BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “First lady Melania Trump said she was ‘blindsided’ by the administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to family separations at the southern border and it prompted her unannounced visit there in June…Asked if she disagreed with the administration’s zero-tolerance policy, Trump said, ‘Yes and I let him (the President) know. ‘I didn’t […]
Category: Immigration
10/12/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is considering ways to deter a soaring number of families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border — including once again separating parents and children, three current and former Homeland Security Department officials told POLITICO. If parents and children are separated, parents will have a say, the officials emphasized. Under a […]
10/10/2018
ARIZONA/DHS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/NGO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ended its practice of coordinating plans for undocumented immigrant families, including asylum-seekers, in Arizona that are released from custody but still awaiting a court hearing on their request. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who oversees ICE, told senators Wednesday [10-10-18] that the ‘vast’ increase in families […]
10/9/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the Utah Senate debate Tuesday [10-9-18] night, GOP candidate Mitt Romney called family separations at the border ‘a dark chapter in American history,’ and said that “this is inexcusable, and can’t go on’…Romney faces off in November against Democratic opponent Jenny Wilson, a member of the Salt Lake County Commission. In […]
10/5/2018
CALIFORNIA/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. judge on Friday [10-5-18] blocked the Trump Administration from placing conditions on public safety grants to further its crackdown on illegal immigration, and he ordered the grant money to be released to California ‘sanctuary cities.’ However, while Judge William Orrick in San Francisco found that the conditions placed […]
10/4/2018
DEMS/HEALTHCARE/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats are quietly preparing to launch a slew of investigations into the Trump administration’s health care moves if they retake the House in November, aiming to freeze the White House’s efforts to unravel Obamacare and probe the administration’s care of immigrant kids. The wide-ranging inquiries, coordinated across multiple committees, […]
10/3/2018
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge late Wednesday [10-3-18] blocked the Trump administration’s move to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 nationals from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. The move temporarily halts the administration’s plan to force the beneficiaries — some of whom have lived in the U.S. for decades — to […]
10/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year was plagued by a lack of preparation, resource shortfalls and communication failures, according to a government audit released on Tuesday [10-2-18]. The review, conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, is the first official audit of […]
10/1/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump said three times this afternoon that he must now decide whether to push for more funding for the border wall in December — toning down a threat he previously espoused with certainty…The president has for months been throwing around the idea of forcing a government shutdown to get Congress […]
9/20/2018
ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “This summer, as anger over the separation of migrant families at the border boiled over, and the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a rallying cry for left-leaning Democrats, a number of less scrutinized, more arcane reforms were quietly working their way into the most foundational laws governing U.S. immigration. […]
9/20/2018
CRIME/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A daughter who never returned home, a son gunned down point-blank, a mom who was brutally attacked — all deaths at the hands of immigrants in the country illegally, all gripping stories the White House has been eager to share. But for all the talk of murderers, rapists and other ‘bad […]
9/19/2018
CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration again could not determine where nearly 1,500 immigrant children were over a three-month period this year, the second time in less than a year that it admitted it had lost track of hundreds of undocumented children released from US custody. The findings were released on Tuesday [9-18-18] by a […]
9/19/2018
AFRICA/IMMIGRATION/SPAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump recommended building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spain’s foreign minister says. Josep Borrell, also a former President of the European Parliament, disagreed with the strategy. The comments came during a visit Mr Borrell made to the US at the end of June. Mr Trump’s pledge […]
9/18/2018
DEFENSE/IMMIGRATION/MIKE POMPEO/REFUGEES/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It has been strange and unsettling to watch how much effort the Trump team has put into damaging the U.S. government’s own refugee resettlement program, but give them points for effectiveness. On Monday [9-17-18], Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the refugee ceiling for the coming fiscal year will be […]
9/18/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials told a Senate panel on Tuesday [9-18-18] that a decades-old court ruling that limits the length of time migrant children can be detained hampers the government’s ability to stem illegal immigration, and needs to be amended by Congress. The officials, from the Department of Homeland Security and the […]
9/17/2018
IMMIGRATION/MIKE POMPEO/REFUGEES/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will admit no more than 30,000 refugees to the U.S. in the coming year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, down from the current cap of 45,000. Pompeo announced the lowered ceiling during a press conference Monday [9-17-18] at the State Department headquarters in Foggy Bottom. Pompeo said […]
9/17/2018
IMMIGRATION/MIKE POMPEO/REFUGEES/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump plans to cap the number of refugees that can be resettled in the United States next year at 30,000, his administration announced on Monday [9-17-18], further cutting an already drastically scaled-back program that offers protection to foreigners fleeing violence and persecution. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, announced the […]
9/13/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUITS/TRUMP AS PRESDIENT: “President Donald Trump’s administration has agreed to reconsider the asylum claims of some 1,000 immigrant parents and children who were separated at the U.S. border as part of a deal to settle lawsuits over his ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy. The settlement, detailed in court documents late on Wednesday [9-12-18], represented a victory for […]
9/12/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESDIENT: “President Trump has promised for years that Mexico would pay for a vast border wall, a demand that country has steadfastly refused. Now, in the Trump administration’s campaign to stop illegal immigration, the United States plans instead to pay Mexico. In a recent notice sent to Congress, the administration said it intended […]
9/12/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even though hundreds of children separated from their families after crossing the border have been released under court order, the overall number of detained migrant children has exploded to the highest ever recorded — a significant counternarrative to the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the number of undocumented families coming to the […]
9/12/2018
DEMS/DHS/FEMA/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Homeland Security transferred nearly $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a budget document released by a Democratic senator late Tuesday [9-11-18] night, diverting funds from the relief agency at the start of the hurricane season that began in June. The […]
9/12/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DHS/DNI/ELECTION/FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/SANCTIONS/SECRETARY OF STATE/TREASURY/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/VOTING: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and […]
9/10/2018
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a new group of immigration judges Monday [9-10-18] that it is their job to ‘restore the rule of law’ to the immigration system over the contrary efforts of the lawyers who represent immigrants. The remarks at the training of the largest-ever class of new immigration judges […]
9/7/2018
CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under our horrible immigration laws, the Government is frequently blocked from deporting criminal aliens with violent felony convictions. House GOP just passed a bill to increase our ability to deport violent felons (Crazy Dems opposed). Need to get this bill to my desk fast!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 7, 2018 11:35 am […]
9/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [9-6-18] moved to abandon a longstanding court settlement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept locked up, proposing new regulations that would allow the government to detain families until their immigration cases are decided. Homeland Security officials said that ending the so-called Flores agreement of […]
9/6/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/MENTAL HEALTH/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The US government should cover mental health treatment costs for immigrant children who officials separated from their parents, a new lawsuit argues. The class-action lawsuit, filed by a group of lawyers in federal court this week, also seeks unspecified damages for children affected by the Trump administration’s now-reversed zero tolerance policy […]
9/6/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration will forge ahead with a plan to keep migrant families detained together through the course of immigration proceedings, according to a Federal Register announcement Thursday [9-6-18]. The administration will publish a notice of proposed rulemaking that sets standards for the care of families, a step that may terminate the […]
8/29/2018
IMMIGRATION/STEPHEN MILLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When the White House held a series of meetings last year to discuss how to deal with nations that refuse to take back their citizens whom the U.S. is trying to deport, one voice in the room was louder than all the others: Stephen Miller. It was odd that Miller, a powerful […]
8/27/2018
ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Joe Arpaio built a national reputation as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration while sheriff of Arizona’s largest county and found a powerful ally in President Donald Trump, who pardoned him last year after he ran into legal trouble. But as the self-styled ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ hustles for votes in Arizona ahead of […]
8/24/2018
CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-24-18] tied the death of 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts to Democratic policies, continuing the administration’s politicization of crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants…The President’s remarks on Tibbetts come not long after the White House added the slain University of Iowa student to a list of […]
8/24/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, closing out a brutal week that plunged him deeper into legal and political peril, warned Ohio Republicans on Friday [8-24-18] that Democrats would destroy their state and impose policies that would spill ‘innocent blood’ if they were successful in November. While presenting himself as the savior of the party’s fortunes […]
8/23/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for the U.S. government and families separated by border officials after they entered the United States from Mexico said 37 more children have been freed from federal custody in the last week, as both sides work out means to enable children to seek asylum. In a Thursday [8-23-18] court filing, the […]
8/23/2018
BUSINESS/ECONOMY/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of chief executive officers at the largest U.S. companies expressed serious concern about the Trump administration’s immigration policy and said the rules increase uncertainty and undermine economic growth. In the letter signed by 59 CEOs including Tim Cook of Apple Inc (AAPL.O), JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM.N) Jamie Dimon and […]
8/23/2018
CONGRESS/CRIME/ELECTION/GOP/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump and congressional Republicans, who are eager to find an issue that can help minimize the losses they expect in the midterm elections, are leaning hard into crime, illegal immigration and public safety to paint a bleak picture of how the country would become less safe under a Democratic-controlled Congress. […]
8/22/2018
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For more than a month, Iowans have been gripped by the mysterious and highly publicized disappearance of a local college student who left for a run in her rural Iowa community and never returned. Now the case is poised to explode across the midterm election map. On Tuesday [8-21-18], authorities charged a […]
8/22/2018
AGRICULTURE/IMMIGRATION/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For the first three weeks of July, Peter Martens prayed for rain. At the end of the month the rain finally arrived, but by then it was too late for some of his crops. For others, it was too much water, too quickly. The lack of rain, Mr. Martens said, will […]
8/21/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am sorry to have to reiterate that there are serious and unpleasant consequences to crossing the Border into the United States ILLEGALLY! If there were no serious consequences, our country would be overrun with people trying to get in, and our system could not handle it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 21, […]
8/20/2018
BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump on Monday [8-20-18] criticized Democratic lawmakers who are against his proposed border wall, saying they are ‘people that don’t mind crime.’ The president delivered his criticism during an event at the White House saluting members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection. Several Republican officials attended, […]
8/17/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Justice Department employee who heckled DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Washington restaurant and criticized the administration’s immigration policy online did not violate rules against political activity by government workers, a watchdog agency found. In a letter dated this week, the chief of the US Office of Special Counsel’s […]
8/16/2018
CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House is planning an event next week to honor federal immigration agents — even as more than 500 migrant children remain separated from their parents after being separated at the border. The ‘Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs [and] Border Protection’ is scheduled […]
8/15/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Health and Human Services is not taking responsibility for unaccompanied minors once they’re placed with sponsors, according to a Senate subcommittee report released Wednesday [8-15-18], an issue the subcommittee’s Republican chairman called an ‘incredibly difficult issue’…The report found that Health and Human Services had failed to establish rules to […]
8/15/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.’ Chuck Schumer in 2009, before he went left and haywire! @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 8:18 am […]
8/15/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enters the U.S. legally.’ Chuck Schumer in 2009, before he went left and haywire! @foxandfriends” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 7:44 am […]
8/14/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The government has made only incremental improvements to its troubled efforts to care for thousands of migrant children detained entering the U.S. without their parents, perpetuating a problem the Trump administration has aggravated with its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration crackdown, a bipartisan Senate report said Wednesday [8-15-18]. The 52-page study said no […]
8/13/2018
IMMIGRATION/STEPHEN MILLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stephen Miller, one of the key architects of President Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, is the descendant of Jewish immigrants who arrived to a welcoming United States at the turn of the 20th century. But in an essay posted online Monday [8-13-18], Dr. David S. Glosser, Mr. Miller’s uncle, argues that the […]
8/11/2018
IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The immigration lawyer representing first lady Melania Trump’s parents pushed back against President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on a category of family visa that paved the way for his in-laws’ citizenship, calling the President’s rhetoric “unconscionable’…Melania Trump’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, were granted US citizenship Thursday, Wildes previously had announced…The Knavses, […]
8/9/2018
IMMIGRATION/MELANIA: “Melania Trump’s parents were briskly sworn in as citizens of the United States in New York on Thursday [8-8-18]. Viktor and Amalija Knavs, formerly of Slovenia, wore suits and sunglasses as they entered 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan just before noon, flanked by their lawyer and federal police. As they left the building […]
8/9/2018
COURT/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Thursday [8-9-18] erupted at the Trump administration when he learned that two asylum seekers fighting deportation were at that moment being deported and on a plane to El Salvador. DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan then blocked the administration from deporting the two plaintiffs while they are fighting […]
8/8/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “American immigration officials arrested 2,885 fewer people at the Southwest border last month than in June, the second month in a row that the number of migrants trying to enter the United States has dropped. Data released on Wednesday [8-8-18] by the Department of Homeland Security show that authorities apprehended 39,953 people […]
8/8/2018
BUSINESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “American corporate titans used a collegial dinner with President Donald Trump on Tuesday [8-7-18] to press him on to ease immigration restrictions, according to multiple attendees. And at least during the dinner, it seemed like their coaxing had an effect. After several of the CEOs urged Trump to make it easier to […]
8/8/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The number of people arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border declined for the second consecutive month in July, according to government data. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 31,303 border crossers last month, an 8% decline from June, according to the arrest figures compiled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and reviewed […]
8/7/2018
IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday [8-7-18] filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to remove asylum protections for victims of domestic and gang violence. The ACLU is arguing against ‘expedited removal’ policies, put forth by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, that it says ‘generally’ deny claims […]
8/6/2018
HUMAN RIGHTS/IMMIGRATION/IRAN/NUKES/SANCTIONS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, in light of my decision on May 8, 2018, to cease the participation of the United States in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action of July 14, 2015 (JCPOA), and to re-impose all sanctions lifted or waived in connection with […]
8/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRANT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government told a federal court judge on Thursday [8-2-18] that volunteers and non-profit groups, rather than government officials, should take the lead in locating more than 400 immigrant parents who were separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border and deported from the United States. The proposal came in a […]
8/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/IVANKA: “President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump came out Thursday [8-2-18] against the family separations that resulted from her father’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal immigration, calling them a ‘low point’ of her White House tenure thus far…The Trump administration last week reunited at least 1,442 children with their parents, though 2,551 children were […]
8/1/2018
IMMIGRATION/REFUGEES/STEVEN MILLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is considering a second sharp reduction in the number of refugees who can be resettled in the United States, picking up where President Trump left off in 2017 in scaling back a program intended to offer protection to the world’s most vulnerable people, according to two former […]
8/1/2018
DHS/IMMIGATION/REFUGEES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is considering slashing the number of refugees it allows to come to the U.S. next year by as much as 44% as it looks to tighten its immigration crackdown, a senior administration official said. The plan under discussion seeks to cap the number of refugees granted resettlement in the […]
7/31/2018
ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has given Republicans good reason to tolerate his unruly leadership style. His tax cuts, deregulation push and nomination of conservative judges amount to the most orthodox Republican agenda any president has pursued since Ronald Reagan. Few had better reason to appreciate Mr. Trump’s results than Charles G. Koch, a billionaire […]
7/31/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official declined repeatedly at a congressional hearing Tuesday [7-31-18] to say whether the agency can document that migrant parents captured at the border and deported under the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy were given the opportunity to take their children. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, […]
7/31/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/CONGRESS/DHS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As lawmakers grilled them at a congressional hearing Tuesday [7-31-18], Trump administration officials defended their efforts to reunite thousands of immigrant families that the government separated. And one top immigration official told lawmakers that family detention centers are ‘more like summer camp.’ Asked at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to describe the so-called […]
7/31/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t care what the political ramifications are, our immigration laws and border security have been a complete and total disaster for decades, and there is no way that the Democrats will allow it to be fixed without a Government Shutdown…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2018 12:33 pm […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has been threatening to close down the government if Congress doesn’t meet his immigration priorities, but he has privately agreed to put off a potential shutdown or any fight over border wall funding until after the midterm elections, an administration official said Monday [7-30-18]. In recent days Mr. Trump has […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump reiterated his threat Monday [7-30-18] to shut down the government if Congress fails to pass new border security and immigration measures, but he declined to draw a line in the sand. Trump stuck to broad strokes as he warned he is willing to shut down the government if Congress […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “U.S. President Donald Trump threatened again on Monday [7-30-18] to shut down the federal government over his demands for a border wall and other changes in immigration policy, but said he remains open to talks with Congress on the issue…Congress must pass a spending bill by the end of September to avert […]
7/30/2018
EU/IMMIGRATION/ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump praised Italy’s increasingly hard-line approach to immigration on Monday [7-30-18], at the start of a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the White House…Conte took office last month promising to bring radical change to Italy, including more generous welfare provision and a crackdown on immigration. Immigration […]
7/30/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We must have Border Security, get rid of Chain, Lottery, Catch & Release Sanctuary Cities – go to Merit based Immigration. Protect ICE and Law Enforcement and, of course, keep building, but much faster, THE WALL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2018 6:57 am […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Congressional Republicans, already facing a difficult election landscape, confronted a prospect on Sunday [7-29-18] they had worked feverishly to avoid: a threat by President Trump to shut down the government over funding for a border wall…Last week, Republican leaders thought they had reached a deal with Mr. Trump to delay a confrontation […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump renewed a threat to shut down the government unless Congress provides money for a wall at the southern border and enacts new curbs on immigration, reviving a battle he said last month should wait until Republicans gained more solid majorities after the November elections…The threat adds a new headache for […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!” – […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Democrats, who want Open Borders and care little about Crime, are incompetent, but they have the Fake News Media almos…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 6:59 am […]
7/29/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our Border illegally, whether they have children or not – and many are just using children for their own sinister purposes. Congress must act on fixing the DUMBEST & WORST immigration laws anywhere in the world! Vote ‘R’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2018 […]
7/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, federal immigration officials along the 268-mile stretch of border that separates New Mexico and West Texas from Mexico had been testing a policy of separating migrant parents from their children. What they didn’t plan for was how to reunite them. When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reconnect […]
7/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrant advocacy groups are gearing up to track down more than 400 parents who were separated from their children and deported without them. The challenge is so daunting that government attorneys have bristled every time it’s come up in court. And now a number of nonprofit groups say they’re prepared to join […]
7/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal government was rushing on Thursday [7-26-18] to reunite the last 1,634 migrant families separated at the Southwest border who have been deemed ‘eligible’ for reunification, in the final hours of a court-ordered scramble to reverse a contentious immigration policy that drew international condemnation. While the government appeared to be on […]
7/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When federal judge Dana Sabraw gave orders to reunite separated families by certain dates, he made his demands clear: These were ‘firm deadlines,’ he warned. ‘Not aspirational goals.’ That was weeks ago, before an earlier deadline in the case. Fast forward to Thursday [7-26-18], and US officials are scrambling to reunite hundreds […]
7/24/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said more than 450 immigrant parents separated from their children under the government’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossers may have been deported. In a court filing late Monday [7-23-18], Justice Department lawyers said case notes by immigration authorities show that 463 immigrants are no longer in the […]
7/24/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-24-18] said he believed that the demands by some Democrats that a U.S. government immigration enforcement agency be shut down will help Republicans in midterm congressional elections in November. In a speech to war veterans in Kansas City, Missouri, Trump defended the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
7/23/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration gave its first indication Monday [7-23-18] of how many parents separated from their children may have already been deported: More than 460. In a status update on the ongoing court-ordered family reunifications filed Monday, the government said 463 parents of separated children aged five and older are indicated as […]
7/20/2018
IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The legal challenges to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ immigration practices have left Mr. Sessions’s policy in an uneven state, with both sides claiming victory. Sanctuary cities, or communities that limit their cooperation to some extent with federal immigration authorities, are part of the broader immigration debate. The […]
7/20/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorneys for the U.S. government were due in court on Friday [7-20-18] to update a federal judge on efforts to reunite some 2,500 immigrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. The government has six more days to comply with the reunification […]
7/19/2018
CONSUMER PROTECTION/IMMIGRATION/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. consumer watchdog survived aggressive questioning by lawmakers on Thursday [7-19-18] and looked on track to secure a confirmation vote that could come as soon as this month. There were heated exchanges in the Senate as Democratic lawmakers grilled Kathy Kraninger, a government official, on […]
7/18/2018
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “New York and five other states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday [7-18-18] seeking to block the Trump administration from making cooperation with federal immigration authorities a condition for receiving millions of dollars in federal funding for law enforcement. The lawsuit, brought by New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia and […]
7/18/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whose department has recently become entangled in the fight over separating undocumented children from their families, is pushing to keep focus on his agenda. Mr. Azar took office in January with a set of explicit goals after his predecessor, Dr. Tom Price, resigned under an ethics […]
7/18/2018
HEALTHCARE/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The health department has quietly dipped into tens of millions of dollars to pay for the consequences of President Donald Trump’s border policy, angering advocates who want the money spent on medical research, rural health programs and other priorities. The Department of Health and Human Services has burned through at least $40 […]
7/16/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ve seen a flurry of recent activity in efforts to reunite migrant children removed from their parents. But with all the legal and political wranglings, the latest developments can be difficult to follow. Here’s a quick look at what’s new and what’s next: What’s the latest? — The US government hasn’t been […]
7/16/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in San Diego is temporarily blocking the government from deporting recently reunited immigrant families, the latest ruling to go against the Trump administration as it rushes to reunite more than 2,500 children with their families. Judge Dana Sabraw gave the Trump administration a week to file a written objection […]
7/15/2018
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: ‘Criminal Illegal Alien Deported 11 Times Attacked Woman with Chainsaw, @ICEgov Says’ https://t.co/wU7rk1OOzj“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:40 am […]
7/15/2018
CRIME/GANGS/IMMIGRATION/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: ‘Texas grand jury indicts MS-13 gang members after machete attacks’ https://t.co/GGTCEDOcVh“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:33 am […]
7/15/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: ‘About 1-in-5 illegal alien adults crossing the United States-Mexico border with toddlers under the age of five are either c…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:33 am […]
7/15/2018
GANGS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Scavino45: ‘Asylum-Seeking Central American Discovered to Be MS-13 Gang Member’ https://t.co/76ZizQSNKI“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2018 8:33 am […]
7/13/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/MIKE POMPEO/NAFTA/NATO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top US officials traveled to Mexico Friday [7-13-18] for talks with the country’s president-elect, the first high-level meeting between the Trump administration and incoming leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador amid heightened tensions between the two neighbors and calls from Mexican leaders for the US to […]
7/13/2018
IMMIGRATION/REFUGEES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A White House official who supported higher numbers of refugee admissions to the United States and clashed with immigration hard-liners in the Trump administration left her position on Thursday, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the departure said. Jennifer Arangio, a senior director at the White House National Security Council for International Organizations […]
7/12/2018
CHILDREN/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said on Thursday [7-12-18] it had reunited all eligible young migrant children with their parents after they had been separated when crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, two days after a court-imposed deadline. But nearly half – 46 of the 103 children under the age of 5 who were placed in […]
7/11/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after dozens of parents were reunited with children who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by immigration officials, the U.S. government faces a looming deadline to match another roughly 2,000 children with parents. The struggle to track and match parents with children under five suggests meeting a July 26 […]
7/11/2018
CHILDREN/CONGRESS/DEMS/EU/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats in Congress must no longer Obstruct – vote to fix our terrible Immigration Laws now. I am watching what is going on from Europe – it would be soooo simple to fix. Judges run the system and illegals and traffickers know how it works. They are just using children!” -Donald Trump, […]
7/10/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday [7-10-18] that his department was performing ‘one of the great acts of American generosity and charity’ in its care of immigrant children. Repeatedly pressed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on ‘The Situation Room’ about why HHS won’t allow media cameras into facilities housing children, Azar […]
7/10/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government must reunite 63 children under the age of five who were separated by immigration officials after crossing into the United States from Mexico as soon as Tuesday [7-10-18] or face penalties, a federal judge said. U.S. Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego told government attorneys he was sticking with […]
7/10/2018
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-10-18] pushed back against court rulings against his administration’s migrant detention policies, saying immigrants should not come to the United States illegally…On Monday [7-9-18], U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles dismissed the U.S. Justice Department’s request to allow long-term detention for children […]
7/9/2018
COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A judge on Monday [7-9-18] refused the Trump administration’s request to change a longstanding federal court settlement so that officials could detain asylum-seeking families together during lengthy immigration proceedings. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee in Los Angeles further complicates the administration’s efforts to reunite more than more […]
7/9/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “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 [7-10-18], but the Trump administration is still not sure when the rest will be reunified. Still, at a court hearing […]