Rep. Mike McCaul

President Trump’s greatest challenge at the Department of Homeland Security is getting rid of Obama-era people, thinking and policies. Nominating Rep. Mike McCaul as Secretary of Homeland Security would be tantamount to appointing an Obama holdover to run DHS.

Rep. Michael McCaul said Monday that the United States intelligence community has obtained specific evidence indicating that ISIS is targeting President Barack Obama’s Syrian refugee plan.

Something is bizarrely wrong in our government as run by President Obama and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman GOP Rep. Mike McCaul. Returning American veterans, citizens who oppose abortion and voters who reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority can be named as terrorists, but the words Islamic, Islamist, Muslim, jihadi cannot be used in a program to “counter violent extremism.” We urge CHQ readers to call Mike McCaul, Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Whip Steve Scalise and tell them you oppose H.R. 2899, McCaul’s bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize an Office for Countering Violent Extremism.

“The problem is the Amer. people reject it,” Levin said. “Once again, they go through these motions as Boehner did a few weeks ago. They’re really going to fight Obama on this issue while at the same time he has Rep. Mike McCaul coming up with the tactics for the past 6 or 7 bills.”

Radio host Laura Ingraham lit into an immigration proposal from House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), saying it would actually weaken border security.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Homeland Security Comm., accused the Obama administration of “turning a blind eye” to the growing crisis along the SW border, demanding that Obama send in the Nat'l Guard without delay. 

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Comm. is calling for the repeal of limits on guns on military bases. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said lawmakers should lift limits on senior officers' ability to carry weapons on military bases. 

Bob Goodlatte and Cantor are considering legal status for immigrants and their kids living here illegally while Reps. Raul Labrador and Ted Poe are working on a plan to create a visa program admitting more lower-skilled workers.

House Intelligence Comm. chairman Rep. McCaul (R-TX) says Obama is ducking the NSA spying program debate and is working to save it.

Repub. McCaul floated possible Napolitano replacements, saying they must focus on the border.

House Republicans will discuss immigration reform in a conference on Wednesday, July 10. Call your Congressman’s office (Capitol switchboard is 1-866-220-0044) and tell them to OPPOSE bringing S. 744, the Obama – Rubio immigration amnesty bill, to the House floor. Tell them Representative Mike McCaul was right; you want border security, not amnesty for illegal aliens.