GOP Collapses on S. 744 First-Round Filibuster Fails – Amnesty Advances DEMAND BORDER SECURITY! Boehner Says House is ‘Open’ Join House and Senate Border Patriots AND Rally the Resistance CRITICAL VOTE ALERT: The first key filibuster on S. 744 never got off the ground thanks to the typically sad, shameful, sabotaging performance of Mitch McConnell […]
House Cloakroom: June 10 – 14 Analysis: This week, the House will take up its annual authorization of the Department of Defense. This bill will lay out the programs and policies for the department for the 2014 fiscal year that Congress will later fund through the appropriations process. The Heritage Foundation lists the top 10 […]
Photo credit: Jay Mallin/ZUMA Press/Newscom Senator John Cornyn (R–TX) will propose an amendment to the Senate immigration bill entitled “Requiring Enforcement, Security and safety, Upgrading Legitimate Trade and travel Simultaneously” (RESULTS). It should really be called the “NO-RESULTS” amendment. The amendment raises constitutional concerns and fails to solve the enforcement problems in the bill. Before […]
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touted the success of a new border fence that Israel built along its boundary with Egypt to stop illegal infiltrators. In a statement posted at his government website, Netanyahu reported that illegal crossings had declined 99.9%, from 2,000 per month to only two. “The fence that we […]
Newscom For the second year in a row, the House of Representatives has taken a stand against the Administration’s attempts to undermine an important and effective immigration enforcement program known as 287(g), by seeking to restore funding for the program slashed by the Obama Administration. First created in 1996, the 287(g) program allows state and […]
“Citizens of the Moscow suburb of Reutov have witnessed a previously-unseen procession of illegal aliens arrested by police at a local market. There were so many arrested that police had to form them into a column resembling POWs during WWII. Police in Reutov suppressed a looming conflict at a local wholesale and retail market on May 27, arresting over […]
Tetra Images Tetra Images/Newscom A new study published in Health Affairs looks at the impact of immigrants’ payments into the Medicare trust fund and concludes that immigrants pay more into the fund than they draw out. Reading just the headline of a recent media report, “Study: Immigrants put billions more into Medicare than they use,” […]
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Friday that the Senate immigration reform bill would “hammer working Americans.” Sessions, one of the immigration overhaul’s most strident critics, suggested the measure would prioritize foreign-born workers over people already in the U.S. struggling to find a job. “This is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to […]
Rep. John Barrow Introduces Keeping the Promise of IRCA Act Thursday, May 23, 2013, 11:46 AM EDT Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) has introduced the Keeping the Promise of IRCA Act. The bill would fulfill the border security promises, workplace verification promises, and interior enforcement promises that were never fulfilled by the 1986 amnesty bill. The […]
By Ann Coulter At first I thought the IRS scandal was leaked to distract from the Benghazi scandal. But that didn’t make sense because the IRS scandal is a more obvious abuse of power than the White House lying about the murder of four Americans in Libya. Before I had resolved which scandal was distracting from which, […]
