Hundreds or possibly thousands of people from across the country marched, sweated and called for lawmakers to end the push for “amnesty” on Capitol Hill Monday.

Organized by the Black American Leadership Alliance, The Daily Caller’s Political Reporter Caroline May covered the action in scorching heat from Freedom Plaza to Capitol Hill, where the protesters rallied in a demonstration against current immigration reform attempts.

“There are three kinds of people who support this amnesty,” Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King said before the march. “There are those people who are elitists, who want the cheap laborers to clean their houses and mow their lawn. Another are political power brokers that want the power that comes from it, and the third are employers of elitists.”

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Updated:  A story by Patrick Howley on The Daily Caller, makes clear that President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) funded racial protest against George Zimmerman.  Specifically, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was deployed to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to provide assistance for anti-George Zimmerman protests, including a rally headlined by activist Al Sharpton, according to newly released documents.

The Community Relations Service (CRS), a unit of DOJ, reported expenses related to its deployment in Sanford to help manage protests between March and April 2012, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
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Senator Jim Inhofe

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services (SASC) Committee, today issued the following statement responding to recent events in Egypt and encouraging the interim government to fast-track the necessary presidential and parliamentary elections:

“Over the last year, Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have betrayed and disappointed millions of Egyptians who yearn for a democratic and inclusive government.  As I predicted from the onset, the Morsi administration’s time in office has been marred by the systematic repression of religious minorities, economic collapse, and a failure to provide basic services to its people.  These failures have caused the Egyptian people to rise up and declare their government unfit to lead.
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The LA Times is reporting that a high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.

Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife and a second bodyguard were wounded.
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