Trump claims has enough delegates to win Republican nomination

... real estate tycoon. Trump now has the backing of 1,238 delegates, one more than the 1,237 needed, according to the US news agency the Associated Press which first reported Trump crossing the threshold. It said the real estate tycoon's delegate count ...

Hillary Clinton: ‘You’re fired’ won’t work in the White House Read…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Hillary Clinton didn't waste any time in targeting Donald Trump as she began speaking at a Riverside rally Tuesday saying California will send the presumptive Republican presidential nominee a message on June 7. It's a message she said "that Donald Trump will hear no matter where he is, that California wants a positive future."

There shouldn’t be a GOP platform

The Republican National Committee on Tuesday announced that Sen. John Barrasso will head the committee tasked with crafting the party's official policy positions at the GOP convention in Cleveland. As chairman of the Republican Platform Committee, Barrasso will have the challenging task of bridging the divide between traditional GOP priorities championed by House and Senate leaders and the shifting policy stances of Donald Trump, the party's presumptive nominee.

Is fear of Trump fueling immigrants’ push for citizenship?

Soon-to-be U.S. citizens clap after jury supervisor Fran Green explains the process of naturalization at the Joseph P. Kinneary United States Courthouse on March 1. Well, it seems that many immigrants, some of whom have lived and worked in, and in their hearts adopted, this country as their own, are eager to get that and the other privileges that come with becoming full-fledged Americans. The number of people applying to become U.S. citizens is at its highest level in four years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of citizenship application data.

Hillary Can’t Close With LatinosBy Ruben Navarrette Jr.

First, the good news for the Clintonistas: The competition with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for Latino voters is no competition at all. According to a new poll by Fox News Latino , Hillary Clinton makes mincemeat out of Trump with that important demographic.

Trump Suggests Mass Deportations, Muslim Ban Negotiable

Donald Trump says his proposals to ban Muslims from entering the United States and deport all illegal immigrants are negotiable. In an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier that aired Saturday night, Trump conceded that some of the provocative policy proposals he has emphasized on the campaign trail could be altered in a deal with Congress.

Your Turn: May 23

Donald Trump arrives to see his daughter, Tiffany Trump, during the graduation ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. A reader wonders if supporters of the Republican presidential candidate would have attended another institution, Trump University, the subject of lawsuits filed by former students.

North by Northeast: What explains the BJP’s stunning win in Assam?

The day after, the architects of the BJP's win in Assam - Himanta Biswa Sarma, Sarbananda Sonowal and national general secretary Ram Madhav. After the drubbing Tarun Gogoi got at the hands of the BJP , the three-term octogenarian chief minister was compared in the local press to Dhritarashtra, the king of Hastinapur who, blind to his son's failings, triggered the Mahabharata.

Cuban migrants climb down from lighthouse near Key West

The 19 Cuban migrants straddled atop the American Shoal lighthouse off Sugarloaf Key have come down and are being processed by immigration officials, Coast Guard officials said Friday afternoon. The migrants climbed down from the 109-foot structure around 5:30 p.m. Earlier in the day, the migrants had swum to the lighthouse after the Coast Guard approached their makeshift boat in the waters off Sugarloaf.

5/20/2016

The New York Times did a story on the logistics of Trump's most important agenda item: the wall and deportation of all undocumented immigrants. Yes, it's as absurd as it sounds: Central to Mr. Trump's campaign, and to his national security strategy, is his intent to clamp down on illegal immigration, using a vast deportation "force" to relocate people to the other side of a wall, funded by Mexico, that would stretch nearly the length of the southern border.

Judge Hanen blasts Obama’s Department of Lying for Injustice

At NR, David French observes : In one of the most stinging court opinions I've ever read, federal district judge Andrew Hanen blasted Department of Justice officials for misleading the court during the course of executive amnesty litigation. What did the DOJ do?" French quotes the court's words: In summary, this Court and opposing counsel were misled both in writing and in open court on multiple occasions as to when the Defendants would begin to implement the Secretary's 2014 DHS Directive establishing the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program and amending the DACA program.

Library of Congress Drops Illegal Alien Subject Heading, Provokes Backlash Legislation

Thanks to the joint efforts of a student group and university librarians at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, with a push from the American Library Association , the Library of Congress announced on March 22 that it would remove the term "Illegal alien" from the LC Subject Heading system, replacing it with "Noncitizen" and, to describe the act of residing without authorization, "Unauthorized immigration." The heading "Illegal aliens" will become a "former heading" reference, cross-referenced with the new terminology; other headings that include the phrase will also be revised or canceled.