Katie Pavlich
Townhall.com
12/3/2014
A December 1 bulletin from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) details the immediate opening of 1,000 permanent federal employee positions at a new operational facility that will open soon in Crystal City, Virginia. Newly hired employees will be tasked with approving applications submitted by illegal immigrants taking advantage of President Obama’s recently announced executive amnesty program.
“USCIS is taking steps to open a new operational center in Crystal City, a neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, to accommodate about 1,000 full-time, permanent federal and contract employees in a variety of positions and grade levels. The initial workload will include cases filed as a result of the executive actions on immigration announced on Nov. 20, 2014. Many job opportunities at the operational center will be announced in the coming days and please continue to monitor USAJOBS if you are interested,” the USCIS bulletin reads…
…For weeks now Congress has been wrestling with how to deal with President Obama’s executive action on illegal immigration. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has called for all nominations not vital to national security to be stalled while fellow Republicans in the House and Senate have been reviewing ways to pull funding from USCIS, a fee based agency.
The complete article, with video, is at Townhall.com
Related: Ted Cruz’s Tough Message to House Republicans
…Cruz joined with Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa), Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and House lawmakers who are trying to convince Boehner to take a tougher stand against Obama.
“Congress should stand up and use the power of the purse to say: we will fund the government, we will fund the operation of the federal government, but we will not allocate taxpayer dollars to lawless and illegal amnesty,” Cruz advised. He also indicated Boehner’s plan to pass a separate bill — one that will go nowhere in the Senate — would only allow for a meaningless “show vote.”
“Do what you promised,” Cruz said. “And doing what you promised doesn’t mean, as it so often does in Washington, sending a really stern letter, and having a meaningless show vote.”…
Update: Jeff Sessions: Obama Has New Office Building to Process New Amnesty Applications (audio)
Jeff Sessions spoke to Mark Levin tonight about what’s going on with Obama’s new amnesty executive order, telling Levin that they found out today that Obama is getting a new office building he plans to staff in order to process all the amnesty applications. And yet Republicans are still fumbling around on how to stop this.
There’s more. Listen…
