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Department of Agriculture personnel in the Obama administration have met with Mexican Government officials dozens of times since the president took office to promote nutrition assistance programs — notably food stamps — among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America. Writing in response to Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions’ July request for information about the USDA’s little known partnership with the Mexican government to educate citizen and noncitizen immigrants from Mexico about the availability of food stamps and other nutrition assistance programs, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defended the partnership as a way to curb hunger in America —...

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) said that legislation introduced by Republicans to suspend President Barack Obama’s authority to exercise "prosecutorial discretion" in deciding which illegal aliens to deport shows that the Republican Party is “anti-minority.” He also said Republicans want to limit Obama’s authority because they don’t like him as president. VIDEO 1:12 minutes At a July 21 press conference on Capitol Hill, Reyes said, “What this legislation does is it takes away the discretion that is sorely needed by Customs and Border Protection -- by our president delegated down through the secretary of Homeland Security and Department...