The House approved an amendment on Wednesday night offered by Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) to the Energy and Water Development spending bill for FY17. The amendment would prevent any funds from the bill going to sanctuary cities. It was approved by voice vote.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), criticized Disney for using H-1B visas to replace American IT workers with cheaper, foreign labor last year during a campaign rally yesterday in Anaheim, Calif.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection's latest report shows that 38,000 illegal aliens were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in April 2016, this is the highest number caught since the 2014 border surge.
The days of Pres. Obama being called the "Deporter-in-Chief" are long over. Overall removals are way down and removals of illegal aliens from the interior by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents are down 70% from the early years of the Administration. Why such a decline?
Federal District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, who has jurisdiction over the DAPA/extended DACA amnesty case, concluded that Justice Department attorneys were “intentionally deceptive” and ordered them to take remedial ethics classes. Judge Hanen said Department of Justice lawyers knowingly hid information and misled the court concerning the approval of amnesty applications.
The House Rules Committee, along with House GOP Leaders, blocked Rep. Paul Gosar's (R-Ariz.) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have blocked illegal aliens from enlisting in the military. Instead, GOP Leaders are standing behind a compromise amendment added during the bill's markup between Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) that would encourage the Secretary of Defense to enlist DACA recipients into the military.
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes.
Who says the age of bipartisanship is dead? Politico reports that Republican and Democrat lawmakers are coming together on an issue they can agree on: the critical shortage of low-wage workers in the United States.
A new investigative report showed that Tesla Motors’ contract company, Eisenmann, paid a smaller Slovenian company, Vuzem, to hire foreign workers through the B-1 visa program. The companies misrepresented the foreign workers in order to obtain the visas so they could import cheaper, foreign labor instead of hiring American workers.
A U.S. District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to give Oregon driver cards to illegal aliens notwithstanding a voter referendum to the contrary. The state in 2013 enacted Senate Bill 833, which authorized those driver cards, but 66% of Oregon voters chose to overturn the law by defeating a November 2014 ballot referendum.
