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Immigration and Citizenship

December 8, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below regarding the significant drop in removals for unlawful and criminal aliens in Fiscal Year 2014.

December 5, 2014

Washington, D.C. – This week, the House Judiciary Committee has outlined how President Obama’s actions violate the Constitutionallow criminals to evade the law

December 4, 2014
Chairman Goodlatte: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.  I urge my colleagues to support Mr. Yoho’s important bill, the “Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014.”
 
December 4, 2014

Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 219-197 the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act (H.R. 5759) to prevent President Obama or any future president from inappropriately exempting or deferring the removal of entire categories of unlawful immigrants.

December 3, 2014
Washington, D.C. – President Obama recently announced unilateral changes to our immigration system. What he didn’t announce is that many of these changes make our communities less safe.
December 1, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson and U.S.

November 21, 2014

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the statement below in advance of President Obama’s speech today on his unconstitutional immigration actions in Las Vegas, Nevada.

November 19, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, demand President Barack Obama abandon his plan to bypass Congressional authority and move on immigration via executive order.

September 17, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Following pressure from House Judiciary Committee Republicans, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson announced today at a congressional hearing that he will not lift a 30-year old regulation banning Libyans from coming to the United States to attend flight school, work