Immigration and Citizenship

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on the Obama Administration to declassify its plan to admit into the United States potentially over 2,400 refugees who Australia has refused to admit. Last month, Chairmen Goodlatte and Grassley expressed concern that the Obama Administration’s secret negotiations with Austra

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today pressed Secretary Jeh Johnson on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) failure to ensure immigration benefits applicants have received full background checks prior to approval of their applications. The House Judiciary Committee received from a confidential source an email that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Associate Director for the Field Operations Directorate sent to agency staff on November 29, 2016.

DHS has failed to provide information on its efforts to address the surge to Congress  Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Immigration and Border Security Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), and Immigration and The National Interest Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) today called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson to take immediate action to stop the ongoing surge of illegal immigration at the southwest

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson for answers about two criminal aliens charged with sexually assaulting children. Chairman Goodlatte has called on Secretary Johnson repeatedly to explain the Administration’s lax enforcement of the immigration laws that allow criminal aliens to victimize Americans, but the Department has been unresponsive to the Committee’s requests. Last month, Tomas Martinez

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson for information about Nelash Mohamed Das, a resident alien recently arrested for planning the murder of a U.S. military member as part of a terrorist attack. On September 30, 2016, Das was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and charged with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization by conspiring to murder a U.S.

Goodlatte presses ICE on its use of license plate readers at gun showsWashington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today pressed U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today delivered the following opening statement at the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee hearing on “New Orleans: How the Crescent City Became a Sanctuary City.” Chairman Goodlatte: Sanctuary cities refuse to cooperate with U.S.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of September 26-30, 2016. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2710:00 a.m. | Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Hearing on: New Orleans: How the Crescent City Became a Sanctuary City Witnesses:

• The Honorable Jeff Landry, Attorney General, Louisiana Department of Justice
• The Honor