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National Edition News cover for December 3, 2014 - Syria refugees go hungry as wealthy nations fail to deliver millions in promised aid: A Syrian refugee woman and her son peel potatoes outside their tent, at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour near the border with Syria, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Syrian refugees in Lebanon reacted with panic Tuesday to news that the U.N. was suspending aid to 1.7 million refugees due to lack of funds a decision officials said threatens to starve thousands of families and add pressure on already strained hosting countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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During an intense grilling session on Capitol Hill, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson disagreed with President Obama's 2010 assertion that amnesty would lead to a new surge in illegal border crossings from Mexico. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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House Speaker John A. Boehner said President Obama's temporary amnesty for illegal immigrants is "a serious breach of our Constitution. It's a serious threat to our system of government." (Associated Press)
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Lebanon currently hosts over 1.1 million refugees of the Syrian civil war, which equates to about a quarter of all people living within the country. Cutbacks in aid by the U.N., partly due to donor nations not coming through with promised funds, threatens to starve many such refugees. (associated press)
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Cut off: Syrian refugees in Lebanon panicked at news the U.N. was suspending aid to 1.7 million refugees due to lack of funds, a decision officials say threatens to starve thousands of families and add pressure on hosting countries. (associated press)
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Winning immigration at the grassroots: Defeating amnesty and restoring common sense - Special Report cover (12/3/2014)
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Refugees on the transport Gen. W.C. Langfitt are seen as it docked in New York, July 12, 1955. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, speaks with reporters following a closed-door policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. From left behind McConnell are Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Republican Policy Committee chairman, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., Senate Republican Conference chairman, and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican, has sponsored a bill to close the door to Nazi war criminals receiving Social Security benefits. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) ** FILE **
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Louisiana's Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican challenger Rep. Bill Cassidy met Monday in a debate before Saturday's runoff election. (Associated Press)
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Students listen as the Rev. Jesse Jackson gives a speech at an assembly Monday, Dec. 1, 2014, at the Technology Access Foundation Academy in Kent, Wash. Jackson spoke at length about a grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, for the Aug. 9, 2014 fatal shooting of black 18-year-old Michael Brown. Jackson was in the Seattle area to urge more hiring of minorities by high tech companies such as Amazon and Microsoft. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Miami Dolphins' Matt Moore (8) tries to evade Houston Texans' Trevardo Williams (54)during the second half of a preseason NFL football game Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this photo taken Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, Blue Bridge Benefits LLC agent Patricia Sarabia helps customers interested in Obama Care at a kiosk at Compare Foods in Winston-Salem, N.C. Such atypical approaches to selling health insurance policies are playing out across the country since the second round of open enrollment under the federal Affordable Care Act opened in mid-November. Insurance companies and some states are focusing heavily on signing up eligible Hispanics, a group that accounts for a large share of the nation's uninsured but largely avoided applying for coverage during the first full year the health care reform law was in effect. Hispanics accounted for just 11 percent of those who enrolled in the private policies sold during the initial sign-up period, which ended in March. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., participate in a Senate race debate on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Republican Senate candidate Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., (left) is challenging incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.
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A man makes a call on a mobile phone as he passes past a World AIDS Day banners on the perimeter of an office building in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. About 2 million HIV-infected people are on government supplied ARV's with stigma related to the disease being a major issue according to the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) who fought for the government funded drugs. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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Florida civil rights activists are calling on Duval GOP Secretary Kim Crenier to resign after she tweeted Monday night that officials should blast fire hoses at "thugs" in Ferguson, Missouri. (WJAX-TV)
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Protesters hang a rainbow banner from the foot bridge near the U.S. Embassy to demand justice for the Oct. 11, 2014 killing of Filipino transgender Jennifer Laude at the former U.S. naval base of Subic northwest of Manila, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. U.S. marine PFC Joseph Scott Pemberton was tagged as the suspect in the killing which the protesters termed as a "hate crime" against LGBT (Lesbians Gays Bisexual and Transgender) Filipinos. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A White House official said Sunday night that President Obama will hold three meetings Monday focusing on police tactics in minority communities as protests persist over a grand jury's refusal to indict a white police officer for the shooting death of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. (Associated Press)
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National Republican Senatorial Committee is hosting a serious fundraiser for Rep. Bill Cassidy and his fight to best Sen. Mary Landrieu in the U.S. Senate runoff in Louisiana on Saturday. (Associated Press)
