The Washington Examiner — With the Senate poised to take up a spending bill that defunds President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, a conservative faction of House lawmakers want their counterparts in the Senate to step up their game. “It’s time for us all to do everything we possibly can do to force the president to […]
Archives for January 2015
House conservatives want Cruz, Lee to ‘start fighting’ on immigration bills
January 21, 2015 By 2 Comments
House GOP launches secure-borders bill
January 21, 2015 By 8 Comments
The Washington Examiner — House Republicans are officially launching their immigration reform effort Wednesday, with a border security bill aimed at keeping unlawful immigrants from entering the United States. The bill could become the first in a series of measures Republicans take up in what they have promised will be a piecemeal approach to immigration reform […]
‘Immigration’ only mentioned twice in Obama’s State of the Union
January 21, 2015 By 3 Comments
The Hill — President Obama on Tuesday amplified his threat to veto GOP efforts to undermine his executive actions easing deportations. But unlike years past, the president stopped short of using his annual State of the Union speech to press Congress hard for the comprehensive immigration reform legislation that’s been a campaign promise since 2008. Indeed, Obama’s speech, […]
Pat Buchanan predicts ‘executive amnesty will not be repealed in this Congress’
January 20, 2015 By 10 Comments
Breitbart — Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan predicted “executive amnesty will not be repealed in this Congress” on Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” “We know how this ends, the Republican Party is going to put up a fight, it’s going to pass something halting executive amnesty on that Homeland Security bill, it’ll go the Senate, there’ll be a […]
Border enforcement helicopter fires warning shots at drug smuggling boat off SoCal coast
January 20, 2015 By 9 Comments
KTLA 5 — For the first time on the West Coast, a federal border enforcement helicopter fired warning shots from the air at a boat en route to Catalina Island, bringing an apparent drug smuggling operation to a halt, authorities said Monday. The shots were fired about 11p.m Saturday from a Blackhawk helicopter operated by U.S. […]
Obama invites illegal immigrant to State of the Union
January 20, 2015 By 8 Comments
The Washington Times — Millions will watch Tuesday’s State of the Union speech, but only a couple of dozen will do so from the most important perch: the first lady’s box. President Obama’s list this year includes a doctor working to stop the spread of Ebola, union workers benefiting from a stronger economy, a victim of […]
