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President Trump may have cut last week's short-term debt limit and funding deal with Democrats in an effort to score a bipartisan win and move on to issues such as immigration reform that lay ahead. "I think that's what the people of the United States want to see: They want to see some dialogue," Trump told reporters last week.
President Donald Trump basically did what he had to do last week in announcing he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals rule that was put in place by his predecessor. President Barack Obama had put the rule in place, contrary to current immigration law, to prevent the deportation of people who had entered the country illegally as children, brought by their parents.
"If, as a voter, you think what we need is more Republicans in Washington to cut a deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then I guess Donald Trump's your guy." Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas spoke those words in Manchester, N.H., in January 2016.
Once upon a time the Constitution meant something to everybody. Every American took pride in a Constitution that was written in plain language that anyone, even a lawyer, could understand.
Words have been abused and, like, cheapened in our present day, but they're still, like, important. He who controls the language, as Orwell reminded us, controls the debate.
Anthony Pham immigrated to the United States in 1982 from Vietnam and became a citizen five years later, after President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration law that sped the legalization process for millions of new Americans. Now a business owner and proud Republican in Georgia's staunchly conservative 10th Congressional District, Pham says he supports maintaining legal status for young immigrants living in the United States illegally who were brought to the country as children.
David Soto was downcast after news the government is phasing out a program that has shielded him from deportation for almost five years. But before long, the 32-year-old from Eagan was asking himself: What can I do? Within hours of last week's announcement that the Trump administration is ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a diverse cast of Minnesotans with a stake in the program sprang to action.
As Congress returned from summer recess to a plate heaped with work - President Donald Trump added a gooey serving of immigration reform Tuesday on top of the debt ceiling, the budget, hurricane relief and tax reform - another of America's key institutions is marking 10 years that shook the world.
Last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed the Trump administration's ending of DACA, the executive order known as Deferred Action for Children Arrivals. Sessions called President Obama's executive order "unconstitutional" and an "overreach."
These three branches are the executive , the legislative and the judicial Most Americans know - or should know from a middle school government class - that the reason America has three branches of government is to create a separation of powers. This way, the power of government does not rest with one individual - such as a dictator or self-appointed monarch.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is the topic of discussion. The Trump administration officially announced the long-awaited rescission notice for the unconstitutional Obama-era program that shielded illegal aliens who entered the U.S. as minors from deportation as long as they paid the $495 application fee and met all the requirements .
Adriana Gonzalez, a student at Hartnell College, speaks at a news conference Saturday at the college called by Rep. Jimmy Panetta. At left is another student, Katherine Hernandez, who also spoke about her experiences as an undocumented immigrant.
The next six months are going to tell us a lot about what kind of country this is, and whether the United States Congress is still capable of fulfilling its constitutional duties. That's because Congress now has a deadline, and unlike past deadlines, it's not one that can just be postponed through a continuing resolution or legislative trick.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., accompanied by members of the House and Senate Democrats, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017.
Ariana Grande's ex-boyfriend Jai Brooks is causing quite the stir on Instagram today after he publicly slammed Selena Gomez. The "Bad Liar" singer voiced her opinion about President Trump's decision to reverse the DACA initiative.
No one in the reality-based world can really deny, at this late date, that Donald Trump is a racist, but there continues to be some debate over the extent that white supremacy drives Trump's decisions, hangups and obsessions. I learned this, to my chagrin, on Wednesday, when I tweeted out a link to a Think Progress piece by Ian Millhiser that debunked Jeff Sessions' claim that DACA is unconstitutional.
We have every reason to assume the worst when it comes to President Trump's motivation in rescinding DACA - the program allowing undocumented immigrants to live and work openly if they came to the United States as children. Trump's public justification is that President Obama's creation of DACA by executive action was unconstitutional.
Don't expect the United States to step in and resolve what is increasingly being describing as an ethnic cleansing campaign against Myanmar's downtrodden Rohingya Muslims. Not wanting to undermine the Asian country's democratic hero, the U.S. is cautiously criticizing what looks like a forced exodus of more than a quarter-million Rohingya in the last two weeks as Myanmar's military responds with hammer force to insurgent attacks.
President Donald Trump shocked Capitol Hill Republicans on Wednesday by quickly agreeing to a deal proposed by House and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Trump signed on to a three-month extension of the deadlines to raise the nation's debt limit and fund the government, avoiding a shutdown, and attaching the deal to a bill for hurricane aid.