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WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson on his department’s policy that allowed three unlawful, criminal immigrants charged with drunk driving go free. On February 24, 2016, Esmid Valentine Pedraza was arrested in San Francisco, California, for the murder of Stacey Aguilar. Prior to allegedly committing the murder, Pedraza was reportedly arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and placed in removal proceedings in August 2013 after Pedraza’s conviction for DUI in Alameda County, California. Although ICE could...

The yearend spike in Central American children and families illegally crossing the southwest border – a thorny problem with big implications for Georgia and other states – may be part of a "new normal," the nation’s border chief said during a stop in Atlanta Friday... It isn't like we have large numbers of people that we are chasing and trying to apprehend," he said. "They have been told by the smuggler, 'Look for the person in a green uniform because you will be protected.'"

At a Donald Trump rally in Madison, Alabama on Sunday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council President Chris Crane told the crowd that Marco Rubio was not fit to be president. Lambasting Rubio’s Gang of Eight bill, Crane said Americans could expect complete amnesty for illegal immigrants if the Florida senator won the election. “Senator Rubio’s Gang of Eight bill provides amnesty for almost everyone illegally in the United States,” Crane said. “It included special provisions to protect members of violent street gangs, some sex offenders, aliens convicted of assault and assault of police offenders, criminals convicted of theft, identity theft,...

Customs and Border Protection Commission R. Gil Kerlikowske told Border Patrol agents who object to President Obama’s amnesty policies that it’s time to “look for another job,” saying Tuesday that agents have to follow the orders of their superiors. Mr. Kerlikowske was objecting to testimony last month from the Border Patrol labor union chief, who said under Mr. Obama agents have been told to restore the discredited “catch-and-release” policy from a decade ago. The commissioner disputed that, saying every illegal immigrant over the age of 14 who is encountered by agents is supposed to be fingerprinted, interviewed and put through...

In a bombshell hours before the Republican Presidential debate, officers for a second immigration agency are now warning America against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and are indicating support for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Ken Palinkas--who served as the President of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Council during the Gang of Eight fight and is now a local chapter president for USCIS officers--weighed in on the fight between America's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Sen. Rubio. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Palinkas detailed the dangers a Rubio Administration would pose to national security and...

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday that the administration is changing how the Federal Bureau of Prisons handles illegal immigrants with deportation orders, allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take custody first instead of turning those prisoners over to local and state authorities to face prosecution. “I do want to reiterate the fact that one of the things we hope will be as effective also and more immediately effective is our policy whereby the Bureau of Prisons is – instead of deferring to the state or local entity detainer and turning a deportable

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane is issuing a challenge to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)following Rubio's attack on the officer. In an email to Rubio's campaign -- an exclusive copy of which is being provided to Breitbart News -- Crane challenges Rubio to meet so that ICE Officer Crane can present Rubio with his badge and his credentials. Crane represents America's ICE officers and is an ICE officer himself. "You recently lied to the American public on FOX news regarding my current status and career as both an ICE Agent and Officer," Crane writes in his email...

Crane challenges Rubio to meet so that ICE Officer Crane can present Rubio with his badge and his credentials. Crane represents America's ICE officers and is an ICE officer himself. "You recently lied to the American public on FOX news regarding my current status and career as both an ICE Agent and Officer," Crane writes in his email to Rubio. "I challenge you to make yourself available, as a United States Senator and Presidential Candidate, so that I may present my badge and credentials to you as proof that your comments on FOX news are false." Following Crane's detailed account...

In the last eight months, handguns stolen from federal agents have been used in a number of high-profile slayings.A U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent lost a pistol Friday morning in San Francisco, police said. At 9:27 a.m. a San Francisco police officer at the Ingleside District Station took a call from the agent who said he lost his pistol at 6 a.m. As of Saturday, further details about the incident remained sparse. "A duty weapon belonging to a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was reported missing Friday morning in San Francisco," ICE spokesman James Schwab...

On Friday Breitbart News published an exclusive interview with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane. In the interview, Crane details how "law enforcement was treated like absolute trash" by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and the Gang of Eight, who "saw law enforcement as the enemy." Crane, who is himself an ICE officer of 13 years, was also a U.S. Marine and is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, as well as a lifetime member of the the American Legion. In response to Crane's interview, Marco Rubio appeared on Fox News and denounced Crane and...

On the eve of the South Carolina primary Breitbart dropped a scathing report on presidential candidate Marco Rubio. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane told Breitbart.com how Marco Rubio misled ICE officers on his Gang of 8 amnesty bill. Marco Rubio SLAMMED Breitbart.com and the ICE Union President today on FOX News… (See video at source) Rubio accused the ICE President of “Conspiracy Theories!” Marco also went after Breitbart: “We don’t even credential them to our events.” Marco Rubio responded to the report by Breitbart on his encounter with the ICE union officials. Rubio called Breitbart.com a...

Exclusive: On Eve of South Carolina Vote, Nation’s ICE Officers Detail How Marco Rubio Betrayed Them ICE Council President, Crane represents the nation’s approximately 5,800 frontline ICE officers, agents and personnel who are responsible for enforcing America’s immigration laws in all 50 states and U.S. territories. For the first time ever, Crane details his behind-the-scenes interactions with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as Crane sought to protect the nation’s ICE officers and national security.

In an exclusive Q&A with Breitbart News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane provides never-before-heard details about the 2013 Gang of Eight immigration fight that are likely to shake up an already tumultuous presidential race. ICE Council President, Crane represents the nation's approximately 5,800 frontline ICE officers, agents and personnel who are responsible for enforcing America's immigration laws in all 50 states and U.S. territories. For the first time ever, Crane details his behind-the-scenes interactions with Florida Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 79% as Crane sought to protect the nation's ICE officers and national security. Crane was...

A Minnesota photographer captured a dramatic show on Lake Superior last week as massive sheets of ice met the shoreline and shattered. Dawn M. LaPointe shared the hypnotic video on Feb. 13 2016, on the Radiant Spirit Gallery Facebook page. In her post, LaPointe says she filmed the shattering ice near Duluth, Minn., for two hours in frigid conditions, ranging from minus-8 degrees to 3 degrees. That's minus-20 degrees to minus-8 degrees with windchill.

A New Jersey town is attempting to protect illegal immigrants from "really unfortunate" arrests by publishing handouts in English and Spanish that encourage immigrants "to remain silent" and "have a plan!" if confronted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The response from Princeton officials comes following the targeted arrest of two illegal immigrants in the town early Thursday morning, one of whom had a drunken driving conviction, an ICE official told NJ.com. Councilwoman Heather Howard has been a leading advocate for working with the local immigrant population to prevent detentions and deportations. "These [arrests] are really unfortunate," she told...

Protesters blocked traffic on Congress Parkway at LaSalle Street for more than an hour Tuesday morning to protest immigration policies, resulting in about 12 arrests. The demonstrators stretched across the inbound lanes of Congress around 8 a.m. holding a banner that read "Dismantle ICE. Defund the police!" ICE refers to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has offices on that block. Police started making the arrests before 9 a.m. As officers arrested a demonstrator in a blue and purple coat, children in the crowd chanted. "We love you, we've got your back." The crowd cheered as the protester was...

There is a very good reason that so many conservatives don't trust Marco Rubio. Some would have you believe it was youthful naivete and inexperience that allowed him to be compromised by the Gang of Eight. I don't think so. I think he was offered money and power and immediately caved. Donald Trump's Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller, is telling a story about Marco Rubio and how he treated an ICE officer during the Gang of Eight's manipulations and it is revealing. Not in a good way either. Miller was the communications director for Sen. Jeff Sessions, so he was...

Will it be Michael Savage? Will it be Laura Ingraham? Will Bill Bennett?

On today’s program of Breitbart News Daily, Donald Trump’s Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller, shared his never-before publicly discussed insights into Sen. Marco Rubio’s duplicitous conduct during his push to get the Gang of Eight bill through the Senate. At that time, Miller served as the communications director for the man who organized opposition to the bill, Senator Sen. Jeff Sessions. Miller recalled how throughout the Gang of Eight push, Sen. Rubio “directly deceived” immigration law enforcement and the American people.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to cut 50 percent of the budget for aerial surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border, agents revealed at a congressional hearing Thursday. In an effort to understand why DHS is cutting funding, Texas's Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, wrote a bi-partisan letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. "Any decrease in aerial observation is not only imprudent, but contradicts the very mission of border security enforcement," the letter states. The lawmakers' letter also asks for detailed information about the reduction aerial-based border security, also known as Operation Phalanx. Abbott and...