A senior aide tells BuzzFeed News that if Obama’s attorney general pick passes a committee vote (which seems likely), Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not stop a full Senate vote — despite calls to block nominees over Obama’s executive actions.
“I didn’t see anything in the opinion that prevented action being take [against] individuals who might otherwise qualify” for deferred deportation, Lynch says.
“There is no doubt that our current offensive amounts to war, and Congress should take action both to authorize its prosecution and to set limits on that authorization,” Rep. Adam Schiff tells BuzzFeed News.
“This idea that our immigration laws somehow need to be ignored is quite frankly ridiculous.”
DC’s hometown Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton says she’s “heartbroken” President Obama again ignored the city’s push for statehood during his State of the Union Speech.
If the British Prime Minister visits Washington and nobody notices, did it really even happen?
Church organizations in Philadelphia, Oregon, Arizona and other states have begun taking in undocumented immigrants who are living under the threat of deportation.
Prosecutors have recommended charges for the former military leader for leaking documents to his former mistress, Paula Broadwell.
Rep. Steve King has been included on top talks about President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
Doing what Mitch McConnell did: keep his caucus united for two years and cause big problems for the party in control. It looks like Reid is doing exactly what he did in 2005.
“I cannot visit my friends and do things I would usually do. But on the other hand, my family will come here to visit me … it’s harder to live in fear with a deportation order.”
“I anticipate we’re going to have a very interesting couple of years discussing how you’re going to get an ambassador nominated and how you’ll get an embassy funded,” Rubio says.
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union filed the federal class action suit Tuesday, accusing the Obama administration of multiple violations of immigration and asylum laws, as well as the fifth amendment of the constitution.
The long-delayed report details the CIA’s detention and interrogation policies during the Bush administration.
After the U.S. border crisis this summer, the Mexican government implemented a new plan at its southern border. “We are filling up the southeast with tons of people, crime, corrupt authorities. This will explode.”
Said Muse Dahir kept his newspaper and radio show going in Somalia, even as al-Shabaab militants wreak violence in the country. What happened after he crossed into the U.S.
President Obama plans to use executive actions in order to overhaul the nation’s immigration enforcement policies. Republicans said he is cutting them out of the policy change and will work to oppose it.
“Congress should never have recessed prior to the elections while a new war was getting underway, and it must not compound this abdication of its Constitutional duty by failing to take up a war authorization during the lame duck session,” Rep. Adam Schiff says of decision.
“I sure as heck hope we’re running against Hillary Clinton,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says.
House Speaker John Boehner Thursday warned unilateral action by President Obama “will poison the well, and there will be no chance of immigration reform moving in this Congress.”
