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|  | | Boehner Border Group Offers Principles, Not Legislation to Address Surge  | The group of House Republicans Speaker John Boehner tasked with solving the surge of illegal alien minors at the Southern border has apparently come up with only policy principles rather than legislation. The working group submitted its recommendations to Boehner, but failed to make the document publicly available as initially promised.
Read more | Senate at Impasse on Border Crisis Response  | The U.S. Senate is at an impasse on how to respond to the border crisis. Led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Democrats have taken the position that President Obama's $3.7 billion supplemental spending request should be passed as a "clean" bill, meaning without policy changes.
Read more | Intelligence Report: Immigration Policy, Not Violence, Is Primary Reason for Border Crisis  | A leaked government report by the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) found that perceptions of U.S. immigration policy, not violence, is the primary factor causing the Central American migrant surge. EPIC is a regional intelligence center run by the DEA that collects and disseminates tactical information to law enforcement.
Read more | Obama Reaffirms Commitment to Expanding Administrative Amnesty in August  | President Obama assured the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) in a closed door meeting last week he still plans on taking action later this year to further expand his administrative amnesty. CHC members say Obama is fully committed to using executive action to ease deportations.
Read more | Senator Cruz Introduces Bill to Repeal DACA  | Last week, Republican Senator Ted Cruz, whose home state of Texas is at the center of the border crisis, introduced legislation that would stop the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA).
Read more | House Appropriators Introduce Bill to Narrow 2008 Anti-Trafficking Law  | Last Thursday, three members from the powerful House Appropriations Committee introduced legislation that would narrow the application of the 2008 anti-trafficking law which is called the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
Read more | ACLU Lawsuit Seeks Taxpayer-Funded Lawyers for Illegal Alien Minors  | On July 9, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, seeking to force the government to pay for attorneys of illegal alien minors in deportation proceedings.
Read more | Immigration Officials Release Jose Vargas Again  | Last week, the U.S. Border Patrol released Mr. Jose Antonio Vargas, an admitted illegal alien and felon, from his eight hour detention after he tried to pass through an airport checkpoint in the border city of McAllen, Texas.
Read more | Polls Show Americans Are Troubled by the Immigration Crisis  | A Gallup poll of adults conducted on July 7-10 shows that, as illegal alien minors and families stream over the border, the percentage of Americans citing immigration as the country's top problem has surged to 17%, up from only 5% last month and 3% at the beginning of the year.
Read more | Texas City Passes Resolution to Prevent Transfer of Illegal Aliens into Community  | On Tuesday, July 8, League City, Texas passed a resolution to prohibit the transfer of illegal aliens into their community. The resolution, adopted by a 6-2 vote, was a response to the mass influx of illegal aliens from Central America.
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