(Brett Rowland, Center Square) The backlog of immigration cases is growing as U.S. lawmakers evaluate plans to address the problem.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which handles immigration cases, has 69 immigration courts, 597 courtrooms and 659 immigration judges throughout the U.S. It faced a backlog of nearly 2.2 million...
(Garcia de Paredes, Center Square) U.S. Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., is the 15th U.S. House member to announce he is not seeking reelection in 2024. Kim, in office since 2019, is retiring to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
Including Kim, 20 members...
(Headline USA) Socialist Venezuela was home to the largest number of illegal immigrants arrested, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record, according to figures released Saturday that show September saw the second-highest number of arrests this year.
Venezuelans were arrested 54,833 times by the Border Patrol after entering from...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden is leveraging border security to get even more money for Ukraine.
The idea came up late last month, after Congress denied the Ukraine yet another stopgap funding measure.
A lot has changed since Sept. 30: The House has lost its speaker and Republicans are in disarray over...
(Joe Mueller, The Center Square) – The federal government will embed an employee to assist Denver in advancing its work to reduce homelessness.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston was joined by two members of President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday to announce the city was joining Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Phoenix,...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) House Republicans are raising concerns about a new federal green energy program that critics say is wide open for potential fraud and abuse.
The Inflation Reduction Act included $27 billion for the EPA to dole out via competitive grants for clean energy investments in low-income...
(Kim Jarett, The Center Square) - The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority is asking a federal judge to reverse a decision by the Biden administration to cancel oil and drilling leases in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge area.
The leases were approved by the Trump administration in January 2021...
(Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations) The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded a lucrative contract to help modernize its computer databases to the same Washington firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, that employed the man who pleaded guilty last week to stealing and leaking thousands of private tax returns of wealthy Americans, including former...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Silencing critics who claimed that House Republicans were in a state of disarray, they appeared poised to rally around Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, much the way Democrats united previously around former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after a spate of backroom bargains...
(Spencer Pauley, The Center Square) – The latest quality of life survey from the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce reveals residents’ growing disdain for how the city is utilizing their tax dollars.
The survey was conducted by EMC Research, with 700 Seattle voters interviewed across each council district from Sept....
(Bethany Blankely, The Center Square) – After Hamas attacked Israel, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state would be advancing greater sanctions against Iran. He also declared a state of emergency and issued an executive order to activate the national and state guard and other agencies to help bring Americans...
(Headline USA) Republican Attorney General, Jeff Landry, has won the Louisiana governor’s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.
The win is a major victory for the GOP as they reclaim the governor’s mansion for the first time in eight years. Landry will replace current Gov. John Bel Edwards,...