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Silicon Valley’s tech elites are spoiling for a fight against a legal immigration overhaul backed by President Donald Trump.

A controversial visa program that ultimately allows wealthy foreign nationals to promise investments in the United States in exchange for U.S. citizenship would end if Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) and Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) legal immigration overhaul is enacted.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) predicts that a bill aimed at reducing illegal immigration endorsed by President Trump will not gain enough votes to pass the Senate.

During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump argued the immigration reform proposal he put forward with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) “ends the abuse of our welfare system, stops chain migration, and protects our workers and our economy.”

Following President Donald Trump’s major White House endorsement of immigration overhaul legislation, the open borders lobby and corporate business interests are teaming up to attack the proposal.

Candidate Donald Trump promised to reform the nation’s cheap-labor immigration strategy, and President Donald Trump unveiled the merit-based immigration reform plan on Wednesday. Here are seven major features of the new merit-based economic and immigration legislation. 1. The Senate bill

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer praised the immigration reform put forward by President Trump and Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) and compared the current US immigration system to a

On Wednesday, President Trump used the bully pulpit to call on Congress to pass the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (“RAISE”) Act, sponsored by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.). The RAISE Act would shift our legal immigration system away from admitting unskilled immigrants toward admitting highly skilled immigrants, end the diversity visa lottery, reduce the total number of green cards from over a million to about 500,000 per year, and require sponsors of immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens to reimburse the federal government for welfare benefits the immigrants received. All of these reforms are badly needed.

Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said on Tuesday she cannot support a bill to repeal Obamacare without a replacement, even though she voted to repeal Obamacare in 2015.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted in a CNN interview on Sunday that his country has been faithful to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, while the United States has “failed to implement its part of the bargain.”

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) gave show co-host Brian Kilmeade his view of where the Senate stood on making progress on the passage of health care legislation. Cotton said there was a chance

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The Trump Administration slightly lowered the number of foreign nationals entering the United States through a slew of family chain migration visas.

A plan by President Donald Trump to ban immigrants who have only been living in the U.S. for less than five years from receiving welfare services has widespread support.

A new poll of Missouri voters shows widespread support for cutting legal immigration levels, where the U.S. currently takes in roughly 1.5 million legal immigrants every year.

A plan to end healthcare insurance credits going to illegal immigrants in the U.S. is being supported by Trump allies and immigration hawks.

During Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked whether any spy fiction had “a plot line so ridiculous that a sitting United States senator and an ambassador of a foreign government colluded at

An immigration expert says President Donald Trump’s pledge to transform the country’s legal immigration system into one based on merit and skills is a maneuver the U.S. “desperately needs.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) took to the Senate floor on Thursday ahead of the vote on the spending bill to fund the federal government through September, citing as the main reason he voted against it the flood of unskilled workers that could be admitted to the United States under the legislation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Marco Rubio (R-F), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have written a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to demand that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas end his government’s years-long practice of paying terrorists and their families for attacks against Israel and its citizens when he meets with him at the White House Wednesday.

A new survey shows widespread support for President Donald Trump’s plan to swap current U.S. immigration policy, based on family-ties, toward entry based on skills and merit.

Republican Senator hawks quickly praised President Donald Trump for ordering a strike in Syria last night in retaliation for the chemical weapons attack ordered by dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacted to reports of chemical weapons used in war-torn Syria, with most blaming President Bashar al-Assad. Cotton told “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski he supported enforcement of a so-called red line

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews called Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) “Bates Motel,” referring to the fictional character Norman Bates from “Psycho,” in retaliation for Cotton calling President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice “Typhoid Mary” in responding

Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) commented on a report that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice for President Barack Obama was behind the unmasking of the identities of members of Donald Trump’s transition team. Cotton

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) predicted that Judge Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed to the Supreme Court before the Senate breaks at the end of next week, and if there is a filibuster “Republicans will do

The top Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee called on the Treasury Department Tuesday to end the policy of designating non-bank financial companies as Too Big To Fail.

On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” while discussing the failure of the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said, “To release a bill that was written in secret and then expect to pass it in 18

On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show Wednesday, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan implied Sen. Tom Cotton and Sen. Ted Cruz are “enemies” where the healthcare bill to replace Obamacare is concerned.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” while discussing the current Republican House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said, “I simply think that it’s not going to work to bring down premiums in Arkansas or

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated of the GOP’s Obamacare replacement, “I suspect they don’t have anything close to a majority of their members who are willing to vote for this bill” and “there is no

The two leaders of Capitol Hill Democrats told reporters Monday they welcomed the scoring report from the Congressional Budget Office, which predicts that the American Health Care Act bill crafted and supported by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) will leave more Americans without health insurance.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said he was “afraid if they vote for the bill, they’ll put the House majority at risk next year.” Cotton said,

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) warned GOP House members “Do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a leading GOP senator, is warning his friend House Speaker Paul Ryan to “take a pause” and slow down when it comes to healthcare reform.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is calling on House Republicans to withdraw the Obamacare 2.0 bill, the American Health Care Act, that House Speaker Paul Ryan put forward and “start over.”