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Article: Sessions, GOP allies ask for hearings on secret immigration bill

Mar 22 2013 - 10:22am

Click here to read entire story: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and five other Republican senators are trying to stop the Senate's Democratic leaders from rushing a huge business-backed amnesty and guest-worker bill through the Senate before it can be debated by the public.

On March 19, Sessions and the other senators sent a letter asking Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, to schedule hearings on the complex bill.

ICE union head on deporting welfare-dependents: ‘We are not permitted to enforce that statute. Period’

Feb 21 2013 - 7:30pm

The legal prohibition on new immigrants becoming primarily reliant on government assistance for subsistence — or public charges — is never enforced, Chris Crane, an ICE agent and president of the ICE agent’s union told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon.

Washington Times reports on White House not including ICE Union in immigration reform talks

Feb 13 2013 - 7:54am

The head of the union for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sent a letter to President Obama on Tuesday asking to be included in future meetings he has on immigration after the agents were left out of White House talks with business groups and immigrant-rights activists....