Immigration
Immigration
Immigrants, immigration, DACA, ... (see also: TravelBan).
Wednesday 15 May 2019
...following months of discussions between senior adviser Jared Kushner and dozens of conservative groups
2018 was the fourth consecutive year of birth declines
Sunday 31 March 2019
...despite warnings that the move would inflict immediate economic damage on American consumers and businesses while doing little to stem a tide of migrants
...saying on Sunday that it would take “something dramatic” to prevent Mr. Trump from carrying out that plan.
Saturday 30 March 2019
Friday 29 March 2019
Thursday 28 March 2019
Tuesday 26 March 2019
Wednesday 20 March 2019
That database, part of something called Operation Secure Line, listed 59 advocates and journalists tied to the migrant caravan
Tuesday 19 March 2019
The 5-4 majority ruled that the government can detain non-citizens indefinitely, even years after they went to jail.
The court confirms ICE can bar immigrants from bond based on years-old crimes. Liberal justices worry detainees’ basic rights are under attack.
Sunday 17 March 2019
Saturday 16 March 2019
Thursday 14 March 2019
Hoping to stave off an embarrassing rebuke of President Donald Trump, Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ted Cruz of Texas and Ben Sasse of Nebraska decided to show up virtually unannounced to make a last-ditch effort Wednesday night to strike a bargain
...delivering a bipartisan rebuke to what lawmakers in both parties deemed executive overreach
...insisting that members of Congress focus on changing the law instead of asking DHS to change how it is enforced.
Wednesday 13 March 2019
Monday 11 March 2019
Saturday 9 March 2019
Friday 8 March 2019
Thursday 7 March 2019
One post discovered by BuzzFeed News described the Muslim congresswoman as a “trojan horse” who came to the US because of a “refugee outbreak.”
Wednesday 27 February 2019
The records, which involve children who had entered the country alone or had been separated from their parents, detailed allegations that adult staff members had harassed and assaulted children, including fondling and kissing minors, watching them as they showered, and raping them.
Monday 25 February 2019
Sunday 24 February 2019
Tuesday 19 February 2019
Monday 18 February 2019
A 45-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico died in Border Patrol custody Monday after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas
Thursday 14 February 2019
Trump made the comments on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" in November 2014 when asked about executive actions by then-President Barack Obama that would halt deportations for the undocumented parents of children born in the United States.
Others have pointed out that declaring a random emergency and overriding the legislature whenever it’s convenient is a hallmark of dictatorships around the world.
Wednesday 13 February 2019
...he was "not happy" with the tentative deal reached by congressional negotiators late Monday night that falls far short of his original demands.
Tuesday 12 February 2019
Monday 11 February 2019
Saturday 9 February 2019
Friday 8 February 2019
Soon after Trump broke ground at Bedminster in 2002 with a golden shovel, this village emerged as a wellspring of low-paid labor for the private club
Tuesday 5 February 2019
...in a move that challenges President Trump’s description of a security crisis.
Monday 4 February 2019
Nielsen will appear before the House Homeland Security Committee on March
Sunday 3 February 2019
Thursday 31 January 2019
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Trump will often float policy proposals with little strategy for how to implement them, then surrender when the proposals flounder.
Sunday 27 January 2019
That is not true.
That is not what the state has said.
Saturday 26 January 2019
Kushner appears to have few allies, occupying what people close to him describe as a no-win position.
The firings show Trump’s business was relying on undocumented workers even as the president demanded a border wall to keep out such immigrants.
Friday 25 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 35
...but said it would take in some of the asylum seekers anyway.
Experts say Trump’s claims are ‘divorced from reality.’
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 33
The new proof came in the form of a late 2017 draft memo outlining “policy options” for responding to undocumented immigration. Those options included a plan to “Separate Family Units” and another plan to “Increase Prosecution of Family Unit Parents”
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 32
...leaving protections for nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children in place for at least the next several months.
Saturday 19 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 29
In casting the proposal as a compromise, Mr. Trump sought to shift pressure to Democrats to end the government shutdown.
The group dug under a steel barrier in seven spots about 10 miles east of a border crossing in San Luis and made no effort to elude immigration agents.
Friday 18 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 28
A group of 376, including nearly 200 minors, was arrested.
Trump revived an old and still unproved rumor that hints that Islamic migrants were entering the United States through Mexico and could pose a terrorism threat.
Thursday 17 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 27
"What we've done thus far is a review of the documents. And the review of the documents thus far have revealed all the policies and procedures were followed"
...and the separations began months before the policy was announced
...people overstaying their visas made up about 62 percent of new undocumented immigrants in the country, compared with 38 percent who crossed the border outside designated ports of entry.
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 26
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 25
When it became clear that the men wouldn’t be arrested and deported, as was apparently the plan, one of Loomer’s associates groaned and shouted “Catch and release!” at them.
Sunday 13 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 23
Friday 11 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 21
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 19
The young speechwriter has a signature style: blood, gore, and a penchant for provoking rather than persuading the president’s adversaries.
...his upcoming trip to the border won’t “change a damn thing” and that it’s really just a photo opportunity.
Monday 7 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 17
...they can assess “whether the persons inside the vehicle avoid looking at the agent,” or conversely, “whether the persons inside the vehicle are paying undue attention to the agent’s presence.” And if those don’t apply, they can simply determine that the car is in an area nearby the border and pull it over on that basis alone.
Saturday 5 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 15
“How do we get him to continue to talk about immigration?”
Wednesday 2 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 12
...here’s a quick overview for readers who might have missed — or tried to ignore — the tweets between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 11
...shuttering many of them and allowing several hundred undocumented immigrants to dodge deportation orders each day the shutdown continues.
Sunday 30 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 9
She told the Times that managers at the club had taken steps to help her evade detection as an undocumented worker.
US authorities leave families to fend for themselves, a practice local bishop calls ‘inhumane and unconscionable’
Saturday 29 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 8
A child had not died in Border Patrol’s custody for a decade until the Trump Administration
...prosecutors in New Jersey [...] have obtained evidence that supervisors at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster may have committed federal immigration crimes and are currently working with the FBI
Friday 28 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 7
Garrido said the latest caravan will likely pick up even more people from El Salvador and Guatemala as it heads toward Mexico.
Nielsen is visiting the Texas border city of El Paso Friday where an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy was detained with his father before dying in government custody.
Thursday 27 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 6
That raises the total number of people released this week to more than 1,000
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 5
As of Tuesday, Border Patrol agents have started conducting secondary medical checks on all children in CBP custod
Tuesday 25 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 4
For the third day in a row, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials released hundreds of migrant asylum-seekers at a park near a bus station in downtown El Paso.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered medical checks on every child in its custody Tuesday after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died
Sunday 23 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 2
Friday 21 December 2018
Unfortunately, Kavanaugh sees things differently. The newest justice appears to have suspended his judgment and reading skills to run interference for the Trump administration
Thursday 20 December 2018
The DHS boss couldn’t even say how many people have died in her department’s custody.
Tuesday 18 December 2018
Monday 17 December 2018
Sunday 16 December 2018
"At stake is the question of whether or not the United States remains a sovereign country."
MILLER: We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration--
Thursday 13 December 2018
...according to a statement from CBP, she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Tuesday 11 December 2018
Monday 10 December 2018
The protesters were calling for an end to detaining and deporting immigrants and showing support for migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum seekers.
Saturday 8 December 2018
His verdict on the caravan, which he delivered in a 17-minute video at the time, broke sharply with Trump-aligned orthodoxy on the issue.
Thursday 6 December 2018
At the president’s New Jersey golf course, an undocumented immigrant has worked as a maid since 2013. She said she never imagined she “would see such important people close up.”
The fight comes as the shutdown deadline approaches.
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Monday 3 December 2018
...risking almost certain detention by U.S. authorities but hoping the illegal entry will allow them to apply for asylum.
Monday 26 November 2018
"Is it OK to use tear gas on children?" a reporter asked.
The President responded, "We didn't. We don't use it on children."
...tear gas, commonly known as CS gas — an aerosol compound considered a chemical weapon that has been outlawed on the battlefield by nearly every nation on Earth, including the United States.
But as a riot control agent, 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile is legal to use by both police and federal authorities in the United States and many other countries.
The border crisis is real. But it’s not the crisis Trump thinks it is.
The port of entry at San Ysidro, north of Tijuana and south of San Diego, had been closed since about 11:30 a.m. Sunday but was reopened by 6 p.m. local time
Sunday 25 November 2018
Trump separated more than 2,000 families at the southern U.S. border. Obama did not.
Mexico's interior ministry said all those who were identified as having tried to cross would be deported immediately.
As crowds amassed at San Ysidro, around 500 migrants overwhelmed federal and local Mexican police blockades and rushed toward the border
Saturday 24 November 2018
...a drastic overhaul of current policy that President Trump suggested Saturday night was as good as a done deal.
"There is no agreement of any kind between the future federal government of Mexico and the United States of America"
"The future government does not consider in its plans that Mexico assumes the status of 'safe third country' for the attention of Central American migrants"
...requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts
Friday 23 November 2018
The spokesman, Mark Weber, said the additional requirements put in place by the Trump administration to "reduce risk and increase safety" for immigrant children contributed to the high number.
...the Justice Department turned over documents suggesting that its officials have considered the possibility of census data being shared with law enforcement. That would be lawless. But even raising the possibility will fan fears that President Trump’s federal government cannot be trusted to keep individual responses confidential.
...where security measures held up long lines of Mexicans headed to Thanksgiving gatherings on the other side of the frontier.
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Tijuana officials prepared Wednesday for the caravan to double to more than 6,000 people
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Several Jeff Sessions loyalists have either quit or are eyeing the exit as they wait to see who will succeed their former boss.
Monday 19 November 2018
The military is leaving the southern border, and the caravan hasn’t even arrived yet.
The 5,800 troops who were rushed to the southwest border amid President Donald Trump’s pre-election warnings about a refugee caravan will start coming home as early as this week — just as some of those migrants are beginning to arrive.
Sunday 18 November 2018
The group from El Salvador was at least the fourth caravan to set off since a first, large-scale mobilization in neighboring Honduras
Saturday 17 November 2018
“If I was ever going to do a shutdown over border security — when you look at the caravan, when you look at the mess, when you look at the people coming in,” the president said. “. . . This would be a very good time to do a shutdown.”
Friday 16 November 2018
Friday 9 November 2018
The move — which will almost certainly face legal opposition — aims to funnel asylum seekers toward ports of entry.
Thursday 8 November 2018
The administration issued an interim final rule that will bar certain migrants caught crossing the border between ports of entry.
Monday 5 November 2018
But photos taken Monday of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents training weeks before a potential arrival of a caravan of Central Americans reveal a southern border already militarized — even before the arrival of thousands of active-duty soldiers.
Saturday 3 November 2018
The military is barred by law from taking on domestic law enforcement responsibilities.
Friday 2 November 2018
“There is no practical or tactical reason for this to happen”
Thursday 1 November 2018
In a sharply worded speech Thursday, the president announced two new immigration policies that are expected to be met with lawsuits in federal court.
“The support that we provide to the secretary for homeland security is practical support based on the request from the commissioner of customs and border police, so we don’t do stunts in this department”
Wednesday 31 October 2018
"Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship," the president said.
...in response to caravans of Central American migrants making their way northward, doubling the figure Pentagon officials have announced would be operating there.
Trump’s vows to end birthright citizenship and dispatch a growing number of troops to the border have scrambled the final days of the midterm campaign for both parties
Trump’s promised executive order would be challenged in the courts and likely enjoined until the case was resolved. The president’s authority to send troops to the border is not in question, although he’s wrong to imply that active-duty military forces would be detaining or capturing people attempting to cross into the United States.
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Holding guns and wearing face masks, officers marched over one of the busiest international crossings. Advocates say it’s intimidation, not preparation for unarmed poor people.
...saying such a move would be "unconstitutional."
Trump is vowing to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to U.S. citizenship for children born in the United States to noncitizens
Monday 29 October 2018
...to brace for the arrival of Central American migrants President Trump is calling “an invasion.”
Thursday 25 October 2018
Monday 22 October 2018
Sunday 21 October 2018
Saturday 20 October 2018
Thursday 18 October 2018
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Trump downplayed his relationship with Michael Cohen, suggested separating kids from their parents at the border hadn’t been that big a deal, and doubled down on the idea that the Saudis may escape blame for Khashoggi.
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Friday 12 October 2018
Under a 90-day pilot program, parents seeking asylum would be given a “binary choice” to be detained with their children [...] or to send their children to a shelter where they can be released to a sponsor.
The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States
Wednesday 10 October 2018
The case’s outcome could hinge on the two justices who Trump has appointed to the court: conservatives Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.
Sunday 30 September 2018
The national shame that is America’s treatment of undocumented children continues to devolve into a literal nightmare.
Wednesday 26 September 2018
...essentially a protest against a handful of cities that sought to permit undocumented immigrants to vote in certain local elections
Tuesday 25 September 2018
They recommended “Option 3” — prosecuting every adult who crossed the border illegally, including those who came with their children — because it would “have the greatest impact on current flows.”
Friday 21 September 2018
A planned cut in the number of refugees the U.S. admits is the latest win for hard-liner Stephen Miller, who keeps beating the Trump admin’s pragmatists.
Thursday 20 September 2018
Saturday 15 September 2018
Thursday 13 September 2018
In a huge reversal, the Trump administration is giving families another chance to claim asylum — and even some parents who’ve already been deported might be eligible.
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Population levels at federally contracted shelters for migrant children have quietly shot up more than fivefold since last summer [...] reaching a total of 12,800 this month. There were 2,400 such children in custody in May 2017.
The Trump administration this summer quietly redirected $200 million from all over the Department of Homeland Security to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, despite repeated congressional warnings of ICE's "lack of fiscal discipline" and "unsustainable" spending.
Under the program, Mexico would be responsible for detaining and providing judicial review of immigrants before deporting them.
Tuesday 11 September 2018
The slash in funding comes as the East Cost braces for Hurricane Florence, which threatens to wreak havoc within days, with two other tropical systems on the horizon.
Saturday 8 September 2018
But even if they lost only a few acres of land to the 30-foot wall, the barrier would sever the property in half and make it difficult for anyone to access the riverfront.
Friday 7 September 2018
Thursday 6 September 2018
...a move that could lead to the rapid expansion of detention facilities and more time in custody for children.
Sunday 2 September 2018
The McAllen center is notorious for putting detainees in cage-like rooms and, during the recent “zero tolerance” period, for separating parents from their children. Immigrants know it as “the icebox” and “the dog pound.”
Thursday 30 August 2018
...decades later, it is nearly impossible to distinguish between the relatively small number of fraudulent birth certificates and the swell of legal ones.
Wednesday 29 August 2018
The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown.
The 33-year-old policy adviser has made unprecedented power grabs as he seeks to slash immigration to America.
Monday 27 August 2018
Mariee did not die in ICE confinement. [...] But Mariee did ultimately die from an infection that was first detected at Dilley, which has a history of complaints of inadequate medical care for children.
The arrival of huge numbers of migrants from the Middle East three years ago has fueled support for far-right groups such as PEGIDA and the Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the main opposition party in parliament.
Thursday 23 August 2018
Warren said, “Is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are.”
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Iowa law enforcement officers have charged a man believed to be in the country illegally with first-degree murder in the case of Mollie Tibbetts
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Brimelow, 70, [...] has become a zealous promoter of white-identity politics on Vdare.com, the anti-immigration website that he founded in 1999.
Rather than focusing on what is perhaps the most significant news of Trump's presidency so far, the right-leaning network's hosts discussed the news that police charged an undocumented immigrant with murder in the death of Mollie Tibbetts.
Monday 20 August 2018
The Pentagon is concerned that not providing safe haven to more of the Iraqis, many of whom interpreted and did other key tasks for U.S. forces, will harm national security by dissuading locals from cooperating with the United States in Iraq and other conflict zones
Monday 13 August 2018
I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.
Thursday 9 August 2018
...after learning that the Trump administration started to remove a woman and her daughter while a court hearing appealing their deportations was underway.
...the Trump administration had put a mother and a daughter who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit on a flight to Central America.
Tuesday 7 August 2018
The White House is planning to add new restrictions to green card and citizenship applications for a wide range of legal immigrants who have used public services in their time in the United States
What’s the most worrisome foreign intrusion into the United States—unauthorized immigrants, Chinese imports, or interference in our democracy?
For Trump, it’s immigrants and imports. He doesn’t care much about the third.
Saturday 4 August 2018
...setting a 20-day deadline for the administration to do so.
Friday 3 August 2018
“The reality is that for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanently orphaned child,” [...] “And that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration.”
A federal judge called the Trump administration's slowness to track down migrant parents it had separated from their children and then deported "unacceptable," saying the responsibility is "100%" on the government.
Alejandra Juarez forced to leave husband and daughters in Florida after exhausting all options to stop her deportation
The Trump administration agreed to reunite all the parents it deported without their children — it just wants non-profits and other organizations to do the leg work.
Justice Department lawyers wrote in a court filing Thursday that the ACLU should use its “considerable resources,” its network of advocacy groups, and information from the government to locate parents removed to foreign countries.
Wednesday 1 August 2018
“The child died following her stay at an ICE Detention Center, as a result of possible negligent care and a respiratory illness she contracted from one of the other children.”
Tuesday 31 July 2018
Not only did the government not have a plan to reunite the families, though, it was apparently told that these separations were likely to traumatize the children.
Monday 30 July 2018
Sunday 29 July 2018
Saturday 28 July 2018
...his daughter had been abused by one of the boys at the facility, as had several other girls.
Friday 27 July 2018
"The government is at fault for losing several hundred parents in the process and that's where we go next," the judge said.
Thursday 26 July 2018
...parents separated from their children at the border said they were pressured by immigration officials to sign forms waiving their reunification rights in a “coercive and misleading manner.”
Tuesday 24 July 2018
House GOP leaders are reneging on a vow to hold an immigration vote before the August recess
Monday 23 July 2018
“Good morning. I’m actually here to speak directly to Donald Trump”
Saturday 21 July 2018
“We say to Trump, instead of showing us your strength by tearing children from their families, where was your strength in standing up to Putin and Russia for undermining American democracy”
Thursday 19 July 2018
...the Trump administration told them there had been no plan to reunite the children prior to the judicial order by Judge Sabraw last month.
...the number of babies under 1 summoned to immigration court recently increased almost 200 percent, from 24 in fiscal year 2017 to 70 so far in fiscal year 2018
Friday 13 July 2018
Jennifer Arangio, a senior director in the NSC division that deals with international organizations, was let go Thursday
Arangio's just-the-facts approach put her at odds with Miller, a top Trump aide who favors restricting immigration
Wednesday 11 July 2018
...this policy memo represents another piece of a well-organized and systematic effort by the current administration to make the process of legal immigration to the United States as difficult as possible for both immigrants and the employers who sponsor them.
Tuesday 10 July 2018
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Tuesday to abide by an order to reunite dozens of children with their parents by the end of the day
“If you’re not an American citizen, you should not be wearing that shirt,”
"1 child cannot be reunified at this time because the parent’s location has been unknown for more than a year. Defendants are unable to conclusively determine whether the parent is a class member, and records show the parent and child might be U.S. citizens."
“I want Miss. I want Miss,” Darly cried, calling for the social worker at the shelter where she had been living since mother and daughter were separated by federal agents
Monday 9 July 2018
Roughly half of the children under 5 years old who were separated from their parents at the border will be back with their moms and dads by a court-imposed deadline Tuesday
Sunday 8 July 2018
...his court appearance before a Phoenix immigration judge, who could hardly contain his unease with the situation during the portion of the hearing where he asks immigrant defendants whether they understand the proceedings.
The Louisville encounter was the second time in two weeks that McConnell's private life has been disrupted by a spontaneous protest
Saturday 7 July 2018
But weeks later, the North Korean nuclear threat still very much exists, and the problem of children separated from their parents has worsened
A judge insisted on Friday the Trump administration stick to a deadline to reunite children separated from their parents at the border
Friday 6 July 2018
...if the Department of Homeland Security begins programs to deport more than 58,000 Haitians..., more than 262,000 Salvadorans..., and 86,000 Hondurans
Immigration was already poised to be a key issue in this year's midterm elections, but ICE has been pushed to the center of that debate
...the latest signal that the government is struggling to bring families back together after separating thousands as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year.
Thursday 5 July 2018
Wednesday 4 July 2018
ICE appears to be defying a court order to reunite parents and separated children as soon as possible, by setting bond amounts impossibly high.
Tuesday 3 July 2018
The nativity statues at the Christ Church Cathedral are enclosed in a chain link fence lined with barbed wire. It's meant to resemble an immigration detention center.
Monday 2 July 2018
The ruling comes in a case challenging the administration's policy of detaining people even after they have passed a credible fear interview and await a hearing on their asylum claim.
Denham said Southwest Key requested two weeks notice before Denham was allowed to tour the building, but would not explain why it needed that kind of time to prepare.
Eloy is one of the six detention centers in Arizona operated by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the private company that manages most of the prisons under subcontract in the United States.
With a gun tucked into the waistband of his pants, Shane Ryan Sealy shouted “womp womp” and carried a sign that said “ICE ICE baby” as he walked in front of protesters
Saturday 30 June 2018
Thursday 28 June 2018
Many wore foil blankets similar to those given to migrants housed at U.S. detention facilities.
Schwab said it was "absolutely" an intimidation technique.
“We were representing a 3-year-old in court recently who had been separated from the parents. And the child — in the middle of the hearing — started climbing up on the table”
Wednesday 27 June 2018
The bill failed on a vote of 301 to 121 despite a last-minute tweet — in all-capital letters — of support from Trump
Tuesday 26 June 2018
...requiring that nearly all children younger than 5 be returned to their parents within 14 days and that older children be returned within 30 days.
Chao and McConnell, who are married, were about to climb into a black SUV when they were approached by a small group of young men at Georgetown University. One started repeating, “Why are you separating families?”
But the decision’s most important takeaway is the one articulated between the lines of a short concurrence by Justice Anthony Kennedy: When a real threat to the American constitutional order comes — when a president decides to act contrary to fundamental constitutional values — we cannot count on the courts to save us.
Trump, however, is pressing forward, questioning why we even have immigration judges and wondering about the need for due process.
Monday 25 June 2018
The president doesn’t think due-process protections should apply to undocumented immigrants.
The Constitution could get in the way of Trump's plans to cut legal corners
Under the plan, however, those children will keep waiting in custody, with reunifications only happening once the parents' deportation proceedings are completed.
Sunday 24 June 2018
Saturday 23 June 2018
Friday 22 June 2018
The implicit and uncomfortable point was clear ... : You either support indefinite family separation at the border or you support the murder and reckless manslaughter of U.S. citizens by drunk, sadistic illegal aliens.
The figure would mean undocumented immigrants, who account for roughly 3 percent of the population, would have to commit about one quarter of the nation's homicides.
The bogus figure appears to have originated in a May 2006 post by Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa complaining about the “Day Without An Immigrant” campaign
With Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facilities already at or near capacity, the order requires the Secretary of Defense to make “any existing facilities available for the housing and care of alien families” and to ”construct such facilities if necessary.”
The so-called "compromise" legislation -- constructed by House Speaker Paul Ryan to make moderates and conservative happy -- was already on life support before Trump came in and pulled the plug.
Thursday 21 June 2018
Sinclair Broadcasting Group is the largest owner of local television news stations in the United States.
[Denis Hernández, the girl's father]... said he was told on Wednesday that the girl and her mother are in a Texas holding facility together.
Until Trump signed the order on Wednesday, the administration was insisting that it didn’t have a policy of separating families (false), that several laws and court rulings were forcing these separations (false), that Democrats were to blame (false), that only Congress could stop family separations (false) and that an executive order wouldn’t get the job done.
...the House of Representatives is set to vote on two comprehensive immigration bills — the conservative Goodlatte bill and a more moderate GOP bill
Once again this week, President Donald Trump appeared to throw a wrench into the immigration debate on Capitol Hill
Wednesday 20 June 2018
But for the children already separated from their parents after crossing the border, the Department of Health and Human Services was unclear Wednesday night on how or whether they would be reunited with their families, despite Trump's executive order.
...after a public uproar over the impact of his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
It’s about how to live in a world where these sorts of action-movie entertainments seem, increasingly, to influence politics and policy, until the two swallow each other.
Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in a new influx of young children requiring government care.
But a top aide said Trump "doesn't want to look weak" by backing down.
Lewandowski was roundly and swiftly criticized. Many called his response heartless and said it reflected the lack of empathy inherent in the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy
The cost of holding migrant children who have been separated from their parents in newly created "tent cities" is $775 per person per night, ... far higher than the cost of keeping children with their parents in detention centers or holding them in more permanent buildings.
Tuesday 19 June 2018
Protesters crashed her meal, yelling “shame!” and “If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace!” while Nielsen appeared to look down at her phone before eventually exiting the restaurant.
A previously inconspicuous blog post on Microsoft’s corporate Web site ... has ignited workplace frustrations at Microsoft over the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies. T
“When you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away”
Like Mitchell, Tomi Lahren attempted to shift the onus for the separations back onto the true villains, the desperate asylum seekers.
The governors of Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island asserted their opposition by declaring that they will withhold or recall troops from the United States’ border with Mexico
While some officials have advocated the policy as being necessary to deter illegal immigration, others have shied away from even describing it as a policy.
“Are we really going to sit here, 70 members of the Congress of the United States of America, in 2018, and have a hearing . . . on Hillary Clinton’s emails?”
Border Patrol officers have apparently been telling parents that they’re just taking their kids away to bathe, only for the parents to realize hours later the kids are never coming back. This is the exact same thing concentration camp guards told people before being taken to gas chambers to stop them from panicking
“It’s a real exaggeration. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country.”
At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans, I and other children were not stripped from our parents.
In the letter, the group of churchgoers, including clergy and church leadership, accuse Sessions of child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of the doctrine of the United Methodist Church.
Monday 18 June 2018
...immigration authorities cannot say what procedures exist to reunite children with their parents after the parents' illegal-entry cases have been resolved but their immigration case is still pending.
He faces a felony charge of “super aggravated sexual assault of a child,” which carries a minimum prison sentence of 25 years
But among Republicans, there is majority support for the policy that has resulted in an uptick of children being separated from their families.
Trump remained resistant on Monday..., repeating the false assertion that Democrats were the ones to blame for it, and suggesting that criminals — not parents — were toting juveniles to the United States.
When we were children, my two siblings and I were also taken from our parents. And the problems we’ve experienced since then portend the terrible things that many of these children are bound to suffer.
“These child actors weeping and crying on all the other networks 24/7 right now—do not fall for it, Mr. President. I get very nervous about the president getting his news from TV,” Coulter said.
One teenager told an advocate who visited that she was helping care for a young child she didn’t know because the child’s aunt was somewhere else in the facility. She said she had to show others in her cell how to change the girl’s diaper.
The Texas facility is known as Ursula, though immigrants are reportedly calling it La Perrera - dog kennel in Spanish - in reference to the cages used to hold children and adults
Today, Eric is the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, and he's defending Trump's policy. He agrees that we should be separating mothers and children. I wish I knew what happened.
Sunday 17 June 2018
The reality is that, at the urging of anti-immigration diehard Stephen Miller, Trump put into place a system that his predecessors had rejected as inhumane. His clear-eyed strategy is to use the separated children as pawns to extract concessions from Democrats on an immigration package that would include money for Trump’s border wall and cuts to legal immigration, among other measures.
One of the few remaining staffers from Trump's 2016 campaign, Miller also writes the president's biggest speeches, including Trump's first State of the Union address.
Mrs. Bush, the last Republican first lady, spoke out forcefully against the practice on Sunday in a rare foray into domestic politics, comparing it to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Saturday 16 June 2018
"I then told him something that was natural to say in the moment, but that I immediately regretted. ... I told him not to worry, everything will be alright," Moore said. "I really wish I hadn't said that, because I'm not sure it's true."
"The media will broadcast these images of brutality and chaos and the public will associate them with the Republicans that run the House and the Senate — but most of all with President Trump."
Miller argued that bringing back “zero tolerance” would be a potent tool in a severely limited arsenal of strategies for stopping migrants from flooding across the border.
So why has nothing changed if this policy is so heinous that no one outside of Jeff Sessions wants credit for it? Because it's a way for Trump to get what he wants. He's already tweeted that he's willing to hold literal child hostages to force Democrats to support his immigration demands, like a border wall and an end to immigration policies that allow family reunification.
His comments are the latest example of his asking the public to discount what it sees with its own eyes and instead believe his own self-serving version of reality.
In fact, there is no law that requires families to be separated at the border.
The statement explicitly called out Sessions as a "fellow United Methodist," asking him to reverse the decision to split up families.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigrants within the U.S. who tell immigration officials they’re afraid to return to their countries have the right to request asylum and to be immediately processed.
Friday 15 June 2018
After a daylong, dizzying back-and-forth over Trump’s position, White House spokesman Raj Shah said Trump misunderstood a question on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning when he argued he would not sign a “moderate” immigration proposal scheduled for a vote next week.
The number represents a dramatic uptick from the nearly 1,800 family separations that Reuters reported had happened from October 2016 through February of this year.
These allegations, of course, are absolutely false. There is simply no law or court order that requires the U.S. government to snatch children, including babies and toddlers, from their parents.
Trump on Friday said he would not sign a carefully crafted GOP bill addressing the predicament of Dreamers, news that caught House Republicans by surprise
There is no law that determines children must be taken away from their parents when they cross the border.
Thursday 14 June 2018
"I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves."
Drawing on an American history of cruelty, from the conquest of the Indians to the slave trade to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, activists in this city gathered on Thursday to voice outrage at what they see as the latest affront to American values by the Trump administration
Wednesday 13 June 2018
Ryan told reporters that the “last thing I want to do is bring a bill out of here that I know the president won’t support.”
Tuesday 12 June 2018
The floor votes will effectively stop the effort by moderate Republicans in tandem with Democrats to force a vote on their immigration plans through a so-called discharge petition.
Monday 11 June 2018
Sessions’s ruling vacated a 2016 decision by the Justice Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals that said an abused woman from El Salvador was eligible for asylum.
Saturday 9 June 2018
Texas and six other states are suing the federal government to dismantle the immigration policy, which was put in place by the Obama administration in 2012.
Thursday 7 June 2018
The party is divided over two very different approaches on immigration. Conservatives have been agitating for months for a vote on hard-line immigration
At the same time, frustrated moderate Republicans — many of whom represent the battleground districts that will determine control of the House this November — began working with Democrats last month on a discharge petition to force a vote on the floor.
Tuesday 5 June 2018
The rights office said in a statement that "children should never be detained for reasons related to their own or their parents' migration status. Detention is never in the best interests of the child and always constitutes a child rights violation."
Thursday 31 May 2018
...admitting the intense sobbing as he kicked the parents off their son helped him finally understand how the power of the parent–child connection made two people very nearly inseparable.
Wednesday 30 May 2018
“You are here illegal, you know that,” added the woman. “If you don’t go with us, you go to jail.”
Sunday 27 May 2018
In one of several misleading tweets during the holiday weekend, Trump pushed Democrats to change a “horrible law” that the president said mandated separating children from parents who enter the country illegally. But there is no law specifically requiring the government to take such action
Did the United States really lose track of 1,475 immigrant kids? In short, yes.
Were these 1,475 children separated from their parents at the border? No.
Are children being taken from their parents after they cross the border into the United States? Yes.
California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week — in which a pilot allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, took him to an airport and tried to send him “back to China.”
Saturday 26 May 2018
Wednesday 23 May 2018
To delay a showdown, Republican leaders plan a special meeting on June 7, the deadline for a so-called discharge petition.
Monday 21 May 2018
The White House released a statement Monday headlined, “What you need to know about the violent animals of MS-13.”
Sunday 20 May 2018
“Ma’am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here, and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here”
Friday 18 May 2018
It was a rebuke of Speaker Paul D. Ryan by a key bloc of conservatives over his refusal to schedule an immediate vote on a restrictive immigration bill
Friday 11 May 2018
In other words, that parents would justifiably be terrified about losing their kids is “the big point” — in Kelly’s words — of the policy. Parents considering crossing the border with their children would ... think twice about doing so if being apprehended meant seeing their kids taken away
He said that undocumented immigrants seeking to enter the country “don’t have the skills” to assimilate and called them “overwhelmingly rural people” in comments that sounded derogatory.
The courts and Congress have resisted his demands, and even his own staff keeps telling him no. As a result, the president brings up the issue constantly, in private and public, as if the power of persuasion can change the reality on the ground.
Thursday 10 May 2018
The blowup lasted more than 30 minutes... Trump’s tirade went on so long that many present began fidgeting in their seats and flashing grimaces
Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation’s borders
Monday 7 May 2018
“If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.”
Friday 4 May 2018
Presidents often say things such as we may disagree, but we all love our country.
That’s not what Trump is saying.
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Trump pardoned Arpaio last year after his conviction on a misdemeanor contempt of court charge for ignoring a federal judge’s order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants. Arpaio is now a primary candidate for the Republican nomination to succeed the retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).
Sunday 29 April 2018
More than 150 migrants, part of a caravan that once numbered about 1,200 and headed north in March from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, were prepared to seek asylum from United States immigration officials.
Tuesday 24 April 2018
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday called the government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program “virtually unexplained” and therefore “unlawful.”
The president’s habit of being silent when crime isn’t caused by a minority continued through the weekend
Monday 23 April 2018
Friday 20 April 2018
Or perhaps Trump was using “breeding” in the sense now popular among white supremacists?
Thursday 19 April 2018
Trump’s threat to yank funding also appeared to undercut a statement by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who thanked Brown late Wednesday after his office announced the agreement with federal officials.
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Brown said California will deploy 400 soldiers who will work against drug trafficking and cross-border criminal groups but eschew contact with border-crossing migrants.
Tuesday 17 April 2018
It's a blow to the Trump Justice Department, and came at the hands, ironically of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who sided with the court's liberals in a 5-4 decision.
Friday 13 April 2018
Saturday 7 April 2018
Thursday 5 April 2018
Wednesday 4 April 2018
She said the National Guard troops would be deployed as quickly as possible and gave no indication of how long the mission might last.
Tuesday 3 April 2018
...to confront what it called a growing threat of illegal immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America
Monday 2 April 2018
In a move to speed up deportations, the Justice Department has decided that it will link clearing cases to the performance reviews of federal immigration judges.
Sunday 1 April 2018
In a fiery series of Sunday morning tweets, sent an hour after he wished Americans a “HAPPY EASTER" and minutes before he attended a church service here, Trump vowed, “NO MORE DACA DEAL.”
Thursday 29 March 2018
...noting that his numerous “racial slurs” and “epithets” — both as a candidate and from the White House — had created a “plausible inference” that the decision to end DACA violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration
Monday 26 March 2018
ICE, the federal agency tasked with Trump’s program of mass deportation, uses backend Facebook data to locate and track immigrants that it is working to round up
Friday 23 March 2018
Monday 19 March 2018
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Trump is floating a short-term deal protecting some young immigrants facing deportation in exchange for border wall funding in next week’s government spending bill
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Mr. Brown said last week that Mr. Trump was waging war against the state, and Mr. Trump did nothing on Tuesday to disabuse that notion.
“I told them that the information was wrong, they asked me to deflect, and I didn’t agree with that. Then I took some time and I quit.”
Wednesday 7 March 2018
"California is using every power it has — and some it doesn't — to frustrate federal law enforcement. So you can be sure I'm going to use every power I have to stop them."
Tuesday 6 March 2018
The Justice Department dramatically escalated its war on “sanctuary” jurisdictions Tuesday, alleging in a lawsuit that the state of California has violated the Constitution with laws that are friendly to undocumented immigrants.
Tuesday 27 February 2018
The court did not rule ... that ICE may do so; it's a much more specific ruling that a particular argument the 9th Circuit used to resolve this quickly in Rodriguez's (the prisoner's) favor is complete nonsense, and that the 9C should deal with the core Constitutional issue directly
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said immigrants held by the government and facing deportation are not entitled to a bond hearing even after months or years of detention.
Monday 26 February 2018
The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the administration’s appeal was expected, as no appeals court has yet ruled on the issue.
The Supreme Court’s move will, as a practical matter, temporarily shield the young immigrants who already had signed up for the DACA program from immediate deportation
...the court’s action is likely to lessen the urgency on Capitol Hill over the issue, making it even more probable that Congress will take no action as the legal process plays out.
Friday 23 February 2018
The U.S. is no longer devoted to securing "America's promise as a nation of immigrants."
The federal agency that grants visas and U.S. citizenship now refers to itself as an organization that "administers the nation's lawful immigration system."
Thursday 22 February 2018
“If we ever pulled our ICE out, if we ever said, ‘Hey, let California alone, let them figure it out for themselves,’ in two months they'd be begging for us to come back,” Trump said... “They would be begging. And you know what, I'm thinking about doing it.”
Friday 16 February 2018
Thursday 15 February 2018
The Senate's drive to clinch an immigration deal sputtered to an end on Thursday, with a bipartisan and White House-blessed proposal both defeated and the Dreamers left in limbo once again.
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Trump on Wednesday called on lawmakers to oppose a series of bipartisan efforts to address immigration and resolve the fate of the so-called “Dreamers,” demanding fealty to his hard-line approach
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Trump has favored bills that would severely restrict so-called chain migration, including the granting of immigration visas to the parents of U.S. citizens. So naturally, readers have wondered whether the president is being hypocritical.
Friday 9 February 2018
Thursday 8 February 2018
Both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats were balking in the hours after the deal was unveiled Wednesday — the former angry about the spending jolt, the latter fuming about the lack of protections for young immigrants at risk for deportation under the Trump administration.
Wednesday 7 February 2018
A Border Patrol agent whose death last November fueled President Trump’s calls for a border wall appears to have died in an accident, according to FBI findings released Wednesday.
Her marathon monologue — highly unusual for the House, which has no equivalent to the Senate filibuster — appears to have set the record for the longest continuous speech in the chamber, dating to at least 1909, according to the House historian.
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Tuesday suggested that some young immigrants eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program failed to apply for the legal protections because they were too afraid — or “too lazy to get off their asses.”
Monday 5 February 2018
Thursday 1 February 2018
Friday 26 January 2018
"I would deport these Dreamers and let them see the country they came from, be ambassadors to our country, and later on give them kind of a fast track to come back into the United States legally and that would take care of a lot of issues"
The White House plan to win over Democrats by providing citizenship for Dreamers in exchange for sharp restrictions on legal immigration isn’t working.
Thursday 25 January 2018
Trump on Monday will propose a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — a key concession to Democrats that he hopes will win their support for a massive border wall with Mexico.
Wednesday 24 January 2018
But House Democrats have signaled they are not ready to go along with a long-term budget deal without a fix to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump is ending.
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Senate negotiators found themselves back at Square 1 on immigration on Tuesday, as the Senate Democratic leader withdrew the biggest gesture he had made to strike a deal: an offer to fully fund President Trump’s proposed wall at the Mexican border.
We asked Scalise if Graham-Durbin -- the bipartisan immigration deal du jour -- stands a chance, and he said “not in the House.”
Monday 22 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
Almost a year later, the new report and its 73 percent statistic appeared to back up Trump’s claim — but only where international terrorism is concerned. For some reason, the president did not include that word in his tweets.
Administration officials have said that they take the threat of domestic terrorism seriously but that Trump’s travel-ban executive order does not require reports on those cases.
Sunday 21 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 2
Each time Mr. Trump has edged toward compromise with Democrats, he has appeared to be reined in by his own staff, which shares the hawkish immigration stance that fueled his campaign.
Saturday 20 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 1
Republicans accused Democrats of prioritizing “illegal immigrants" over American citizens
Democrats countered that the situation is a product of President Donald Trump’s constantly shifting positions, chaotic leadership and embrace of the most hard-line stance on immigration.
Monday 15 January 2018
But some White House officials, including conservative adviser Stephen Miller, feared that Graham and Durbin would try to trick Trump into signing a bill that was damaging to him and would hurt him with his political base.
Sunday 14 January 2018
Saturday 13 January 2018
Friday 12 January 2018
"These allegations raise a plausible inference that racial animus towards Mexicans and Latinos was a motivating factor in the decision to end DACA"
Trump’s “shithole” remark ... replaced a national conversation about whether or not the president is mentally stable with a conversation about whether or not he is racist.
Richard Spencer, the white nationalist leader, said on Friday that conservatives defending Mr. Trump on Fox News should stop saying it was about economics and legal systems, rather than race. “It’s obviously all about race, and to their credit, liberals point out the obvious,” he said.
The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, likewise welcomed Mr. Trump’s comments. “This is encouraging and refreshing, as it indicates Trump is more or less on the same page as us with regards to race and immigration,” the site said.
“Here we have a man who for more than four decades has been repeatedly associated with racial discrimination or bigoted comments about minorities,” he wrote. “While any one episode may be ambiguous, what emerges over more than four decades is a narrative arc, a consistent pattern — and I don’t see what else to call it but racism.”
“The African Union Commission is frankly alarmed at statements by the president of the United States when referring to migrants of African countries and others in such contemptuous terms”
“There is no other word one can use but ‘racist,’” ... “You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as ‘shitholes,’ whose entire populations, who are not white, are therefore not welcome.”
Thursday 11 January 2018
Trump on Thursday balked at an immigration deal ..., demanding to know at a White House meeting why he should accept immigrants from “shithole countries” rather than from places like Norway
When Mr. Trump heard that Haitians were among those who would benefit from the proposed deal, he asked whether they could be left out of the plan, asking, “Why do we want people from Haiti here?”
Wednesday 10 January 2018
The White House's official transcript did not include the line from Trump saying, "Yeah, I would like to do it."
Tuesday 9 January 2018
...a federal judge in California late Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction ordering the administration to start the program back up again, saying the decision to kill it was improper.
It appears that because USCIS failed to use fingerprint records effectively, those who have been granted citizenship without proper fingerprint records, meaning before fingerprints were digitized, may now be subject to having their citizenship revoked.
Monday 8 January 2018
Homeland security officials said that they were ending a humanitarian program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for Salvadorans who have been allowed to live and work legally in the United States since a pair of devastating earthquakes struck their country in 2001.
Thursday 4 January 2018
Friday 29 December 2017
Friday 22 December 2017
Members who voted for the spending bill, which keeps the government open until Jan. 19, will be pressured to block next month’s version if a DACA fix fails to materialize.
Tuesday 19 December 2017
With a deadline of midnight Friday to pass spending legislation, dozens of Democrats had vowed to withhold support if Republicans refused to allow a vote on a measure
Friday 8 December 2017
All the Republican-appointed justices backed the stay, while all the high court’s Democratic appointees joined a 10-page dissent authored by Justice Stephen Breyer.
Monday 20 November 2017
The decision came after the Department of Homeland Security determined that the “extraordinary conditions” justifying their presence in the United States following a 2010 earthquake “no longer exist”
Wednesday 15 November 2017
UPDATE: On the night of Wednesday, November 15, in the wake of reporting from Vox and other publications, the Trump administration announced it would allow immigrants whose applications for DACA renewal were sent before the deadline, but were left in USCIS mailboxes overnight on October 5 or were affected by the United States Postal Service slowdown, to reapply.
Sunday 5 November 2017
"Trump built his campaign last year in part on an appeal to American workers angry that their jobs had been taken by immigrants or laborers overseas."
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Friday 13 October 2017
...the president has threatened to torch the Iran deal, scrap protections for Dreamers and touch off an Obamacare death spiral. He has said it’s up to Congress to come up with fixes for all three, even as a major overhaul of the tax code remains a top priority for his White House and Republican leadership.
...the administration is considering ... allowing judges to strip people who come to the US as “unaccompanied children” of the legal protections that status provides if they turn 18 while they’re still in immigration proceedings
Justice Department lawyers asked Leinenweber to stay his order so that it would benefit only Chicago
Leinenweber ... declined to lift the nationwide aspect of the injunction.
Thursday 12 October 2017
Sessions on Thursday declared the U.S. asylum system "broken" due to what he said was fraud committed by immigrants who cross the border illegally and avoid deportation by claiming persecution at home.
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Monday 9 October 2017
Nearly a month after Democratic leaders and Mr. Trump celebrated the possibility of a bipartisan immigration deal, no such agreement appears on the horizon. Instead, any agreement that would shield about 800,000 young immigrants from deportation will depend on how far Democrats are willing to push the government toward a shutdown in mid-December, when a stopgap spending bill expires.
Mr. Miller has emerged in recent days as the driving force behind the administration’s insistence on a wish list of hard-right proposals as part of any deal with Democrats to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Sunday 8 October 2017
Trump laid out his immigration principles for Capitol Hill on Sunday — a list of hardline policies that could seriously complicate the prospects of striking a deal with Democrats over the future of hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants.
Tuesday 3 October 2017
What they found is a ghastly assortment of people secretly trying to get rid of their husbands' mistresses, their wives' children from earlier marriages, and their in-laws, as well as lots of petty grievances and score-settling.
Wednesday 27 September 2017
The new policy ... covers immigrants who have obtained a green card and even naturalized citizens
Monday 18 September 2017
Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, rejected a study ... that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost.
Saturday 16 September 2017
...controversial legislation that would protect undocumented immigrants from possible deportation by prohibiting local law enforcement agencies, including school police and security departments, from cooperating with federal immigration officials.
Friday 15 September 2017
One Twitter user ... said he was left with "no choice" to burn his hat, saying the president had "violated several campaign promises".
Thursday 14 September 2017
Virtually nothing can drive Republicans more bitterly apart than immigration policy, which has vexed the party ever since President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Trump and Democratic congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night to provide a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants known as “Dreamers" — but after a conservative backlash, the president and his aides sent conflicting signals about how firm the agreement was.
While the initial wave of fury could change direction as new details emerge, the torrent represented the first major break of Trump’s devoted base from the president on a core issue.
Saturday 9 September 2017
While Trump rails against U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants, his Florida properties have become a playground for birth tourists from Russia’s upper crust.
Thursday 7 September 2017
“And he said even last night in a tweet, even a tweet, he would rethink it. Trust me, the guys on the far right, the guys on the conservative side, are not happy with this.”
Tuesday 5 September 2017
Now, with 800,000 lives in the balance and a fiercely anti-immigration current running through the Republican Party, lawmakers are being asked to try again — with a six-month deadline, to boot.
Trump's outsourcing of the official announcement to Sessions was evidence of how central a role the attorney general played in the decision to end the program -- and Trump's aversion to announcing that decision himself.
"To target these young people is wrong, because they have done nothing wrong," Obama wrote in a Facebook post. "It is self-defeating — because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel."
“I’m here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded”
“This will enable DHS to conduct an orderly change and fulfill the desire of this administration to create a time period for Congress to act — should it so choose.”
It's the latest battle pitting the president's conservative advisers against moderates in the White House and Congress — but the first in which Bannon is free to engage in open combat with fellow Republicans from the outside.
“Let's build the wall and let the dreamers stay. Isn't that called compromise?”
Monday 4 September 2017
No, if Trump cancels DACA, it will be one more attempt to endear himself to his shrinking base with the only thing that truly energizes the dead-enders: vengeance fueled by white grievance. And it will also be an act of uncommon cowardice.
Sunday 3 September 2017
But conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who argued that Congress — rather than the executive branch — is responsible for writing immigration law, helped persuade the president to terminate the program and kick the issue to Congress
Friday 1 September 2017
Trump on Friday said he would announce a decision by Tuesday on whether he will end the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation
Thursday 31 August 2017
The Trump administration is looking to buy itself time on a decision on a popular program that protects young undocumented immigrants
Wednesday 30 August 2017
The judge’s ruling was only temporary, and prevents the law from taking effect on Friday while a suit against it goes forward.
Friday 25 August 2017
Immigration authorities will require an in-person interview for certain applicants for green cards, a change likely to slow the process of obtaining one.
Monday 14 August 2017
Trump told Fox News he is “seriously considering” issuing a pardon for former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted last month of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge’s order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants.
Friday 4 August 2017
Wednesday 2 August 2017
Arguing that the United States has taken in too many low-skilled immigrants for too long, Mr. Trump ... put his weight behind their bill that would judge applicants for legal residency on the basis of education, language ability and job abilities that would benefit the country.
Friday 21 July 2017
Sessions pressed his immigration agenda on Friday in Philadelphia, a so-called sanctuary city that limits its cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Wednesday 12 July 2017
Trump plans to get behind a bill ... that, if signed into law, would, by 2027, slash in half the number of legal immigrants entering the country each year
Thursday 15 June 2017
The rescinded 2014 memo would have granted work permits and reprieves from deportation to 4 million parents of U.S. citizens and green card holders, provided that they passed a criminal background check and met other requirements.
Wednesday 24 May 2017
The Trump administration is asking Congress to make it illegal for any law enforcement officer not to comply “with any lawful request” from federal immigration agents
Monday 22 May 2017
Sessions on Monday clarified President Trump’s executive order on so-called sanctuary cities, narrowly defining such jurisdictions ... in a way that appeared to fall far short of Mr. Trump’s previous threats
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Immigration arrests shot up 38 percent in the first three months of the Trump administration compared with the same period last year
Sunday 7 May 2017
Abbott, a Republican in his first term, took the unusual step of signing the bill on Facebook with no public notice in advance.
...if they stumped up at least half a million dollars for the project they could become US residents under a controversial cash-for-residency program
Thursday 27 April 2017
The Trump administration argued ... that any inaccuracy on official paperwork, even regarding the most trivial and "immaterial" issues, can justify deportation and the revocation of citizenship.
Wednesday 26 April 2017
...but the top lawman is stopping short of echoing Trump's pledge to take the issue to the Supreme Court.
Orrick homed in on the vast discrepancies between what government lawyers defending the sanctuary cities order argued in court and what administration officials said about it in public.
“This case is yet one more example of egregious overreach by a single, unelected district judge,” the White House statement continued.
Saturday 22 April 2017
"President Trump has made it clear that we'll honor the agreement — that doesn't mean we admire the agreement"
Saturday 15 April 2017
Trump ... has already provoked a nationalist surge in Mexico, uniting the country across political and economic divides in outrage at his stance on immigration, trade and border security.
Wednesday 12 April 2017
The agency also is considering ways to speed up the hiring of hundreds of new Customs and Border Patrol officers, including ending polygraph and physical fitness tests in some cases
Thursday 16 March 2017
The numbers — while not yet final — are provoking anxiety in some programs that rely on international students, who bring more than $32 billion a year into the United States economy.
Sunday 5 March 2017
It’s the first time a class-action lawsuit accusing a private U.S. prison company of forced labor has been allowed to move forward.
Thursday 2 March 2017
Ms. Vargas would be processed as a “visa waiver overstay,” which means she would not be given a hearing and would be flown to Argentina.
Friday 24 February 2017
“Their plan is basically to have everybody thrown out of the country without ever going to court.”
...the person they were seeking was not on the flight.
Thursday 23 February 2017
While the White House touted the relationship Wednesday as "phenomenal," Tillerson acknowledged problems.
Tuesday 21 February 2017
Trump took a hard line against illegal immigration during his campaign, at times suggesting he would seek to create a nationwide “deportation force”
Trump's administration will leave protections in place for immigrants who entered the country illegally as children, known as "dreamers," but will consider all other illegal immigrants subject to deportation
Monday 20 February 2017
But André had wiped his phone of sex apps, browser history and messages, thinking that would dispel any suggestion he was looking for sex work. Instead, the border officers took that as suspicious.
Saturday 18 February 2017
...sweeping new guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport illegal immigrants inside the United States and at the border.
Friday 17 February 2017
The Department of Homeland Security tells The Post that the draft memo is real, but it was a "very early, pre-decisional draft that never made it to the secretary."
The Trump administration considered a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo
The most pertinent of the three cases in terms of Republican Trump administration priorities involves whether immigrants in custody for deportation proceedings have the right to a hearing to request their release when their cases are not promptly adjudicated.
Thursday 16 February 2017
...his past support for more moderate immigration reform put him on the wrong side of the more radical anti-immigration forces in the Trump administration
It asks foreign-born people nationwide, regardless of legal status, not to go to work or go shopping in a demonstration of the importance of their labor and consumer spending to the United States’ economy.
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Ramirez Medina had a work permit and protection from deportation under former President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program
Monday 13 February 2017
Saturday 11 February 2017
"Kids ... are clearly traumatized by this," he said. "Young people I've spoken to live in fear that their government is coming for them or coming for their parents. Where do you go?"
Friday 10 February 2017
No matter what it chooses to do, the White House will face a difficult battle to restore the ban, particularly in the short term.
It's not known how many people were rounded up across the country, but immigration advocates say they've received reports of raids in California, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New York and Kansas.
Tech companies that keep satellite offices in Vancouver [...] are exploring whether to move more jobs over the border. Immigration lawyers are reporting a steep uptick in inquiries.
Wednesday 1 February 2017
I can affirm that whoever wrote Trump’s executive order blocking refugees from the United States is wholly unfamiliar with the U.S. immigration system, U.S. laws, international law and the security threats facing our nation.
Sunday 29 January 2017
His administration has drafted an executive order aimed at overhauling the work-visa programs technology companies depend on to hire tens of thousands of employees each year.
How such a policy would be implemented remains under discussion.
Saturday 28 January 2017
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Many of these aliens are criminals who have served time in our Federal, State, and local jails.
Tuesday 24 January 2017
There is no evidence to support the claim, which has been discredited repeatedly by numerous fact-checkers.
Monday 23 January 2017
...falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority...