As lawmakers return to Capitol Hill on Monday after a spring break recess, the GOP is looking to get on the same page as President Donald Trump as the 2018 midterm elections loom. ...
Daily Archives: April 9, 2018
“There’s a deal to take care of them and get the border wall we desperately need, plus interior enforcement to make us safer,” the South Carolina Republican said on ABC’s “This Week.” “That deal can be done, and I'll mak ...
How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants
While Trump administration officials and a majority of Supreme Court justices appear to agree on the legality and necessity of mass detention for immigrants, six decades ago Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark was celebra ...
America needs more workers. Trump’s war on immigration won’t help.
The causes of America’s worker shortfall include an aging population and a birthrate that recently hit a historic low. With the jobless rate bumping along at just above 4 percent, companies desperate to fill orders and m ...
New Musical Miss You Like Hell Puts a Human Face on the Looming Specter of Deportation
Such experiences shaped Miss You Like Hell, a musical that Hudes, the first Latina to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for Water by the Spoonful), created along with songwriter Erin McKeown. The show stars Daphne Rubin- ...
She never forgot her father’s words, telling her to keep pushing forward, “sin voltear para atrás” — without looking back. ...
U.S. Attorney General Renews Calls to Prosecute First-Time Border Crossers
Pointing to an upswing in border crossings to levels seen during former President Barack Obama's tenure, Sessions said he was ordering U.S. attorneys offices near the Southwest border to prioritise bringing cases against ...
Immigration raid takes 97 into custody at Tennessee plant
Eleven people were arrested on criminal charges and 86 were detained for being in the country illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Tammy Spicer said in a statement Friday. ...
The U.S. Just Quietly Deported The Largest Group Of Cambodians Ever
They arrived in the Southeast Asian country on Thursday, and are the largest group ever to be deported from the U.S. to Cambodia. Asian-American civil rights groups fought several legal battles to keep the deportees in t ...
My Dad Helped Put Me Through Med School. He May Be Deported Before I Graduate.
I was trained to care for each patient, regardless of sex, race, religion or even immigrant status. It is with this mentality that I go to work every day, hoping that our medical system will advocate and work for all our ...