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President Barack Obama talks with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson in the Cabinet Room of the White House, July 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama immigration flip-flops prove problematic for Jeh Johnson

President Obama's own words continue to be a major problem for his defenders, including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, the administration's top immigration lawyer, who spent much of his Capitol Hill testimony Tuesday parsing or disagreeing with his boss's flip-flops.

December 2, 2014
President Barack Obama meets with community leaders at the Copernicus Community Center in Chicago to discuss immigration reform, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Obama visited his hometown to promote his executive action on immigration. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP vows to fight Obama’s amnesty early next year

House Republicans emerged from a closed-door meeting Tuesday to say they are leaning toward funding the government now, but setting up a fight early next year over President Obama's temporary amnesty.

December 2, 2014
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testifies on "the Impact of Presidential Amnesty on Border Security" in front of the House Committee on Homeland Security on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, December 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

DHS says it still can’t measure border security

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his department still doesn't have a firm yardstick for determining whether the border is secure, sparking concern from Republicans who said that's a fatal flaw as the administration pushes ahead with its temporary amnesty for illegal immigrants.

December 2, 2014
The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The agency has been under fire for what critics say are politically motivated attacks against conservative organizations. (Associated Press)

IRS inspector general to release files on privacy probe

The IRS inspector general has amassed 2,500 documents detailing its own investigations into whether the tax agency gave the White House private taxpayer information, and the Obama administration agreed this week to release the documents in what an advocacy group called a major win for transparency.

November 25, 2014
Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Most immigrant kids lack lawyers, but those who have them get to stay: Study

Having a lawyer is the key to illegal immigrant children being able to stay in the U.S. — but fewer of them are appearing in court with lawyers, thanks to the recent surge of unaccompanied minors that has overwhelmed the system, according to new numbers released Tuesday by the Transactional Records Clearing House.

November 25, 2014
The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington is seen here on March 22, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Prisoners get millions in bogus tax refunds

Prisoners continue to claim bogus tax refunds, to a tune of more than $1 billion in 2012, and the IRS has yet to take enough steps to combat it, the agency's inspector general reported Tuesday.

November 25, 2014
President Obama's amnesty policy is drawing near-unanimous approval from Hispanics, presenting a problem for Republicans hoping to draw away votes in 2016. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama’s amnesty gets 90 percent approval from Hispanics

President Obama's move to grant nearly 5 million illegal immigrants amnesty from deportation has united Hispanic voters in an unprecedented fashion, leaving them firmly behind the White House and Democrats and adamant about opposing Republicans' plans to rescind the new policy, a leading pollster said Monday.

November 24, 2014
Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, is among a growing number of GOP figures calling for President Obama to take a tougher approach to the Ebola crisis, including travel restrictions for West African countries ravaged by the disease. (Associated Press)

John Boehner reappoints Trey Gowdy to lead Benghazi probe

Saying there are still "far too many questions" unanswered, House Speaker John A. Boehner reappointed Rep. Trey Gowdy Monday to lead his chamber's inquiry into the Benghazi terrorist attack just a few days after a House committee cleared the CIA of most wrongdoing, in a move that signaled the GOP is not satisfied with those conclusions.

November 24, 2014
President Obama drew a number of lines in his executive order, slicing and dicing the illegal immigrant community. To qualify for the new deferred action program, someone has to have been in the U.S. for at least five years and have either a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident child. (Associated Press)

Obama amnesty leaves most illegal immigrants still in fear of deportation

The White House says President Obama's new executive action on immigration cleared nearly 5 million illegal immigrants from any danger of deportation, but that still leaves more than half the population currently in the U.S. illegally in at least some fear of being kicked out.

November 23, 2014
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

CIA acted properly in Benghazi but slow to spot terrorism: Bipartisan report

The House intelligence committee cleared the CIA of wrongdoing in the run-up to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack and its actions during the assault, but said in a newly declassified report Friday that the way the agency wrote the controversial talking points afterwards was "flawed."

November 21, 2014
FILE - In this March 10, 2010 file photo, Leroy Watson holds a sign in support of hundreds of young people participating in a youth immigration rally in Chicago. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the Chicago area next Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 to detail his expansive executive action aimed at keeping roughly 5 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally from deportation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)

Justice Dept. releases legal backing for Obama immigration moves

The Justice Department said President Obama's new executive action granting amnesty from deportation to illegal immigrant parents is legal because he limited it to those whose children could eventually petition for them to stay anyway.

November 21, 2014