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The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents following President Donald Trump's order allowing them to remain with their parents : Kansas' child welfare agency has concluded after an inspection that immigrant children housed in Topeka group homes are "having their needs met." Spokeswoman Taylor Forrest issued an email statement Friday evening after the state Department for Children and Families completed an inspection of The Villages homes on a 400-acre site outside Topeka.
Your Alaska Link checked in with 2018 gubernatorial candidates Mead Treadwell, Mark Begich, Mike Dunleavy and Scott Hawkins about their campaign run and what they want for the great state of Alaska. As Dunleavy states, "I think it's good for the people of Alaska to have folks in a Primary so they have somebody to choose froma some of the folks that just got in are kind of on the left side of the spectrum, and there's others like myself that are on the right side of the spectrum, so people have an opportunity to chose."
Feminist organizations and anti-violence activists have joined together to denounce both pieces of legislation-and they're calling on their members to demand the same from their Representatives. Republicans in the House introduced two pieces of legislation last week that they claimed would solve the previous immigration crisis brought on by the Trump administration: chaos and confusion for DACA recipients, who have been left fearing deportation and uncertain of their legal status over the last year.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown introduces bill to end voter roll cleanups based on electoral inaction and failing to respond to mailed notifications. Ohio's top Democratic elected official is fighting the state's process when it comes to scratching voters off the rolls.
And wire reports New Hampshire online retailers could be on the hook to collect sales tax from dozens of states and thousands of locales after the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday upheld South Dakota's online sales tax law.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen met with House Republicans Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol to answer questions about the president's new executive order ending immigrant family separation while also urging members to pass a legislative fix. Add Immigration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Immigration news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Hundreds of people holding purple placards with messages including "This is what 'Never Again' looks like," gathered outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in lower Manhattan Thursday evening to protest President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. The protest - organized by T'ruah and co-sponsored by groups including J Street NYC and Bend the Arc Jewish Action - comes one day after Trump buckled to pressure and signed an executive order reversing his administration's actions to separate immigrant families.
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, flanked by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, gives a presentation on proposals to consolidate executive agencies as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington Thursday. The Trump administration proposed a major reorganization of the federal government on Thursday, calling for merging the education and labor departments, moving the federal food stamp program to the Department of Health and Human Services and renaming that agency.
Deputy U.S. Marshal John Garrison testified against defendant Sam Sleuth during a mock trial demonstration on Monday for Law Day at the William M. Steger Federal Building in Tyler. Law Day, traditionally May 1, is meant as a time to reflect on the meaning and importance of the law in the country.
A major U.S. Supreme Court ruling out Thursday could force New Hampshire businesses to collect a sales tax on behalf of other states. The case of South Dakota v.
Virginia's governor ordered state officials Thursday to investigate abuse claims by children at an immigration detention facility who said they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. Gov. Ralph Northam announced the probe in a tweet hours after The Associated Press reported the allegations.
The current crisis of the family-separation immigration policy is a prominent news story and beckons responses from our elected officials about their position on a situation where minor children of all ages have been and are continuing to be forcibly removed from their parents.
Bloomberg, a Republican who owns an estate in North Salem, has pledged to donate $80 million to help flip the U.S. House majority in favor of Democrats. Bloomberg also says he will support governors in November -- regardless of their political party -- who share his positions on gun control, climate change, education and other polarizing issues that he thinks are dividing the nation and causing legislative gridlock.
In a rebuke to President Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday blocked a White House plan to cut almost $15 billion in unused government money slated for children's health insurance and other programs.
By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons called on President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday to withdraw its nominee for a key State Department position over his "lack of empathy" for immigrants. The appeal comes as the president faces mushrooming outrage over treatment of migrant families at the border.
President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep concern that the changes don't go far enough, allowing children to still be held in detention even if they remain with their families. "We are pleased that the president is calling a halt to his inhumane and heartless policy of separating parents from their children," said Peter Schey, the lawyer in a lawsuit that resulted in a key agreement governing the treatment of migrant children in detention called the Flores settlement.
In signing an executive order Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he was ending the practice of separating children from parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. "We are keeping families together," he said.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., speaks as he is joined by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, second from left, and other House Democrats calling for passage of the Keep Families Together Act, legislation to end the Trump Administration's policy of separating families at the US-Mexico border, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. As the White House struggles to move past another self-imposed crisis, Democrats are fighting to ensure this one isn't quickly forgotten.
In a photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the U.S. rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen on Sunday. People gather at Texas Woman's University in preparation for a march to the Square to show support for making the university a "sanctuary campus" for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally in December 2016.