“Believing that they won the recent shutdown fight, President Obama and the Democrats think they have momentum to browbeat the House into passing some version of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty that was approved by the Senate in June,” says Mark Krikorian in National Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Representative Paul Ryan has been actively working to help the president achieve his chief goal for the second term. Many conservatives fear that Speaker Boehner and the rest of the House GOP leadership share Ryan\u2019s desire to pass a bill that would legalize the present 11 million\u2013plus illegal aliens and double future legal immigration.”<\/p>\n “The House Homeland Security Committee has already passed the bill that is intended as the vehicle that will head to conference, where the Senate bill will get folded into it. That Trojan-horse legislation is H.R. 1417, the Border Security Results Act of 2013, authored by Representative Mike McCaul (R., Texas), chairman of the committee. But the first sign of trouble comes when you note one name on the list of the bill\u2019s original co-sponsors: Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas), a vice chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.”<\/p>\n “One branch of the evangelical Christian community knows what it wants up next on America\u2019s political agenda: comprehensive immigration reform. Another would prefer what it calls ‘Biblical immigration.’ As Congress turns back to the business of governing ahead of the holidays, the two sides are ramping up their rhetoric\u2013and their lobbying\u2013with dueling interpretations of the gospels\u2019 guidance,” says Time Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration argue that taking care of home should trump what they consider blind acceptance of foreigners. They have been openly critical of the Senate immigration bill that passed the upper chamber in late June. Kelly Kullberg, the leader of what she says is an ‘ad hoc movement of citizens’ behind Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration, says the Senate bill would grant blanket amnesty.”<\/p>\n “An Arab-American community activist from the Chicago suburbs was arrested Tuesday on immigration charges for allegedly lying about her conviction for a deadly bombing more than 40 years ago in Israel,” the AP reported.<\/p>\n “Odeh works as an associate director at the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-area nonprofit group that advocates for new immigrants and tries to combat anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice, according to its director, Hatem Abudayyeh. According to the network’s website, Odeh has a law degree and has worked as a lawyer. It says one of her focuses has been working with domestic-violence groups and addressing various women’s issues.”<\/p>\nEvangelical Groups Differ on Immigration<\/h3>\n
Community Organizer Arrested Over Past Bombing in Israel<\/h3>\n
What Should Visas Cost to Recoup Costs to America?<\/h3>\n