “The

White House Political Director David Simas argued that President Barack Obama was right in 2011 when he said that he could not suspend deportations through an executive order, but is also within his power to implement immigration reform via an

Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) responded to her party’s electoral defeat by claiming that Republicans won where “there’s not a large amount of immigrant people” on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “@This Hour.”  When Sanchez was asked whether the president should still

AUSTIN, Texas — “It’s a very real possibility” that the state of Texas would file a lawsuit to block President Barack Obama’s plan to enact sweeping immigration reforms by executive order, said Texas Governor Rick Perry in a speech at

The internet has long been fascinated by the idea of President Obama as a king or an emperor based on his aggressive use of executive power. It’s a common criticism for American presidents; cartoonists once portrayed Andrew Jackson as a king, and