Michigan father deported to Mexico: ‘I feel lost’
Jorge Garcia was deported recently from Detroit and is without his wife and children. Garcia says he doesn't get out much and is depressed.
Category Archives: Immigration Reform
Dreamers Need More Cities And States Ready To Defy Trump
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump sucker punched beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by reminding them that he considers them to be nothing more than "illegal immigrants," simultaneously declaring that American citizens are the ones worthy of being called "Dreamers." Trump's senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, crafted those toxic words and injected into the president's State of the Union address with intentions to pour gasoline over the heated debate between Democrats and Republicans concerning the fate of 800,000 aspiring Americans without legal status in the United States.
A Plan With Something for Everyone to Hate
But DACA recipients who receive legal status would not be able to sponsor any parent that brought them to the U.S. illegally. Close to $1.6 billion would be appropriated for physical border security; these funds would support barrier infrastructure planning, design, and construction.
PHOTO: President Donald Trump poses for a photograph in the Oval Office, April 19, 2017.
They will mark the first nationwide referendum on the Trump era. And the 2018 midterm elections promise to carry with them the drama, enthusiasm, frustrations, and wild storylines we've come to expect in politics.
Diane Dimond: Don’t Let the Media Make up Your Mind on State of the Union
Following President Donald Trump's first State of the Union, I was left shaking my head at some journalists' analysis of what was said. Especially troublesome to see from my crime-and-justice perch was reporters tying Trump's mention of deadly MS-13 gang activity to all undocumented immigrants.
Democrats, ‘Dreamers’ and Demons
The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old "Dreamer" and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first ju-ped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji -- who was walking home from a study group after midnight.
Lawmakers Make Progress on a Spending Deal
With less than a week before government funding runs out, it appears Congress will consider another short-term spending package, although negotiators reportedly are close to a long-term deal. If lawmakers do not act before midnight Feb. 8, federal agencies will shut down for the second time in as many months.
Arizona Senate candidate Arpaio ‘unaware’ he granted interview to anti-Semitic publication
Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who is now running for US Senate, is distancing himself from a fringe publication that promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that he's given multiple interviews to. The Republican candidate said Thursday he does not support anti-Semitism and was not aware the American Free Press published anti-Semitic articles.
Charged political era needs more ‘moderates’
Budget uncertainty has become a familiar feeling in my young Army career. This year's government shutdown was my second, the first occurring in 2013, with 2011 a narrow miss.
Trump urges compromise as Republicans wrestle with immigration
U.S. President Donald Trump urged his fellow Republicans on Thursday to put aside misgivings over letting young "Dreamer" immigrants stay in the United States and pass a bill that includes that measure but also imposes tough new immigration curbs. The debate over immigration policy has become closely enmeshed with looming deadlines over government spending.
As another spending deadline nears, Trump tells Republicans to seek immigration ‘compromise’
U.S. President Donald Trump urged his fellow Republicans on Thursday to overcome sharp internal divisions over immigration policy, a debate closely enmeshed with a deadline to fund the government that looms next week. Congress needs to agree by Feb. 8 on another temporary spending bill.
AG Madigan Supports Chicago in DOJ Lawsuit
Attorney General Lisa Madigan, along with 15 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in support of the City of Chicago in its lawsuit challenging the Department of Justice's efforts to punish so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions by putting immigration-related conditions on federal law enforcement grants. The attorneys general argue that the conditions far exceed DOJ's authority and interfere with the right of states and localities to set their own law enforcement policies.
Donald Trump says Republicans have fulfilled ‘far more promises than we promised’
President Donald Trump used a speech before GOP lawmakers Thursday to pat fellow party members on the back and take digs at Democrats just days after calling for bipartisan unity. Trump also urged the passage of an immigration framework that has been lambasted by Democrats and some members of his party, making clear that he sees no room for compromise.
Reaction to Trump’s immigration offer casts doubt on a deal
President Donald Trump's State of the Union offer of a "down-the-middle compromise" on immigration did nothing to move Republicans and Democrats closer to a deal, as Democrats accused the president of lacing his speech with racially charged remarks and Republicans dug in on their demands. The reaction to Trump's high-profile overture suggested both parties were settling into a protracted tug-of-war.
Hungary says could quit UN talks on migration pact
BUDAPEST: Hungary could quit talks on a United Nations pact on migration because its pro-migration tone threatened Hungary's security interests, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Hungary's right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who seeks reelection for a third consecutive term in elections on April 8, has been one of the strongest opponents to the European Union's migration policy since his government fenced off the country's southern borders in 2015 to keep out migrants.
Black Dems take lead in push to impeach Trump
Black lawmakers say that's the result of Trump repeatedly stirring racial controversies, from personally attacking two members of the caucus to casting equal blame on white supremacists and counterprotesters for fatal violence in Charlottesville, Va., last summer. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver , former head of the CBC, said the bitter feelings originated well before Trump arrived in office, when the real estate mogul began raising doubts about former President Obama's birthplace - and, by extension, his authority to be president.
Yale Law School Grad Cory Booker is an Ignoramus on Citizenship Rights
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker seems to spend every waking moment either admiring his Presidential look in a mirror, or trying to move left of any of his opponents for the 2020 nomination. After the State of the Union Address Tuesday, he demonstrated a profound ignorance of the Constitution.
Merit-based immigration system necessary to match needs of US economy: White House
The White House insisted that the time has come to enact common-sense reforms to base immigration on individual merit and skill and to emphasise close familial relationships. The flood of low-skilled immigrants into the US has suppressed wages, harmed American workers, and strained federal resources, the White House said as it defended President Donald Trump's proposal for a merit-based immigration system.
The Memo: Trump sticks to his guns on immigration agenda
Donald John Trump Stormy Daniels on statement denying Trump affair: 'I do not know where it came from' Five Takeaways from Trump's State of the Union Van Jones: Trump 'selling sweet-tasting candy with poison in it' MORE is going full-steam ahead with his immigration agenda, catering to his base with tough talk and trying to force a difficult choice on Democrats who have promised to protect immigrant communities. Trump's State of the Union speech was notable for its emphatic rhetoric on illegal immigration and for the significant time devoted to the topic.
No immigration deal near as Trump speech, offer are panned
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., listen to the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's State of the Union offer of a "down-the-middle compromise" on immigration did nothing to move Republicans and Democrats closer to a deal Wednesday, as Democrats accused the president of lacing his speech with racially charged remarks and Republicans dug in on their demands.