Immigration remains a paramount topic in today’s political climate and while a border wall has yet to be built around the southern border of The United States, the Trump Administration took key steps to secure the border this week by …
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President Trump has vowed to stop negotiating on a solution to the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program Sunday morning, citing what he considers a lack of desire on the part of congressional Democrats to get a deal …
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The Trump administration announced today that it will begin collecting social media information on individuals applying for visas to the United States. The new policy is expected to affect roughly 14 million visitors per year. Visitors will be asked to …
Continue ReadingAttorneys general of several states pledged to sue the Trump administration over a decision to include a question about citizenship on the forthcoming 2020 census.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra already filed suit to prevent the question from being included, …
Continue ReadingA federal appeals court struck down an injunction issued last year that blocked a Texas law prohibiting local governments in the state from adopting certain “sanctuary city” immigration policies.
The law, known as Senate Bill 4 allows Texas law enforcement …
Continue ReadingThe Department of Justice has announced a lawsuit against the state of California over some its “sanctuary” immigration policies. The lawsuit alleges that the state of California obstructs the federal government from enforcing existing immigration laws.
The DOJ cites three …
Continue ReadingA U.S. District Court Judge has ruled in favor of the Trump administration, allowing them to begin construction of a wall along the southern border of the U.S., bypassing environmental statues for its construction. The lawsuit had been brought …
Continue ReadingRepresentative Luis Gutierrez called on the House of Representatives to take up legislation that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought here as young children from deportation, so-called DACA recipients.
“The President still plans to kill …
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court has declined to hear a case involving President Trump’s authority to end the immigration-protection program known as DACA, likely signaling the program’s continuance for at least several months. The program’s original end date was March 5.…
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that grants citizenship to newly arrived U.S. immigrants is removing the term “nation of immigrants” from its mission statement.
The old statement read:
…Continue Reading“USCIS secures America’s promise
The criminal gang MS-13 has exploded in growth in the U.S. and has now been linked to crimes in twenty-two states, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies. Since 2012 there have been more than …
Continue ReadingSenator Jeff Flake isn’t giving up on immigration reform. The junior Senator from Arizona said that he plans to force a vote on a proposal as soon as the Senate returns from its winter recess after next week. Flake proposed …
Continue ReadingU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took a total of 212 people into custody during a five-day immigration sweep at business sites in southern California this week. In all, ICE officers inspected 122 businesses in a worksite enforcement operation around …
Continue ReadingHundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children are left in limbo as immigration reform once again failed to pass in the Congress this week. The fate of DREAMers is up in the …
Continue ReadingRepublicans made a last-ditch effort to pass a DACA solution this week only to have it thwarted by Democrats. Are we seeing the beginning of a midterm election strategy by Democrats? We discuss DACA and the failure of Congress to …
Continue ReadingA bipartisan plan put forth by a group of twenty-two senators has drawn the ire of the White House and other agencies in the Trump administration, and failed in a vote in the Senate. “The changes proposed by Senators Schumer-Rounds-Collins …
Continue ReadingSenator Mitch McConnell is making one thing clear: it is now or never on immigration. The Majority Leader has vowed to have an open debate policy when it came to an immigration bill this week, notably allowing an “opportunity for …
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