From the time period between January 28 – February 3, 2017, 206 criminally charged illegal immigrants nationwide were released from custody due to the denial of ICE detainer requests. The worst offender was Travis County, which accounted for 142 of those released and charged with crimes including sexual assault, aggravated assault, domestic violence, and robbery.
Category: Immigration Reform
Fearful immigrants are offered anti-deportation training
Don’t open the front door if immigration officials knock. If you are taken into custody, tell them your name and nothing else.
Columbus undocumented immigrants fear raids, deportations
National accounts of increased raids and deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Donald Trump’s administration have ignited panic among some undocumented immigrants in Columbus. The Rev.
Immigrants, exiles feeling unsettled in Trump era
Iraqi refugee Nashwan Saadoon, a Christian, lives in an apartment complex with other refugees from Sudan, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. ‘You must be open for all people because they feel the same fear,’ he says.
Peter Funt: Little Merit in Donald Trump’s Latest Immigration View
President Donald Trump’s call last week for a “merit-based” immigration system is not new; indeed, it is already part of our immigration law. It’s been promoted for years by some Republicans, Democrats and, most notably, employers in Silicon Valley.
Navarrette: Spending an afternoon with a a bad hombrea
VALLEY CENTER, Calif. – The immigration debate isn’t about hysteria. It’s about human beings.
Opiate for the masses: “American Crime” is better than ever and still hard to swallow
“Oh, man. Here we go again with this ‘opiate’ business. Pray tell, what pile of TV fail are you going to tell us about this week?” Salutations to you, too, Salon reader! How about we change things up a little and discuss an outstanding TV series? Not this time.
Nelson, Rubio fight back over proposed cuts to Coast Guard, NOAA and FEMA
A Tampa-based NOAA crew including Chris Kern, left, Paul Darby and Pat Didler flies towards what was at the time Tropical Storm Hermine. Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew caused more than $100 million damage in Florida last year.
United front needed on ESL funding
During his State of the City address at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday, Mayor Rick Chrest offered listeners in the business-friendly room an enlightened statement. While “nameless” countries are not being so friendly to immigrants right now, he said, the city of Brandon was a welcoming place, that would take those fleeing these locales with “open arms.”
ACLU To Host Training For Illegal Immigrants, Others About How To Resist Trump’s Policies
The American Civil Liberties Union, which used the courts to put a halt on President Trump’s first executive order barring specific refugees entrance to the United States, is organizing a “resist” training for illegal immigrants and citizens next week. “The American Civil Liberties Union will host “The Resistance Training: An ACLU Town Hall” tomorrow to organize and empower communities around the country in defense of their constitutional rights.
The Latest: Man gets extension to seek deportation stay
Catalino Guerrero, center left, stands with U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, left, and Newark Archbishop Cardinal Joseph Tobin, center right, during a rally outside of the Peter Rodino Federal Building before attending an immigration hearing, Friday, March 10, 2017, in Newark, N.J. Guerrero, who arrived in the U.S. illegally in 1991, is facing deportation. Organizers claim he is an upstanding citizen and should not be deported.
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Legal challenges against Trump’s revised trave… . Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin speaks at a news conference Thursday, March 9, 2107, in Honolulu.
Son of former boxing champ tells lawmakers about detention
Muhammad Ali Jr., son of the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, arrives for a forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017, on the consequences of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, sponsored by House House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a leading advocate in the House for comprehensive immigration reform.
The Economy Created 2.1 Million Jobs In 2016, But The News Talked About Only 700 Of Them
Media Matters research for the fourth quarter of the year found that broadcast evening news fixated on then President-elect Donald Trump’s misleading announcement that he was responsible for saving hundreds of jobs at an American manufacturer while largely ignoring the roughly 2.1 million jobs gained by the U.S. economy in 2016. Television news fawned over Trump’s late-November participation in negotiations between state authorities and Indiana-based appliance manufacturer Carrier in which the company decided to move only half of its jobs to Mexico in exchange for tax subsidies.
February marks fewest arrests at border in recent years
Arrests at the Mexican border plummeted to the lowest monthly level in years during President Donald Trump’s first full month in office. The Border Patrol says about 23,500 people were arrested by the Border Patrol trying to cross the Mexican border in February.
Trump Aims to Pass $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Right After Tax…
On Wednesday, the president instructed a broad White House task force to turn his infrastructure ambitions into a concrete plan. Trump stipulated that the plan should prioritize renovation of existing roads over new construction, expedite local permitting, and favor projects that states can break ground on in less than 90 days.
Illegals Crossing Border Drop 40 Percent
The number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico declined by 40 percent from January to February, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Wednesday. The downturn came after President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 vowing to deport many of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
Utah-Mexico trade relations at critical stage, analyst says
Utah’s ongoing trade relationship with Mexico is at a critical point as the new White House administration’s commerce policies begin to take shape, a local expert contends. Speaking to an audience of business leaders Wednesday in downtown Salt Lake City, Derek Miller – president and CEO of World Trade Center Utah – said Utah stands to lose millions of dollars if President Donald Trump decides to reduce trade with our nation’s neighbor to the south.
COULTER: ‘Immigrant Privilege’ Drives Child Rape Epidemic
Before breathing a sigh of relief that, unlike Western Europe, we don’t have Muslim rapists pouring into our country, recall that we have Mexican rapists pouring into our country. Almost all peasant cultures are brimming with rapists, pederasts and child abusers.
Trump admin quietly made asylum more difficult in the US
The Trump administration quietly made it more difficult for immigrants to seek asylum in the US last month, the latest in a series of steps designed to deliver on the President’s campaign promise to harshly enforce immigration laws. Supporters of President Donald Trump’s policies say the move cuts off an incentive for migrants to make their way to the US, where they are granted the chance to pursue asylum claims and sometimes build underground lives illegally.
Can Trump Bring Black Voters Back to the GOP?
Americans of African descent voted overwhelmingly Republican from the end of the Civil War to the 1930s, but they became almost totally Democrat by the 1970s. No single event brought about this tectonic shift, but the change in black voting patterns began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Trump’s New Immigration Order Is Still Not a ‘Muslim Ban’
Among many of Donald Trump’s campaign promises was a plan to reform a chaotic immigration system with better methods of vetting immigrants. Those who do not support the U.S. Constitution, American values or who desire to bring violence to our shores through terrorism would be screened out.
Trump needs to go back, grab the horse
Last week I poked a little fun at President Donald Trump. Quite frankly, he’s such a fun target I simply can’t resist.
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Democrats may call on business community in anti-“sanctuary” bill fight
As Texas Democrats strategize how to continue pushing back against state-based immigration proposals, they’re considering a tactic often embraced by some far-right members of the Republican Party to assist their efforts. “I would just say that all options are on the table to expose the hypocrisy of only focusing on immigrants and not on Texas businesses that rely heavily on them,” state Rep. Rafael Anchia , D-Dallas, told the Tribune.
The Daily Briefing: Activists host a In Memoriama for the Sen. Rob Portman town hall that never was
About 200 people filled the rows of the First Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday night in honor of Sen. Rob Portman’s town hall that never was. The In Memoriam, hosted by activist organization Indivisible Columbus, was a tongue-in-cheek gathering for local speakers to deliver eulogies on everything from immigration rights to facts, education, and representative democracy.
Mexico opens migrant defense centers at U.S. consulates
Epic death match between a giant python and a leopard with her cub as they dodge the snake’s darting bites to inflict mortal wounds on it in the Kruger National Park Trump signs new travel ban executive order that no longer targets Iraq and exempts green card holders – but it won’t take effect for 10 days The warnings signs that could mean YOUR partner is having an affair: People who have been cheated on reveal the tell-tale clues to watch out for ‘We’re not all cheaters’: Men reveal the things women get totally WRONG about them Wrong Direction! Astonishing footage shows snarling 1D star Louis Tomlinson ‘wrestling a photographer to the ground at LAX and manhandling a female fan who was fighting his girlfriend’ moments before police arrest him ‘I’m a b***h for getting hit by a celebrity?’ Woman ‘thrown to the floor’ in Louis Tomlinson airport scuffle claims she could have DIED from a … (more)
Daily Caller: Trump Quietly Allows Work Permit Extensions to Illegal Immigrants
Despite President Donald Trump’s assertion that undocumented foreign workers take away jobs from American citizens, the administration is extending work permits for six months for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from El Salvador who receive Temporary Protected Status , The Daily Caller reported on Monday. TPS, which is a designation for countries whose situation is considered too dangerous for its residents to return to, lasts for 18 months, but can be renewed by the secretary of Homeland Security.
OP-ED: When waiting your turn isn’t an option
Ms. Koelling’s Feb. 27 guest perspective highlights a serious flaw in the arguments against those who support the current administration’s tough stand on immigration. Ms. Koelling chastises those who “willfully and disrespectfully ignore” the laws of our country, and deems it unfair to those immigrants who come here legally and wait their turn.
Poll: Divided Americans fret country losing identity
In this Nov. 10, 1997, photo, a U.S. flag refracted in water drops on a car windshield in Gorham, Maine.
Afghan family with U.S. visas detained at Los Angeles airport – filing
U.S. agents unlawfully detained an Afghan family of five at Los Angeles International Airport and have been holding them for several days in California, according to legal papers filed in federal court in California by human rights lawyers. The father, mother and three small children were granted Special Immigrant Visas because family members risked their lives to defend the U.S. government overseas, said the filing from lawyers with the International Refugee Assistance Project, a legal aid group for refugees and displaced persons.
Former Obama spokesman: Trump – working very hard’ to distract from – growing scandal’
Smith told KNEB News that proper v… — Police in New York City are investigating possible vandalism of a predominantly Jewish burial ground in Brooklyn.A few tombstones were overturned at Washin… — Democratic Sen. Al Franken said President Trump’s assertion that former President Obama tapped his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 election c… Talking to a production agriculture crowd visiting his home state, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway was right at home as he told thousands of farmers he was d… CONCORDIA, Kan. – The Western Nebraska Community College went 2-1 in the first day of the Cloud County tournament on Saturday in Concordia, Kansas.
Egypt’s general intelligence registers Washington lobbyist
Egyptian intelligence has hired a U.S. public relations firm to lobby on the country’s behalf in Washington and boost its image, the first such engagement by part of the country’s powerful security apparatus to be made public. A filing dated Jan. 28 and seen by The Associated Press on the Department of Justice website Sunday showed that Egypt hired public relations firm Weber Shandwick and released details of the registration to comply with the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: McCarthyism, Schwarzenegger, Golf an eternal WTF
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But… At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the… Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that… For months, through the election and after, Donald Trump has been able to find something new to distract the press and public.
COMMENTARY: Texas border security spending not necessary
It is well established that the U.S. federal government is primarily responsible for defending our national borders, enforcing immigration laws, and fighting the Mexican drug cartels. Nevertheless, in 2015, the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature approved $800 million for the Texas Department of Public Safety for “border security,” thus creating what many have characterized as the militarization of the Rio Grande Valley.
U.S. suspends fast processing of high-tech H-1B visa applications
Foreigners aiming for temporary jobs at high-tech U.S. companies will undergo a longer visa approval process after the Trump administration announced it will temporarily suspend expedited applications for H-1B visas. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said on Friday that starting April 3 it will suspend “premium processing” for up to six months.
Politics | “The Sunday Political Brunch” – March 5, 2017
It’s never a dull moment in the world of politics, and this past week was no exception. President Trump delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress, and there is certainly a lot to chew on.
Legal immigrants keep our country young
The U.S. doesn't have an immigration crisis. Illegal immigration halted a decade ago, and overall anti-immigration sentiment is down.
The 287(g) Program in Las Vegas
Since 2008 the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has been authorized to detain illegal immigrants under a partnership with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement program. A new report finds that Metro’s treatment of undocumented aliens has been tempered by good judgment and fairness.
Mexico prepares to absorb a wave of deportees in the Trump era – Sat, 04 Mar 2017 PST
The deportees stepped off their flight from El Paso looking bewildered – 135 men who had left families and jobs behind after being swept up in the Trump administration’s mounting effort to send millions of undocumented immigrants back to their economically fraught homeland. As they filed into Mexico City International Airport last week, government employees handed them free ham-and-cheese sandwiches, Mexican ID cards and information directing them to social services in the capital.