President Trump has proposed what he calls a “fair compromise” with Congress on immigration policy, with four main components: A path to citizenship for DREAMers — unauthorized immigrants who came as children A border w ...
Daily Archives: February 12, 2018
Democrats Can Win on Immigration
The next week, he reiterated that “MS-13 killers” are “pouring into our country.” This kind of language, long a Trump trademark, was used as a political strategy just a few months ago in Virginia during the failed bid of ...
Congress takes on immigration issue amid election pressures
If the aim is to pass a legislative solution, Trump will be a crucial and, at times, complicating player. His day-to-day turnabouts on the issues have confounded Democrats and Republicans and led some to urge the White H ...
Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe
Officials at the agency commonly known as ICE praise Trump for putting teeth back into immigration enforcement, and they say their agency continues to prioritize national security threats and violent criminals, much as t ...
With No Answer On DACA, Queer Dreamer Is Terrified For The Future
Dreamers, or young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, continue to face an uncertain future after Congress approved a budget compromise deal Friday but offered no legislative solution for the rescin ...
L.A. federal judge rules that a key tool in Trump’s immigration crackdown effort is illegal
In his order issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. found that a now-defunct policy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department violated the constitutional rights of inmates who were kept in custody a ...
White House floats an offer to keep legal immigration at 1 million per year instead of cutting it
President Trump has proposed a series of measures, including restrictions on family unification, which he calls "chain migration," and an end to the visa lottery, that critics say ultimately could cut legal immigration t ...
Activist Ravi Ragbir Thwarts ICE’s Attempt To Deport Him, For Now
Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group New Sanctuary Coalition, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in January during a routine check-in with the agency. What’s mo ...
The DACA ‘crisis’ is all Trump’s fault. Really
t was Trump, after all, who decided last year to strip DACA protection from hundreds of thousands of Americans who arrived in this country illegally as minors, a reckless action that has little public support and created ...
Trump wants to deport immigrants who use public benefits
The Trump administration, known for its crusade against illegal immigration, is now moving to restrict legal immigration, too. ...
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