The blame game has begun. Left-wing anger is growing at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats for backing down on their threat to keep the government closed unless Congress agreed to some legisl ...
Daily Archives: January 25, 2018
The immigration deal Trump’s White House is floating, explained
On Wednesday, it announced it would release a “framework” for a bill it hoped to see pass Congress. On Thursday, details of that framework leaked to several news outlets, including NBC and the Daily Beas ...
White House jumps back into Dreamer battle with citizenship offer
The White House plans to present an immigration reform plan to Congress that would satisfy a key Democratic demand — offering a path to citizenship for 1.8 million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children ...
Trump ofrece un camino a la ciudadanía para 1.8 millones de dreamers
La propuesta de inmigración del presidente Donald Trump al Congreso incluirá una vía para que un estimado de 1.8 millones de jóvenes inmigrantes indocumentados puedan acceder a la ciudadanía, según dijo la Casa Blanca es ...
White House to back legalizing 1.8 million ‘Dreamers’
The proposal, an outline of which was delivered to members of Congress by White House officials Thursday, marks a major step for the administration — committing to legalizing a much larger group than Republican conservat ...
DHS sued over ‘racially motivated’ decision to rescind protected status for Haitians
“The action by the Department of Homeland Security to rescind TPS [temporary protective status] for Haitian immigrants is clearly racially motivated,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in organization’s press ...
Mayors Cancel Meeting With Trump as Justice Dept. Squeezes Sanctuary Cities
The Justice Department asked 23 jurisdictions across the country to furnish documents proving that they had not kept information from federal immigration authorities. Mr. Sessions said he would subpoena local governments ...
Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds
“It’s such a beautiful thing and an inspiring thing and a surreal thing to see a Ghanaian story on an American stage — I never even knew something like that would be possible,” said MaYaa Boateng, a 26-year-old child of ...
President Trump Dangles Hope for Dreamers. Will He Deliver?
Among hard-core Republican foes of immigration, aided and abetted in the White House by President Trump’s fiercely anti-immigration senior adviser for policy, Stephen Miller, the goal is not only a crackdown on undocumen ...
Bill to give driving rights to undocumented immigrants dies
The vote marks the third year in a row that the bill by Democratic Sen. Scott Surovell of Fairfax failed to advance. ...