The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Friday that President Obama’s half-uncle, an illegal immigrant who was picked up but has reportedly been released from jail, appears to have benefited from the new “backdoor amnesty” the administration announced last month.

“It appears there is a double standard — one for President Obama’s family and one for everyone else,” Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, said. “Last year, President Obama’s illegal immigrant aunt was granted asylum and now his illegal immigrant uncle has been released from [the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency] custody, even though he was arrested by authorities for drunk driving.”

Mr. Smith said the case will be the first “test case” for a new Homeland Security policy announced last month that gives immigration authorities more discretion to let illegal immigrants go, rather than pursue efforts to deport them.

This week President Obama told the National Council of La Raza that he can’t get illegal alien amnesty legislation passed because Republicans oppose it, “so let's be honest I need a dance partner here. And the floor is empty.” Ok Mr. President, let’s be honest. Amnesty is already underway.

Its been occurring ever since the President realized the public had no appetite for illegal alien legislation, and he decided, instead, to launch a covert end-run around Congress using administrative actions to piecemeal what he can’t do all at once in a big amnesty bill.

Sen. Dick Durbin plans to make a full-court press Tuesday to revive the debate over a controversial proposal to give illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children a path to legal status, as the Obama administration moves on a separate track to grant what some describe as "amnesty" to the same group.

Durbin, D-Ill., in announcing the first-ever Senate hearing on the so-called DREAM Act, said his proposal would "make our country stronger." Under the plan, which passed the House last year but died in the Senate, illegal immigrants who came here as children and complete two years of college or military service could earn legal status.

ALIPAC is hunting Mike Huckabee in Iowa in an effort to warn Republican voters about his AMNESTY plans for illegal aliens. Huckabee wants illegal aliens to leave and then return legally in JUST ONE DAY! ALIPAC's call program, talk radio shows, and radio a

Americans are fed up with the Mexicanization of America! And finally, we are fed up with a president and members of Congress who consistently work on behalf of illegals and the state of Mexico and against the interests of the American people. The American

The AgJOBS bill is similar to the comprehensive immigration reform bill that was rejected last spring, which would have granted amnesty to millions of people who are unlawfully present in the United States. The agJOBS bill will grant approximately 1.5 mil

A bill that would have given the children of illegal immigrants a chance to become U.S. citizens by attending college or serving in the U.S. military was blocked in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. A 52-44 vote on a motion to begin debate on the bill fell ei

Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are still trying to pass their DREAM Act amnesty, either as an amendment to other legislation or the stand-alone version of the bill, S 774.

Just two in 10 say the government is doing enough to keep illegal immigrants out of the country; on the other, most, 58 percent, favor a path to citizenship for those here now -- a program giving illegal immigrants the right to legal status if they pay a

The Bush administration has begun quietly rewriting federal regulations to eliminate barriers that restrict how foreign laborers can legally be brought into the country. The effort, urgently underway at the departments of Homeland Security, State and Labo

More illegals are actually going home leading to improved conditions for American workers and our communities. Krikorian says stepped-up enforcement leads to attrition and that’s the real alternative to amnesty.

The DREAM ACT leaves some wide open doors to let this amnesty run rampant into the millions of illegals eager to cash in on free citizenship benefits. And keep in mind that I am not a legal expert, but even a layman found all these obvious amnesty loophol

Most Americans are now tuned in to the urgency of fixing our broken immigration system. Both major parties agree it is broken—they say. But neither party has the will to go fix it. As a Democrat, the problem really hits me between the eyes! Most if not

Less than three months after the amnesty bill was defeated, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois wants to revive one of its worst provisions: an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would constitute a massive financial windfall for mil

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"You know, I've heard all the rhetoric -- you've heard it, too -- about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that," Bush said

Remember the 1986 amnesty? Mahmoud abu Halima applied for it and went on to bomb the World Trade Center seven years later. His colleague, the aforementioned Mohammad Salameh, was rejected but carried on living here anyway. John Lee Malvo was detained and

Loophole 1 – Legal Status Before Enforcement: Amnesty benefits do not wait for the “enforcement trigger.” After filing an application and waiting 24 hours, illegal aliens will receive full “probationary benefits,” complete with the ability to le

It will only take a moment. If Congress passes the current immigration bill being debated in the Senate, President Bush will sign the legislation, and in so doing, offer immediate amnesty to over 12 million illegal immigrants who currently reside in our c

If they'd really wanted to help, as opposed to braying about their own wonderfulness, they would have created not one big bill but a series of smaller bills, each of which would do one big clear thing, the first being to close the border. Once that was do