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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is joining Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Jeff Sessions to push for legislation to increase immigration enforcement and crack down on guest worker abuse.

Republican House members blasted their GOP leadership Wednesday for caving to Democratic leaders by abandoning the House’s bipartisan bill to tighten screening of refugee applicants from Syria and Iraq.

A letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) requesting that the year-end spending bill feature language to fully defund refugee resettlement to the U.S. has 57 co-signers, according to the letter’s author Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX).

“It will be very difficult for me to vote for any funding bill that risks American lives by improving the chances of successful terrorist attacks on American cities,” Mo Brooks said in an interview with Breitbart News Tuesday. “And so if that’s the funding bill Barack Obama and the House and Senate leadership want me to support they’re going to need to look elsewhere for votes.”

“The proposed debt deal takes as much as $150 billion from the Social Security Trust Fund for retirees and transfers the cash to the fraud-ridden disability program,” Sen. Sessions and Rep. Brooks write. “There is no ‘surplus’ in the retirement Trust Fund to spend somewhere else – Social Security will be insolvent by 2034 and has a $9.4 trillion unfunded liability.”

Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), a member of the House Freedom Caucus suggested that Republicans should “perhaps” look at someone other than Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), who he described as “from the liberal half” of the conference, as speaker and that

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) acknowledged on Breitbart News Sunday that since no candidate has a clear pathway to becoming the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner could remain Speaker through January 2017.

Brooks pointed to estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center that American workers ceded 7.8 million jobs to illegal immigrants in 2009 and a 2013 Federation for American Immigration Reform estimate that illegals took 8.5 million jobs away from Americans. He added that studies point to wage suppression due to cheap illegal immigrant labor — pinning wages lost at about $800 a year for high school graduates and $2,300 lost in annual income for low-skilled labor.

“Last Wednesday, President Obama said that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be amended after its adoption to add China to the agreement, raising new questions about the powers Congress is ceding to the executive through fast-track approval,” Brooks and Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Ted Yoho (R-FL), and Gary Palmer (R-AL) wrote on Wednesday to Ryan in a letter that was just made public this morning.

Silence isn’t golden. All 20 Republican lawmakers who voted against an amendment that prevents illegals from enlisting in the U.S. military refused to answer questions from Breitbart News regarding the expedited citizenship most illegals would have been eligible for once they joined the armed forces.

Despite 20 Republicans defecting to join Democrats, Republicans and conservatives won big on Thursday evening: An amendment from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) passed onto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) stripping amnesty for illegal aliens from the defense bill.

The House voted to strip language from the National Defense Authorization Act that would have called on the Pentagon to consider allowing illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty — via Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)— to serve in the U.S. military.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is calling on his House colleagues to support the effort to remove an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act seeking to allow illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty to enlist in the military.

At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the House Rules Committee will begin general debate on the NDAA—and will wrap its discussion on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Because of the significance of these proceedings, Breitbart News will be carrying a live blog of them launching at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

More than two dozen Republicans are calling on the House Rules Committee to eliminate an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would call on the Secretary of Defense to make illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty eligible to serve in the U.S. military.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) should not be used as a vehicle to pursue allowing illegal immigrants to serve in the U.S. military, according Reps. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and Dave Brat (R-VA).

“It’s appalling that some members of the Republican conference, and frankly all members of the Democratic conference, place illegal immigrants on pedestals over American citizens, contrary to the needs and wishes of the American people,” Rep. Mo Brooks says.

In an interview with host Cliff Sims earlier this week on “Yellowhammer Radio” on 101.1, WYDE in Birmingham, AL, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) sung his praises for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential

Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) defended tying funding for the president’s executive action on immigration to DHS funding on Thursday’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. “I agree with [Sen.] Harry Reid (D-NV), the Department of Homeland Security ought to

Monday on NewsMax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) made his argument for getting a federal court order, which he said was “the best option” to stop the latest example of executive branch overreach, President Obama’s lawless

In a briefing hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) dismissed “well-intentioned” efforts to stop President Barack Obama’s so-called executive amnesty through legislative process. Instead, Brooks advocated using the judiciary and

The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee pitched GOP colleagues on a plan to rescind funding for targeted programs in the next Congress to respond to President Obama’s planned executive amnesty, throwing a new idea into a ring already full

In an interview that aired on Huntsville, AL CBS affiliate WHNT, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) emphasized the need for the United States to get a grasp on its immigration policy, particularly because of the potential for the spread of infectious

At a political rally in Alabama on Tuesday, Rep. Mo Brooks took a few jabs at President Barack Obama, one in particular with regards to his fundraising prowess. Brooks noted the Democratic fundraising advantage in fundraising this election cycle and

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) criticized President Barack Obama and his administration’s efforts in tackling the ISIS threat in the Middle East. Brooks explained to host Lou Dobbs that

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) joined Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday to demand that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allow a vote on the House-passed bill blocking a continuation or expansion of the president’s Deferred Action

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) urged Senate Democrats to secure the border in order to increase wages and reduce income inequality at a press conference on Tuesday.  That press conference highlighted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blocking of a vote

It would not be wise to risk a government shutdown over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration when the GOP is so close to taking the Senate and can confront Obama later as a unified legislature, according to Alabama Republican

In an appearance on Real Clear Politics “Changing Lanes” web video show, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus reacted to remarks Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) made earlier this week when he characterized President Barack Obama’s amnesty gesture to be a

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and National Journal columnist Ron Fournier debated Brooks’ recent comments that Democrats were waging a ‘war on whites’ on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show” in Huntsville, AL on Wednesday. Brooks defended his comments, saying he “used

Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) defended his comments from Monday, which he said Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are waging a “war on whites.” Brooks defended

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) embraced The Wall Street Journal’s description of opponents of the Granger immigration bill as the “Deportation Caucus.” On Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show” Brooks said “throw me in that briar patch … we believe in the rule of

In a speech on the House floor on Wednesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) lambasted the proposal from the Obama White House seeking $3.7 billion in funding to deal with the border crisis. Brooks explained the proposal falls short in dealing

House Speaker John Boehner has concerns about release of more than 36,000 criminal immigrants last year.  “It is a serious issue, and he certainly has concerns about it,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told Breitbart News Friday, in reaction to the

The revelation that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released more than 36,000 criminal immigrants last year is more proof that President Obama’s policies are bad for the American people, according to Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks. “It’s another example of President

On Laura Ingraham’s radio show on Friday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) called for a change in the leadership of the House Republicans and he explained why he has that view. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor