DEMS/IMMIGRATION/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In New York State, Democrats blocked a Bill expanding College Tuition for Gold Star families after approving aid for illegal immigrants. No wonder so many people are leaving N.Y. Very Sad!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 10:51 pm […]
Category: Immigration
4/12/2019
IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another Fake Story on @NBCNews that I offered Pardons to Homeland Securiy personnel in case they broke the law regarding illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Of course this is not true. Mainstream Media is corrupt and getting worse, if that is possible, every day!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 10:33 pm […]
4/12/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If the Radical Left Democrats all of a sudden don’t want the Illegal Migrants in their Sanctuary Cities (no more open arms), why should others be expected to take them into their communities? Go home and come into our Country legally and through a system of Merit!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, […]
4/12/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A myriad of logistical and legal obstacles await President Donald Trump if he follows through on his threat to place migrants arriving at the border into so-called sanctuary cities, a move apparently designed to punish Democrats for refusing to support his immigration policies. Not only is the idea impractical and a […]
4/12/2019
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump reportedly offered to pardon Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, if he violated the law and was arrested for blocking entry into the U.S. along the southern border, CNN and The New York Times reported. The news outlets, quoting anonymous administration officials, reported that the conversation happened last week when […]
4/12/2019
DHS/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [4-12-19] said that his administration is ‘strongly looking at’ releasing detained undocumented immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities — contradicting a previous statement from the White House that the policy was no longer being considered…The Washington Post reported Thursday that Trump administration officials proposed last November and […]
4/12/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 11:38 am […]
4/12/2019
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and immigration (all times local): 9:20 p.m. The Department of Homeland Security denies that President Donald Trump ‘indicated, asked, directed or pressured’ Kevin McAleenan to do anything illegal. Last week Trump urged his soon-to-be acting homeland security secretary to seal the southern border and told McAleenan […]
4/12/2019
DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [4-12-19] he is strongly considering releasing ‘Illegal Immigrants’ into Democratic strongholds to punish congressional foes for inaction on the border— just hours after White House and Homeland Security officials insisted the idea had been rejected as fast as it had been proposed…The reversal, which appeared to […]
4/12/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [4-12-19] that his administration was ‘strongly’ considering releasing migrants detained at the border into mostly Democratic ‘sanctuary cities,’ suggesting that the idea should make liberals ‘very happy’ because of their immigration policies…The comments came a day after the administration said the policy proposal was never seriously […]
4/11/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says he’s not looking to reinstate the much-criticized practice of separating migrant families at the border with Mexico. But he says many more migrants are streaming toward the U.S. through Mexico because the practice is no longer in place. Says Trump: ‘I’m the one that stopped it.’ He claims […]
4/11/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats are grappling with how to address the surge of migrants at the border, amid divisions over how to respond to President Donald Trump’s hard-line approach. For Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her deputies, the risks of diving into a fight with the president are clear. It was health care and […]
4/10/2019
DHS/IMMIGRATION/STEPHEN MILLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [4-10-19] pushed back against the idea that senior aide Stephen Miller is the mastermind of the administration’s immigration policies following a purge of Department of Homeland Security officials…Miller is reportedly aggressively pushing for a widespread DHS shakeup to help enact controversial new steps to curb illegal […]
4/9/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats must end the loopholes on immigration. So easy to solve” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 9, 2019 8:22 pm […]
4/9/2019
COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s purge of top Homeland Security officials ignores the larger obstacle to his aggressive immigration agenda — the courts. With DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of the way, and other officials in the department expected to be pushed out, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller hopes to accelerate or […]
4/9/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-9-19] claimed that he’s not looking to revive his controversial family separation policy and pushed back against the idea that he’s purging the Department of Homeland Security’s leadership…Even while he denied that he was interested in reinstating the practice, which he brought to a halt last year […]
4/9/2019
DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The leader of Senate Democrats says ‘chaos’ in the Trump administration on immigration and other policy is the president’s fault. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday that President Donald Trump ‘cannot keep changing personnel, changing strategy, tweeting your way through a problem as serious’ as immigration. The […]
4/9/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Behind the clipped hedges of President Trump’s sumptuous private clubs in South Florida, including his Mar-a-Lago estate where he has spent many getaway weekends, there has long been a built-in contradiction to the policy the president has repeatedly described as ‘America First.’ Many of his employees have foreign passports. Romanians serve […]
4/9/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration plans to aggressively push for tougher screening of asylum seekers that will make it vastly more difficult for migrants fleeing persecution in their home countries to win protection in the United States, a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday [4-9-19]. The official said that President Trump ordered a […]
4/9/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-9-19] said he was not reviving a policy of separating children from parents who had illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, one day after media reports that his administration was considering putting it back in place. ‘We’re not looking to do that,’ Trump told reporters before a meeting […]
4/8/2019
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL! https://t.co/XF8o3jMDle” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 8, 2019 10:10 pm […]
4/8/2019
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s congressional allies are alarmed by his purge at the Department of Homeland Security — urging him not to fire more top officials and warning him how hard it will be to solve twin crises at the border and the federal agencies overseeing immigration policy. The president’s frantic four […]
4/6/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….it’s powerful common sense Immigration Laws to stop illegals from coming through Mexico into the U.S., and removing them back to their country of origin. Until Mexico cleans up this ridiculous & massive migration, we will be focusing on Border Security, not Ports of Entry….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 6, 2019 6:36 […]
4/6/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….In the meantime, the Democrats in Congress must help the Republicans (we need their votes) to end the horrible, costly and foolish loopholes in our Immigration Laws. Once that happens, all will be smooth. We can NEVER allow Open Borders!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 6, 2019 6:36 pm […]
4/6/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have redeployed 750 agents at the Southern Border’s specific Ports of Entry in order to help with the large scale surge of illegal migrants trying to make their way into the United States. This will cause traffic & commercial delays until such time as Mexico is able to use…” –Donald Trump, […]
4/5/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “In a press gaggle before heading off to California to boast of his new-but-not-new wall on Friday [4-5-19] President Donald Trump said that Mexico had recently increased its apprehension of migrants in response to his threat of shutting down the US southern border…During an April 4 radio interview, Tonatiuh Guillén, commissioner of […]
4/5/2019
BORDER/CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Join me in California for a Roundtable on Immigration and Border Security! https://t.co/hLV86lWTtA” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 5, 2019 3:33 pm […]
4/5/2019
AUTO INDUSTRY/BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump walked back his threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday [4-4-19], letting Mexico off with a ‘one-year warning,’ POLITICO’s Caitlin Oprysko reports. ‘The only thing frankly better, but less drastic than closing the border, is to tariff the cars coming in,’ the president told reporters at the […]
4/5/2019
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….However, if for any reason Mexico stops apprehending and bringing the illegals back to where they came from, the U.S. will be forced to Tariff at 25% all cars made in Mexico and shipped over the Border to us. If that doesn’t work, which it will, I will close the Border…….” –Donald […]
4/3/2019
BORDER/GOP/HEALTHCARE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “His border shutdown went from imminent to uncertain. A major health care push was declared and then delayed. Funding cuts were inserted in his proposed budget and just as quickly taken out. President Donald Trump has been exploring the art of the climb-down. Trump pivoted on two big policy fronts this week, […]
4/3/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JARED KUSHNER/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even as President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the southern border, his administration is quietly working on a plan to expand some forms of legal immigration into the U.S. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has been working for months on a proposal that could increase the number of […]
4/2/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Tuesday [4-2-19] he was prepared to close the U.S. southern border if necessary but that Mexico has apprehended thousands of people in recent days and its actions have made a big difference in the immigration situation. Trump threatened on Friday [3-29-19] to close the border with Mexico […]
4/2/2019
BORDER/CENTRAL AMERICA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, in his most recent rebuke of Central American nations for what he says is their failure to address the issue of migration, announced plans to cut off aid to three nations — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — known as the Northern Triangle. Critics of the cuts say they […]
4/2/2019
BORDER/ECONOMY/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump acknowledged Tuesday [4-2-19] that closing the southern border with Mexico could damage the United States economy, but said protecting America’s security was more important than trade. In remarks from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump reiterated his threat to shut the border if Mexico, America’s third largest trading partner, cannot restrict […]
4/2/2019
HEALTHCARE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It turns out that Donald Trump alone can’t fix it. The President’s chaos theory of management, rule by threats, focus on pleasing his political base and policy-lite sloganeering are being exposed as ill-suited to effective governance as the nation wrestles with two perennial controversies given new life this week: health care and immigration. […]
4/2/2019
BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/GOP/HEALTHCARE/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/POLICE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “We have the border. We have, if you look at it, we have the immigration but we have a lot — we have the crime. We have the police. We have the military. We have so much. They have health care right now. We have to take that away from them. We take […]
4/1/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump could initiate chaos and grave economic disruption by finally making good on his threat to slam shut the southern border, yet he’s clearly tempted to do it anyway. Such a dramatic gesture would fulfill many of Trump’s most fundamental short-term political goals and indulge a domineering personality and a […]
4/1/2019
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Mexico must use its very strong immigration laws to stop the many thousands of people trying to get into the USA. Our…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2019 7:15 am […]
3/31/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are allowing a ridiculous asylum system and major loopholes to remain as a mainstay of our immigration system. Mexico is likewise doing NOTHING, a very bad combination for our Country. Homeland Security is being sooo very nice, but not for long!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 31, 2019 6:41 pm […]
3/30/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico must use its very strong immigration laws to stop the many thousands of people trying to get into the USA. Our detention areas are maxed out & we will take no more illegals. Next step is to close the Border! This will also help us with stopping the Drug flow from […]
3/30/3019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It would be so easy to fix our weak and very stupid Democrat inspired immigration laws. In less than one hour, and then a vote, the problem would be solved. But the Dems don’t care about the crime, they don’t want any victory for Trump and the Republicans, even if good for […]
3/29/2019
ICE/IMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Donald Trump’s children and campaign staff arrived in South Florida during the 2016 presidential campaign, they were often greeted at the airport by Zoltan Tamas in a black Cadillac Escalade. As a senior security guard at Trump National Golf Club in the town of Jupiter, Mr. Tamas was licensed to […]
3/29/2019
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [3-29-19] repeated his threat to close down the border between the United States and Mexico, but this time he noted he would act next week if Mexico doesn’t step up…Trump, in Florida on Friday afternoon, said he could close the border to trade for a ‘long time’ […]
3/29/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World. Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S. Therefore, CONGRESS MUST CHANGE OUR WEAK IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW, & Mexico must stop illegals from entering the U.S…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 29, […]
3/28/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a National Emergency at our Southern Border. The Dems refuse to do what they know is necessary – amend our immigration laws. Would immediately solve the problem! Mexico, with the strongest immigration laws in the World, refuses to help with illegal immigration & drugs!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 28, 2019 […]
3/28/2019
CENTRAL AMERICA/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico is doing NOTHING to help stop the flow of illegal immigrants to our Country. They are all talk and no action. Likewise, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have taken our money for years, and do Nothing. The Dems don’t care, such BAD laws. May close the Southern Border!” –Donald Trump, […]
3/27/2019
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the months since June 2018, when the Supreme Court upheld the third version of President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, the matter has largely slipped from the headlines as the president’s political adversaries have turned their attention to other issues. But the ban—which, even in its revised form almost completely […]
3/27/2019
AFRICA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers, human rights activists and civil rights lawyers to extend deportation protections for thousands of Liberians who may become undocumented immigrants within a week. President Donald Trump announced in March 2018 that hundreds of Liberians who had been legally living and working in the […]
3/26/2019
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETO: “The House failed on Tuesday [3-26-19] to override President Donald Trump’s veto of legislation blocking his national emergency declaration at the border, capping off a months-long congressional battle over the president’s signature issue. Fourteen Republicans joined all Democrats on the 248-181 vote, far short of the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the […]
3/20/2019
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The American Bar Association is proposing a major overhaul of the US immigration system, calling the courts that decide whether to deport immigrants ‘irredeemably dysfunctional’…The only way to fix ‘serious systemic issues,’ the report argues, is to create what’s known as an Article I court. Akin to tax or bankruptcy courts, this […]
3/25/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION: “Congress’s vote to deny the crisis on the southern border is a vote against reality. It’s against reality. It is a tremendous national emergency. It is a tremendous crisis. Last month, more than 76,000 illegal migrants arrived at our border. We’re on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders. People hate […]
3/13/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouse: January 16, 2019: 247 illegal migrants rush the border in New Mexico. This is a national emergency. https://t.co/I6tLEQkbnX” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 13, 2019 8:12 pm […]
3/13/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Senators are overthinking tomorrow’s vote on National Emergency. It is very simply Border Security/No Crime – Should not be thought of any other way. We have a MAJOR NATIONAL EMERGENCY at our Border and the People of our Country know it very well!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 13, 2019 11:48 am […]
3/11/2019
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @RepAndyBiggsAZ: Kate Steinle. Sarah Root. Grant Ronnebeck. We willl no longer be bystanders to these crimes committed by illegal alien…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2019 9:42 am […]
3/9/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….and renovated, with MUCH MORE to follow shortly. Tens of thousands of illegals are being apprehended (captured) at the Border and NOT allowed into our Country. With another President, millions would be pouring in. I am stopping an invasion as the Wall gets built. #MAGA” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, 2019 5:13 […]
3/8/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We are apprehending record numbers of illegal immigrants – but we need the Wall to help our great Border Patrol Agents!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 8, 2019 8:54 am […]
3/6/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wall Street Journal: ‘More migrant families crossing into the U.S. illegally have been arrested in the first five months of the federal fiscal year than in any prior full year.’ We are doing a great job at the border, but this is a National Emergency!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 6, 2019 7:02 […]
3/6/2019
CHILDREN/DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats hammered Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s attempts to unilaterally expand the southern border wall and the administration’s ‘zero tolerance policy’ that led to thousands of migrant families being separated. Nielsen said the policy was not a ‘family separation’ one but did mandate criminal prosecutions against […]
3/6/2019
BORDER/ICE/IMMIGRATION: “You see what’s going on at the border. And we’re doing a great job, whether it’s Border Patrol, ICE, law enforcement, generally. We’re all working together. We have our military sent to the border. We have 8,000 military personnel right now at the border. We are doing an amazing job considering it’s really an […]
3/3/2019
IMMIGRATION: “We have people pouring in from not just the southern border in Mexico. From China. They have a baby on our land. The baby becomes a citizen. “Welcome to the United States” for hopefully 90 years. Okay? And then the parents come in with the baby because the baby is a citizen. This is […]
3/3/2019
IMMIGRATION: “Illegal immigration is also deeply unfair to American workers and taxpayers, including millions and millions of hardworking legal immigrants. If you care about helping immigrants and care about their success, if you care about reducing poverty and raising living standards, then you must support a safe, strong, and very, very secure border.” -Donald Trump, […]
3/3/2019
CRIME/IMMIGRATION: “I’m very concerned with having murderers and drug traffickers, and drugs and drug cartels, pouring into our country. That’s what I’m concerned about… Because let me tell you — they don’t like it when I say it — but we are being invaded. We’re being invaded by drugs, by people, by criminals. And we […]
2/26/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and his national emergency declaration(all times local): 6:30 p.m. The House has voted to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration, a measure intended get him billions of extra dollars to build his border wall. Democrats pushed the measure through the chamber by 245-182, with 13 Republicans […]
2/26/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “More than a dozen Republicans voted with Democrats to block President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the United States border with Mexico. If the Senate also passes the bill, Mr. Trump has promised that he would veto the bill to protect his emergency declaration. Several Republicans voted to block President […]
2/26/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump sees his border wall crusade as a base-pleasing 2020 campaign asset, proof that he is the ultimate immigration hard-liner. But his wall might not be built for years, if ever. In the meantime, Trump has yet to deliver on several other campaign promises that immigration hawks call far more […]
2/26/2019
CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Health and Human Services received more than 4,500 complaints of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors from 2014-2018, according to internal agency documents released Tuesday [2-26-19] by Florida Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch. In addition,1,303 complaints were reported to the Justice Department during that same time frame, according to […]
2/26/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Thirty minutes into an off-the-cuff defense of his decision to declare a national emergency to help build his border wall, President Donald Trump made an admission that may have handed ammunition to legal opponents of the move. Trump, who has long described the situation on the Southwest border as a ‘crisis’ […]
2/22/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats are laying the groundwork to subpoena the Trump administration for a trove of documents relating to its controversial migrant family separation policy at the border, according to several sources familiar with the matter. The House Oversight Committee will vote next Tuesday to authorize three subpoenas for the departments of Homeland […]
2/21/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge appeared poised on Thursday [2-21-19] to order the government to fully account for all migrant families that were separated before and after the Trump administration formally announced it’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the administration to end the family separation policy on June 26, 2018, and […]
2/21/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since the Trump administration announced it would end its practice of separating families apprehended at the southern border last June under its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy, at least 245 children have been separated from their parents, according to a new court filing. Between late June 2018 and early February of this year, […]
2/20/2019
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups is asking a federal judge for a restraining order that would block the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their cases make their way through US immigration courts. In a motion filed Wednesday [2-20-19], advocates argued that the administration’s new […]
2/20/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Democrats will file a resolution Friday [2-22-19] aimed at blocking the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump has issued to help finance his wall along the Southwest border, teeing up a clash over billions of dollars, immigration policy and the Constitution’s separation of powers. Though the effort seems […]
2/20/2019
BORDER/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to introduce a resolution on Friday [2-22-19] to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on border security, according to aides to Representative Joaquin Castro. So far, 92 lawmakers have joined Castro in backing the legislation, which under House rules could advance […]
2/19/2019
BORDER/CALIFORNIA/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “California and 15 other states sued President Donald Trump on Monday [2-18-19] over his decision to declare a national emergency to free up funding for his controversial border wall, calling the move ‘unlawful and unconstitutional.’ The states allege in their lawsuit that Trump’s emergency declaration exceeds the power of the president and […]
2/16/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTER FRAUD: “RT @TomFitton: BIG: Strzok/Page Docs Show More Collusion to Protect Hillary Clinton; Voter Fraud Crisis–Thousands of Aliens Illegally Voti…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 16, 2019 11:52 pm […]
2/15/2019
CENSUS/IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WILBER ROSS: “The Trump administration’s controversial plan to determine who is and who is not a U.S. citizen during the 2020 census will be decided by the Supreme Court. The justices agreed Friday [2-15-19] to squeeze the blockbuster case on to their April calendar, presumably because the decennial census questionnaire is scheduled […]
2/15/2019
BUDGET/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “On Friday, February 15, 2019, the President signed into law: H.J.Res. 31, the ‘Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019,’ Divisions A through G of the enrolled bill provide full-year funding for fiscal year (FY) 2019 through September 30, 2019, for projects and activities of all Federal Government agencies and programs not yet included in […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [2-6-19] he wants to see more legal immigration because additional workers are needed by companies moving back to the United States…Trump’s remarks followed an unscripted comment in his State of the Union address Tuesday [2-5-19] in which he called for immigrants to enter the U.S. legally in […]
2/6/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s State of the Union speech hit hard on a topic that has dominated his term in office: defending the border with Mexico against what he described as migrants in ‘large organized caravans.’ He also suggested that the Mexican authorities were encouraging the migrants to cross the border illegally. ‘We have […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A House panel is requesting additional documents from the Department of Health and Human Services related to the administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy that led to the separation of families apprehended along the southern border, after an earlier request went unfulfilled…The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and […]
2/5/2019
BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump told Americans in his State of the Union address on Tuesday [2-5-19] that illegal immigration was an urgent national crisis and he vowed to build a border wall as he sought funding for a project rejected by Democrats…Trump used part of his speech to offer a spirit of compromise, […]
2/4/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization has fired at least 18 undocumented workers over the past two months, The Washington Post reported Monday. [2-4-19] The purge of workers reported by the Post followed repeated reports about President Donald Trump’s company employing undocumented immigrants despite the President’s near-constant focus on the issue of immigration. Trump’s […]
2/4/2019
GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump’s legislative path to a border wall has narrowed significantly on the eve of Tuesday’s [2-5-19] State of the Union speech, and his fallback plan to circumvent Congress by declaring a state of emergency could create a major division in his own party. As he prepares to make his case to […]
2/3/2019
CRIME/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necessary for STRONG Border Security. Dems do nothing. If there is no Wall, there is no Security. Human Trafficking, Drugs and Criminals of all dimensions – KEEP OUT!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 3, 2019 5:03 […]
2/3/2019
CRIME/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necessary for STRONG Border Security. Dems do nothing. If there is no Wall, there is no Security. Human Trafficking, Drugs and Criminals of all dimensionns – KEEP OUT!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, February 3, 2019 4:59 […]
2/1/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s family business has employed undocumented workers more broadly than it was previously believed, with multiple workers losing their jobs last month at a Trump golf club in southern New Jersey. The club in Pine Hill, N.J., known as the Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia, was the third Trump property […]
1/31/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “More troops being sent to the Southern Border to stop the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans, into our Country. We have stopped the previous Caravans, and we will stop these also. With a Wall it would be soooo much easier and less expensive. Being Built!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 31, […]
1/30/2019
CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An undocumented employee who was recently fired from President Donald Trump’s golf club in New Jersey will attend the State of the Union address next week. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J) invited Victorina Morales, who worked at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., as her guest for the president’s address […]
1/30/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An undocumented immigrant who worked at one of President Trump’s golf clubs in New Jersey for years and recently spoke out about her experience will attend his State of the Union address after being invited by her Democratic congresswoman, the woman’s lawyer and the congresswoman’s office said Wednesday [1-30-19]. The undocumented […]
1/29/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization said late Tuesday [1-29-19] that it was implementing a system to weed out undocumented immigrants who try to get jobs at its properties. The move followed reports in The New York Times last month that the president’s company was employing people at its flagship golf club in New Jersey who […]
1/27/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country. So ridiculous! DHS” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 27, 2019 8:44 am […]
1/27/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump came away empty-handed for now after the longest federal government shutdown in American history failed to pressure Congress into funding his long-promised border wall, purportedly to stop an inflow of drugs and crime from Mexico. But he is not done making his case on immigration. On Sunday [1-27-19] he rattled […]
1/24/2019
BORDER/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration expects to launch a policy as early as Friday [1-25-19] that forces people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts, an official said, marking one of the most significant changes to the immigration system of Donald Trump’s presidency. The changes are set to […]
1/24/2019
GARY COHN/GOVERNMENT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gary Cohn, the former top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, told MSNBC on Thursday [1-24-19] that his former boss has ‘got to get the government open’ and allow a steady flow of immigrants into the U.S. to maintain economic growth. Cohn, a former executive at Goldman Sachs, was director of […]
1/23/2019
CENTRAL AMERICA/IMMIGRATION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [1-23-19] that ‘Honduras is doing nothing’ to stop migrant caravans from coming toward the US, less than a day after Vice President Mike Pence praised Honduras for its efforts to stop caravans…The President has been a frequent critic of granting foreign aid to Central American […]
1/23/2019
BORDER/GOVERNMENT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The federal government has been partially shut down for more than a month because of an impasse between Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over the president’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the southern border. Democrats have remained adamant in their opposition to such a barrier. However, on Wednesday, […]
1/20/2019
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald J. Trump got Brenda Hernandez’s hopes up in 2016 when he indicated that he had a heart for young undocumented immigrants like her, who were brought into the country by their parents. But her hopes were dashed when Mr. Trump became president and ordered an end to the federal program known […]
1/20/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @GOPLeader: President Trump has put forward a serious and reasonable offer to reform parts of our broken immigration system and reopen g…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 3:22 pm […]
1/20/2019
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @marklevinshow: I strongly support President Trump’s immigration proposal today. Pelosi & Schumer rejected it even before the president…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 20, 2019 3:22 pm […]
1/20/2019
BORDER/GOP/GOVERNMENT/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans plan to include $12.7 billion in disaster aid and government funding through the end of the fiscal year in their bill to advance President Donald Trump’s immigration proposal. The president’s plan will test Democrats’ solidarity, pitting border security funding against protections for young immigrants and refugees. Now, it will also […]