Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said in a statement that “we need to explore every legislative option and go as big as we can on immigration with the votes we’ve got.” The assistant Democratic leader further said that “I am as committed as ever to… esta…
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Harry Reid, the long-time senator from Nevada, and his party’s leader in the Senate for many years, died on Tuesday. Most people who follow the immigration debate closely probably remember him as the former boxer, turned bare-knuckles Senate majority l…
Congressional Democrats are at it again. Undeterred by failing twice to include a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens in the budget reconciliation package, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) hinted that Senate Democrats will try to use the …
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough recently ruled – twice – against Democratic attempts to implement the largest amnesty in American history using the reconciliation process, correctly noting that the impact of amnestying millions of illegal a…
Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced the BE GONE Act, a bill that would add sexual assault and aggravated sexual violence to the definition of “aggravated felony” in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Their bill w…
Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-A.Z.) was recently confronted by illegal alien activists after following her from the classroom where she teaches at Arizona State University into the bathroom. One continued filming as others demanded that she take action to …
Late Sunday night, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough derailed an effort to include amnesty for 8 million illegal aliens in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, ruling that it would violate the “Byrd rule.” Despite the ruling, Sena…
In the 50-50 deadlocked Senate, all focus continues to be on passage of the infrastructure package. The bill, negotiated by senators in both parties, contains $550 billion in new spending for roads, bridges, airports, harbors, and public transit. Senat…
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing titled “Immigrant Farmworkers are Essential to Feeding America.” The hearing largely focused on the FAIR-opposed Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bill that would amnesty approximately 1.5 million …
In another outrageous move by radical open borders advocates, a dozen U.S. Senators are pushing to cut funding for immigration enforcement and detention operations within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amidst the worst border crisis this nat…