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LAGUNA BEACH >> Mounted police maneuvered between political rivals. Angry Americans shouted about President Trump, the Ku Klux Klan, illegal immigrants and racism - all in the name of free speech.
Five days after President Donald Trump took office, he signed an executive order that promised a swift, sharp crackdown on illegal immigration _ immediate construction of a massive border wall, quick hiring of 5,000 new Border Patrol agents and stepped-up deportation of undocumented migrants. "Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders," Trump declared at the Jan. 25 ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security, which controls federal immigration agencies.
The White House says President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit a Marine Corps base in Arizona along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump is set to visit Marine Air Station Yuma on Tuesday afternoon before he travels to Phoenix to hold a rally.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump called the Lost Cause statues under consideration for removal "beautiful" and expressed his disappointment "to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart." He also reiterated his warning that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson may be the next targets of the anti-statue Left.
When 92-year-old Dr. Fergie Reid was a young man growing up in Richmond, he resented the massive statues of Confederate leaders lining Monument Avenue. But Reid says black people knew better than to speak out.
President Trump could use his pardon power for the first time next week if he announces at his Phoenix campaign rally that he'll wipe away former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal record. But the pardon, if Trump decides to issue it, would be highly unorthodox and break with the Justice Department's guidelines for clemency, according to legal experts.
The Washington Free Beacon reports on the war between Jeff Sessions and Rahm Emanuel : "So if voters in Chicago are concerned about losing federal grant money: call your mayor," he said. In Emanuel's interview with Axelrod, also conducted Wednesday and released Friday, the Chicago mayor responded.
In a news conference at Trump Tower, President Donald Trump blamed the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017 on both sides of the conflict, equating the white supremacists on one side with the "alt-left" on the other side. President Donald Trump turned hard on a fellow Republican, boosting the primary opponent of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and calling the incumbent "toxic."
Last month, Simon Kuper wrote in his Financial Times column that he was applying for French citizenship. His wife and children, Americans all, had already done so.
Douglas Station Border Patrol agents arrested three Mexican nationals east of town Wednesday night for illegally entering the United States; one of whom was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison on kidnapping charges in Oklahoma. Agents made the discovery during a records check on 26-year-old Guadalupe Mendoza-Rodriguez.
No sooner had President Trump embraced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., than the predictable eruption of false and deceptive claims spewed forth from every direction. What does it really do? The RAISE Act cuts unskilled and family chain migration.
Mark Johnson, right, stands next to public defender Rosie Chase, center, during his arraignment, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in North Hero, Vt., on charges he sprayed liquid manure on a marked U.S. Customs and Border Protection car on Aug. 3 in Alburgh, Vt., after confronting an agent about immigration enforcement. Seated at left is state's attorney Doug DiSabito.
Even as a new Texas law targeting so-called sanctuary cities remains in legal limbo, police chiefs and sheriffs are making changes to comply, rewriting training manuals and withdrawing policies that prevented officers from asking people whether they're in the United States illegally. The law, known as Senate Bill 4, goes into effect Sept.
President Trump has said he is considering a pardon for former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was recently convicted on federal criminal contempt charges. Trump is holding a rally in Phoenix next Tuesday.
A Vermont man's alleged weapon of choice during an argument about immigration enforcement with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was liquid manure. Mark Johnson, who says his livelihood in agriculture has been nearly ruined by illegal immigrants working on local farms, is accused of spraying a border patrol vehicle with manure on Aug. 3 at the edge of a farm field about two miles south of the Canadian border.
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday ended a program begun in 2014 that gave some Central American children and young adults who had failed to qualify for refugee status permission to enter the United States to live and work on a temporary basis, known as parole. The agency said it was doing so in response to President Donald Trump's January executive order on immigration, which directed officials to exercise much more selectively their authority to admit foreigners outside normal legal channels.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, flanked by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez and Tom Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, hailed the Florida county as a place that reversed its "sanctuary" policies for illegal immigrants and lowered ... more > Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a direct challenge to Chicago on Wednesday, saying the high number of homicides is no coincidence for a city that refuses to cooperate with federal deportation authorities, while Miami is cooperating - and reaping the benefits of public safety.
President Obama had insisted for years that he didn't have the power to grant a broad tentative deportation amnesty for Dreamers - then just ahead of the 2012 election, and facing severe criticism from Hispanic leaders, Mr. Obama discovered he did in fact have the power. Thus was born DACA, which has been in effect for five years as of Tuesday and has become perhaps the most controversial policy of the Obama era.
The Trump administration blames illegal immigration, like the wave of migrant children, for fueling gang violence. But those migrant children are more likely to be the gang's victims than its members.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrest a suspect in Los Angeles on Feb. 17. Under a proposal by two Denver City Council members, the Denver Sheriff Department no longer would send notification to ICE when an inmate wanted on an immigration detainer is about to be released from jail, but Mayor Michael Hancock's approach would not end that practice. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and two City Council members said Tuesday that they reached an agreement on competing proposals to step up the city's resistance to federal immigration enforcement.