Summary: In a matter of weeks, with a new Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Congress will go from trying to put illegal aliens on a path to citizenship to debating whether children born to parents who are in the country illegally should continue to enjoy automatic U.S. citizenship. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on December 26, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that U.S. agencies were looking into whether al-Qaida extremists in Yemen directed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and provided him with the explosives used in the failed bombing of Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit.
Summary: By a vote of 216-198, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the so-called Dream Act — legislation that would give hundreds of thousands of foreign-born youth brought into the country illegally a path to legal status. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on December 9, 2009, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.