BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government is struggling to reunite immigrant families it separated at the border with Mexico and only about half the children under age 5 will be back with their parents by a court-ordered deadline of Tuesday, a government attorney told a judge on Monday [7-9-18]. U.S. Judge Dana Sabraw in […]
Category: Immigration
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is asking a judge for more time to reunite families who cross the border illegally then seek asylum, saying in court documents that officials are still struggling to match some children with parents arrested at the border. A federal judge gave the government until Tuesday [7-10-18] to reunite […]
7/6/2018
DEMS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Vice President Mike Pence said Friday [7-6-18] that the calls within the Democratic Party to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency are ‘irresponsible’ and ‘unacceptable…’ Pence argued that dismantling the agency would lead to more violent crime, more gangs like MS-13, more drugs in the country, and increased human trafficking. ICE […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s been more than a week since a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to reunite the families it separated at the border. Officials say they’re working to comply and meet deadlines the court set. But they’ve been tight-lipped about many details. At a status hearing in a San Diego […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said Friday [7-6-18] that it may need more time to reunite the immigrant families it separated. The Department of Justice informed a federal judge in San Diego that the administration is in compliance with the judge’s order requiring the end of family separations at the US-Mexico border, except […]
7/6/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. government may not meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite migrant parents with their children who were separated after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to court documents filed overnight. The U.S. Department of Justice asked the U.S. District Court in San Diego to clarify if it would be breaching […]
7/5/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar now estimates that under 3,000 kids who may have been separated from their parents are in government custody — a figure far higher than his department released just nine days ago. HHS had previously reported that it had 2,047 children from separated families in its […]
7/5/2018
ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigration tops the economy and healthcare as the most important issue determining Americans’ vote ahead of the midterm elections in November, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows. Reuters/Ipsos data shows that immigration became a top concern for registered voters in the United States after the Trump administration in May announced its ‘zero […]
7/5/2018
CALIFORNIA/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/SANCTUARY CITIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “California’s ‘sanctuary state’ laws largely survived a legal attack by the Trump administration on Thursday [7-5-18] after a federal judge declined to block state measures aimed at thwarting cooperation with Washington’s crackdown on illegal immigration. But the judge, John Mendez of U.S. District Court in Sacramento, also rebuked lawmakers, saying that […]
7/5/2018
CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress – FIX OUR INSANE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 5, 2018 9:17 am […]
7/5/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..Country being forced to endure a long and costly trial. Tell the people ‘OUT,’ and they must leave, just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn. Hiring thousands of ‘judges’ does not work and is not acceptable – only Country in the World that does this!” –Donald Trump, […]
7/5/2018
BORDER/CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane. When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our……..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]
7/4/2018
CRIME/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald J. Trump first reached out to them about three years ago, when he was regarded as a political sideshow and they were desperate for any attention to their plight. Today, thanks to the platform now afforded by President Trump, the group he calls ‘angel families’ — relatives of people killed by […]
7/4/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrants separated from their children after being arrested for illegally entering the U.S. at the Mexican border are being asked to choose between being deported alone or with their children. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started giving parents who have been given deportation orders a form laying out their options after a […]
7/3/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How many immigrant families have been reunited since a judge ordered the US government to halt most family separations at the border? And how many kids from separated immigrant families are still in government custody? We don’t know, because officials aren’t saying. It’s been a week since they released a tally of […]
7/3/2018
IMMIGRATION/POLLS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than half of American voters surveyed by Quinnipiac University for a recent poll said they disapprove of the way President Donald Trump has handled immigration. Just 39 percent of those polled said they approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, while 58 percent said they disapprove. But 50 percent of respondents said […]
7/3/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Monday [7-2-18] became the latest to rebuke the Trump administration for its immigration practices — this time ordering the administration not to deny asylum seekers potential release from detention. The lawsuit predates the administration’s now-reversed practice of separating families at the border, but the national outcry over the […]
7/3/2018
CENSUS/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge on Tuesday [7-3-18] ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to hand information about its plan to ask people filling out the 2020 census form whether they are U.S. citizens over to a group of states and cities suing the administration over the question. At a hearing in Manhattan federal court, […]
7/2/2018
BORDER/COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An order a federal judge issued Monday [7-3-18] requiring individualized decisions on whether some asylum-seekers can be released into the U.S. poses a new legal threat to President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on migrants crossing the border from Mexico. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg said there is strong evidence […]
7/2/2018
DEMS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Erupting at growing criticism of its hardline immigration policies, the Trump administration on Monday [7-2-18] ripped into Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, unleashing the White House’s official Twitter account to accuse Harris of ‘supporting the animals of MS-13…’ The attack on the California senator followed a similar rebuke of Warren, […]
7/2/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal officials are struggling to reunite migrant children with their families despite a court deadline, and agencies do not have the resources or procedures to help thousands of children detained at the border back into the arms of their parents, according to a dozen current and former officials, advocates and experts. With […]
7/2/2018
IMMIGRATION/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thousands gathered in cities across the U.S. to protest the Trump administration’s now-reversed policy of separating migrant families at the U.S. border. Organizers of the Families Belong Together march called for a large gathering in Washington, D.C., and expected further protests in hundreds of cities. Tweets highlighted gatherings in Sacramento, Calif., Carlsbad, […]
7/2/2018
ICE/IMMIGRATION/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s new push for more federal detention facilities for immigrants awaiting asylum hearings or deportation has brightened the outlook for the country’s two largest private prison operators. Tennessee-based CoreCivic Inc. and Florida-based Geo Group had already been helped by higher federal spending on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Now, the Trump […]
7/2/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Republicans left Washington last week relieved that their ugly, months-long fight over immigration was behind them. The reality? It’s far from over. President Donald Trump has been pestering Congress to send him big money for his border wall with Mexico, a demand that could lead to a government shutdown just weeks […]
7/1/2018
DEMS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has gone on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who have called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seeking to seize political advantage on an issue that has put him on the defensive for weeks and offer a winning message for Republicans facing a forbidding midterm election…The president encouraged Democratic candidates […]
7/1/2018
CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Liberal Left, also known as the Democrats, want to get rid of ICE, who do a fantastic job, and want Open Borders. Crime would be rampant and uncontrollable! Make America Great Again” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 1, 2018 7:11 am […]
6/30/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When people come into our Country illegally, we must IMMEDIATELY escort them back out without going through years of legal maneuvering. Our laws are the dumbest anywhere in the world. Republicans want Strong Borders and no Crime. Dems want Open Borders and are weak on Crime!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 30, 2018 […]
6/30/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I never pushed the Republicans in the House to vote for the Immigration Bill, either GOODLATTE 1 or 2, because it could never have gotten enough Democrats as long as there is the 60 vote threshold. I released many prior to the vote knowing we need more Republicans to win […]
6/29/2018
DEMS/ICE/IMMIGRATION: “Abolish ICE! That was the seemingly radical message that Chardo Richardson, a House candidate in Florida, published in an online statement four months ago, endorsing a call to eliminate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. To that point, the idea had largely been passed around on social media; among political candidates, Mr. Richardson was […]
6/29/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 500 people, including at least one member of Congress, were arrested and escorted from the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday [6-28-18] after staging a sit-in during a women-led march against the Trump administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to illegal immigration. The United States Capitol Police charged approximately 575 people […]
6/28/2018
CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The State Department warned in a report on Thursday [6-28-18] that separating children from their parents can cause lasting psychological damage that leaves them vulnerable to trafficking, a cautionary tale that comes amid an uproar over a Trump administration immigration policy that has temporarily broken up migrant families as they enter the […]
6/28/2018
DHS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security made an unannounced visit on Wednesday [6-27-18] to the home of a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman who abruptly resigned three months ago because he could not bring himself to lie on behalf of the Trump administration. The former spokesman, James Schwab, […]
6/28/2018
CRIME/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “At least 19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators are seeking to dissolve the agency, concerned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migrants has limited their ability to pursue national security threats, child pornography and transnational crime. In a letter sent last week to Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, the […]
6/28/2018
IMMIGRATION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Vice President Mike Pence plans to urge the leaders of three Central American nations to do more to stop the flow of migrants from their countries in a meeting later Thursday [6-28-18], while Congress and the Trump administration struggle to find a solution back home. The vice president wraps up his three-country […]
6/28/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The State Department said children held in government facilities are at higher risk of psychological damage and should be separated from their families only as a ‘last resort.’ The finding, part of the agency’s Trafficking in Persons Report released Thursday [6-28-18], came as President Donald Trump seeks to quiet public furor […]
6/28/2018
IMMIGRATION/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly 600 protesters were arrested during a clangorous occupation of a U.S. Senate office building in Washington on Thursday [6-28-18], where they decried U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘zero- tolerance’ stance on illegal immigration. The protesters, mostly women dressed in white, sat on the Hart Senate Office Building’s marbled floors and wrapped themselves […]
6/27/2018
ICE/IMMIGRATION/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the middle of a national immigration firestorm over the Trump administration’s policy of separating children and parents at the southern border, and with the president tweeting that detained immigrants should be denied due process in the courts, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday [6-26-18] made an […]
6/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURT/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials said on Wednesday [6-27-18] that it would be difficult to comply with the timetable in a federal court order requiring the reunification of migrant children and parents who were separated at the border. Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Federal District Court in San Diego issued a preliminary injunction […]
6/27/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House resoundingly rejected a far-reaching immigration overhaul on Wednesday [6-27-18], despite a last-minute plea from President Trump, as internal divisions in the Republican ranks continued to hobble legislative efforts to protect the young unauthorized immigrants known as Dreamers. The 121-301 votes was an embarrassment to both Mr. Trump […]
6/27/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House on Wednesday [6-27-18] rejected an immigration bill devised as a compromise between different wings of the GOP, in a defeat for centrist Republicans aiming to show progress on the contentious issue before the midterm elections. With Democrats opposed to what they saw as the bill’s harsh treatment of […]
6/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California late Tuesday [6-26-18] ordered a halt to most family separations at the US border and the reunification of all families that have been separated in the first major rebuke to the Trump administration during ongoing furor over family separations at the border. The court order specifically requires […]
6/27/2018
BORDER/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE. PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/27/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DREAMERS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a ‘compromise’ immigration bill on Wednesday [6-27-18], as expected, that would have addressed the crisis of families being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. The House could vote next month on a narrower measure that is being developed and would focus specifically on the family […]
6/26/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A man and his mother were doing yard work in California when a woman unleashed a diatribe against Mexicans, and — invoking President Trump — called them rapists, animals and drug dealers. The encounter was captured in a video that was posted on Twitter early Monday [6-25-18] morning and had been […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction late Tuesday [6-26-18] temporarily stopping the Trump administration from separating children from their parents at the border and ordered that all families already separated be reunited within 30 days. Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the Federal District Court in San Diego said children […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The pace of arrests on the U.S.-Mexico border dropped in June, according to a preliminary government estimate — potentially signaling that the Trump administration’s controversial ‘zero tolerance’ policy discouraged migrants from traveling north. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is projected to arrest roughly 37,000 people at the border in June, based […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday [6-26-18] called immigration enforcement ‘a decisive issue for our time,’ maintaining a hard line on illegal border crossings a day after a key Department of Homeland Security official declared the administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy effectively dead…He went on to accuse Democrats and members of the media […]
6/26/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA: “First lady Melania Trump will again pay a visit to immigration facilities in coming days, her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham confirmed to CNN…It is not known where exactly Trump plans to go but it is likely the first lady will see first-hand an immigration processing detention center as had been part of her plan in […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, on the first day of a Latin America trip, took President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown on a roadshow, urging countries in the region to rein in the flow of migrants to the U.S. or face consequences…In his remarks with Mr. Pence, Mr. Temer expressed his country’s concern […]
6/26/2018
GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republican leaders worked to build support among GOP lawmakers for a broad immigration bill tentatively set for a vote on Wednesday [6-27-18], aiming to minimize defections after President Donald Trump vacillated on whether he backed the measure. After meeting behind closed doors with rank-and-file Republicans, GOP leaders planned to spend the […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday [6-26-18] over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was illusory. In a complaint filed with U.S. District Court in Seattle, 17 states and the District of […]
6/26/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The two Honduran mothers didn’t run when the Border Patrol agents found them along a muddy border road Monday [6-25-18], near where Mexico ends and the U.S. begins. The suspected smuggler who guided the women, their children and two teenage boys, had fled back toward the Rio Grande when they encountered the […]
6/26/2018
ECONOMY/IMMIGRATION/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump could be running a ‘Morning in America’ midterm campaign strategy, bragging about an economy growing as consistently as it has in over a decade with an unemployment rate tied for the lowest level in nearly half a century. Instead, he’s banking on hard-line trade and immigration policies that […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The nation’s top border security official said on Monday [6-25-18] that his agency has temporarily stopped handing over migrant adults who cross the Mexican border with children to prosecutors, undercutting claims by other administration officials that ‘zero tolerance’ for illegal immigration is still in place. Kevin K. McAleenan, the commissioner of […]
6/25/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans are adding to a broad immigration bill a measure making it harder to work in the U.S. without legal documentation and a provision establishing a new agricultural guest-workers program, part of a last-ditch effort to show progress on the issue ahead of the midterm elections. A vote on […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was insistent on Monday [6-25-18] he doesn’t regret signing an executive order meant to keep migrant families together, even as the measure from last week continues to sow confusion and internal angst. Meanwhile, his administration continued to maintain there was little they could do to appease the border crisis […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Families who cross into the U.S. illegally aren’t being prosecuted for now, said the official who oversees agents at the border, effectively circumventing the Trump administration’s policy of zero tolerance for illegal immigration. That said, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said the zero-tolerance policy remained in effect. Attorney General […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/COURTS/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump in recent days has fumed about the immigration courts that handle cases of people seeking entry into the US. But Trump’s fixation on the courts and the judges who staff them flies in the face of what his attorney general has been trying to do to reshape the […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Parents who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States with their children will not face prosecution for the time being despite President Donald Trump’s vow to continue a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on illegal immigration, the top U.S. border-security official told news outlets on Monday [6-25-18]. Kevin McAleenan, the head of U.S. […]
6/25/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….If this is done, illegal immigration will be stopped in it’s tracks – and at very little, by comparison, cost. This is the only real answer – and we must continue to BUILD THE WALL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 7:54 am […]
6/25/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go – will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, […]
6/25/2018
IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Such a difference in the media coverage of the same immigration policies between the Obama Administration and ours. Actually, we have done a far better job in that our facilities are cleaner and better run than were the facilities under Obama. Fake News is working overtime!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 […]
6/25/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans will push ahead this week with a vote on their own compromise immigration bill that still faces long odds in the chamber despite last-minute delays and a rush to make changes. Over the weekend, aides and members worked to see if they might be able to include a […]
6/24/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump unleashed an aggressive attack Sunday [6-24-18] on unauthorized immigrants and the judicial system that handles them, saying that those who cross into the United States illegally should be sent back immediately without due process or an appearance before a judge…It was another twist in a head-spinning series of developments on […]
6/22/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump appeared to give up hope on Friday [6-22-18] that the Republican-controlled Congress could succeed in passing an immigration bill this year, urging lawmakers in a Twitter post to stop ‘wasting their time.’ His advice is likely to kill current efforts to pass a measure that had little chance of succeeding. […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/IMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What happens next on the U.S. border? Though Donald Trump’s executive order on Wednesday [6-20-18] released some political pressure by keeping immigrant families together in detention, rather than separating children from their parents, it’s not likely to be the end of the story. U.S. law prohibits detaining children for longer than 20 […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump may not admit it, but practically speaking, his administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ border strategy is dead. Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that reality at a meeting Thursday [6-21-18] afternoon, according to a former department official with knowledge of the meeting…That same message was delivered by Brandon […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has taken almost every possible Republican position on immigration in the span of a week as he’s tried to deal with the crisis he created of separating thousands of children from their parents at the border. He’s changed policies, made declarations, said his hands were tied, untied them to […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our first duty, and our highest loyalty, is to the citizens of the United States. We will not rest until our border is secure, our citizens are safe, and we finally end the immigration crisis once and for all. https://t.co/7YfZ9kjB23“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 3:23 pm […]
6/22/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are gathered today to hear directly from the AMERICAN VICTIMS of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. These are the American Citizens permanently separated from their loved ones b/c they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. These are the families the media ignores…https://t.co/ZjXESYAcjY“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 2:40 pm […]
6/22/2018
CONGRESS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [6-22-18] that Republicans should wait until they have more solid majorities in Congress to pursue an immigration overhaul, throwing cold water on a House bill that has been delayed until next week…Republicans currently have a narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate and a 235-193 margin in the […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/ETHICS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You care, but does the President? Anytime a commander in chief faces that question, it’s a sure sign that something is wrong. But Donald Trump and his administration are finding their humanity under scrutiny in the harrowing saga of kids separated from their parents after illegally crossing the southern border. The administration’s […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s border policy backtrack this week left his fellow Republicans with a choice: flip their own positions or stand firm. It was an easy decision. They changed to be consistent with the president. Still, the move carries risks. While Mr. Trump has long been forgiven by the GOP base for […]
6/22/2018
ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representative still plan to bring an immigration bill up for a vote next week, despite President Donald Trump’s urgings on Friday [6-22-18] to drop the effort until after November’s elections…Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/22/2018
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “80% of Mexico’s Exports come to the United States. They totally rely on us, which is fine with me. They do have, though, very strong Immigration Laws. The U.S. has pathetically weak and ineffective Immigration Laws that the Democrats refuse to help us fix. Will speak to Mexico!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]
6/22/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two days ago, President Donald Trump promised House Republicans he’d have their backs ‘1,000 percent’ on immigration. On Friday [6-22-18], he told them to ‘stop wasting their time’ — putting GOP leaders in an impossible position and throwing the conference into chaos. But House Republican leaders say they plan […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mother rushed toward her son the second he stepped off the jetway. Then she teared up. In the waiting area of Gate C14 at Baltimore Washington International Airport, she wrapped a blanket around him, cradled his head in her arms and wept. ‘I love you,’ she said in Spanish, between sobs. […]
6/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 6:06 am […]
6/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 6:00 am […]
6/22/2018
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even if we get 100% Republican votes in the Senate, we need 10 Democrat votes to get a much needed Immigration Bill – & the Dems are Obstructionists who won’t give votes for political reasons & because they don’t care about Crime coming from Border! So we need to elect more R’s!” […]
6/22/2018
BORDER/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday [6-22-18] to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over his border policies. Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their […]
6/21/2018
CHILDREN/DEFENSE/HHS/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border. The 20,000 beds at bases in […]
6/21/2018
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You cannot pass legislation on immigration whether it be for safety and security or any other reason including ‘heart,’ without getting Dem votes. Problem is, they don’t care about security and R’s do. Zero Dems voted to support the Goodlatte Bill. They won’t vote for anything!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have to maintain strong borders or we will no longer have a country that we can be proud of – and if we show any weakness, millions of people will journey into our country.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 5:40 pm […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TEXAS: “Melania Trump visited immigrant children in a Texas border town on Thursday [6-21-18], and by the time the first lady left, she had made headlines for another reason. As the temperature climbed to 80 degrees at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, Mrs. Trump boarded her plane wearing an olive green coat that read, in […]
6/21/2018
CHILDREN/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Republican leaders on Thursday [6-21-18] delayed a vote on a broad immigration bill that would provide a path to citizenship for young, unauthorized immigrants while keeping migrant families together at the border. The measure had appeared destined to fail as Republicans remained at odds over immigration. The bill, a compromise […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon is assessing how — and where — to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on American military bases, a spokesman said on Thursday [6-21-18]. In a Pentagon statement, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews said officials from the Department of Health and Human Services have so far visited three military […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As reports came in of hundreds of children sent quietly to New York after being separated from their families at the southern border, consular officials from Central American countries scrambled to help. Overnight, their jobs had changed from processing passports and visas from their offices in Midtown Manhattan and on Park Avenue […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump continued to mislead about the origin of the humanitarian crisis on the US border on Thursday [6-21-18], a day after caving to political pressure on the issue. Loath to appear weak on immigration and borders, Trump continued alleging Democrats were to blame for the catastrophe, which he had sought […]
6/21/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican leaders delayed until Friday [6-22-18] a vote on an immigration bill designed to be a compromise between the party’s moderates and conservatives, amid concerns over whether the legislation had enough support to pass. The bill had been scheduled to be the second of two contentious votes Thursday [6-21-18] afternoon […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TEXAS: “First lady Melania Trump visited a child immigrant detention center near the nation’s border in Texas on Thursday [6-21-18], amid a continuing political crisis over the handling of children and adults arriving there in pursuit of asylum. Mrs. Trump’s surprise visit was announced by President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting with reporters. Speaking […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Changes to the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy of detaining all adults illegally crossing the southern border were creating confusion throughout the immigration bureaucracy, from front-line law enforcement to social-service agencies supporting thousands of children. Officials had been told earlier Thursday [6-21-18] to prosecute only one adult traveling with children if two […]
6/21/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House will vote on two broad immigration proposals Thursday [6-21-18], but barring some major shift in momentum, both of those proposals are headed toward failure. Despite an all-out blitz from the Trump administration — including face-to-face entreaties from the President to skeptical House Republicans — to lock in the […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is scrambling to fix the confusion and humanitarian concerns unleashed by President Donald Trump’s reversal on the separation of parents and children who come across the southern border as undocumented migrants. Trump’s hurried executive order designed to defuse a ballooning political crisis caused its own set of problems, […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My Administration is acting swiftly to address the illegal immigration crisis on the Southern Border. Loopholes in our immigration laws all supported by extremist open border Democrats…and that’s what they are – they’re extremist open border Democrats…. https://t.co/F73I5gu0Q5“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 12:02 pm […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats want open Borders, where anyone can come into our Country, and stay. This is Nancy Pelosi’s dream. It won’t happen!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 9:38 am […]
6/21/2018
DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What is the purpose of the House doing good immigration bills when you need 9 votes by Democrats in the Senate, and the Dems are only looking to Obstruct (which they feel is good for them in the Mid-Terms). Republicans must get rid of the stupid Filibuster Rule-it is killing you!” -Donald […]
6/21/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/WALL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
6/21/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House is expected to vote Thursday [6-21-18] on the most robust piece of immigration legislation to come to the House floor in more than a decade, a dramatic showdown that will test some conservatives’ loyalty to President Donald Trump. After years of almost-votes, countless working groups and false alarms, […]