so the uscis officials, political appointees, issued a memo stating that uscis will no longer issue -- quote -- "notices to appear in immigration court to illegal aliens who do not meet administration priorities," a major step backward. on november 22, the justice department filed suit against utah's immigration enforcement system. got plenty of time to sue utah, who would like to help them enforce the law. on november 22, i.c.e. refused to act after mayor michael bloomberg signed a measure ordering all new york city jails to ignore certain i.c.e. detainers issued to deport illegal aliens from those jails. so the mayor of new york issues an order not to honor the detainers placed there by federal government. the united states government. and mr. bloomberg is spending millions of dollars of his hundreds of thousands -- i think millions -- of his billion-dollar wealth to lobby the house to pass an amnesty bill. it's his money. i guess he can spend it where he wants to. but just because he's made a billion dollars, i don't think it suggests to me that he has any better idea about how to

this this week that says al qaeda linked fighters have reportedly carried to series of massacres that uscis to channel arabic filed this report. r.t. sources in the military say radical islamist fighters entered the town of drugs and massacred local civilians according to the latest figures at least eighty people were killed in the districts which the syrian army has now liberated entire families were killed other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces. successful jewish militants from jabhat al nusra and the army of islam seize control of all the streets and cross roads very quickly and snipers took positions on the roof and houses they carried out the massacre the first report said twenty had been killed but today received updated figures it's a horrifying situation a scene of murder atrocities and fear r t sources in the military also say that some of the kidnapped families have been transferred to areas south of the town they're now being held in strategically important zones which the rebels have been using as a base of opera

uscis has been transparent about this process, publishing data on its web site showing the number of applicants who applied, those accepted and rejected. for the past few years, i've come to the floor of the senate regularly to tell stories, real-life stories of these dreamers. done it over 50 times. we actually had a reunion of all the dreamers whom i had spoken of on the floor of the senate. i want to take some time to update the story on one of those dreamers. this photograph of these brothers show carlos and rafael, this is carlos, and rafael. they were siblings brought to the united states by their parents when they were kids. carlos grew up in suburban chicago, graduated from palatine middle school where he was an honors student. in high school he was captain of the tennis team and a member of the varsity swim team. he volunteered with palatine's physically challenged program where he helped feed special needs students. listen to what one of his high school teachers said about him. carlos is the kind of person we want among us because he makes the community better. this is the

for example, to date uscis has failed to promulgate any regulations shutting down regional centers exploited by terrorists. this raises serious concerns with me. when congress created the eb-5 program in 1990 the goal was to speculate stlait the u.s. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. to that end the original program called the basic immigrant investor program required immigrant investors to receive $1 million in a commercial enterprise that would create or preserve at least ten jobs. the investors initially granted permanent residency but after two years improving the creation of ten jobs they're eligible to become a permanent resident. in 1992 congress authorized a second eb-5 pilot program allowing immigrants to pool through approved regional centers. in seeking approval from d.h.s. the regional center submits a proposal to d.h.s. detailing how it plans to promote economic growth in that region. by investing in a regional center, immigrant investors can take advantage of relaxed job standards to measure both direct and indirect job creation while dir

in that report, nearly 25% of the uscis officers surveyed and supervisors had pressured them to improve applications that should have been denied. we want to know if he'll take measures to better screen applicants and do away with the get-to-yes fil philosophy. that philosophy is a gigantic risk to our national security. luke at the eb-5 program. we asked about whether he'd make it a priority to improve that program. we asked mr. johnson about his position on immigration reform, especially since the bill passed the senate and the house could act sending a bill to the president. we asked if people who are in the country illegally in removing proceedings are subject to a offered removal should be eligible for immigration benefits, including legal status. we asked whether illegal immigrants convicted of a felony or convicted of multiple misdemeanors should be eligible for benefits, including legal status. we want to know if gang members, drunk drivers, domestic abusers and other criminals should be allowed to stay in the country. it's important for noise from mr. johnson because the senate

allowing the eb-5 program to have the kind of governance that it needs through the -- through the uscis agency, if he doesn't do it, i said, i'll introduce the legislation myself. we'll have a lot of cosponsors. there are four recommendations. one of them needs the -- us to do something in order for it to be -- to occur. the other two are either completed, acknowledged, completed, done. the other one, we just -- there was just a disagreement. it is outside the scope of the law. that's the audit. that's the audit. so my friends, i just want to say -- i just want to say this. this is not a criminal investigation. the things that terry mccauliffe and his company sought were denied. but one person within the agen agency, who's actually worked on these investigations and worked on these programs, these eb-5 programs, has come forward and said, look, mayorkas did nothing wrong. i decided -- i decide against mr. mccauliffe's company. and mr. mayorkas stayed out of my way. we have endorsements, we don't know who the folks that are the detractors of mr. mayorkas. i wish we did and i wish we had