His attorney says Luis Mora was released unconditionally from the Otay Mesa Detention Facility on Wednesday. ...
Daily Archives: January 18, 2018
Democrats Question Justice Dept. Power to Charge Sanctuary City Leaders
The Justice Department is exploring “what avenues might be available” to criminally charge state and local officials who enact laws or guidelines limiting cooperation with federal immigration policies, Homeland Security ...
John Kelly, Deacon of Deportation
Kelly is often referred to as the man who was brought to the West Wing to impose must-needed discipline on a chaotic White House. He was the access granter and mood regulator for Trump. He was the adult to Trump’s child. ...
A Modest Immigration Proposal: Ban Jews
If you’re Jewish in America, chances are there’s at least one Uncle Bern somewhere in your family tree. As the scholar Ruth Wisse noted last year in Tablet magazine, Jewish intellectual life in the 1930s and 40s was larg ...
The 1829 dictionary entry that reshaped how Americans think about immigrants
“Immigrant” is “immigrant” in Afrikaans, “imigrant” in Bulgarian and “yímín” in Chinese. Filipinos use the term “imigrante;” in Japanese it's something like “imin.” The Russian version of immigrant is, essentially, “immi ...
Democrats dig in on immigration, shutdown risk or no
Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said there’s “very, very strong” sentiment among his party’s lawmakers to oppose GOP-drafted legislation that would only keep the government’s doors open for four weeks past a looming Fr ...
Sheriffs, immigration officials unveil plan to work together
During a news conference Wednesday, immigration and law enforcement officials said the new protocol will allow jail operators to comply with federal requests to detain immigrants suspected of living in the country illega ...
Schools, groups plan for ways to help young immigrants
The Dream.US foundation, which received $33 million from Bezos last week, said it hopes it’ll be possible for scholarships to follow recipients to schools outside the United States. ...
Trump judicial appointee rules in favor of deported Mexican mother of four
The deportation of Trujillo, who had no criminal record and had been in the United States since 2002, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration enforcement. Wednesday’s opinion in favor of Tr ...
‘Pulling at his strings’: Lawmakers vie to sway Trump in immigration fight
Competing factions are vying for a public stamp of approval from a president driven by impulse and prone to contradiction. After nearly a year in office, lawmakers, aides and officials in both parties have learned the ri ...
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