Oregon voters will soon have the chance to vote on an E-Verify mandate for businesses with 5 or more employees after the state's Supreme Court ruled on the final ballot language last week. Oregonians for Immigration Reform have been working for years to get the initiative, IP 52, on the ballot after successfully passing an initiative to ban driver's licenses to illegal aliens in 2014.
On March 15, John Roth, the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding the security of U.S. visa programs.
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest held a hearing yesterday to discuss the impact that high immigration levels have on U.S. workers. The hearing, led by Chairman Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), discussed how high levels of immigration decrease wages and diminish job opportunities for American workers.
During last week's GOP debate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) called the actions of employers who fire American workers and replace them with H-1B foreign workers "illegal". The Washington Post has fact-checked Rubio's statement and gave the comments three Pinocchios, or the equivalence of a "mostly false", writing "Rubio's characterization is not accurate."
H.R. 4798, the Reuniting Families Act, would recapture unused family-based and employment based visas from 1992-2015 to help clear out the backlog of more than 4 million foreign citizens. The bill would also make massive increases to chain migration categories and codify Pres. Obama's DAPA amnesty.
In January of 2013 before the nation knew Marco Rubio primarily as the face of the Gang of Eight comprehensive amnesty bill, he was at the top of Republican voters' preferences for the 2016 presidential nomination. Once his betrayal became widely known, he fell to 6th in the popularity polls.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) introduced the Refugee Program Integrity Restoration Act (H.R. 4731) that would reduce the refugee cap to 60,000 and would give more power to Congress and the states to decide how many refugees the U.S. should take in and where the refugees should be settled.
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) has cosponsored Rep. Lamar Smith’s bill to mandate E-Verify and Rep. Trey Gowdy’s bill that would strengthen interior enforcement. This makes Rep. Jones one of only three members of Congress to cosponsor all NumberUSA’s 5 Great Immigration Solution Bills, the other two members are Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.).
At the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) disclosed information about criminal aliens they have released since 2010, including information that shows that 124 criminal aliens were charged with homicides after being released from ICE custody.
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