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Influential Senate Republicans weigh in against immigration reform measure

By Alexander Bolton Four influential Senate Republicans have sent a letter to colleagues voicing strong opposition to comprehensive immigration legislation headed to the Senate floor, warning it will not secure the nation’s borders. Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Jeff Sessions (Ala.) and Mike Lee (Utah) said in a June 4 letter the immigration [...]

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New House Judiciary Chairman to Obama: Prepare for Investigations

Veteran Congressman will head influential House Judiciary Committee The San Antonio Congressman who is in line to become chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee is promising ‘a number of investigations and oversight committee actions’ which he vows will ‘hold the administration accountable,’ 1200 WOAI news reports. Veteran Republican Lamar Smith, a Yale graduate and [...]

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Tension over Obama policies within Immigration and Customs Enforcement

By:  Andrew Becker As it poises for further immigration initiatives, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is struggling with festering internal divisions between political appointees and career officials over how to enforce laws and handle detainees facing deportation. Under the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security has shifted its focus away from the worksite raids [...]

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Virginia Lawmaker Challenges Feds to Sue His State Over Immigration Enforcement

A Virginia lawmaker looking to enact an immigration law similar to Arizona’s is challenging the Obama administration to come at his state with a lawsuit, too, saying he hopes the Justice Department has “so many targets” they can’t focus.  Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart told The Washington Post that the Obama [...]

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O’Connor: Is Arizona’s immigration policy our new ‘Civil War?’

Thomas Jefferson called slavery, “a fire bell in the night.” He saw it as one of the seminal causes of the U.S. Civil War, just a few decades away. In order to form any union, let alone a perfect union, the Founding Fathers finessed the issue of slavery when writing the U.S. Constitution, just as [...]

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Lawmaker: Obama to send 1,200 troops to border

PHOENIX (AP) – The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to improve border security, an Arizona congresswoman said. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords also said in a statement released Tuesday that President Barack Obama will request $500 million in funding for [...]

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Political Poster: Arizona Enforces the Law

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McCain shakes up campaign staff

John McCain’s campaign manager Shiree Verdone and part-time deputy campaign manager Mike Hellon are both leaving their posts, the campaign confirmed to POLITICO Sunday. Both are departing to join the state party’s 2010 “Republican Victory” fundraising operation, the McCain campaign announced Sunday. “As part of the campaign’s plan for this election year, Shiree and Mike [...]

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Mike Lee Wins Utah Republican Convention

I just went on Mike Lee’s campaign site and he seems to be everything in a candidate that I would look for. Pro military, pro-life, pro tax and business regulation cuts and pro border law enforcement. Utah is a very red state and so it would be expected to pick someone like Mr. Lee, but [...]

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Will the Arizona Boycotts Go Bust?

Interview with POLITICO’s Seung Min Kim What are your thoughts on the new Arizona law? If you had anyone who violated a drug law, and had the person in custody in a state jail, nobody would blink if you turn them over [to federal authorities] … but immigration is treated differently for reasons that are [...]

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