GOP Rep. Mike Coffman to Trump: The time has come to fire Stephen Miller

Yeah, good luck with that, buddy. If Corey Lewandowski could earn brownie points with Trump just by womp-womping at the misfortune of a little girl, how many brownie points has Miller earned by spearheading the child separation policy? By the logic of TrumpWorld, maximum "political incorrectness" is a virtue even it produces a political fiasco that you're forced to hurriedly undo for fear of the political consequences.

DOA? Mulvaney rolls out proposal to consolidate Labor, Education, food safety

What came first - the USDA-regulated chicken or the FDA-regulated egg ? OMB director Mick Mulvaney wants to end that question entirely by eliminating silly overlaps in government. The White House rolled out its long-awaited government reform program, which headlines a consolidation of the Departments of Labor and Education into one Cabinet-level office.

Tell President Trump: ‘We are all Jimena Valencia’ in his un-American war against immigrants

When President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that, "We cannot allow our country to be overrun by illegal immigrants," and blamed Democrats for spreading allegedly "phony stories of sadness and grief," I couldn't stop thinking about 6-year-old Jimena Valencia Madrid. Jimena is the Salvadoran girl who was separated from her mother at the Texas border on June 13 as part of Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, and placed in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol detention center in Phoenix.

House Lawmakers Want to Codify Trump’s Attacks on Migrant Domestic Violence Survivors

Feminist organizations and anti-violence activists have joined together to denounce both pieces of legislation-and they're calling on their members to demand the same from their Representatives. Republicans in the House introduced two pieces of legislation last week that they claimed would solve the previous immigration crisis brought on by the Trump administration: chaos and confusion for DACA recipients, who have been left fearing deportation and uncertain of their legal status over the last year.

Confusion, uncertainty at the border after Trump acts

The U.S. government wrestled with the ramifications Thursday of President Donald Trump's move to stop separating families at the border, with no clear plan to reunite the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and Congress again failing to take action on immigration reform.

Jews Gather To Pray And Protest Immigration Crackdown At New York ICE Building

Hundreds of people holding purple placards with messages including "This is what 'Never Again' looks like," gathered outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in lower Manhattan Thursday evening to protest President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. The protest - organized by T'ruah and co-sponsored by groups including J Street NYC and Bend the Arc Jewish Action - comes one day after Trump buckled to pressure and signed an executive order reversing his administration's actions to separate immigrant families.

Mayors arrive in Tornillo for protest

A delegation of U.S. mayors met at the Tornillo port of entry to protest the separation of immigrant children and to demand the families be reunited. US mayors meet in Tornillo to protest separation of immigrant children from families A delegation of U.S. mayors met at the Tornillo port of entry to protest the separation of immigrant children and to demand the families be reunited.

Trump tweet complicates House GOP efforts on immigration

The House killed a hard-right immigration bill Thursday, and Republican leaders delayed a planned vote on a compromise GOP package with the party's lawmakers fiercely divided over an issue that has long confounded them. The conservative measure was defeated 231-193, with 41 Republicans - mostly moderates - joining Democrats in voting against it.

Lawyer: Feds unexpectedly drop charges against 17 immigrants

Mayors who gathered at a holding facility for immigrant children at the Texas border say President Trump has failed to address a humanitarian crisis of his own making with an executive order to halt the separation of families along the border. McALLEN, Texas - The U.S. government wrestled with the ramifications Thursday of President Donald Trump's move to stop separating families at the border, with no clear plan to reunite the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and Congress again failing to take action on immigration reform.

Lawyers to CBP agents: Where are the kids?

Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations. Public defenders to border agents: Where are the immigrant children? Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations.

Teens kept at Virginia centre say they were cuffed, beaten

Virginia's governor ordered state officials Thursday to investigate abuse claims by children at an immigration detention facility who said they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. Gov. Ralph Northam announced the probe in a tweet hours after The Associated Press reported the allegations.

Young immigrants detained in Virginia center allege abuse

Immigrant children housed at a juvenile detention center say they were beaten and locked up in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells Young immigrants detained in Virginia center allege abuse Immigrant children housed at a juvenile detention center say they were beaten and locked up in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells Check out this story on Daily-Times.com: https://usat.ly/2I9lnJr The Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Staunton, Va. Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at the juvenile detention center say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.