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DHS Secretary Threatens Consequences If Funding Bill Attempts to Defund Amnesty

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While Senate Democrats continue to block the DHS funding bill from coming to the floor for debate, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson released a statement warning Congress that any bill that would "attempt to defund our executive actions on immigration reform" would result in consequences. Sec. Johnson specifically threatened to block new funding grants for state and local law enforcement and emergency response agencies.

Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements

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Computer World -- Patrick Thibodeau

Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs.

The employees are upset and say they can't understand how H-1B guest workers can be used to replace them.

IRS offers extra tax refunds to illegal immigrants granted amnesty by Obama

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Washington Times -- Stephen Dinan

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen confirmed Tuesday that illegal immigrants granted amnesty from deportation under President Obama's new policies would be able to get extra refunds from the IRS for money they earned while working illegally, as long as they filed returns during those years.

Former USCIS Official Warns Executive Amnesty Will Overwhelm Agency

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Former deputy ombudsman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Luke Bellocchi, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on how President Obama's plan to grant amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal aliens would affect the agency. Bellocci testified that it's "hard to imagine" the agency could handle the surge in new applications created by President Obama's executive actions.

IMMIGRATION EXPERT: ICE OFFICIALS SAY CRIMINAL IMMIGRANT RECIDIVISM RATE 50 PERCENT

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Breitbart News -- Caroline May

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials report a criminal immigrant recidivism rate of 50 percent, according to Center for Immigration Studies expert Jessica Vaughan.

“What I’m told by ICE officials — and I’ve been told on a number of occasions — is that they believe, from their internal data, is there is a recidivism rate of about 50 percent of criminal aliens who are released by ICE –,” Vaughan testified before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday.

Senate blocks debate on DHS funding bill

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The Senate voted today, mostly along party lines, to block the House-passed version of the DHS funding bill, H.R.240, from coming to the floor for debate. The procedural vote needed 60 votes to succeed, but all Democrats and GOP Senator Dean Heller of Nevada voted against beginning debate of the bill. H.R.240 fully funds the Department of Homeland Security through the 2015 fiscal year, but blocks funding for Pres. Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesties.

Why President Obama’s Executive Amnesties Must be Defeated

Updated: May 15th, 2017, 3:57 pm

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  by  Van Esser

If you listen to President Obama and his supporters – most notably, main stream media correspondents – his executive amnesties are needed to prevent the deportation of non-priority illegal aliens. But as the term “non-priority” suggests, Obama had already made these illegal aliens safe from deportation. His real goal is to give them work permits, irrespective of how it endangers American workers or the constitutional underpinnings of the presidency itself. And that's why he must be stopped.

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