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The Verify First Act by Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) would subsequently end American taxpayer-funded money going to illegal aliens in the form of healthcare insurance credits. The plan is being supported by NumbersUSA, a group which has staunchly advocated for Trumps America First agenda.

We applaud Rep. Lou Barletta for introducing the Verify First Act to ensure that illegal aliens cannot qualify for taxpayer-funded health insurance credits, NumbersUSA Peter Robbio said in a statement. We are grateful that the Ways and Means Committee and House Republican Leadership agreed to move this important bill forward.

Since Obamacares enactment, illegal immigrants received more than $700 million in healthcare insurance credits by 2015, according to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

In Barlettas plan, healthcare insurance recipients through the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would have their citizenship and immigration statuses verified by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Hard-working Americans and legal residents already are struggling to pay for their own health care, Robbio continued. There is simply no excuse for the Federal government to force them to subsidize health care for illegal aliens through taxpayer-funded credits.

The Verify First Act is one of the only immigration-related bills that seems to be moving forward through the Congress which is in-line with Trumps America First agenda.

For instance, Rep. Tom Cottons (R-AK) major legislation, the RAISE Act, which would cut legal immigration by 50 percent to reduce the foreign competition American workers often must compete with, has yet to even move through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Similarly, Rep. Steve Kings (R-IA) Birthright Citizenship Act, which would end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants, has yet to make it out of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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The state of Israel has apparently approved the largest settlement construction in Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the West Bank) in 25 years. Of course, leftists continue to express outrage over Jewish communities existence in Judea and Samaria. The European Union went so far as to assert that Israels continued policy of settlement expansion is illegal under international law.

The so-called settlements arent illegal, but that view exposes leftist hypocrisy that reeks of anti-Semitism. Lets begin with a description of the problem.

Over the last few decades, hundreds of thousands of people from one country have illegally moved themselves into another countrys territory. They have settled the land, using its resources, creating cultural and ethnic enclaves, and changing (probably irrevocably) the demographics of the land into which theyve migrated.

Whats more, many of them regularly point out that the land theyve settled was once theirs and had been illegitimately taken from members of their nation in the past. On one side, these settlers supporters dont see anything wrong with what theyve done. On the other side, opponents call them illegal and demand their deportation. Every U.S. president in the last few decades has tried and failed to resolve this conflict.

Im thinking, of course, of Mexicans.

If the point isnt already clear, allow me to elaborate: Leftists are almost invariably opposed to Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, including East Jerusalem, where there have been Jews from time immemorial. They declare that Jewish settlements are both immoral and illegal. (Note leftists use the word illegal rather than undocumented.)

They demand that these Jews be deported back to Israel proper. They worry that Jews living in Judea and Samaria are a demographic threat to the Arabs. In summary, leftists are virulently against (allegedly) illegal Jewish immigration into lands once occupied and controlled by their ancestors and support their forced expulsion back to the country from which they emigrated.

Does that sound familiar? It should, for that position is indistinguishable from one of President Trumps positions on illegal Mexican immigration. And whats the leftist response to the presidents previous proposal of deportation? Racism! Bigotry!

If so, leftists also deserve these indictments, for they support the mass expulsion of (allegedly) illegal Jewish immigrants. If the fact that someone is here illegally isnt, by itself, sufficient to morally justify his expulsion from this country, then the mere fact that Jewish settlers are illegal isnt, by itself, sufficient to morally justify their expulsion. And if Jews can be permissibly expelled only because their presence in Judea and Samaria is illegal, then illegal aliens can be permissibly expelled only because their presence in the United States is illegal.

If the leftist wishes to have consistent beliefs, he must accept these propositions. He cant have his cake and eat it too.

Alas, the Lefts position is inconsistent. The Left is happy to see millions of illegal alien settlers set up their cultural enclaves with relative impunity. Illegals are fine so long as their descendants will vote for the Democrat Party, but if theyre Jews who want to live in their historic homeland and near their holiest sites, then the land must be cleansed of their presence, with force if necessary. This is rank hypocrisy.

Please dont misunderstand me. Im not claiming that opposing illegal Mexican immigration is analogous to opposing Jewish settlements. On the contrary, the latter is much more morally objectionable. The so-called settlements in Judea and Samaria are not illegal, whereas Mexican illegal immigrants are here illegally.

The piece of international law the Left cites in defense of their position is from Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, according to which [t]he Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

The implicit premise connecting this text to the conclusion that the settlements are illegal must be that the state of Israel (i.e. the Occupying Power) has transferred hundreds of thousands of Jews into Judea and Samaria, a proposition that is manifestly false. Jews have, like many Mexicans, transferred themselves. If self-transfer is the same as state-transfer, then Trump was right after all about Mexico sending many of its criminals to the United States!

Also, dont lets forget about racism and anti-Semitism. Even supposing that opposing illegal immigration is bigoted (it isnt), moral opposition to the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria is much more bigoted. (Opposition on the grounds that settlements are unwise is another matter.)

The idea that Judea and Samaria should be Judenrein, which is precisely what President Obama failed to oppose when he abstained from United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 and what leftists have consistently supported over the last few decades, is flagrantly anti-Semitic. Or, if it were neither anti-Semitic nor wrong, then it would be permissible for Israel to expropriate the property of and expel Israeli Arabs, for thats precisely what liquidating Jewish settlements would amount to. (Many of the settlements are on land sold to Jews by Arabs, a practice the Palestinian Authority has outlawed on pain of death.) Of course, both would be impermissible instances of ethnic cleansing.

Now imagine what would happen if Benjamin Netanyahu were to publicly express support for making Israel free of Arabs. Hed be crucified. Yet most react to the same policy against Jews in Judea and Samaria with relative equanimity. President Trump ought to change the United States longstanding policy and support Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

CZar Bernstein is a philosopher whose interests include topics in applied ethics, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of law. He has published essays in peer-reviewed philosophy journals on a variety of topics including the morality of abortion and gun rights. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a masters in philosophy and will begin as a law student at The George Washington University School of Law this August.

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by John Binder14 Jun 2017Washington, D.C.0

In total, 54,944 illegal aliens either had their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) renewed by the administration or are new recipients of the classification, which has been derided by immigration hawks for being an indirect amnesty program.

Under Temporary Protected Status, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are allowed to remain in the U.S. for up to 18 months, as Breitbart Texas reported. After their protected status has expired, they can re-apply to have the classification renewed.

Although the number of illegal aliens receiving protected status remains high, the Trump Administration did lower the number, which encompasses January through March 2017, from where the Obama Administration had left it.

In Obamas last full three months in office, DHS approved close to 84,000 illegal aliens for temporary protected status.

But while Trumps DHS does not look to be considerably destabilizing the program, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) introduced legislation to halt the Temporary Protected Status system.

My bill, the TPS Reform Act, would ensure that temporary means temporary by establishing clear time limitations and creating statutory tests that must be met to grant the TPS designation, Brooks said in an interview about the program. This legislation provides the needed reform for what has become a long-running amnesty program.

Days ago, Breitbart Texas reported how border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico Border increased by 31 percent in May from the previous month.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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Illegal immigrants often cross the ranch lands of South Texas in the summer heat. It's a risk that can be deadly. Especially as illegal immigration increases for the first time during the Trump administration.

Oscar Margain, KENS 4:53 AM. CDT June 13, 2017

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ENCINO, Texas -- Illegal immigrants often cross the ranch lands of south Texas in the summer heat. Its a risk that can be deadly. This as the number of people crossing rises for the first time during the Trump administration.

Behind this gate is an 8,600-acre property, tucked in somewhere between a highway and a Border Patrol checkpoint in Encino, Texas.

Ryan Weatherston, the foreman for Dos Haches Ranch, takes us on a truck ride 5 miles down a dirt road, crossing a path dozens of undocumented immigrants have traveled.

This is a hot, hot, hot area, said Weatherston.

Its also an area that could easily reach 100-degree temperatures during this time of the year. Its when Border Patrol expects illegal crossings to rise and at the same time when more people could die.

Ive been out here 5 years, the foreman said. In the past 5 years, Ive found 8 dead people.

Clothing, cell phones, human skulls and human corpses are just some of the scenes Weatherston has walked into.

Desperate people do desperate things, he said. Weatherston believes more immigrants chose to cross during summer because there are fewer watchful eyes. It's low season for hunters and bird watchers, customers who rent the camp house in the property.

However, this year things are a bit different as illegal immigration had dropped to about 70% since Trump took office until May when it picked up again about 25%. And quail birds are sticking around a little longer. The reason why former Texas governor Mark White was there.

You hear the quail? Weve been listening to them all day, said the former Governor.

Governor White knows a thing or two about illegal immigration. He believes the country is taking the wrong approach.

Its every attribute that you want to see in a good citizen, is revealed to you in those people who have come here, he said.

His empathy grew when he read this note left by three teenage women from El Salvador after breaking into the camp house seeking help.

The note written on June 16, 2013, reads: Excuse us for having come in your ranch, but it was out of necessity because we were lost for 4 days. We were three young women, one of us was pregnant and was feeling very ill. Forgive us for destroying your door and have used your belongings. Had we not arrived here, we wouldnt have been able to call migration (Border Patrol). Thank you and were sorry a thousand times. May God bless you. We were Salvadorians.

I cant imagine my wife walking through this country pregnant and, you know, being sick and being 104 degrees outside, said Weatherston. Thats rough. Im glad they were able to find this (camp house).

These encounters have taught these men to not lock up their doors, but rather, to leave them open, for the survival of those who will decide it all to make it here, so argues the governor.

These people want the same thing that I wanted, that my family wanted, he pointed out. They just happen to be born there and not here.

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Illegal immigrants should be living in fear of being deported, the chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday, pushing back against a growing sentiment among Democrats on Capitol Hill and activists across the country who have complained about agents enforcing the laws on the books.

Thomas D. Homan, acting director at ICE, said anyone in the country without authorization can be arrested and those who have been ordered deported by judges must be removed if laws are to have meaning.

His comments marked a major shift for an agency that President Obama forbade from enforcing the law when it came to more than 9 million of the countrys estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. Unshackled from Mr. Obamas strictures, agents have dramatically increased the number of arrests.

Advocacy groups are enraged and demand leniency for traumatized immigrants.

Mr. Homan makes no apologies.

If youre in this country illegally and you committed a crime by being in this country, you should be uncomfortable, you should look over your shoulder. You need to be worried, Mr. Homan testified to the House Appropriations Committee. No population is off the table.

The Trump administration is asking for significant boosts in spending for both border and interior enforcement, but it is meeting resistance from Democrats who oppose a crackdown.

Democrats will not accept a penny of funding for a new deportation force or a border wall, said Rep. Nita M. Lowey of New York, the ranking Democrat on the committee.

Border Patrol acting Chief Carla Provost defended the 74 miles of fencing that President Trump wants to erect next year, saying the wall will plug holes where illegal activity is still a problem in San Diego and parts of Texas.

She said the southwestern border is at medium risk of penetration and needs the wall to assist. She said construction on the 74 miles would start in either March or April.

Mr. Homan, meanwhile, said he needs a major infusion of detention beds to hold the larger population of illegal immigrants, now that his agents have been unshackled from the restrictions under Mr. Obama.

He said the number of countries refusing to take back their deportees has been cut in half, while the number of jurisdictions looking to have their police and sheriffs deputies trained to process illegal immigrants in their jails has nearly doubled and will likely triple by the end of the year.

In addition, some 400,000 illegal immigrants ordered removed by judges but who were ignored under the Obama administration are now back on the list of priorities.

All of that means more illegal immigrants to be detained in preparation for deportation.

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland Democrat, told Mr. Homan not to try deporting drunken drivers.

DWI or traffic is not really considered to be the type of people that are hurting our country, he said.

Mr. Homan, though, said drunken driving sounds like a public safety risk. They should be removed, he said.

Mr. Homan said anyone in the country without authorization is a target for enforcement.

We shouldnt wait for them to become a criminal, he said.

That angered immigrant rights advocates, who said it showed antipathy toward illegal immigrants.

Wow. How revealing, said Frank Sharry, executive director at Americas Voice. Homan makes it clear that the ICE strategy is to indiscriminately target the entire undocumented population in America and to intentionally spread fear throughout millions of deeply rooted families.

He called Mr. Homans testimony extremist.

Mr. Homan pushed back against such criticism. He said his agents are enforcing the laws as written and no other branch of law enforcement faces the abusive questions his employees do.

He said the illegal immigrants deserve the blame for separating families. When a U.S. citizen commits a crime and goes to jail, he said, the police who catch him arent blamed for keeping him from his family.

Mr. Homan said the increased risk of enforcement is part of the reason illegal immigration across the southwestern border is at its lowest level in decades.

Democrats, though, said his officers need to show more discretion.

Ms. Lowey raised the case of a 19-year-old man in New York who was arrested on the day of his high school prom, which she said sent the wrong signal.

She said the man had kept out of trouble and was arrested while waiting at a bus stop for school.

Mr. Homen defended the arrest as valid. He said the young man committed a crime when he sneaked across the border and ignored an immigration judges order to be removed.

He lost his case, and because we dont like the results of that case we forget about it? Mr. Homan asked Ms. Lowey. I dont know where else in the American justice system any other agency is told to ignore a judges ruling.

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