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Obama Administration carries out planned deportation sweep

Border & Crime, Politics / 3 Comments / January 6, 2016

In a move which has left many Obama Administration supporters astonished, the United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Agency has begun a planned deportation sweepover the past weekend. Individuals and family units which have exhausted all legal measures and had received orders of removal were rounded up in morning raids primarily in the states of Georgia, Texas and North […]

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Obama trial-ballooning executive action on gun control

Border & Crime, Politics / Leave a Comment / December 28, 2015

President Obama appears ready to use the final year of his presidency to tighten gun-sale oversight through executive action, once again testing public reaction with a familiar strategy: float the proposal, gauge the blowback, then decide how far to push. White House aides confirmed the president met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch before the holidays

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Obama’s immigration appeal struck down

Border & Crime, Politics / 2 Comments / November 10, 2015

In a 2-1 ruling Monday, President Obama’s Executive Actions to expand relief to millions of illegal immigrants received their biggest legal rebuke yet. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit voted to uphold the lawsuit filed by 26 states that argued that Obama’s actions placed undue duress on the states and exceeded the President’s constitutional

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Obama has multiple plans ready to circumvent legal process on immigration

Border & Crime, Politics / 5 Comments / November 3, 2015

It has been the general consensus that President Obama’s November 2014 Executive Actions on Immigration faced long odds of success and an even more lengthy court battle, but leaked memosshow that President Obama has at least four plans in place to circumvent the legal process and push through his agenda despite a standing injunction. Last June, four months after

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