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"[But] when people said, 'Well, can't we work that out administratively by adding resources, delegating certification, maybe even collapsing all of this into a more expedited, accelerated process across the board?' The answer wasn't, 'Well, no, statutorily we wouldn't be able to do that.' The answer was, 'We don't have the staff.' "That's just a matter of mechanics, it's not a matter of principle or statute," [Rep. Gerry] Connolly [D-VA] said. "And that's not a good enough reason for me to vote no. And I think a lot of the other Democrats felt the same way." The Obama administration's eleventh-hour...

McDonald’s settled a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice. According to a DOJ statement, McDonalds and its affiliates and subsidiaries thus resolved allegations that the corporation had discriminated illegally against immigrant employees at corporate-owned restaurants. In a press release, DOJ declared, “…the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) prohibits employers from placing additional documentary burdens on work-authorized employees during the employment eligibility verification process because of their citizenship or immigration status.”   The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) at DOJ initiated its investigation after it had received information on its worker...

The spokesman confirmed the plans after the government issued a tender notice on Thursday seeking companies to build "temporary winterized lodgings for groups of 500 to 3,000 people by early December 2015 at sites to be confirmed." ---- The notice from Public Works Canada said the housing and services may be required for up to three months and that the sites must be self-contained and self-sustaining, including on-site energy, water, sewage and waste management. One U.S. official said his understanding was that once the refugees arrived in Canada, authorities would detain them in some kind of "camp" and not release...

Could Obama at least share the names of the refugees? Is that really too much to ask? Have any reporters even thought of asking? It would be pathetic and embarrassing if he wouldn't or couldn't.

Everywhere I turn the talk is about the Syrian refugees and why we should take them or why we shouldn't. What I'm not hearing is much common sense or Christian charity. Why all the idiocy about the refugee crisis? I'm talking about the stupidity and lack of common sense by those who want to throw open our borders and those who want to refuse entry to all refugees. On the one hand, Christian charity demands that we welcome the stranger and give solace to the homeless where we are able. We are the richest and most prosperous and bountiful country...

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has been very vocal about his outrage over the Paris terrorist attack and has laid the blame for the attack squarely at the feet of President Barack Obama. Appearing on Fox News, Trump hammered again on his earlier statements about President Barack Obama's complete incompetence regarding the Islamic State group. Trump also promised that, if elected, he would destroy the terror organization. "I'd blast the hell out of them," he stated. "It's a total disaster. The people are going to come in ... so many of the people in the migration are strong young men,"...

A white-owned Mexican restaurant called "Illegal Pete's" will open in December at the doorstep of the University of Arizona. A growing debate surrounds the restaurant's opening - a debate that could ultimately touch every university in the country. In this case, the proposed restaurant is just one block from the main entrance to the university, and it is precisely where the campus pep rallies take place before the big games. Because of the restaurant's location, its opening has ramifications that go beyond legal or real estate questions. Yet, at the moment, the university is remaining neutral on this matter. But...

Administration Withholding Documents on Diverting Money from Immigration Enforcement to Election Year "New Americans" Program (Washington, DC) -- Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking records related to letters sent by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to current green card holders urging individuals to become naturalized U.S. citizens prior to the 2016 election ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (No. 1:15-cv-01702)). The lawsuit was filed on October 16, 2015. In April 2015, President Obama's " White House Task Force...

Two separate reports of groups of America-bound Syrians detained below the U.S. southern border and the arrests of six other Middle Eastern men nabbed with smugglers in Arizona in recent days are raising concerns that Islamic State militants could be probing security – and stoking fears some may already be here. {exert}

Migration of Mexicans to the U.S. has plunged to a net negative for the first time since the 1940s, bringing down the curtain on the largest wave of immigration in modern American history, according to a new study. The Pew Research Center found that more Mexicans have been leaving America to return to their home country in recent years than arriving in the U.S. It based the study on an analysis of U.S. and Mexican government data. Mexican migration has been falling for some time. But the Pew figures released Thursday suggest that the surge in legal and illegal Mexican...

Listen for a few minutes to the raging debate over the fate of the Syrian refugees, and you will hear a familiar phrase rear its weary head: "The United States is a nation of immigrants." This line has two purposes in modern American life. The first is to serve as a dry description of the period between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Roaring Twenties, during which the United States accepted tens of millions of émigrés looking for a better life. The second is to act as a cudgel in our contemporary immigration debate. Over...

NBC exec's 'illegals' remark angers Hispanic lawmakers 'We love the Hispanic community. Yo hablo español,' NBC News President Deborah Turness said at a contentious meeting with Latino House members. Hispanic lawmakers hoped a meeting with top executives from MSNBC and NBC News Wednesday would smooth over hard feelings from Donald Trump’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” Instead, it had the opposite effect. NBC News President Deborah Turness committed a major blunder — as far as the Hispanic lawmakers were concerned — when she described undocumented immigrants as “illegals," a term that many in the Latino community find highly offensive. Story...

According the Politico, the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100% is firing on all cylinders. “He has more cash than any other Republican candidate. He is organized in every county in the first four voting states. And he has served up one strong debate performance after the next.” That, of course, makes him a threat to the Bush/Open Borders wing of the Republican Party. “He’s the longer-term threat,” said Fergus Cullen, the former chairman of the New Hampshire GOP and a Republican who does not support Cruz. “I suspect once Trump goes down, people like me will have...

A man was arrested after he allegedly broke into a suburban Philadelphia apartment and raped a 6-year-old girl who was sleeping in her bedroom. Oscar Rivera Herrera, 28, is charged with rape, rape of a child, statutory sexual assault, sexual assault, indecent assault, burglary, criminal trespass, terroristic threats and simple assault --snip-- "He's a really great father," Dutter said. "That's what blows my mind. He has a kid of his own that same age. How could he do something like that?"

A Polish prostitute on her way to ply her trade in Boston was plastered on booze and addled by Ambien when she tried to open an exit door on a trans-Atlantic British Airways flight, prosecutors said. Kamila Dolniak, 32, was unable to make her $500 bail yesterday, her lawyer said, after she was arraigned in East Boston Municipal Court on a charge of interfering with an aircraft operation during the London-to-Boston flight Tuesday. Prosecutor Emily Hamrock said Dolniak first drew attention of a flight attendant while attempting to smoke an e-cigarette. She then walked around the cabin aimlessly, saying she...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet decided unanimously on Sunday to extend the Citizenship Law restricting the "family reunification" of Israeli citizens with certain foreign partners for an additional year. The law denies entry or living permits to partners who are considered a security threat, among them Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, and citizens of enemy countries or from areas involved in long-term conflict with Israel. The law affects mainly Israeli Arab citizens and their families from the West Bank and Gaza. The proposal brought before the cabinet on Sunday was submitted by Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and was...

Overheard on the radio a couple hours ago: the majority of Washington's populace, including most Muslims, definitely do not want Syrian refugees settled in the State of Washington.

A British couple have been found guilty of enslaving a Nigerian man for 24 years, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday. Emmanuel Edet, 61, and his wife, Antan, 58, were convicted of holding a person in slavery, child cruelty and assisting unlawful immigration, following their arrest last year. In 1989, the couple transported a Nigerian 13-year-old to the United Kingdom without his family's permission under an agreement that he would work in their home in exchange for payment and schooling. However, authorities determined the man, who was not identified, was not paid for the "arduous labor" he performed for the couple,...

These are the stolen passports five Syrian men used in a failed attempt to travel to America via Honduras. The documents, allegedly stolen in Greece, were seized when the group arrived at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa. According to authorities, the group arrived from Costa Rica and had been planning to make their way to the border with neighboring Guatemala. CNN reports the group had been heading for San Pedro Sula, a city close to the border, where there is a known route used by South American immigrants to get to the United States. The men were arrested after security...

US authorities have charged at least 66 men and women with ISIS-related terror plots on American soil - including a handful of refugees.