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Jessica Vaughan
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Jessica Vaughan
@JessicaV_CIS
Director of Policy Studies at Center for Immigration Studies.
Joined November 2013
- Republicans introduce bill to pull funds from states that give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants foxnews.com/politics/repub…
- Not sure why we were ever issuing temp work visas for truck drivers.Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers. The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.
- Zero of 1,155 completed cases of asylum seekers under Remain in Mexico program were found qualified for asylum by a judge.
- Lt Gov Patrick: 500,000 crimes committed by illegal aliens in Texas. insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/11/gop…
- So many layers to this - now learning that the suspect was in ICE custody in 2013, but apparently was released (along with 36,000 others that year) under Obama's interior catch & release policies - see here: cis.org/Report/ICE-Doc….San Jose case of woman apparently randomly killed by illegal alien meth user causes rift among city and county officials over sanctuary policy that shielded him from certain deportation - more than once. sfgate.com/news/bayarea/a… via @SFGatecis.orgICE Document Details 36,000 Criminal Alien Releases in 2013 | @CIS_orgIn 2013, ICE freed 36,007 convicted criminal aliens from detention who were awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings.
- News: DOJ sues Facebook for discriminating against US workers: "The lawsuit alleges Facebook refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available US workers for over 2,600 positions that Facebook instead reserved for temporary visa holders it sponsored for green cards."
- Report: Nearly 200 illegal aliens freed by federal judges, including sex offenders and killers lawenforcementtoday.com/report-nearly-…
- Trump orders crackdown on foreign students who overstay visas -- illegally washingtonexaminer.com/article/2632452 via @dcexaminer
- 7 people indicted for attempting to help illegal immigrant California cop killer flee to Mexico, officials say
- Arizona voters pass ballot measure to create state crime of entering illegally from Mexico and to criminalize using fake id for employment or benefits.
- ICE arrests 200 illegal immigrants in North Carolina, calling it 'the new normal' due to less cooperation with Mecklenburg and wake county sheriffs. newsweek.com/ice-arrests-20…
- Fascinating but not shocking. Turns out USCIS has been rubber-stamping EB-1A green cards (for the most "extraordinarily talented" immigrants) based on faked publications and purchased awards.USCIS Revoking EB-1A Approvals: Paid Publications and Fake Awards Exposed x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
- Massachusetts governor calls for removal of judge (he appointed) now accused of helping immigrant avoid ICE (a policy he says they should be allowed to have). Gov. Baker, this is the inevitable result of your tolerance of sanctuaries. @MassGovernor
