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Senators to introduce bill providing $18 billion for border-security over the next decade in exchange for DREAMers getting permanent legal status. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, both Republicans, focused on immigration and DACA when asked about President Trump's reported comments about African countries and Haiti on Monday.
Protesters calling for an immigration bill addressing the so-called Dreamers, young adults who were brought to the United States as children, carry a sign supporting DACA in the office of Senator Chuck Grassley on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that America's current immigration system weakens national security, as his administration sought Supreme Court backing to lift protections shielding 700,000 "Dreamer" immigrants from deportation. Days after Trump sparked an international uproar by reportedly complaining about immigration from "shithole" countries, his administration sought to refocus the debate by tying a series of current immigration programs to terror threats.
A bipartisan group of senators will unveil a DACA replacement bill Wednesday that combines Democrats' favorite amnesty proposal with some border security and immigration reforms, but stops far short of what the Trump administration has demanded. The bill marries the Dream Act, which would set a path to citizenship for millions of younger illegal immigrants, with some border security enhancements, including limited funding for President Donald Trump's border wall.
Trump spent the holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. . Haitian community members protest near President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Maru Mora-Villalpando, a longtime activist for illegal immigrants, speaks at a news conference announcing she herself is now facing deportation, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in Seattle. Mora-Villalpando, a native of Mexico City who has been in the U.S. for more than 25 years, said Tuesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has given her a notice to appear before an immigration judge.
The Justice Department has long been a lightning rod for political criticism, but this past year brought it to a new level - with a Republican president taking sharp aim at the Republican attorney general he nominated. Even as Attorney General Jeff Sessions pressed forward on some of President Donald Trump's top priorities - such as immigration enforcement - Sessions was sharp criticism from Trump, who was reportedly angered by Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the Justice Department probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and alleged collusion between Trump associates and Russian operatives.
'We appreciate her courage': Girl, 17, so starved that she looked like a ten-year-old escaped California house of horrors through a window so she could save her shackled siblings by showing photos of their 'foul and horrific' living conditions to police Trump is officially overweight with BMI of 29.9, takes daily anti-baldness pills and needs to change his diet but is 'healthy overall' reveals first medical exam Bannon got a SUBPOENA from Mueller to appear before a grand jury after calling Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous' - and collects MORE subpoenas while getting grilled by the House Intelligence Committee Trump has NO dementia: White House doctor says president had a perfect score on cognitive screening test and he only did one because he ASKED Dozens evacuated as Washington state braces for landslide expected to spill four million cubic yards of rock and dirt by early ... (more)
CBS This Morning journalist Major Garrett on Tuesday jumped to blame Donald Trump and Republican "hardliners" for a potential government shutdown. Garrett made little effort to find culpability for the liberal Democrats in the Senate who are demanding a clean DACA bill in return for keeping the government open.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told lawmakers Tuesday that is is "not aware" of any deal with Mexico to build a wall along its northern border with the United States. "Do you know whether we have arrangements with Mexico to pay for it?" Sen. Dick Durbin asked during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday.
The Trump administration released a study Tuesday claiming that most people convicted in U.S. courts of crimes related to international terrorism are foreign-born, a move that amplifies the president's efforts to invoke national security concerns to justify tighter immigration policies. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement that the report provides "sobering" evidence that "our immigration system has undermined our national security and safety."
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Senator Dick Durbin for blowing up talks on a deal to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and said the Democratic lawmaker misrepresented his comments about Haiti and African countries. "Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting," Trump said in a post on Twitter, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that gave legal protection to the young immigrants known as "Dreamers."
Jorge Garcia, 39, of Lincoln Park, hugs his wife and two kids before being escorted by ICE agents to be deported to Mexico, on Jan. 15, 2018, at Detroit Metro Airport. Erik Shelley Jorge Garcia, 39, of Lincoln Park, Mich., hugs his wife, Cindy Garcia, and their two children Jan. 15, 2018, at Detroit Metro Airport moments before being forced to board a flight to Mexico to be deported.
Washington, Jan 16 : US President Donald Trump has said he was "totally misrepresented" by those saying he used the term "s**thole" to describe African nations last week. He was responding to a claim by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin that he used "vile and racist" language during a meeting on immigration reform, BBC reported on Monday.
Newly announced Arizona Senate candidate Joe Arpaio is described as the toughest sheriff in America, and he's certainly the most controversial. During his tenure as a sheriff, Mr Arpaio set up a tent city to house prisoners in the Arizona desert, where temperatures can reach 50 degrees, and forced inmates on the chain gang to wear pink underwear.
Chances of a government shutdown grew Monday as Republicans concluded that they would be unable to pass a long-term spending bill by the Friday deadline. GOP leaders are now turning to a short-term funding measure in hopes of keeping agencies open while talks continue, but Democratic leaders say they are unlikely to support any deal that does not protect young illegal immigrants.
With a temporary funding plan for Uncle Sam set to run out Friday night, there was no clear path forward as yet for Congress and the White House, as the President and Democrats remained on a collision course over efforts to secure a deal on spending levels for the 2018 federal budget, as well as an agreement on the status of certain illegal immigrants brought here as children, raising the possibility of a government shutdown at the end of the week. After arriving back at the White House on Monday night, President Donald Trump re-tweeted four of his own Twitter posts from recent days, as he bluntly criticized Democrats in Congress over immigration and the budget.
Speaking at Fort Worth's Martin Luther King parade, two leading Democrats suggested President Trump is fueling racial tensions and making it feel like "midnight in America," Monday January 15, 2018. Speaking at Fort Worth's Martin Luther King parade, two leading Democrats suggested President Trump is fueling racial tensions and making it feel like "midnight in America."
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts to bring black and white America together, the New York Times has chosen to stoke arguments over race by amassing a collection of allegedly racist quotes by Donald Trump. The piece is titled: Donald Trump's Racism:The Definitive List .