Feds Spent $26.2 Million On Medicare Advantage For Illegal Immigrants

DAILYCALLER — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has improperly paid millions of dollars to Medicare Advantage organizations on behalf of illegal immigrants. In a new report released Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that for calendar years 2010 through 2012, CMS provided $26.2 million in […]

Illegal Alien Re-Enters, Shoots US Citizen with BB Gun

BREITBART — 28-year-old Javier Jimenez-Barragan, a Mexican national in the illegally in the United States, was arrested after he shot at a random woman’s vehicle with a BB gun. The incident occurred on Highway 213 in Oregon, according to OregonLive. Barragan was driving a silver Ford when he pointed his BB gun at a car […]

US weighs curbing deportations

APNEWS — Tens of thousands of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally but don’t have serious criminal records could be shielded from deportation under a policy change being weighed by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. The change, if adopted following a review ordered by President Barack Obama, could limit removals of people who have […]

Undocumented Immigrants Are Lawyering Up

NATIONALJOURNAL — The majority of immigration court cases in 2013 involved immigrants who had legal representation, a reversal from five years ago, according to new data from the federal government. In 2013, 59 percent of those in immigration proceedings had legal representation—that’s a big jump from 2009, when just 39 percent had lawyers. In 2012, […]

Border Patrol arrests at least 80 immigrants at Texas encampment, 132 more at stash house

FOXNEWS — At least 80 immigrants suspected of entering the United States illegally were arrested in a makeshift encampment in suburban South Texas. They were found in an undeveloped patch of scrub near an abandoned tennis club in McAllen. They were camped under tents and huts camouflaged with mesquite branches and cacti. Some told authorities […]

Philadelphia to begin releasing illegal aliens from jails

PHILLY.COM — MAYOR NUTTER is expected to sign an executive order tomorrow that will significantly limit collaboration between Philadelphia police and federal immigration authorities. The order is expected to preclude police from honoring detainer requests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement except in cases where a person is convicted of a first- or second-degree felony […]