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STUDIO CITY - A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing the federal government over what they claim is an intentional delay of the processing of naturalization applications, creating a backlog that has ballooned since President Barack Obama was in office. The lawsuit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, filed by the National Partnership for New Americans, UnidosUS and OneAmerica, among others, was announced Monday, Citizenship Day.
"Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation," Christine Blasey Ford told the Washington Post . "Retaliation"! Au contraire, this will make your career.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks with former FBI Director James Comey and other officials at the Department of Justice in April 2017, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks with former FBI Director James Comey and other officials at the Department of Justice in April 2017, in Washington.
The Trump administration will cap refugee admissions at the lowest levels since the refugee resettlement program began, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday. It's the second year in a row the administration has set the cap at a record low.
European Union leaders will discuss next week new proposals to protect the EU's external borders and control migration, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting with her Austrian counterpart in Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel said they would exchange views on the agenda of next week's informal EU leaders' summit.
The Florida gubernatorial race is being portrayed as a Trump vs Sanders proxy fight with a far left Bernie bro running for the Dems and a Trump-supported congressman for the Republicans. So it is necessary for the media to find what they can to destroy the latter.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi meets with European Council President Donald Tusk and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 16, 2018.
Country musician and longtime progressive activist Willie Nelson has announced plans to perform at a rally for Rep. Beto O'Rourke , who is running to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz . Country music icon Willie Nelson's decades of progressive political activism appeared to have gone unnoticed by many of his right-wing fans, with outrage erupting this week over the musician's plans to perform at a rally for Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Beto O'Rourke.
Four months after the new Italian government was installed, the reactionary nature of the coalition between the populist Five Star Movement and the far-right Lega emerges more clearly each day, writes Daniele Fulvi . Despite the fact that the League won only about 17% of the votes in the last elections , the interior minister and League leader Matteo Salvini is emerging as the undisputed head of the government.
Former President Barack Obama urged voters to head to the polls this November in an impassioned speech in Cleveland on Thursday night, chastising his successor and Republican leadership as out of touch and indifferent to the plights of Americans. "On November 6 we have a chance to restore some sanity to our politics," Obama, speaking at a rally for Ohio gubernatorial candidate Richard Corday and other Democrats, said.
Trump administration officials pushed back Wednesday against a Democratic senator's claim that nearly $10 million from the government's disaster relief agency was transferred to immigration enforcement. Sen. Jeff Merkley's claim, which came as a monster hurricane barreled toward the Carolinas, was quickly branded by Homeland Security as "a sorry attempt to push a false agenda."
After releasing a document showing a $10 million transfer from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) argues the funds are being taken away from storm preparation in favor of supporting President Trump's immigration policy.
A state lawmaker who served in the Air Force and worked in the defense industry has won the Republican nomination for the state's 2nd Congressional District and will face Democratic incumbent Annie Kuster in November. Steven Negron defeated six other GOP candidates to get his party's nomination in Tuesday's primary.
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Bright Dead Things , Lucky Wreck , This Big Fake World and Sharks in the Rivers- returned in August with a selection of work that bravely explores agency, power and autonomy. Inside, LimA3n, who currently serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, writes frankly and ferociously about racism, fertility and gender roles-and even drafts up a new National Anthem.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a group of new immigration judges Monday they have an obligation to decide cases efficiently in a system besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs. Speaking to the group of 44 new judges - the largest class of immigration judges in U.S. history - Sessions told them they must keep "our federal laws functioning effectively, fairly, and consistently."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has vigorously pushed President Donald Trump 's agenda at the Justice Department , and before that, spent 20 years championing conservative causes in the Senate . Yet as Sessions enters what may be the final stretch of his tenure, those efforts are at risk of being eclipsed by his boss' relentless verbal jabs that have made the attorney general seem like a perpetual presidential punching bag.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks about the work she has done in the Senate during an interview on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, at the Times Union in Colonie, N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks about the work she has done in the Senate during an interview on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, at the Times Union in Colonie, N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks about the work she has done in the Senate during an interview on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, at the Times Union in Colonie, N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks about the work she has done in the Senate during an interview on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, at the Times Union in Colonie, N.Y. []; _taboola.push ; _taboola.push ; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks about the work she has done in the Senate during an interview on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, at the Times Union in Colonie, N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand talks about the work she has done in the Senate ... (more)
The rallying cry from some liberals to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't a likely winner this election year, as a new poll finds only a quarter of Democrats support eliminating the agency that carried out the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents. But even as they don't want to fully dismantle ICE, 57 percent of Democrats view the agency negatively, including nearly three-fourths of those who describe themselves as liberal, according to a poll released Monday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
In this June 25, 2018, file photo, a mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border near McAllen, Texas. The women paid a smuggler to get them across the river.