San Antonio Express-News – BROWNSVILLE – A federal judge in Brownsville will hear oral arguments Thursday from Texas and 24 other states that want to block President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, which shields about 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen is expected to decide whether the lawsuit opposing Obama’s […]
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Immigrants can now get Mexican birth certificates in U.S.
January 15, 2015 By 5 Comments
SANTA ANA (AP) — The Mexican government on Thursday will start issuing birth certificates to its citizens at consulates in the United States, seeking to make it easier for them to apply for U.S. work permits, driver’s licenses and protection from deportation. Until now, Mexico has required citizens to get birth certificates at government offices […]
Boehner: 22 times Obama was a hypocrite about immigration reform
January 15, 2015 By 7 Comments
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted to overturn Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration. Prior to the vote, Speaker John Boehner gave a rare floor speech during which he pointed out no less than 22 times that Obama said he couldn’t ignore or create his own immigration law. Watch video of the speech below: […]
Obama’s diplomatic deal with Cuba sparks surge in immigration
January 14, 2015 By 2 Comments
The Washington Times — The number of Cubans fleeing to the U.S. has surged since President Obama’s diplomatic deal with the island nation, according to statistics that lawmakers on Capitol Hill said suggest the administration was caught off guard. The Coast Guard interdicted more than 340 Cubans in the final two weeks of December, more than […]
House passes bill overturning Obama’s immigration order
January 14, 2015 By 22 Comments
Fox News — House Republicans voted Wednesday to overturn President Obama’s immigration actions from last November — and reached all the way back to unravel a 2012 directive affecting illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — sending the bill to the Senate where it faces an uncertain fate. The House voted 236-191 to […]
Rubio bill allows companies to hire ‘unlimited’ amount of foreign workers
January 14, 2015 By 13 Comments
Breitbart — On Tuesday, three Republican Senators joined three Democrats to introduce legislation that would expand the number of guest-workers for the tech industry even though there is a surplus of American high-tech workers. The Immigration Innovation (“I-Squared”) bill, introduced by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chris Coons […]
