Trump screwed Republicans on the border deal, and Democrats have seized on an issue that looks to be moving toward them. Democrats Say Trump Handed Them The Border Issue The New York Times reported: But in the final 10 days of the race, an analysis from AdImpact, the media-tracking firm, showed that Democrats were actually…
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration could take down Gov. Greg Abbott’s floating razor-wire migrant death traps along the border.
“Today’s announcement is a key part of our continuing efforts to strengthen the consequences that are in place at the border for migrants who cross unlawfully, even as we have continued to oversee the largest expansion of lawful pathways to the United States in decades,” a senior administration told us.
The Department of Justice just filed a lawsuit against Governor Abbott to force Texas to remove floating barriers in the Rio Grande and the Biden administration blasted Abbott for not working toward real solutions.
Officers are objecting to Governor Greg Abbott’s border patrol policies, with one calling them ‘inhumane’ as they are ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ripped Gov. Greg Abbott for his cruel stunt of busing migrant adults and children to Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded that Biden stop providing baby formula to migrant babies in US custody on the border.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) tried to save face, but after being exposed and nationally humiliated, he reversed his border truck inspection order.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is taking migrants who have scheduled immigration appearances without their consent or the knowledge of the federal government and busing them to Washington, DC.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki slammed Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) after Abbott ordered state troopers to step up truck inspections, noting that these delays are only contributing to further supply chain disruptions.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) urged Democrats to move ahead on immigration reform. “If my 2010 reelection to the Senate proved anything, it was that Democrats can fight and win on immigration. It makes policy sense and political sense and not just with Latino voters, but also with Americans of all backgrounds,” said Reid. “However,…
Senate Democrats are drafting a blueprint for a pathway to citizenship for 8 million immigrants as part of the reconciliation bill.
Democratic Senate aides have confirmed that there is an urgency among Democrats to pass new citizenship laws in favor of “Dreamers” in light of a federal judge’s ruling that blocked roughly 500,000 to 700,000 unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from participating in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA program and receiving…
President Biden said that the DOJ would be appealing and urged Congress to use reconciliation to restore the DACA program fully.
President Joe Biden‘s administration is launching an effort to encourage eligible immigrants to apply for citizenship. The effort would meet the requirements of one of Biden’s earliest executive orders. In February, Biden signed an “Executive Order on Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans.” The order…
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and a group of House Democrats have called on President Joe Biden to formally raise the refugee cap to 62,500 after delaying the increase. “Having fought for four years against the Trump Administration’s full-scale assault on refugee resettlement in the United States, we were relieved to see you commit to increasing…
Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) is being criticized after complaining that President Joe Biden and his administration treat immigrants “humanely” amid a nationwide conversation about border security. “Bill Clinton ran for re-election on a platform that said, ‘We cannot tolerate illegal immigration and we must stop it,’” Cornyn said, recalling the former president’s platform. Bill Clinton…
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) made a trip to the border and what he found was the Biden administration trying to fix the crisis that was caused by Trump.
The House of Representatives will vote today on two immigration bills amid concerns about the humanitarian crisis at the nation’s southern border.  The American Dream and Promise Act would create a pathway to citizenship for millions for “Dreamers”––undocumented youths brought to the United States as children––as well as others who’ve been granted temporary protection from…
Biden administration Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas debunked the Fox News myth that there a crisis at the border.
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) condemned the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy following a bombshell report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) confirming that the administration knew the policy would result in family separations. “In 2018, the Trump administration’s heinous zero tolerance policy that ripped children out of their parents’…
The stated goal of Trump’s immigration policy was to rip children from their parents, regardless of how young the kids were.
Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, says President Donald Trump would think up ways to “maim” and “pierce the flesh” of migrants in conversations about his proposed border wall along the United States-Mexico border. The president also suggested tearing families apart and gassing migrants altogether. “This was a…
Journalist and MSNBC contributor Howard Fineman says President Donald Trump’s open defiance has only just begun” amid reports that the Trump administration will continue to reject initial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications from immigrants who never obtained the protection from deportation. #DonaldTrump begins rolling back #DACA in defiance of the #SupremeCourt. The open…
ACLU Director Dale Ho said that the organization will sue Trump over his illegal memo directed that undocumented immigrants not be counted in the Census.
The Department of Homeland Security backed down in the face of nine lawsuits and announced that they won’t deport foreign college students due to the pandemic.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) warned that Trump could rescind DACA next week if he wanted to, as Democrats are pressuring for action to protect DREAMERS.
In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump acted illegally when he tried to end DACA.
Senators  Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote a letter to President Donald Trump suggesting he suspend visas for guest workers “during recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.” The news was first reported by Politico. The lawmakers suggest Trump suspend guest worker visas for 60 days and prevent some workers from returning to the U.S. for…
In remarks to reporters, President Donald Trump suggested that relief funds from the federal government “could hinge on whether the immigration policies of the individual governments seeking relief align with Trump administration priorities,” according to Politico. “I think there’s a big difference with a state that lost money because of covid and a state that’s…
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) records obtained by The Washington Post via a Freedom of Information Act request, smugglers breached or attempted to breach President Donald Trump’s border wall 18 times in one month, sawing into sections in the San Diego area between September 27 and October 27. Â The newspaper had requested…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is preventing President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing its Migrant Protection Protocols, otherwise known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, for asylum-seekers to stay in the country. Restrictions remain in place until March 11 for review by the Supreme Court. The ruling only applies to Arizona and…
A federal judge ruled that Trump’s naming of Ken Cuccinelli acting head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services was illegal.
With Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate looming, even his go-to of sticking it to immigrants when he’s having a bad day proves elusive. Next to trying to benefit his personal fortune and bullying foreign governments into helping him win election, Trump’s biggest obsession is with finding as many ways as possible to abuse immigrants…
If you’re an immigrant, you have known blistering rhetoric and tweets for three years. You’ve lived with anti-immigrant policies that are so cruel and extreme that if anything in this world was made for a string of expletives, it’s the Miller-Trump anti-immigrant program. If you’re the Whistleblower whose complaint opened up the Ukraine investigation, Donald…
I had my green card renewed this past Monday, without incident. The entire process took 15 minutes. That’s privilege at work. I’m a college-educated white woman and I was processed in Virginia by a staff who did more to promote the greatness of America during those fifteen minutes than the entire Trump administration has done…
If you’re a child and an immigrant, this was the week you were told that your rights matter less than the rights of suspected terrorists at Gitmo. On the plus side, the Senate unanimously passed a House bill making cruelty to animals a felony. This is a good thing. It’s great to see that the…
Trump’s big beautiful wall has turned into a big beautiful failure as smugglers are sawing through it.
Children cannot give consent to so many things under the law. Whether it’s when someone rapes children, when children get medical treatment, or when children escape violence, their stories are framed as if they can give consent. We see this with the Jeffrey Epstein case, with medical deferments of deportation, and with asylum cases. This…
We can do better than sending sick people to certain death, forcing them to literally beg Emperor Trump for their lives. We can do better than taking issued student visas away because the student’s friends may have said something we don’t like. I realize there are so many other catastrophic things, like the hurricane that…
Speaker of the House Pelosi and Senate Democrats are vowing to fight Trump’s move to steal $3.6 billion from military projects to fund his wall.
Trump takes his cruelty to a new level by trying to deport sick immigrant children by taking away their medical deferment status.
The Trump administration is trying to create a flu epidemic among detained migrant families by refusing to provide flu vaccinations.
A panel of judges have ruled against Trump and determined soap and sleep are essential to the health and welfare of his caged migrant kids.
For all the bellyaching about undocumented immigrants, we can solve the problem if we perp walk Donald Trump and other CEO’s who benefit the most from their labor. Donald Trump doesn’t like it when he’s called a racist. We’ve seen him deny it – even trying to argue with a straight face that he’s the…
It’s clear that Donald Trump doesn’t believe in the American story because he’s never had to actually live it a single day of his life.
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 72 percent of the country supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Members of Congress responded to Trump limiting assistance to legal immigrants by slamming the rule change as racist and xenophobic.
The El Paso terrorist attack itself is a dark moment in American history. Donald Trump’s shameful response made it much darker.
[Where indicated, this article includes opinion by Tobias J. Grant, legal analyst at PoliticusUSA] If a president incites one group of Americans to hate another group of Americans, it ought to be an impeachable offense. No matter what your views on the size of government may be, surely we can agree that a President must…
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings screamed at Trump’s acting DHS Secretary for abusing separated migrant children in detention centers.
The most patriotic thing an American can do is reject Donald Trump’s sh*t hole “vision†for America. It’s not because Donald Trump proposed it. It’s because his “vision†consistently brought war and political instability every time it was tried by ordinary countries in history who were trying to achieve the exceptionalism that America already has….
As the Trump administration prepares a new round of raids targeting immigrant families in major American cities, the president hit the golf course.
The thing about running a campaign based solely on minority resentment and fear is that you have to keep increasing the dosage.
Donald Trump’s executive order stunt that he announced on Thursday isn’t the only distraction he’s pulling out following his census loss.
Maddow highlighted some of the allegations laid out in a new NBC report, and they are among the most disturbing that have come to light yet.
Rep. José Serrano (D-NY), Chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee said that he will block funding for a reprint of the Census.
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is “appalled” at the conditions in which the United States is keeping detained migrants and refugees, including children, her office said in a statement on Monday.
Trump blamed the media for reporting on the way that immigrants are being treated at his migrant detention centers.
While leaving his private club in New Jersey, Trump claimed that Democrats and The New York Times are working together against him.
The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered an investigation into a secret Facebook group where border agents joked about immigrants dying, he said on Wednesday.
With 2020 around the corner, Trump is trying to feed the MAGA base with one of his most egregious anti-immigrant proposals to date.
New photos from inside Donald Trump’s detention centers on the southern border of the United States should shock everyone with a pulse.
New video released by Rep. Joaquin Castro gives another glimpse into the inhumanity Donald Trump has brought to the southern border.
The ICE raids that Trump delayed and looks poised to carry out again will target as many as 2,000 immigrant families in 10 major U.S. cities.Â
Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, blamed a desperate Salvadorian migrant who drowned at the border for his own daughter’s death.
Buttigieg said Donald Trump and Republicans lost the right to tout their religion when they started caging children on the southern border.
The man who ran ICE under Barack Obama tore Trump to shreds for repeatedly lying about this administration’s family separation policy.
The Trump administration is treating children worse than animals and that is a crime against humanity.
The Trump administration claims to have reversed course on its family separation policy, one lawmaker says nothing has changed.
It’s bad enough that this unspeakable tragedy is playing out in the United States. Worse is that so many Americans, including members of Congress, are fine with it.
For all of Donald Trump’s tough talk, he has repeatedly shown himself to be the weakest president this country has ever seen.
During an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press, Trump falsely claimed that he inherited the child separation policy from Barack Obama.
Like always, Donald Trump only cares about riling up his base, even if that means ripping thousands more migrant families apart.
The Trump Justice Department made the case in court this week, and the judges hearing the arguments were clearly in disbelief.
Trump announced that ICE would be removing millions of immigrants and deporting them next week, but ICE doesn’t have the resources or capacity to carry out such an operation.
An Arizona activist charged with harboring two undocumented migrants faces trial on Wednesday in a case likely to set a precedent over what aid U.S. citizens can give to illegal border crossers.
House Judiciary Democrats are demanding an investigation into the deaths of migrant children in US custody due to Trump’s immigration policies.
On the same day that Trump claimed that Democrats couldn’t legislate and investigation, the House Judiciary Committee passed permanent protections for Dreamers.
A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died in US custody in the Rio Grande Valley Sector on Monday morning, making the fifth death of an immigrant minor at the southern border since December.
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump cannot end a program that shielded from deportation immigrants brought into the country illegally as children, the second time the administration has lost an appeal on the issue.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement declaring Trump’s immigration plan dead on arrival before it even reaches the House. Speaker Pelosi said in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA: This dead-on-arrival plan is not a remotely serious proposal. The White House has repackaged the worst of its past failed immigration plans: greenlighting the Administration’s barbaric family…
Trump knows his best bet politically is to play into peoples’ fears and prejudices – even if they’re completely baseless.
The Trump administration is trying to taking housing assistance away from up to 55,000 citizen children because one of their parents is an immigrant.
Since the earliest days of his campaign, Donald Trump has been a beacon of inspiration for violent white supremacists and racists.
At the end of the day, it’s clear that Trump doesn’t give a damn about undocumented immigrants other than how much he can exploit them to his benefit.
The Pentagon said on Friday that it expected to send about 300 additional troops to the border with Mexico including roughly 100 cooks who would hand out meals, breaking with past policy to avoid troops coming in contact with migrants.
By Tom Hals (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said on Thursday he would order the Trump administration to comb through the records of 47,000 immigrant children and within six months identify those separated from their parents after crossing the Mexican border. While a government official said at Thursday’s hearing he hoped to meet the deadline,…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last week accused Hopkins’ group of being a fascist, white nationalist militia illegally detaining and kidnapping Central American families seeking asylum.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico said on Saturday it had “deep concern” about armed groups that intimidate and extort migrants on the border, shortly after the ACLU and Democratic senators called for a probe into such citizen efforts to block migrants from crossing. “These types of practices can drive human rights abuses of people who…
The leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants who cross into the United States from Mexico had boasted about training to assassinate former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, an FBI agent said in court papers on Monday.
(Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico on Thursday called for state authorities to investigate a small group of armed U.S. citizens who they alleged are illegally detaining migrants entering the United States. The United Constitutional Patriots, who claim to be mainly military veterans, have been patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border near Sunland…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. mayors said their cities would welcome illegal immigrants, dismissing President Donald Trump’s threats to transport people detained at the border to “sanctuary cities” as illustrating the White House’s callous approach to the issue. Trump confirmed on Twitter that he wanted to transport people detained in his immigration crackdown at…
According to one legal expert, Trump is leading a criminal conspiracy to commit crimes by violating US immigration laws.
By Tom Hals (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of migrants. The ruling is slated to take effect on…
Trump’s purge of the Department of Homeland Security has put the final nail in his always-ridiculous national emergency declaration coffin.
Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will certainly try, but she will never be able to outrun her cruel and inhumane immigration legacy.
Trump wants to resume putting migrant kids in cages, which is one of the reasons why Kirstjen Nielsen was pushed out.
Kirstjen Nielsen who has been a frequent target of Trump’s wrath has resigned which clears the way for shutting down the southern border
By Julio-Cesar Chavez EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – The death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in U.S. federal custody in December was caused by strep-induced sepsis, a Texas medical examiner’s autopsy report released on Friday showed. Jakelin Caal traveled with her father to a remote stretch of U.S. border in Antelope Wells, New Mexico, where…