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The immigration bill introduced to the Senate a week and a half ago would, if passed, allow illegal immigrants to access state and local welfare benefits immediately, Breitbart News has learned. The financial impact of allowing potentially millions of immigrants onto state and local public assistance could overwhelm these programs' budgets. Read More...

“I am very, very optimistic that we will have an agreement among the eight of us next week,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told Chuck Todd yesterday on Meet the Press. “Senator Leahy has agreed to have extensive markup and debate on the bill in April. And then we go to the floor in – God willing, in May.” Read More...

Amnesty advocates argue that our immigration system is broken and can only be fixed by legalizing millions of illegal immigrants. But they ignore the real problem plaguing our system today: lack of enforcement of laws already on the books. Read More...

The “Papers, please” provision of Arizona’s SB1070 is now in effect. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton signed the formal order Tuesday dissolving the injunction she issued more than two years ago blocking the state from enforcing key provisions of the 2010 law. And she refused to reconsider a request by civil rights groups for a new injunction on different grounds. Read More...

A MS-13 gang leader charged with running a teenage prostitution business after one of the girls made a daring escape is expected to plead guilty Monday. According to charging documents filed in federal court in Alexandria, Yimmy Anthony Pineda Penado was the leader of the Pinos Locos Salvatrucha clique who headed up a group of about 25 members of the El Salvadorian-based Mara Salvatrucha 13 gang. Read More...

A U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday that a controversial Arizona "show-your-papers" immigration provision that has been upheld by the Supreme Court may go into effect, but in a split ruling blocked another measure making it a crime to harbor illegal immigrants. Read More...

Seventeen illegal immigrants or immigrant fugitives have been arrested in Maryland. The arrests, announced Friday, took place in Prince George's County and surrounding areas and are part of a three-day enforcement operation run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read More...

Ten federal immigration agents have filed suit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claiming recent directives are forcing them to break the law and ignore their duties when it comes to deporting illegal immigrants. Read More...

In Part One of our exclusive report on crime statistics in Hidalgo County, Texas, we saw shocking hidden-camera video as a crime analyst admitted downgrading crimes on the sheriff’s orders. In Part Two, we heard from a whistle-blowing deputy, who described the political pressure within the department to downgrade crimes, and even to stop fighting crime altogether. The deputy described supervisors pressuring subordinates even to refrain from setting up routine traffic stops so they will not discover more serious crimes to report. The hidden-camera video and the deputy’s testimony paint a picture of a county that is systematically being lied to so that a sheriff can get re-elected , the federal funds can keep rolling in, and the federal government can claim that this border community is safer than ever. Read More...

In Part One of our exclusive Border Conspiracy series, we went inside the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Department. We watched as a crime analyst admitted on hidden camera to changing the crime codes in the Uniform Crime Reporting system. Downgrading the nature of the crimes that the sheriff’s office reports to the federal government makes the Texas county appear safer than it really is. The statistics also help the Obama administration argue that the border is now safer than it was just a few years ago, despite the drug war raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico. What we have learned so far is just the tip of the iceberg. Read More...