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Earlier this week Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham held a hearing to go over legislation that will fix the ongoing crisis at the border. During the hearing Graham revealed new numbers showing an explosion of fraud and abuse of the asylum system, which legislation he has introduced would end. View image on Twitter Senate Judiciary ✔@senjudiciary We’re eight months in to FY19. When compared to FY18 stats from the same time period: 135% increase in TOTAL APPREHENSIONS. This includes: 74% increase in UNACCOMPANIED MINORS 463% increase in FAMILY UNITS The numbers are overwhelming. 435 1:16 PM - Jun...

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the deputy leader of the Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet, said on Thursday that the PA rejects all the proposed political plans and would not grant legitimacy to any plan without the consent of the Palestinian people, its leadership, and its "President", a reference to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "We will never allow anyone to speak in the name of the Palestinian people ... and we will not accept arrangements that will not lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital," Abu Rudeineh said at a press conference in Ramallah. He added,...

President Trump said this weekend that he offered a “wonderful deal” to protect illegal immigrant Dreamers and that resistance among Democrats suggests the party would rather have a political issue than a solution. Democrats have largely rejected the outlines of Mr. Trump’s proposal, saying that while the legalization of 1.8 million Dreamers was an important step, they would not agree to his plans for a border wall or to limiting the long chain of family migration. The president is poised to deliver his plan to Capitol Hill this week and make his case directly to the public in his State...

President Donald Trump’s wish that Congress pass amnesty to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beneficiaries could end up putting nearly 2 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. Trump announced that the DACA amnesty program will be rescinded in March 2018 in order to give Congress time to “legalize” the program that protects roughly 800,000 illegal immigrants.