LETTER Separations at border are not Trump’s fault
The mainstream media's hysterics over the separating of children from their parents who are bringing them across the border illegally is out of control.
Category Archives: Illegal Immigration
When Art Meets Immigration Issues
Mark Klett, Fence separating the US/Mexico border south of the Gila Mountains, May 2015 . Pigment print, edition of 20, available in three sizes.
Trump parades families ‘permanently separated’ by illegal immigrants
Hundreds of immigrants deported by the US return to Guatemala and Honduras: Family members hug as they arrive back in their homeland, while a father shows off his baby daughter's tiny shoes after they were separated in Texas Sabine Durden, a face case of the White House event, recalled how an illegal immigrant from Guatemala killed her son in a July 2012 drunk driving incident 'I was gonna end my life. I had no purpose.
Newly hired Airbnb senior executive under fire
Kim Kingsley, who was recently hired as director of global communications for the online hospitality service, uploaded the post on Friday She posted to Instagram: 'that night i fell in love with new colleagues while children 2,000 miles away were being detained in cages' President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week putting an end to the administration's so-called 'zero tolerance' policy Government officials warn, however, that the policy shift may take time to implement and could face legal challenges in courts across America A newly hired senior executive for Airbnb found herself mired in controversy on Friday after posting a controversial message amid the child separation crisis at the US border.
Desperate Democrats Dismiss Trump’s Executive Order
Two girls watch television in a holding area at the Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz., in 2014. I was fortunate to spend the last week in lovely, dry, sunny England and Wales.
Trump sabotages GOP plans in Congress, again
President Donald Trump delivers remarks on immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants, at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, on Friday in Washington. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants, at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, on Friday in Washington.
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US President Trump has followed up his policy reversal of separating children from their parents entering illegally from Mexico with a press conference with victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants; Big European companies like Airbus and BMW are warning the UK that Brexit talks need to progress faster to prevent job losses; And NT police have again been censured by the Coroner for failing to properly investigate the death of an Indigenous person.
Deroy Murdock: The left refuses to accept Trump’s surrender
Yet again, Donald J. Trump's foes will not take yes for an answer. President Trump's critics have bashed his policy of separating children from their illegal-alien parents who face prosecution for violating 8 U.S. Code 1325: "Improper entry by alien."
How to Resolve the Conservative Split Over Immigration
Republicans in Congress are at risk of being torn apart over the issue of immigration. While many members from purple districts see settling the Dreamer issue as vital for their re-elections, others from more solidly red states want to restrict new legal immigration and deport anyone living here illegally.
Detainees held in Victorville prison pose problems, raise questions
Homeland Security buses enter the Federal Correctional facility in Victorville, Calif., on Friday, June 8, 2018. More than 1,600 people arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border, including parents who have been separated from their children, are being transferred to federal prisons, U.S. immigration authorities confirmed Thursday.
Democrats Have Zero Tolerance for Solutions to Illegal Immigration
Nor were they able to implement the policy in a humane way. Family separation is callous and ineffective, but its existence doesn't excuse the ginned-up moral panic, the pious grandstanding, or the historically illiterate associations to Nazi death camps unleashed by its critics.
You Don’t Need to Be a Citizen to Have a US Bank Account
Alexis Flores-Betancourt was 5 when her family loaded everything they owned onto a truck and trundled across country from California, where she was born, to Texas, one of several movesa Alexis Flores-Betancourt was 5 when her family loaded everything they owned onto a truck and trundled across country from California, where she was born, to Texas, one of several moves her parents made in search of a brighter future. That was in 2002, and in the years that followed, she recalls, life in the Lone Star State wasn't the easiest.
Criminal referrals at border halted
President Donald Trump's executive order to halt family separations unleashed confusion in Washington and at the Mexico border Thursday, as Customs and Border Protection said it would it stop referring such cases for prosecution and migrant parents arrived at courthouses in Texas and Arizona wearing handcuffs only to be led away without facing ... (more)
The Latest: Trump says GOP lawmakers ‘wasting their time’
Calling for a "strong" border, he says: "We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections." Trump issued an executive order Wednesday to move to halt family separations, saying he was affected by the same images.
Trump’s plan for immigrant families likely doomed in court, experts say
President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order to keep families together at the border in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday.
Spotlight: U.S. House Republicans delay voting on immigration bill amid chaos
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan holds a press conference on the immigration bill on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, on June 21, 2018. Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday delayed a vote on a "moderate" immigration bill amid chaos over the White House practice of separating families who illegally cross the U.S. border.
UK honors ‘Windrush generation’ amid scandal over their immigration status
LONDON Friday marks 70 years since the MV Empire Windrush docked here with nearly 500 people from Caribbean nations ready to help rebuild Britain after the ravages of World War II. But this year's Windrush Day celebration is marred by an ongoing political scandal over suddenly classifying these long-term residents and descendants from former British colonies as illegal immigrants.
MPs warn that fast fashion also has a ‘huge’ impact on the planet
Children of illegal immigrants claim they were pepper sprayed and strapped to chairs at detention centers as details of 'cruel' treatment emerge from lawsuits filed against government Former Sex and the City star-turned gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon brands ICE a 'terrorist organization' and calls for it to be abolished MPs warn that fast fashion also has a 'huge' impact on the planet as much as bags, bottles and microbeads They say cheap, throwaway clothing is having a 'huge' impact on the planet with the use of toxic chemicals and production of climate-changing emissions.
Tell President Trump: ‘We are all Jimena Valencia’ in his un-American war against immigrants
When President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that, "We cannot allow our country to be overrun by illegal immigrants," and blamed Democrats for spreading allegedly "phony stories of sadness and grief," I couldn't stop thinking about 6-year-old Jimena Valencia Madrid. Jimena is the Salvadoran girl who was separated from her mother at the Texas border on June 13 as part of Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, and placed in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol detention center in Phoenix.
What’s next for children already separated from their families?
Amid the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration , thousands of children were separated from their families, while parents were prosecuted under a "zero-tolerance" policy. Add Immigration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Immigration news, video, and analysis from ABC News.