FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was already past midnight on Friday [1-12-18] when the news arrived in Norway: A day after meeting with Norway’s prime minister in Washington, President Trump told members of Congress that the United States needed more immigrants from places like Norway and fewer immigrants from countries like Haiti. Many in this […]
Category: Immigration
1/11/2018
DONALDISM/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [1-10-18] balked at an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti and African countries, demanding to know at a White House meeting why he should accept immigrants from ‘shithole countries’ rather than people from places like Norway, according to people with direct knowledge of the […]
1/11/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS: “A bipartisan group of six senators has reached a deal that would shield ‘Dreamers’ from deportation and make other changes to immigration laws and border security — but the framework has yet to win over the White House and other key players on Capitol Hill. As of Wednesday [1-10-18] night, multiple sources said the […]
1/11/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration campaign platform thrilled hard-liners who long felt marginalized in the national debate. Now, they fear Mr. Trump will desert them. Their concerns grew this week after the president met with lawmakers and, as TV cameras rolled, voiced openness to a range of legislative options to legalize young undocumented […]
1/11/2018
IMMIGRATION: ” ’45 year low in illegal immigration this year.’ @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 08:11am […]
1/11/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION: “Democratic leaders are facing a potential revolt within their ranks as they edge toward a deal with Republicans that would protect Dreamers from deportation but also include concessions to conservatives that many Democratic lawmakers say are unacceptable. Senate negotiators say they’re inching toward a bipartisan deal that broadly mirrors the parameters laid out during […]
1/10/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION: “Prominent House Republicans stepped forward on Wednesday [1-10-18] with a vision of immigration policy that clashed fiercely with President Trump’s recent overtures of bipartisanship and highlighted how difficult it will be for Congress and the president to reach accord in the coming weeks. The proposal, championed by the chairmen of the House […]
1/10/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump called the United States courts system ‘broken and unfair’ on Wednesday [1-10-18], the morning after a federal judge’s ruling that ordered the administration to restart a program that shields young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. Republicans and Democrats are in the middle of a legislative battle over the program created by […]
1/10/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Migrant shelters along the southern border are filling up again. Immigration lawyers in the region say their caseloads are spiking. Across the Southwest, border officers are stopping more than 1,000 people a day. Just months after border apprehensions hit a 17-year low, which administration officials proudly celebrated as a ‘Trump effect,’ the […]
1/10/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration’s effort to end an Obama-era program that protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge William Alsup temporarily blocked the ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program late Tuesday in a 49-page ruling. Mr. Alsup considered […]
1/9/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For 55 minutes, with cameras rolling, President Trump engaged in a vigorous discussion of immigration with congressional leaders of both parties in a setting usually reserved for bland talking points and meaningless photo opportunities. In effect, the president and his visitors threw away the blah-blah scripts and negotiated possible legislation in front […]
1/9/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As I made very clear today, our country needs the security of the Wall on the Southern Border, which must be part of any DACA approval.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 9, 2018 07:16pm […]
1/9/2018
DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thanks to all of the Republican and Democratic lawmakers for today’s very productive meeting on immigration reform. There was strong agreement to negotiate a bill that deals with border security, chain migration, lottery and DACA. https://t.co/SdqAQ3aL3z https://t.co/8DYHZHspAy” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 9, 2018 05:51pm […]
1/8/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, two government officials familiar with the decision said on Monday [1-8-18]. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the […]
1/9/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They clean federal office buildings in Washington and nurse the elderly in Boston. They are rebuilding hurricane-wrecked Houston. The Atlanta Falcons’ new stadium, plumbing and heating systems at Fannie Mae’s new headquarters, the porterhouse at Peter Luger Steak House and even the Disney World experience have all depended, in small part or […]
1/8/2018
IMMIGRATION/POPE FRANCIS: “Pope Francis has sharply criticized global leaders who only talk about the plight of migrants and refugees ‘for the sake of stirring up primal fears,’ telling ambassadors accredited to the Vatican in an annual address Jan. 8 it is time to ‘abandon the familiar rhetoric’ and help the record numbers of people fleeing […]
1/7/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has until Monday [1-8-18] to decide whether some 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants allowed to live and work in the U.S. since 2001 may stay in the country under protections that were meant to be temporary. Many are already looking for ways to circumvent a potential end to those protections and […]
1/7/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. admitted about 5,000 refugees in the first three months of fiscal year 2018, far below similar periods in recent years, as the Trump administration implemented tougher screening and all but halted admissions from parts of the world that generate large numbers of refugees. Unless the pace of admissions picks up, […]
1/4/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The gulf over legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation appeared wide Thursday [1-4-18] as President Donald Trump insisted that any deal include funding for his promised border wall and new limits on legal immigration to the U.S. Mr. Trump said the package to protect so-called Dreamers has to include new […]
1/4/2018
GOP/IMMIGRATION: “Thank you to the great Republican Senators who showed up to our mtg on immigration reform. We must BUILD THE WALL, stop illegal immigration, end chain migration & cancel the visa lottery. The current system is unsafe & unfair to the great people of our country – time for change!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. […]
1/4/2018
BORDER/DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Key Republican senators will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday [1-4-18] as negotiations continue to reach a compromise on border security issues and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Trump is set to host the more conservative members of his party negotiating with Democrats in […]
1/4/2018
IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is ramping up calls on the U.S. Congress to stop legal immigrants from sponsoring extended family members who want to move to the United States, saying so-called ‘chain migration’ poses a threat to national security. Even without legislative action, however, the number of immigrants approved for family-based visas […]
1/3/2018
DHS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION: “Three former homeland security secretaries warned congressional leaders and officials of both parties on Wednesday [1-3-17] that the window for legislative action to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children will close by the middle of January, months before a period outlined by the White House. The letter — signed by Jeh […]
1/3/2018
DEMS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressional leaders emerged Wednesday [1-3-18] from a meeting with White House officials without a budget deal, as Democrats intensified their push to reach an immigration agreement as part of the negotiations. Lawmakers returning to Washington from their holiday break have less than three weeks before the government’s current funding expires at 12:01 […]
1/3/2018
CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Taking a jab at Gov. Jerry Brown, President Trump’s top immigration chief on Wednesday [1-3-18] said he was preparing to ‘significantly increase’ his agency’s enforcement presence in California because of last year’s passage of a landmark ‘sanctuary state’ law… The comments were the latest salvo between Trump immigration officials and California […]
1/3/2018
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL: “A Mexican journalist who sought refuge in the United States amid death threats almost a decade ago now faces deportation in a case drawing criticism from immigration and journalism advocates. The case is a high-profile example of the years it can take for asylum claims to wind through the country’s backlogged immigration court […]
1/2/2018
BUDGET/EDUCATION/IMMIGRATION: “At Wright State University in Ohio, the French horn and tuba professors are out. So is the accomplished swimming team. At Kansas State, Italian classes are going the way of the Roman Empire… Just as many universities believed that the financial wreckage left by the 2008 recession was behind them, campuses across the country […]
1/2/2018
IMMIGRATION: “One of the top U.S. government officials working on refugee issues announced her impending retirement on Tuesday [1-2-18], and refugee advocates expressed concern about the fate of the country’s resettlement program which faces mounting pressure from the Trump administration. Barbara Strack, a career official and chief of the Refugee Affairs Division at U.S. Citizenship […]
12/29/2017
BORDER/DEMS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION: “The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 29, 2017 08:16am […]
12/23/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in Seattle on Saturday [12-24-17] partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countries from reuniting with family living legally in the United States. U.S. District Judge James Robart heard arguments Thursday in lawsuits […]
12/22/2017
ABORTION/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL: “The 17-year-old migrant was pregnant. She said she had been raped in her home county, and she knew from the timing that she was carrying her attacker’s child. She wanted to terminate her pregnancy. But she was underage and undocumented, and, after she was caught crossing the border illegally, living in a government shelter. […]
12/21/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is considering a plan to separate parents from their children when families are caught entering the country illegally, according to officials who have been briefed on the plans. The forceful move is meant to discourage border crossings, but immigrant groups have denounced it as draconian and inhumane. Under current […]
12/21/2017
CRIME/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “About one in five inmates in federal prison are foreign-born, and more than 90 percent of those are in the United States illegally, according to a report released on Thursday [12-21-17] by the Trump administration, which has sought to highlight the dangers it says unauthorized immigrants pose to public safety. Officials […]
12/20/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Wednesday [12-20-17] issued what appeared to be a compromise ruling that laid out guidelines for lower courts as they wrestle with legal issues stemming from the Trump administration’s decision to wind down the immigration program providing quasi-legal status and work permits to so-called Dreamers. Less than two […]
12/20/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bipartisan talks over legislation to legalize young undocumented immigrants are gaining steam, key senators said, but top Democrats who have pushed for quick action said any fix won’t happen by year’s end. The immigration debate is one of many matters involved in year-end talks over a bill to keep the government funded. […]
12/20/2017
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Flake on Wednesday [12-20-17] said that a bipartisan immigration bill addressing the so-called Dreamers, young adults who were brought to the United States as children, would be debated on the Senate floor in January… Flake said in an emailed statement that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to bring […]
12/20/2017
CORRUPTION/ECONOMY/FOREIGN POLICY/HUMAN RIGHTS/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex […]
12/19/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top senators and White House officials are laying the groundwork for a major immigration deal in January to resolve the fate of young undocumented immigrants whose legal protections were put in limbo by President Donald Trump. At a Tuesday [12-19-17] afternoon meeting with nearly a dozen senators deeply involved in immigration […]
12/18/2017
ABORTION/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two undocumented immigrants in United States custody must be allowed to have abortions, a federal judge ruled on Monday [12-18-17], objecting to a Trump administration policy. The immigrants, both 17, entered the United States illegally and are being held in government-run shelters. Under a policy announced in March by the Department of […]
12/18/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Senate will not consider an immigration bill as part of year-end legislation but will turn to a measure protecting immigrant youths known as ‘Dreamers’ in January, No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn said on Monday [12-18-17]. Cornyn also said that if Congress cannot meet an early March deadline for passing […]
12/18/2017
HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge considering whether to order the Trump administration to allow abortions for two pregnant, 17-year-old girls in immigration custody heard Monday [12-18-17] that a top Health and Human Services official has decided it is not in the best interests of one of the young women to terminate her pregnancy. Office […]
12/17/2017
BUDGET/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS: “Congress begins its likely final week of 2017 with lawmakers from both parties forced to grapple with tough questions they have deferred all year, including immigration and the federal budget. The government’s current funding expires Saturday [12-16-17] at 12:01 a.m., with no clear plan in sight on how to keep it running. In one […]
12/15/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is putting new requirements on the 38 nations whose citizens are allowed to travel to the U.S. without visas, including better screening for terrorists inside their own countries, officials said Friday [12-15-17]. The administration is also requiring some of these countries to initiate public information campaigns to dissuade their […]
12/15/2017
IMMIGRATION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States is instituting new requirements for the 38 countries participating in the Visa Waiver Program, including that they screen travelers using U.S. counterterrorism data, Trump administration officials said on Friday [12-15-17]. Countries whose citizens stay longer than authorized during business or tourism visits to the United States at a relatively […]
12/14/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The spouses of highly skilled foreign workers would no longer be able to work legally in the U.S. under a regulatory change proposed by the Trump administration on Thursday [12-14-17]. The plan, laid out in a notice that it intends to propose a rule in 2018, would undo a program by the […]
12/12/2017
GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Family relationships have long formed the core of the U.S. immigration system. These preferences are now being targeted by Republicans led by President Donald Trump, who wants to reduce legal as well as illegal immigration to the U.S. Mr. Trump and his allies have begun derisively using the term ‘chain migration’ to […]
12/8/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “A divided Supreme Court on Friday [12-8-17] temporarily blocked a lower court from requiring the Trump administration to release internal documents related to its September decision to end a program protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The court’s emergency action halting the document release comes just days after it […]
12/5/2017
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION: “Moderate Republicans in Congress are seeking to lead on a possible solution for young undocumented immigrants, as a group on Tuesday pushed their leadership to reach a deal by the end of the year. Thirty-four Republicans on Tuesday [12-5-17] signed a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan urging him that Congress should act ‘immediately’ […]
12/5/2017
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration ramped up arrests of people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally in 2017, but the number of deportations fell below even the lowest level recorded during the Obama administration, the government said Tuesday [12-5-17]. That is partly because the number of people caught crossing the border illegally plummeted […]
12/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Monday [12-4-17] said the Trump administration for now can implement all parts of its latest ban on travelers from certain countries, a significant boost to the White House after a string of setbacks in lower courts. The high court’s action came in a brief written order […]
12/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [12-4-17] handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. The nine-member court, with two liberal justices dissenting, granted his administration’s […]
12/3/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The Trump administration has quit participating in talks on a proposed United Nations agreement to improve ways of handling global flows of migrants and refugees, describing it as a subversion of American sovereignty. The administration’s decision to renounce the talks on the agreement, the Global Compact on Migration, was announced in a […]
12/3/2017
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL: “Such a total miscarriage of Justice in San Francisco! https://t.co/MSIkBCKF3t” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 3, 2017 07:27am […]
12/1/2017
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL: “The jury was not told the killer of Kate was a 7 time felon. The Schumer/Pelosi Democrats are so weak on Crime that they will pay a big price in the 2018 and 2020 Elections.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 1, 2017 06:13am […]
12/1/2017
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/WALL: “The Kate Steinle killer came back and back over the weakly protected Obama border, always committing crimes and being violent, and yet this info was not used in court. His exoneration is a complete travesty of justice. BUILD THE WALL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Dec. 1, 2017 06:03am […]
11/30/2017
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL: “A disgraceful verdict in the Kate Steinle case! No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 30, 2017 10:30pm […]
11/29/2017
DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and congressional GOP leaders are daring Democrats to shut down the government over immigration rather than back a plan to extend funding into January. After Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer boycotted a Tuesday [11-28-17] afternoon White House negotiating session on government funding, Speaker Paul Ryan […]
11/21/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS: “Concern is growing in both parties that a clash over the fate of Dreamers will trigger a government shutdown this December. House conservatives have warned Speaker Paul Ryan against lumping a fix for undocumented immigrants who came to the country as minors into a year-end spending deal. They want him to keep the two […]
11/21/2017
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday [11-20-17] to fully reinstate its travel restrictions on residents of six Muslim-majority countries, the latest move in a legal battle over entry to the U.S. that has raged since the Trump administration’s first days… U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the […]
11/20/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is ending a humanitarian program that has allowed some 59,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States since an earthquake ravaged their country in 2010, Homeland Security officials said on Monday. Haitians with what is known as Temporary Protected Status will be expected to leave the United […]
11/19/2017
IMMIGRATION/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is adding hurdles and increasing scrutiny in the employment-visa application process, making it harder for businesses to hire foreign workers, and companies and immigration attorneys are bracing for more changes soon. President Donald Trump has long campaigned against illegal immigration, but he also backs reductions to legal immigration, arguing […]
11/16/2017
DHS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION: “Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke late Wednesday [11-15-17] ordered the government to accept renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that arrived late due to postal delays — a reversal after the agency had originally rejected those applications. US Citizenship and Immigration Services issued the new guidance hours before a […]
11/14/2017
BUSINESS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LOBBYING/POLITICS: “Large U.S. businesses and their lobby groups are redoubling a push for legislation to protect young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, urging lawmakers to act before the year is out. On Wednesday [11-15-17], executives from about 40 companies plan to travel to Capitol Hill to lobby members of Congress, with some […]
11/13/2017
CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. appeals court in California on Monday [11-13-17] let part of President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban go into effect, ruling that the government can bar entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries if they have no connections to the United States… The interim decision means the ban will apply […]
11/13/2017
EDUCATION/IMMIGRATION: “The surge in foreign student enrollment that has bolstered diversity and finances at U.S. colleges for the past decade is starting to slow—and concern that the Trump administration is tightening borders is only one factor in the turning tide. Saudi Arabia and Brazil, which have been big players in sending students to the U.S., […]
11/9/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Convincing big U.S. dairy owners to buy robots to milk their cows – and reduce the farmhands they employ – used to be a tough sell for Steve Fried. Recently, his job has gotten easier, he says, in part because of President Donald Trump… Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration through stepped-up […]
11/9/2017
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New York and 15 other states can sue President Donald Trump to prevent him from rescinding legal protection for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Thursday [11-9-17]. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis amounted […]
11/9/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION: “The White House lost an internal debate this week over whether to extend humanitarian protections for immigrants living in the U.S., when the acting chief of the Department of Homeland Security refused to end them, people familiar with the deliberations said. At issue is the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, which gives safe harbor […]
11/8/2017
DHS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Mexican man who earlier this year sued the Trump administration, alleging he had been unlawfully deported, was arrested this week and charged with illegally re-entering the U.S. Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez, 23 years old, was arrested near Calexico, Calif., along the Mexican border, on Monday [11-6-17], according to federal court records. […]
11/6/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has decided to end a humanitarian program that shields about 5,000 Nicaraguan immigrants from deportation. A senior administration official said late Monday that those immigrants, living in the U.S. as part of a program called Temporary Protected Status, will have until January 2019 to prepare to leave or apply […]
11/6/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TURKEY: “The United States has partially resumed issuing visas in Turkey after getting assurances about the safety of staff at its missions there, the U.S. embassy said on Monday, in the first step to ease a diplomatic crisis between the two allies. The Turkish embassy in Washington said almost immediately it would […]
11/4/2017
DHS/FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is set to decide by Monday [11-6-17] whether 86,000 Hondurans and 5,000 Nicaraguans living in the U.S. can remain here under a program that protects immigrants from countries that have suffered major disasters or social upheaval. The decision could signal the administration’s overall approach to the program, known […]
11/2/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the clock ticking and so-called Dreamers in limbo, Senate Republicans signaled Thursday [11-2-17] they are in no hurry ahead of a March deadline to pass legislation giving legal protections to young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Democrats and their allies have been laying the groundwork to try to […]
11/2/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress must end chain migration so that we can have a system that is SECURITY BASED! We need to make AMERICA SAFE! #USA?? https://t.co/d7L1YW5iVY” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 01:43pm […]
11/2/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am calling on Congress to TERMINATE the diversity visa lottery program that presents significant vulnerabilities to our national security. https://t.co/tW4wOlI4vu” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 01:33pm […]
11/1/2017
CALIFORNIA/DREAMERS/IMMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “California’s attorney general and those in three other states asked a federal judge on Wednesday to temporarily block the Trump administration’s decision to rescind a program that protects undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children. The request for a preliminary injunction comes in litigation being pursued by the states, along with […]
11/1/2017
IMMIGRATION: “CHAIN MIGRATION must end now! Some people come in, and they bring their whole family with them, who can be truly evil. NOT ACCEPTABLE! https://t.co/PQGeTTdRtX” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 1, 2017 06:03pm […]
11/1/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-1-17] slammed a visa lottery program that he said gave entry to the U.S for the driver of a rental truck who plowed into pedestrians and cyclists in New York… Mr. Saipov came to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010, officials said. Immigration officials haven’t said publicly […]
11/1/2017
IMMIGRATION/POLITICS: ” ‘Senator Chuck Schumer helping to import Europes problems’ said Col.Tony Shaffer. We will stop this craziness! @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 1, 2017 06:40am […]
11/1/2017
IMMIGRATION/NEW YORK/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are fighting hard for Merit Based immigration, no more Democrat Lottery Systems. We must get MUCH tougher (and smarter). @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 1, 2017 06:30am […]
11/1/2017
IMMIGRATION/NEW YORK/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The terrorist came into our country through what is called the ‘Diversity Visa Lottery Program,’ a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 1, 2017 06:24am […]
11/1/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/POLITICS: “Senate Democrats are weighing whether to use their ultimate leverage — the threat of a government shutdown in December — in their bid to protect hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers from possible deportation. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a prospective 2020 presidential hopeful, raised the specter of a year-end showdown last week when she […]
10/27/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the newest arrivals this week at the Baptist Children’s Home Ministries facility for child migrants in San Antonio, Tex., is 10 years old. She has cerebral palsy. Her name is Rosa Maria Hernandez, and she does not understand why, days after undergoing emergency gallbladder surgery, she has not yet seen […]
10/27/2017
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For nearly a decade, Yonis Bernal felt perfectly secure carrying a green card that allowed him to live and work legally in the United States. Becoming a citizen was not a priority, he said. The need to study for an oral civics test, pay a hefty application fee and miss work to […]
10/27/2017
ABORTION/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TEXAS: “After a visit to a federal detention center in Texas earlier this year, Scott Lloyd focused on the details of one pregnant girl. He wanted to ensure she had food she liked and was comfortable, and he wanted to counsel her against having an abortion… The shelter, for children who cross the U.S. border […]
10/25/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION: “A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery. The girl, Rosamaria Hernandez, who was brought over the border illegally to live in Laredo, Tex., when she was […]
10/25/2017
DHS/FAA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Airlines are warnings U.S.-bound passengers they may be subject to interviews before boarding their flight as part of stepped up screening requirements Washington is demanding because of continued terrorism concerns. United Continental Holdings Inc. notified customers on its website that the Department of Homeland Security now requires additional security measures for all […]
10/24/2017
CRIME/DHS/IMMIGRATION: “Both of Oregon’s senators have demanded an explanation after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in plain clothes entered a home in Portland without a warrant and arrested a man who was later released. The arrest of the man, who was working on a renovation at the house on Thursday [10-19-17], was captured on a […]
10/24/2017
IMMIGRATION/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Few American industries are as invested in the decades-long political battle over immigration as agriculture. Paying low wages for backbreaking work, growers large and small have historically relied on immigrants from south of the Rio Grande. These days, over one-quarter of the farmhands in the United States are immigrants working here illegally. […]
10/24/2017
ABORTION/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday [10-24-17] ruled the Trump administration must allow an undocumented teenager to leave government custody so she may seek an abortion, a major swing in a case that touches on two highly divisive political issues. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, […]
10/24/2017
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will allow refugee admissions to the U.S. to resume for all countries but with new rules meant to better vet applicants, administration officials and others familiar with the planning said. The White House plans to announce the resumption of admissions and at least some of the new rules […]
10/24/2017
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Key Senate Republicans have begun privately discussing the contours of an immigration plan to shield the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who will lose work permits and deportation protections starting early next year. Preliminary talks show that influential GOP senators are eager to devise a legislative fix for Deferred Action for Childhood […]
10/24/2017
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DHS/DNI/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/SECRETARY OF STATE/TERRORISM/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section […]
10/23/2017
ABORTION/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider an order that delayed an abortion for an undocumented teenager. A three-judge appeals court panel on Friday [10-20-17] gave the Trump administration until Oct. 31 to find a sponsor for the girl, who crossed from Mexico to Texas […]
10/19/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly two dozen major companies in technology and other industries are planning to launch a coalition to demand legislation that would allow young, illegal immigrants a path to permanent residency, according to documents seen by Reuters. The Coalition for the American Dream intends to ask Congress to pass bipartisan legislation this year […]
10/19/2017
ABORTION/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TEXAS: “A lawsuit at the intersection of two emotional issues—illegal immigration and abortion—is speeding through the courts, as judges consider whether an undocumented teen in U.S. custody may terminate her pregnancy over the wishes of the Trump administration. The 17-year-old girl has been held in a government-funded shelter in Texas since September, when she crossed […]
10/19/2017
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Construction crews are erecting eight looming prototypes of President Trump’s border wall in a remote section of the San Diego borderlands. Four are solid concrete; four are made of steel and concrete; one is topped with spikes. They all approach 30 feet in height. Customs and Border Protection is paying $20 million […]
10/18/2017
ABORTION/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TEXAS: “A federal judge on Wednesday [10-18-17] ordered top United States government officials to allow a pregnant 17-year-old immigrant to get an abortion — the first ruling in a case that could eventually grow to include hundreds of other undocumented minors who seek access to an abortion while in federal custody. In issuing a temporary […]
10/18/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A second U.S. federal judge has blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban on people entering the United States from eight countries, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s third bid to impose travel restrictions. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland, in a ruling issued overnight, said the […]
10/17/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California on Tuesday [10-17-17] ordered the Trump administration to turn over emails, letters, memos and other materials related to its decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The order by U.S. District Judge William Alsup, based in San Francisco, also appears to cover legal advice […]