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President Donald Trump arrives for a news conference with Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 10, 2018. President Donald Trump called the nation's libel laws "a sham and a disgrace" on Wednesday and promised to make it easier for people to sue publications for defamation, but some called his pledge an attack on the First Amendment.
Building off momentum from a bipartisan meeting hosted by President Trump, lawmakers are racing to craft a plan to protect so-called 'Dreamers' - but Democrats and Republicans are still far apart on how to fix the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. In a news conference Wednesday, the president likely made that negotiation even harder - by insisting again that any immigration deal must include funding for a border wall.
Prominent House Republicans stepped forward on Wednesday with a vision of immigration policy that clashed fiercely with President Donald Trump's recent overtures of bipartisanship and highlighted how difficult it will be for Congress and the president to reach accord in the coming weeks. The proposal, championed by the chairmen of the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, would crack down on illegal immigration and sharply reduce the number of legal immigrants to the United States.
The legal fight for Dreamers seemed to get a little easier this week, while at the same time, becoming much more confusing for Dreamers themselves. President Donald Trump also, very publicly, expressed strong support for finding a solution to the DACA issue, and went even further, suggesting Congress could achieve some sort of comprehensive immigration reform.
US immigration agents raided nearly 100 7-Eleven convenience stores around the country on Wednesday, sending a warning to businesses not to hire illegal immigrants, officials said. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 21 undocumented immigrants in the raids of 7-Eleven franchises in 17 states and the capital, they said, amid a broad crackdown by the year-old administration of President Donald Trump.
During an hourlong performance Tuesday at a table crowded with lawmakers - let's call it The President Show - Donald Trump appeared determined to prove two things. The first was obvious: After much speculation about his temperament, inspired by the dark portrait painted in the book "Fire and Fury," he no doubt wanted to show himself to be an executive in command of the issues and fit to govern.
A year after losing the presidency, Democrats are facing an uncomfortable question: Are they willing to force a government shutdown to extract political victories - a hardball tactic for which they have long blasted Republicans? The dilemma comes as a Jan. 19 funding deadline approaches and bipartisan negotiations over immigration and other issues have so far failed to produce an agreement. The thorniest issue is the fate of "dreamers" - roughly 2 million young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, some of whom had gained legal status under a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that President Trump canceled.
Agents said they targeted about 100 7-Eleven stores nationwide Wednesda... . Christopher Kuemmerle, a group supervisor for U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations unit watches as agents serve an employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store Wednesday, Jan. ... .
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters following a weekly, closed-door strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, listens to President Donald Trump speak during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Washington.
A White House spokeswoman says a judge's ruling against the Trump administration involving a program that protects young immigrants is "outrageous." Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Wednesday that the ruling was "outrageous, especially in light of the President's successful bipartisan meeting with House and Senate members at the White House on the same day."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is protesting a late night Monday order by a Clinton appointed federal judge in California that preserves the DACA program. "We find this decision to be outrageous, especially in light of the President's successful bipartisan meeting with House and Senate members at the White House on the same day," Sanders said in a Tuesday statement.
In this Jan. 9, 2017, photo, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md. listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington.
For months, we've heard President Trump and his administration talk about plans to overhaul the US immigration system. Now the rubber is hitting the road.
I'm Proud We Published the Trump-Russia Dossier - Exactly one year ago BuzzFeed published what's now known simply as "the dossier": a set of reports put together by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign.
A federal judge in California late Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But the ruling is limited - the administration does not need to process applications for those who have never before received DACA protections, he said.
A federal judge in California blocked President Trump's planned phaseout of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty in a ruling late Tuesday that could upend the negotiations on Capitol Hill over "Dreamers" future. Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee to the bench, ruled the DACA program legal - the first court to do so - and said the administration illegally cut corners in canceling it.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on whether a stand-alone fix for DREAMers would be acceptable to President Trump as part of immigration reform. A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from turning back the Obama-era DACA program, which shielded more than 700,000 people from deportation, Reuters reported, citing the judge's ruling.
President Donald Trump suggests that an immigration agreement could be reached in two phases - first by addressing young immigrants and border security, then by making comprehensive changes that have long eluded Congress. Trump presided over a lengthy meeting Tuesday with Republican and Democratic lawmakers seeking a solution for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the U.S. as children and living here illegally.
Democrats are facing a tightrope challenge to achieve their goal of protecting young undocumented immigrants this month: Keep attention on the issue, but don't let it get singled out. Already, both sides have begun messaging on the topic, with Republicans accusing Democrats of wanting to shut down the government over immigration and of being unreasonable, and Democrats maintaining they're fighting for a host of programs beneficial to Americans.
President Donald Trump, while outlining his immigration reform demands, said Tuesday that any bill Democrats and Republicans agree to should be a "bill of love." Speaking in the Cabinet Room in the White House with Republican and Democratic lawmakers , Trump urged people to "put country before party" but said he would not protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation without funding for a border wall along the US-Mexico border and a series of immigration changes.