Tom Tancredo: “What we're doing here in this immigration battle is testing our willingness to actually hold together as a nation or…”

my amendment would simply prevent the State Department from continuing to selectively ignore Federal statute. The Federal statute in question instructs the State Department to discontinue the issuance of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas to…

the issue is not whether DHS funding is used in contravention. It is whether or not there is any penalty to be assessed to enforce the law that is on the books. Naturally there has been no suit brought or whatever because there is no…

My complaint here and concern is with the Iraqi government today. The fact is, we should use this as pressure to get them to accept back their people who have committed crimes when they're here.

I would be in favor of accepting those that can be actually identified as coming here under humanitarian conditions and as refugees.