Cantor primary loss to Tea Party shocks Capitol Hill

House GOP Leader Eric Cantor's primary loss has sent shockwaves through Capitol Hill, with sources warning that the historic upset could have a "destabilizing" effect on party leadership and sideline key legislation. 

"Everybody is just in shock right now," Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., said. 

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Cantor, a seven-term Virginia congressman, was defeated in Tuesday's primary by Dave Brat, a little-known economics professor with Tea Party backing. He won in part by hammering Cantor over immigration, accusing him of supporting "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.

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Surge of child illegals part of Obama's effort to 'fundamentally transform America'

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There’s a surge on the border. This is a surge far different from George W. Bush’s dispatch of armed might to win the day in Iraq. This is a mass movement of immigrants that threatens to transform the nation.

Children are walking hundreds of miles across a hostile environment with little more than the clothes on their backs, accompanied by neither a parent nor other responsible adult. The numbers of these children making the treacherous journey are much higher than the Obama administration has acknowledged, according to reporting by our Stephen Dinan. The deputy Border Patrol chief, Ronald Vitiello, said in an internal memo on May 30 that border agents caught 40,000 unaccompanied children last year. They expect to apprehend 90,000 children this year, and 142,000 in 2015.

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Obama’s wrongheaded ‘catch and release’ policy frees criminal illegal aliens

Criminal aliens go free with an invitation to pillage and plunder again

The Obama administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new “catch and release” program. The Center for Immigration Studies this week put the lie to the administration claim that by sharply curtailing deportation of so-called “Dreamers,” it could redeploy ICE resources to crack down harder on illegal aliens with criminal records.

The center shows how immigration agents tried to deport only a few more than a quarter of the illegals they encountered, filing charges against fewer than 193,500 of the 720,000 aliens eligible for deportation last year. Of those let go, more than 67,800 had criminal convictions on their records. So much for upholding the rule of law in the Obama era.

“ICE is releasing more illegal aliens and more criminal aliens than they’re trying to remove,” says Jessica Vaughn, author of the report, and adds that ICE has even been releasing illegals convicted of identity theft. “The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration enforcement in America has collapsed,” says Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, one of the harshest and most faithful critics of the comprehensive immigration-reform bill offered by the Senate’s “Gang of Eight.”

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