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BOEHNER ANNOUNCES BROADER IMMIGRATION EFFORT TO COLLEAGUES

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Breitbart News -- Jonathan Strong

The House will quickly begin considering broader immigration legislation in weeks ahead even as Republicans are likely to remain mired in conflict with President Obama over a far-reaching executive action that extended amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, Speaker John Boehner announced to members at a closed-door meeting this morning.

“We’re going to get an immigration bill moving pretty quickly,” one GOP lawmaker told Breitbart News.

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New Mexico court rules on immigration consequences

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San Francisco Chronicle -- Associated Press

The New Mexico Supreme Court says it's not enough that a defendant hears in court that pleading guilty could result in deportation.

The justices ruled Monday in case from Dona Ana County that a defendant was denied effective legal representation because his lawyer hadn't warned him beforehand about a guilty plea's immigration consequences.

Cesar Favela pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and driving while under the influence.

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Senators eye immigration reform for tech workers

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The Hill -- Julian Hattem

A bipartisan team of senators lent a helping hand to the tech sector on Tuesday by introducing new legislation to reform the immigration system for high-skilled workers.

The bill, which was first introduced in 2013 but failed to move in Congress, would address the major demands of Silicon Valley firms, who say that current law prevents them from bringing into the U.S. enough skilled programmers to keep up with the demand.

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Boehner: Amnesty fight with Obama is about runaway executive branch, not immigration

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Washington Times -- Stephen Dinan

House Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday that moves to block President Obama’s new deportation amnesty are less about immigration than they are about asserting Congress’s right to make laws, and pushing back on a runaway executive branch.

The House is scheduled to begin debating the homeland security spending bill later Tuesday, but the focus will be on a series of amendments the GOP has lined up that would cancel Mr. Obama’s amnesty.

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Jeff Sessions: Not ‘a single dime’ for Obama’s immigration moves

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Politico -- Seung Min Kim

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is trying to win the messaging war on immigration.

The conservative Republican and chief critic of President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration is sending around a detailed and lengthy memo that encourages fellow GOP lawmakers to block the unilateral moves, even arguing that Congress’ response to what he calls “this emergency” will “define its legacy.”

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Boehner Vows to Fight ‘Tooth and Nail’ Against Executive Amnesty He Funded

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CNS News -- Ali Meyer

House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) vowed today to fight “tooth and nail” against President Obama’s unilateral amnesty of up to five million illegal aliens—an amnesty the administration has been able to move forward with because Boehner’s House permitted funding of it.

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No Money in Brown's Budget for Health Care for Undocumented

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California Healthline

Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) recently released fiscal year 2015-2016 budget proposal lacks funding to provide health coverage to undocumented immigrants in the state, KQED's "State of Health" reports (Aliferis, "State of Health," KQED, 1/9).

Last week, Brown released his $113.3 billion FY 2015-2016 budget plan, which includes several health care proposals.

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Arlington Sheriff’s Office to Ignore ICE Detainers

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Arlington Now

The Arlington County Sheriff’s Office will ignore requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold people in the county jail unless such a request comes with a warrant, the county announced Friday afternoon.

The new policy, which takes effect immediately, comes four days after Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) issued an opinion that ICE detainers are “merely a request.”

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Texas Judge Begins Hearing Arguments in Immigration Debate

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ABC Digital

(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) -- A federal judge near the Texas/Mexico border begins hearing arguments Friday in a lawsuit filed against the Obama administration by nearly two dozen states.

After failing to come up with a plan that Congress would approve, President Obama took executive action to allow more than four million undocumented immigrants to stay in the country on three-year work permits.

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States passed 171 immigration laws last year

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Washington Post -- Niraj Chokshi

Nearly every state in the nation passed at least one immigration law last year, but legislative activity on the issue was actually slower across state capitals than the year before.

Last year, 43 state legislatures and D.C. enacted 171 immigration laws and 117 resolutions. That’s a 7.5 percent decline from 2013, when states passed 185 laws, according to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures.

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