White House: GOP ‘playing with fire’ on DHS funding

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 […]

Illegal immigrant turns down chance to gain amnesty

The Washington Times — The Honduran illegal immigrant whose case sparked a judicial spanking for President Obama’s new deportation amnesty said Tuesday he doesn’t think he would qualify for the president’s new policy anyway, and wants to get his case over with as quickly as possible. In papers filed by his lawyer the man, Elionardo Juarez-Escobar, […]

Two Republican plans to stop Obama’s amnesty

The Washington Examiner — On Tuesday Republican Rep. Martha Roby filed a bill, the “Prevention of Executive Amnesty Act of 2015,” to block President Obama’s unilateral action on immigration. Now, another House Republican has filed another proposal — this one more far-reaching — that would stop the president’s plan to offer quasi-legal status to millions of […]

Immigrants fare poorly on California driver’s license tests

LA Times — Spanish-language test takers fared worse than English-language applicants on the first day a law took effect allowing people who are in the country illegally to obtain California driver’s licenses, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Only 36% of people who took the Spanish-language written test for a driver’s license received a […]