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: […]
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 […]
White House: GOP ‘playing with fire’ on DHS funding
January 9, 2015 by 17 Comments
The Washington Examiner — The White House is accusing Republicans of “playing with fire” in their strategy to use Homeland Security funding to challenge President Obama’s executive action on immigration, after the deadly terrorist attack at a French satirical magazine. Team Obama has long doubted that Republicans would unite behind an effective strategy to fight the […]
House GOP will try to kill Obama’s immigration order next week
January 7, 2015 by 9 Comments
Politico — Speaker John Boehner and the House Republicans are planning to try to choke off President Barack Obama’s immigration executive action next week, according to multiple GOP leadership aides involved in the talks. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) plans to bring up a bill next week to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and […]
DHS agent: Murder ‘is coming to a town near you’
August 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Friday, 36-year-old U.S. Border Patrol agent Javier Vega was murdered in cold blood in front of his wife, his parents, two of his sons, and another child in the Rio Grande Valley. He was off-duty, and had been enjoying a family fishing trip when they were ambushed and robbed; his father was also shot in the […]
