Why Is the Trump Campaign Attacking Senator Kirsten Gillibrand?

She had recently become the first senator to join a call for abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency; Parscale pulled up an old copy of her Web site, from a decade ago, in which she called for "stopping illegal immigration." He wrote, "Looking a bit hypocritical.

Immigration Patriot Diane Black Scares Establishment In TN Gop…

Tennessee GOP Congressman Diane Black, NumbersUSA career grade A+ , is campaigning for the her party's nomination for governor in this very red state. Although she has been up by as much as twenty points over her closest competitor, latest polls showed the race has tightened considerably days before the August 2 primary.

Philadelphia Is Ending A Major Contract With ICE

Philadelphia is ending a controversial data-sharing contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a move seen as a major accomplishment for immigration rights activists who are making a nationwide push to sever ties with the agency. Federal immigration agents have long had access to an arrest database maintained by local authorities in Philadelphia, but protesters and now several top city officials say ICE abuses the cache of law enforcement data to prey on immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally.

Long-time Immigrants Defend, Praise Family-Based Visa System

Retired and in their 70s, Ru-Liang Zhang and Xan-Xia Hong spend every weekday after lunch socializing at the Chinese Community Center, a few short blocks from their Delancey Street home in lower Manhattan. Inseparable and competitive, they battle in ping-pong, magnetic darts, karaoke, and occasionally practice the erhu, an ancient two-stringed bowed instrument.

U.S. immigrants’ reunification deadline passes, lawyers turn to deportations

FILE PHOTO: Children and family members take part in a sit-in following a march to mark "the court-ordered deadline for the Trump Administra - A day after a court-ordered deadline for the U.S. government to reunite immigrant children and parents who had been separated by officials at the U.S.-Mexico border, rights activists will on Friday focus on helping families, together for the first time in weeks, facing deportation. The parents and children were separated as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigration.

Trump willing to shut down government over border security

President Donald Trump said Sunday he'd be willing to shut down the government if Democrats refuse to vote for changes he seeks to the U.S. immigration system, including building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. "I would be willing to 'shut down' government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall!" Trump tweeted.

There’s trouble in Arizona

The polarization of politics has become so bad that some liberal Democrats in Arizona are criticizing one of their party's candidates for the U.S. Senate for refusing to join calls to eliminate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. And, some far-left complainers say, U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., is wrong to support increased penalties for illegal immigrants caught repeatedly by ICE.

Sessions defends deputy AG

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his top deputy Thursday after a handful of congressional Republicans moved this week to impeach him. A group of 11 House conservatives on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Rosenstein, who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation because Sessions has recused himself.

Polling could be missing reality, again

Donald John Trump Meadows threatens to force a vote on Rosenstein impeachment Republican feels 'victimized' by Twitter 'shadow banning' GOP senators surprised to attend Trump's tariffs announcement MORE had almost no chance of being elected president. The entire pundit-polling-news establishment was wrong, and the expectation was that these institutions would recalibrate their coverage to reflect a true picture of the country.

Sessions defends deputy after impeachment move

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his top deputy Thursday after a handful of congressional Republicans moved this week to impeach him. Speaking in Boston, Sessions said he has the "highest confidence" in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and described him as "highly capable" when asked about the impeachment effort.

Georgia governor’s matchup sets a battle for the middle

With the Georgia governor's race now set, the contest between Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams becomes a question of which candidate can move beyond their partisan bases to capture the electoral middle in this emerging battleground state. Kemp, a two-term secretary of state-backed by President Donald Trump, hardly moderated his approach as he celebrated an overwhelming runoff victory Tuesday.

Feds race to reunify immigrant families separated at border to meet…

The Trump administration and the ACLU are at odds over whether the government has met Thursday's court-imposed deadline to reunify nearly 2,600 children separated from parents apprehended at the border. Government lawyers contend they are on track to reunify more than 1,600 children with parents the government has deemed eligible for reunification by midnight.

Arrested Hooksett mom was on ICE list to be deported

Federal immigration officials will review the status of a Hooksett woman who police arrested on Monday night after her two children, 4 and 6, were found walking along a busy stretch of Hooksett Road,... For better or worse, summer basketball for high school players isn't what it used to be.

GOP, Dems focus on messages as summer recess, elections near

One House bill, backed mostly by Republicans, would repeal a tax imposed on some medical devices to help pay for President Barack Obama's health care law, a statute they despise. With another, still a bare-bones outline, the GOP would make last year's $1.5 trillion tax cut permanent and expand reductions for families, homeschooling and businesses.

Judge orders release of immigrant detained after delivering pizza to Army base

"Although he stayed in the United States unlawfully and is currently subject to a final order of removal, he has otherwise been a model citizen," U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty wrote of Pablo Villavicencio. The Manhattan judge said Villavicencio, who was being held at a New Jersey lockup, can remain in the United States while he exhausts his right to try to gain legal status.

Trump-backed candidate Kemp wins Georgia GOP governor runoff

With a damning secret recording of his opponent and a late Trump-Pence endorsement, Secretary of State Brian Kemp on Tuesday won a bruising Republican runoff in the race for Georgia governor. A self-described "unapologetic conservative" whose campaign ran an eyebrow-raising ad that said he could use his own pickup to "round up criminal illegals," Kemp rode a national wave of voter contempt for the establishment in favor of bare-knuckled outsider politics.

Guatemalan boy reunites with father after weeks in Kansas Source: AP

Before 14-year-old Guatemalan Samuel Cazun left a Kansas nonprofit to be reunited with his father, he gave staff members the sketches of their faces he had drawn to help them remember him. Of the dozens of migrant children housed at The Villages in Topeka under a contract with the federal government, Samuel was among as many as nine there who were separated from family members at the southern border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigration.

Contentious Georgia GOP runoff tests Trump voters’ loyalty

Accompanied by his wife Nita Cagle, left, and political supporters, Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle speaks during a rally in Evans, Ga., Monday, July 23, 2018, as he continues his campaign for Georgia governor, a day before the Republican runoff election against his rival, Brian Kemp, Georgia's secretary of state.