The Obama administration’s approval rate for accepting Syrian refugees to the U.S. is currently over 90 percent, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service official testified before a Senate panel Thursday. “Worldwide our average approval rate is about 80 percent,” Barbara Strack, the head the Refugee Affairs Division at USCIS responded when pressed on the current annual approval rate for refugees.
Media supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are praising Sen. Marco Rubio for comments he made seeming to express support for their anti-police organizing.
The vast majority of Central Americans who have been interviewed for the Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole program have been approved to come to the U.S., Breitbart News has learned.
The Obama administration is launching a new, multilingual campaign to encourage eligible immigrants to become U.S. citizens.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pressing the Obama administration on a policy memorandum that he fears could result in the further displacement of U.S. workers.
A DHS Inspector General audit released Thursday did not find any evidence that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services deliberately violated U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen’s executive amnesty injunction when it continued to issue prohibited three-year work permits to illegal immigrants granted deferred action, as opposed to the acceptable two-year permits.
The Obama administration says it has recovered or terminated the 2,600 three-year amnesty documents issued in violation of a district court injunction. According to a Justice Department filing with the court, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has replaced the erroneously
Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) has introduced legislation that would prevent the Obama Administration from diluting the Oath of Allegiance required for immigrants to become citizens.
The Obama administration is again warning illegal immigrants who were issued three-year work permits — in violation of a court order — to return those documents immediately or else find their deferred status terminated.
“I think the President needs to fire the director immediately. I think Congress needs to pass a law to stop them from changing the oath,” Jindal said in an interview with Breitbart News Wednesday. “Let’s be honest here, immigration without assimilation is invasion. We’ve always said the people coming here have to want to be Americans otherwise why are they coming here in the first place?” he asked.
In a proposed rule from the Department of Homeland Security, the administration seeks to expand on a 2013 rule— which allowed illegal immigrants with a U.S. citizen spouse or parent to apply for a waiver in the U.S. from the requirement that they return to their home countries for three to 10 years to apply for legal status, if they could prove “extreme hardship.”
The designation means a Somali national approved for TPS “cannot be detained by DHS on the basis of his or her immigration status in the United States.” They are also eligible to apply for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).
The Texas Attorney General has accused Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers of committing a “brazen disregard for a legal order” in the case filed against President Obama’s executive amnesty plan. This comes after a judge issued government lawyers a scathing written rebuke and ordered the Federal Government to produce documents showing who was responsible for making misrepresentations to the Court during the litigation.
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson says he does not know who U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services union head Kenneth Palinkas is.
Palinkas, the president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council representing 12,000 immigration adjudicators and caseworkers, has been a vocal about the problems facing USCIS and a frequent critic of the Obama administration’s executive amnesty.
A group of 22 Republican lawmakers want an audit of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency responsible for adjudicating immigration applications and carrying out much of President Obama’s executive amnesty.
Judge Andrew Hanen has issued a scathing written rebuke directed at government lawyers and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for their misrepresentations made in the case filed against President Obama’s executive amnesty plan. He has ordered the Government to produce related documents by April 21st. He also warned the government against destroying any of this evidence.
