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President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks during an event to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Washington. President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks during an event to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Washington.
President Donald Trump reportedly described Haiti and a slew of other nations as "shithole countries" while meeting with lawmakers about immigration policy yesterday. If you expected more from from him, then you probably expect too much.
U.S. President Donald Trump met on Tuesday with Republican and Democratic lawmakers in an uphill search for an election-year compromise on protecting thousands of young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. Trump and his fellow Republicans, who control the U.S. Congress, seem far from an agreement with Democrats as they gird for midterm congressional elections in November.
Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally called on the national GOP to "grow a pair of ovaries" as she launched her Senate bid Friday, joining the race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Jeff Flake by embracing President Donald Trump and his outsider playbook in one of the nation's premier contests.
Even before President Trump reportedly lamented letting in immigrants from "shithole countries" like Haiti and El Salvador and African nations, a government shutdown next week over immigration was already a possibility. Trump may have pushed Democrats into a corner with this one.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, walks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the minority whip, as lawmakers continue negotiating on a deal that would include a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., joined at right by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., gives her support to "dreamers," people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, and supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018.
Border Patrol agents on horseback next to the secondary border fence near the Brown Field Border Patrol Station in San Diego in April. Border Patrol agents on horseback next to the secondary border fence near the Brown Field Border Patrol Station in San Diego in April.
White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders says despite reports to the contrary, no deal has been reached yet on legislation to protect younger immigrants brought to the country illegally, but she says, "they're close." Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi says an immigration working group is just "five white guys."
Donald Trump has denied reports that he used bluntly vulgar language to question why the US should accept more immigrants from Haiti and "s***hole countries" in Africa. The US president tweeted: "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used."
In this Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018 file photo, US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Africans woke up on Friday Jan. 12, 2018 to find President Donald Trump taking an interest in their continent.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Tuesday, where he reportedly made the controversial remarks. Lawmakers from both parties joined opinion leaders around the world in condemning remarks made by President Trump during a meeting earlier this week on immigration, in which he referred to "s***hole countries" in Africa and questioned why the U.S. would want to accept immigrants from countries such as Haiti and El Salvador.
In this Jan. 10, 2018 file photo, House Homeland Security Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee Chairwoman Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., right, speaks during a news conference with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Calls for a second EU referendum, the tragic consequences of the winter flu virus and reported developments over Donald Trump's planned visit to Britain all make the front pages on Friday. The Daily Mail leads with claims that the US president has scrapped his plans to visit the UK next month, amid fears he "won't be made welcome".
Is there really going to be a compromise on DACA - what America will do with illegal immigrants brought here as children? "Most of them have really been great individuals in our country. They want to be citizens," U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood told WTAX News Thursday afternoon.
During immigration talks in the Oval Office, President Trump reportedly grew frustrated, using a crude description of Haiti, El Salvador and African countries, according to a report from the Washington Post . The president then suggested that the U.S. try to increase immigration from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met with this week.
Three Republican and three Democratic senators said Thursday they'd reached an election-year accord to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation and to bolster border security. But the White House and several GOP lawmakers said they'd not accepted the proposal, plunging the issue back into uncertainty just eight days before a deadline that threatens a government shutdown.
A group of bipartisan senators has reached a deal on legislation to protect younger immigrants brought to the country illegally, two GOP senators said Thursday.
President Donald Trump used profane language to disparage African nations in a meeting with lawmakers about a proposed bipartisan deal on immigration. Trump made the remark after Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin told Trump that under the proposal, a lottery for visas would be ended.
Someone, somewhere, somehow is going to have to give President Donald Trump a piece of wall to stand in front of. It might as well be the Democratic congressional leaders Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
President Donald Trump did not post contradictory tweets Thursday about the controversial FISA surveillance program - including prior claims it was used to spy on his campaign team - as the House voted on extending the effort, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "We don't think there was a conflict at all," Sanders told reporters at the daily briefing.