Is the United Nations Human Rights Council fated to hate Israel?

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at UN headquarters in New York. Just when it seemed that Nikki Haley's halo could not glow any brighter for Israelis, the beloved US ambassador announced the Trump administration had quit the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Mayors arrive in Tornillo for protest

A delegation of U.S. mayors met at the Tornillo port of entry to protest the separation of immigrant children and to demand the families be reunited. US mayors meet in Tornillo to protest separation of immigrant children from families A delegation of U.S. mayors met at the Tornillo port of entry to protest the separation of immigrant children and to demand the families be reunited.

Trump’s immigration order sparks confusion, deep concern

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.

Trump defends ‘tough’ immigration plans at raucous rally

President Donald Trump has attended a raucous rally to defend his hard-line immigration policies hours after signing an executive order to end the forced separations of migrant families. Mr Trump downplayed the crisis that has threatened to envelop the White House amid days of images of children being pulled from their immigrant parents along the nation's southern border.

UN rights chief condemns ‘xenophobic’ Hungary legislation

The new legislation criminalizes numerous activities, "including distributing information on migration-related matters, providing advice to migrants and refugees, and conducting human rights monitoring at borders." The authorities will be able to arrest, charge and immediately remove any lawyer, adviser, volunteer, or legal resident who provides any humanitarian assistance to an asylum seeker or refugee.

At raucous rally, Trump touts hawkish immigration plans

Hours after abruptly reversing himself to end the forced separations of migrant families, President Donald Trump returned to the warm embrace of his supporters at a raucous rally Wednesday to fiercely defend his hard-line immigration policies while unleashing a torrent of grievances about the media and those investigating him. Trump downplayed the crisis that has threatened to envelop the White House amid days of heart-wrenching images of children being pulled from their immigrant parents along the nation's southern border.

ICE raids Ohio meat plant, arresting nearly 150 workers

Immigration officials lined up dozens of workers, many dressed in white helmets and smocks, outside a meat-processing plant in rural Ohio on Tuesday afternoon in one of the largest recent workplace raids carried out by the Trump administration. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said 146 workers were arrested as part of a year-long investigation into Fresh Mark, a northern Ohio meat supplier once touted by the government as a partner in preventing hiring undocumented workers.

Not A Tattoo: Man Claims He Was Wearing Seat Belt During Accident, Troopers Found This

Trump Reverses Course, Signs Order To Keep Families Together President Donald Trump on Wednesday reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border, signing an executive order to keep parents and kids together. Hearing For Parents In 'House Of Horrors' Case Reveals Daughter's 911 Call A 17-year-old girl who had just escaped her home of horrors called police dispatchers and revealed in a high-pitched voice the abuse that had gone on for years.

U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner: What About Black Children Separated From Their Mothers?

Liberal activists are literally crying on television about the separation of children from parents who enter the country illegally -- and who are now being locked up instead of being released into the community with a promise to appear in immigration court. But what about the plight of American children living in poverty, some of them in far worse conditions than the foreign children put in temporary government housing on the border? Peter Kirsanow, a conservative appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told Fox News Tuesday night that Democrats are currying favor with Hispanics because they're looking for a new voting bloc.

Five things to watch in immigration debate this week

House Republicans this week will vote for the first time in their running eight-year majority on the divisive issue of legalizing certain undocumented immigrants. The House is expected to hold Thursday votes on two immigration bills that address the legal status of so-called Dreamers, young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, as well as border security and enforcement.

Complexity

"We've heard that the Trump administration has heartlessly sought to rip toddlers from the arms of their weeping mothers in order to punish illegal-immigrant parents who are merely seeking asylum. But the truth is more complex " Not that it isn't true , mind you.

Immigrant families dona t a oeinfesta America a ” but Trumpa s racist rhetoric does

After President Trump's latest tweets, there should be no doubts about it: His escalating tirades against undocumented immigrants have nothing to do with immigration and everything with exploiting the racial anxieties of people who want America to be a whiter country. Amid the scandal over Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their asylum-seeking parents and putting unaccompanied minors in cages - a policy he ended by executive order Wednesday, under pressure - the president tweeted Tuesday that immigrants "infest" this country, as if they were animals carrying infectious diseases.

Trump Today: President says Democrats want illegal immigrants to a infesta the country

This column provides a daily update on key presidential actions as well as comments, whether spoken aloud or on Twitter, by President Trump. Like the stock market, the deadline for Trump Today action is 4 p.m. Eastern time, even as we acknowledge that substantive news can and does occur after hours.