More than two dozen Republican senators, including party leader Mitch McConnell, signed onto a bill Thursday that would block the Biden administration from making settlement payments to illegal immigrants who saw their families separated during the Tru…
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DHS says it’s waiting on Mexico to restart border turn-back program
Homeland Security said Thursday it is ready to restart the “Remain in Mexico” policy that turns illegal immigrants back at the border to wait for their hearings in U.S. immigration courts, but said it still needs Mexico to sign off. The Dep…
Afghanistan evacuation price tag rises by $7 billion
Members of Congress say they still can’t get clear answers about the U.S evacuation effort in Afghanistan, but they’re being asked to approve an additional $7 billion to manage the pipeline of people still coming and the tens of thousands of Afghans al…
Supreme Court tests Roe; conservative justices mull scrapping ‘viability’ standard for abortion bans
Supreme Court justices flirted Wednesday with scraping away at the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that created a national right to abortion, pondering whether states should have freedom to bar abortions altogether or at least weeks before currently…
Letitia James, N.Y. attorney general, says state should become abortion sanctuary
New York’s attorney general said Wednesday that the state should create a fund to help out-of-state women come to seek abortions if the Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and allows other states to ban the procedure. Letitia Ja…
Biden’s new COVID travel ban ignores southern border
As President Biden’s new coronavirus travel ban took effect Monday, security experts say he’s left a glaring hole in his scheme: the southern border. Visitors coming from South Africa and seven other African nations are now banned fro…
COVID-19 jobless aid flowed abroad to enemy nations
As the coronavirus pandemic raged, Uncle Sam was doing more than putting money in unemployed Americans’ pockets — the federal government was also shipping tens of billions of dollars overseas to fraudsters working with the country’s m…
Major study undercuts Biden explanation for surge in illegal immigration
A groundbreaking new study finds that illegal immigrants from Central America are rushing to the U.S. not because of violence or natural disasters in their home countries but because of jobs, challenging claims that they are asylum-seekers fleeing pers…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pleads with Senate to rescue immigration amnesty in Biden budget bill
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and dozens of her fellow Democrats, who just voted for a bill that falls well short of citizenship rights for illegal immigrants, are now pleading with their Senate colleagues to give them a mulligan and add a path to citi…
DHS wrongly charges crime victim immigrants more than $4 million for free work permits
Homeland Security’s legal immigration agency acknowledged Monday that it botched the rollout of new free work permits for crime victim immigrants and is now scrambling to refund money to more than 10,000 people who were “mistakenly” c…