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Protesters march down Tejon Street Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, during the Colorado Springs Women's March in downtown Colorado Springs. The sister march of the Women's March on Washington, D.C., drew between 5,000 and 10,000 people.
It is impossible to overate how bad Donald Trump's Executive Order on Immigration is for America and the world. The Executive Order is a rejection of decades of American leadership in humanitarian and rejects the lessons of the holocaust.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the new fence along the Jordanian border with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and the head of the Southern Command Eyal Zamir, February 9, 2016. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry stressed Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not commenting on US-Mexican relations when the Israeli leader said earlier that US President Donald Trump was "right" in pushing for a wall along the US-Mexico border to block illegal immigration.
Lawyers for two Iraqis with ties to the US military who had been granted visas to enter the United States have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the US government after they were detained when they arrived in New York Friday. The lawsuit could represent the first legal challenge to Trump's controversial executive order, which indefinitely suspends admissions for Syrian refugees and limits the flow of other refugees into the United States by instituting what the President has called "extreme vetting" of immigrants.
Iran said on Saturday it would stop U.S. citizens entering the country in retaliation to Washington's visa ban against Tehran and six other majority-Muslim countries announced by new U.S. President Donald Trump. "While respecting the American people and distinguishing between them and the hostile policies of the U.S. government, Iran will implement the principle of reciprocity until the offensive U.S. limitations against Iranian nationals are lifted," a Foreign Ministry statement said.
Iran said on Saturday it would stop U.S. citizens entering the country in retaliation to Washington's visa ban against Tehran and six other majority-Muslim countries announced by new U.S. President Donald Trump . "While respecting the American people and distinguishing between them and the hostile policies of the U.S. government, Iran will implement the principle of reciprocity until the offensive U.S. limitations against Iranian nationals are lifted," a Foreign Ministry statement said.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and I were chatting over breakfast, and I told him the story of a Border Patrol maintenance man who spent decades repairing holes in the border fence at Calexico. Some days Albert Garcia welded and patched 10 or 12 holes, finding saws and ropes and ladders near cuts in the iron fence.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker , who has called for admitting more Syrians , blasted President Donald Trump's suspension of the refugee admittance program as "fundamentally un-American" and promised to "fight it every step of the way." Booker returned from visiting a refugee camp in the Middle East last August and called on the U.S. to address "a humanitarian crisis of a scale rarely witnessed in the last 50 years."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticized steps towards cancelling world trade agreements, without naming new US President Donald Trump. Trump on Wednesday ordered the construction of a US-Mexican border wall, a major promise during his election campaign, as part of a package of measures to curb illegal immigration.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticised steps towards cancelling world trade agreements, without naming new U.S. President Donald Trump. FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference near the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Friday it would be "illegal" for President Donald J. Trump's administration to cut off federal funding to sanctuary cities under an executive order issued Wednesday. "Cutting off funding to Hartford or any town or city in Connecticut would be illegal," Blumenthal said.
Hours after President Trump signed an executive order blocking refugees and citizens of seven Muslim countries from entering the United States, the head of the Boston Archdiocese issued a call for "mercy for those fleeing violence and persecution." Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley made the statement on his personal blog just hours after participating in the pro-life march in Washington, D.C., and posting a video to his Twitter account where he said that marchers were "so glad" that Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, had addressed the crowd.
As a new proposal for how Mexico will pay for the border wall was introduced, Crossroads residents started thinking about how it might affect them. The Trump administration suggested Thursday that a 20-percent tax on products imported from south of the border could be a way for Mexico to pay for the border wall.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and President Donald Trump agreed to stop publicly talking about who would pay for a border wall during a phone call Friday, representatives of both governments said, putting at least a partial lid on a feud that has threatened to rupture one of the world's biggest bilateral trade relationships. The Mexican and U.S. governments released joint statements describing the hour-long call "productive and constructive" a day after the two leaders exchanged tweets and Pena Nieto canceled a planned visit to the White House to iron out differences.
Trump traveled to the Pentagon where he joined Defense Secretary James Mattis for the signing of an executive action to bring sweeping changes to the nation's refugee policies and put in motion his plans to build up the nation's military. "We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas," he said.
As talk in Washington focuses on immigration and relations with Mexico, Sen. Marco Rubio made a stop in Immokalee on Friday to talk about those issues with citrus growers who often turn to immigrant workers. One of the key topics growers brought up with Rubio was labor, specifically the guest worker program, which lets growers hire workers from other countries on temporary work permits.
The elite Left and their propagandists in the media are already in hysterics over President Trump's first week in office, but for most Americans there are no surprises here. The President is doing exactly what he has said he would do for the last two years on the campaign immediately get to work focusing on jobs, immigration, and shrinking government.
President Donald Trump's plan to ramp up immigration enforcement by compelling local law enforcement agencies to act as immigration officers stands in conflict with the Eureka Police Department's policy to not make arrests based solely on immigration status. The president's executive order issued Wednesday includes a directive to the Department of Homeland Security that would seek to empower local law enforcement agencies to detain undocumented immigrants, a practice which Eureka Police Chief Andrew Mills said his department abolished within the last two years.
It matters that the crowd for the Women's March on Washington was far bigger than that for President Donald Trump's inauguration. The new president often boasts of having started a great movement.
President Trump's plan to make Mexico pay for the wall he intends to build on the southern border may have taken shape Thursday, when his spokesman suggested imposing a 20-percent import tax on Mexican goods. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer mentioned the possibility to reporters on Air Force One Thursday, as relations between Trump and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto spiraled.