Progressive Voice: Adios Leni Gonzalez, Arlington Will Miss You

Today's national media attention on immigration is primarily focusing on the deportation of undocumented immigrants and on the building of a border wall and who will pay for it. Less attention is focused on the positive work being achieved in local jurisdictions where immigrants are viewed as an asset, not a liability, and the work that they do to bring a civil tone to the immigration debate.

New WaPo Poll Reveals Shocking New Attitudes Towards This Free Republic

The results of a recent poll conducted by the Washington Post with 1,325 Americans responding showed that 52 percent of Republicans polled would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump suggested it. If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.

Rahm Emanuel: The Renegade Mayor of a Renegade City

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to sue the Department of Justice because it's asking the Chicago Police Department to obey the law perfectly illustrates the dangerous disdain the modern Left has for normal Americans. On July 25, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked all cities, states, and territories applying for a very specific federal law enforcement grant to adhere to three new, very reasonable measures: To openly communicate with the Department of Homeland Security, to allow DHS officers to meet with locally-held prisoners who live in the country illegally and have been arrested for non-immigration related crimes, and to give the Department 48 hours notice before releasing such prisoners.

In New York State, a surprising flow of illegal emigrants

These stories keep cropping up in the news often enough that this must be more than a few isolated incidents. We're talking about part of the Trump Phenomenon as it relates to illegal aliens and their desire to flee the country now that the new administration is in charge.

Top Alabama Senate candidates talk immigration, border wall

Ever since Donald Trump hit the national stage as a serious presidential candidate, building the wall was a major part of his campaign pitch. The wall, meant to improve border security, has been the controversial focal point of the country's immigration debate.

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Joshua Zeitz at Politico Magazine took a look at the history of immigration in the US in light of Trump's immigration plan: The United States is currently experiencing a "historic flow of unskilled immigration," warned Stephen Miller in a bruising news conference last week that saw the White House senior policy adviser harangue a CNN reporter over the famous Emma Lazarus poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Miller, who is also the chief wordsmith behind President Donald Trump's revanchist agenda, speaks with the conviction of a true believer.

Cosmopolitan with a twist

What better way to usher in the hissingly hot dog days of summer, otherwise known as August, than with a high-wire verbal duel between CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta and White House sniper Stephen Miller. The sniping began during a news conference Wednesday, the same day President Donald Trump endorsed Senate Republicans' plan to reform legal immigration from family-based to skill-based standards.

White House officials hope to refocus Trump on issues that resonate with base

White House officials have been urging President Trump to double down on the platform that got him elected into the nation's highest office, while he tries to re-energize his staunchest allies. Advisers have been urging Trump to refocus on immigration and other issues that resonate with the conservatives, evangelicals and working-class whites who propelled him to the Oval Office.

Trump appeals to loyalists as support slips, agenda stalls

President Donald Trump is trying to combat new weakness in his Republican base and re-energize his staunchest supporters after months of White House backbiting and legislative failures. White House officials have been urging the president to fire up his efforts on immigration and other agenda items favored by conservatives, evangelicals and working-class whites who propelled him to the Oval Office.

Myanmar rejects allegations of human rights abuses against Rohingya

Myanmar on Sunday, August 6, 2017, rejects allegations of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during a crackdown against Rohingya Muslims last year, accusing the United Nations of making exaggerated claims in its report on the issue. In the Reuters photo, Rohingya villagers watch as international media visit Maung Hna Ma village, Buthidaung township, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar July 14, 2017.

Trump administration sued over sanctuary city plan

The Secretary of State will proceed with the release of information from voter checklists to a presidential commission on election fraud, now that a lawsuit filed by two New Hampshire lawmakers and... The Goffstown Little League 11- 12-year-old All-Star team took a big first step in the New England Regional Tournament in Bristol, Conn., Sunday ... (more)

Chicago files lawsuit over rules targeting sanctuary cities

The 46-page lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, a day after Emanuel said the city won't 'be blackmailed' into changing its values as a welcoming city. Chicago files lawsuit over rules targeting sanctuary cities The 46-page lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, a day after Emanuel said the city won't 'be blackmailed' into changing its values as a welcoming city.

GOP senator: US-Russia relationship ‘not good right now’ because of Putin

Regulator takes step to change 'Volcker Rule' DOJ, DHS endorse cuts to legal immigration White House aide: Statue of liberty poem not the test for immigration policy MORE on Sunday said the U.S.-Russia relationship is at a low right now because of the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Russia remains an adversary to the United States.