Mark Caserta: Democrats unfairly attack Trump on emotional issue
Liberal Democrats were wrong to portray President Trump as apathetic to children being taken from parents as they illegally attempted to cross our southern borders.
Category Archives: Immigration Reform
Topeka artist looks for humanity on Mexico border, where radical nurture meets ‘inhumane agenda’
For two weeks in mid-June, she joined nine other artists dispatched by the Mennonite Central Committee to observe immigration policy as outrage smoldered over the practice of forcibly separating children from asylum seekers and news from back home revealed some of the children were detained in Topeka. Penner, a retired writing instructor and professor emeritus at Washburn University, said she was trying to find creative solutions or ideas about border territories but returned instead with a notebook full of "fits and starts."
Wyoming Marches to Keep Families Together
From Jackson to Cheyenne, people protested the separation of migrant families at the border and advocates say the fight has just begun People wrote messages in chalk outside of ICE's Cheyenne office on Saturday as part of the nationwide protests against Trump's immigration policy. undreds of thousands of people in more than 700 American towns and cities took to the streets on June 30 to protest President Trump's immigration policy.
Not Extreme: Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party
One of the most widely stated and often unquestioned pearls of wisdom from the Beltway pundits is the earnest complaint that our politics has become ever more partisan. A strident populism manifested in President Trump opposes the left extremism of Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren.
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Last week, a 28-year-old socialist - who had campaigned on a call to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement - defeated the chairman of the House Democratic caucus in a primary election. Republican operatives promptly salivated: For decades, GOP candidates had been leveling attacks against a fictional Nancy Pelosi, one who supported "open borders" and "collectivism."
Church locks Jesus up to fight immigration rules
An Indianapolis church made a bold statement on a lawn near Monument Circle Tuesday morning, placing statues of Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus inside a fence to condemn the current immigration policies. Christ Church Cathedral, also known as "The Church on the Circle," locked up Mary, Joseph, and Jesus as part of its Every Family is Holy campaign.
A long tradition: Americans behaving badly to each other
House Financial Services Committee ranking member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asks a question of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, during a hearing Wednesday, June 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Financial Services Committee ranking member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asks a question of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, during a hearing Wednesday, June 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Which Trump Should Be Believed On Overturning Roe v. Wade?
President Trump has been signaling that he won't ask potential Supreme Court nominees about their positions on specific cases, but he doesn't need to - all on his short list are conservative judges. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption President Trump has been signaling that he won't ask potential Supreme Court nominees about their positions on specific cases, but he doesn't need to - all on his short list are conservative judges.
Austria ready to protect borders if Germany moves on migrants
The Austrian government says it may be 'obliged to take measures to avoid disadvantages for Austria and its people'. VIENNA: Austria is prepared to take measures to protect its southern borders if an immigration deal within Germany's coalition goes into effect, the government in Vienna said on Tuesday.
China volatility; Glencore tumbles; Emerging market pain
The Chinese currency dropped to its lowest level against the US dollar in nearly a year on Tuesday, before staging a recovery that wiped away its losses for the day. Investors have two big worries: China's economy appears to be stumbling, and trade tensions between Beijing and Washington continue to escalate.
Having being deported to Central America after fleeing gangs
Hundreds of people who fled gang violence in Central America are being deported by the United States back to those countries every week. It plunges them into danger.
Nearly 35,000 people arrested crossing into US Nearly 35,000…
Nearly 35,000 individuals were arrested crossing the southern US border illegally last month, according to a source familiar with the latest arrest figures. But though the Trump administration has made cracking down on illegal immigration a priority, including a policy that had at one point resulted in separating undocumented families, it is nearly impossible to attribute the decline to any specific policy.
Trump paints Democrats as a radical lefta over calls to abolish ICE
Several potential 2020 presidential hopefuls are signaling a shift to the progressive left by calling for the end of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and now President Donald Trump is using that rhetoric as a rallying cry. In several tweets over the weekend, Trump painted Democrats as the "radical left" and said without ICE, crime would be "rampant and uncontrollable."
Continue reading Stephen Moore: Give us your young energetic, talented masses
Republicans are right to call for tough measures to deter illegal immigration, which means building the wall, ending the catch-and-release policy and challenging the harboring strategy of sanctuary cities. But where Republicans are wrong is in calling for strict caps and even reductions in legal immigration visas.
Tearful reunion for mom, daughter separated at border
Buena Ventura Martin-Godinez, center, holds her son Pedro, left, as she is reunited with her daughter Janne, right, at Miami International Airport, Sunday, July 1, 2018, in Miami. Martin crossed the border into the United States from Mexico in May with her son, fleeing violence in Guatemala.
How colonialism shapes immigration policy in the US and Australia
A group of around 20 protesters occupy PM Malcolm Turnbull's electoral office, demanding the end to the policy of offshore detention of asylum seekers, in Sydney, October 14, 2015 [Reuters] , President Donald Trump praised Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for the Australian policy of refusing entry to asylum seekers who arrive by boat. It is official Australian policy to detain future arrivals through systematically cruel treatment in offshore detention centres.
Separations at the border didn’t worry some Trump officials
People participate in the Families Belong Together march in Chicago on Saturday, June 30, 2018. As Health and Human Services secretary, Alex Azar was responsible for caring for migrant children taken from their parents at the border.
Over 100 Demonstrated at “Families Belong Together” Rally in Angels Camp
OMG! I don't believe this. Did Soros hire these people? Did some of them come from places as far as Alaska? I don't see any CCA people.
The biggest losers in Mexico’s election? The Democrats
Every election has winners and losers, and Mexico's is no exception. While the press is making much of Mexico's centrist PRI and center-right PAN parties being the big losers in last night's election of socialist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico, the real loser is actually up north, in the U.S. Democratic Party.
Comedian who allegedly prank-called Trump says he has hired Michael Avenatti
Donald John Trump Scaramucci warns Trump must 'change tactics now' on trade Trump sought to purchase historic Scottish building for hotel: report Republican wins right to replace Farenthold in Congress MORE by posing as a Democratic senator said on Sunday he has hired Stormy Daniels's attorney Michael Avenatti to represent him. John Melendez tweeted late Sunday night that he has hired Avenatti to represent him, hours before he is allegedly scheduled to meet with Secret Service.