The editorial fails to recognize how these immigrants have been footing the bill for taxpayers. ...
Daily Archives: May 24, 2018
Crackdown on immigrants takes a toll on federal judge: ‘I have presided over a process that destroys families’
The judge hands down sentences with a heavy heart. Since he joined the federal bench in 2003, Brack has sentenced some 15,000 defendants, the vast majority of them immigrants with little or no criminal record. ...
The return of the DACA fight in Congress, explained
Congress looks like it’s about to get into another contentious, high-stakes, nearly impossible-to-resolve fight over young unauthorized immigrants brought to the US as children, known as DREAMers. ...
Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes each year
One of the biggest misconceptions about undocumented immigrants is that they don’t pay any taxes. In his first address to Congress, President Trump set the tone for his coming immigration agenda when he said immigration ...
Key Arizona Republican Freaks Out Over “Another Generation of DACA-like People”
In a House hearing on immigration Tuesday, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) accused most asylum seekers of immigration fraud and suggested that unaccompanied children who reach the United States are likely to become MS-13 g ...
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is a Boom Time for Private Prisons
Hardline immigration policies put in place by President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have inspired more than just fear and panic in immigrant communities—they’ve also inspired investors in private pris ...
Trump: No Immigration Deal Unless ‘Real Wall,’ Good Security
Moderate House Republicans are pushing a deal that could lead to citizenship for young "Dreamer" immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally. But Trump told "Fox & Friends" in an interview that aired Thursday that unless a ...
New York Man’s Tirade Against Spanish Speakers Prompts Online Petition
vThe clip, recorded on Tuesday by a customer at Fresh Kitchen in Midtown Manhattan and posted on Facebook, shows a man who appeared to be about 40 years old, with short dark hair and a white dress shirt, growing enraged ...
‘Astounding ignorance of the law’: Civil rights groups slam DeVos for saying schools can report undocumented students
DeVos’s answers came during testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was at one time undocumented, pressed the sec ...
DHS secretary defends separating families at the border
But Nielsen also agreed with senators that more must be done to protect the children who either come to the US without their parents or are separated from them. ...
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