A sign points passengers to the mobile passport control

More than 600K foreigners overstayed visas in 2016 Visa overstays represent about 40% of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants. Check out this story on demingheadlight.com: https://usat.ly/2qMVCJX A sign points passengers to the mobile passport control window set up for international travelers arriving at Miami International Airport on March 4, 2015, in Miami, Fla.

Food cart shut down? Turn to Egypt’s president on live TV – Sat, 20 May 2017 PST

In this Monday, April 3 photo, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi listens during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Egypts president answers complaints and woes on TV in a savvy form of political theater, putting himself before the public in a way none of his predecessors ever did.

DHS Drastically Reduces Number of Countries That Refuse to Take Back U.S. Deportees

One of the many issues Department of Homeland Security officials have faced in trying to remove criminal aliens from the U.S. is the fact that many countries refused to take back their citizens. A 2001 Supreme Court ruling complicated matter in ruling that illegal immigrants whose home countries won't take them back cannot be detained indefinitely.

Staunch conservative lawmaker tipped to be new US ambassador in Prague

Not Donald Trump's first, Czech born, wife Ivana Trump, but a staunch conservative lawmaker now appears to be the front runner to be the next US ambassador to the Czech Republic. A bigger contrast with the previous incumbent under former president Barack Obama could hardly be found.

British firm to release China-backed movie

Mitchell Norman, the star of Giantland, poses for a publicity photo ahead of the release of the China backed movie. CHINA DAILY British film company BB88 has released stills and information about its latest venture Giantland, the first of three independent films it is making with the backing of Chinese film and TV financier Zhongze Culture Investment.

Which Trump will show up for presidenta s first foreign trip?

President Donald Trump's supporters see his overseas trip as a chance to escape the non-stop revelations related to Russia, but more likely he'll drag the controversy with him overseas - adding another dimension to an already tricky travel schedule. That has left foreign policy analysts wondering which Donald Trump is going to show up for his first foreign trip, which has him visiting five countries in the Middle East and Europe over nine days.

Staffer says Sanders failed to harness liberal energy

A former top outreach staffer for Sen. Bernard Sanders ' presidential campaign says that behind the scenes the operation was at times a mess as the candidate surrounded himself with his own group of insiders and failed to harness the progressive energy out in the country. Cesar Vargas, who was Mr. Sanders ' Latino outreach director, a lawyer and an illegal immigrant here under color of President Barack Obama's 2012 deportation amnesty policy, said the Vermont independent must correct those mistakes if he's thinking about making another run in 2020.

Trump asks Colombia’s help to end Venezuela political crisis

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he intends to work closely with his Colombian counterpart to find a solution to spiraling violence in Venezuela. Sitting side by side with President Juan Manuel Santos in the Oval Office, Trump said he will seek Colombia's help in pressuring neighboring Venezuela to address the near-daily protests and violence that have shaken President Nicolas Maduro's grip on power.

House panel set to mark up aggressive immigration bills

A House committee on Thursday will consider a set of immigration bills that opponents of President Donald Trump's agenda say would amount to the execution of a mass deportation force. The House judiciary committee is set to mark up three Republican bills related to immigration -- one that would vastly expand the role of state and local jurisdictions in immigration enforcement and two others that would authorize immigration components of the Department of Homeland Security.

House committee to take up mass deportation agenda, including bill to arm ICE agents with M-4 rifles

Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte, is set to take up a series of anti-immigrant bills this week that will "ramp up a Trump deportation force," undermine public safety by militarizing federal immigration agents, and waste millions in taxpayer dollars to terrorize millions of immigrant families would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] deportation officers to have access to not just standard-issue handguns and stun guns, but also M-4 rifles or equivalents": The little-noticed legislation is one of four immigration-related bills that the Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider, two of them ... (more)

Longmont council reviews city policies for dealing with undocumented immigrants

Longmont City Council members on Tuesday night considered whether the city's current policies and procedures for dealing with undocumented immigrants - especially the idea that police and other city employees will not aggressively assist federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers - should be put into an ordinance, a resolution or ... (more)

Asylum for families that sheltered Snowden rejected

Three families that sheltered US whistleblower Edward Snowden when he was hiding in Hong Kong in 2013 are facing possible detention and deportation from the city after their claims for asylum were officially rejected, their lawyer said Monday. Four years ago, they took Snowden into their cramped Hong Kong apartments when he was trying to evade authorities after carrying out one of the biggest intelligence thefts in US history, releasing thousands of classified documents, including information on U.S. surveillance programs around the world.