Immigration laws foolish, Trump insists

President Donald Trump renewed a threat to close down the federal government when current funding runs out in September if immigration changes and money for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico aren't forthcoming. "We may have to close up our country to get this straight," Trump said Saturday during an event in Cleveland focused on the benefits of the 2017 Republican tax overhaul.

Gathering aims to relaunch Minuteman project, fortify border, in response to Central American caravan

Minutemen and border security supporters gather before heading to the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday. Pledging to report unauthorized entries into the United States - and shame any state leaders who welcome them - about 20 border security supporters assembled Saturday morning near Jamul.

Woman taking sanctuary in Boulder joins call for action on immigration, path to legal residency

Names four women currently taking sanctuary at Colorado churches - Araceli Velasquez, Ingrid Encalada Latorre, Rosa Sabido and Sandra Lopez - and calls federal and state action to create a path for the women to gain legal residency. Says the four women have complied with all requested of them by the immigration system, short of deportation, and have participated in Colorado life to the fullest and have made extraordinary sacrifices by claiming sanctuary to keep their families together.

Despite Donald Trump’s threats, U.S. officials allow caravan members to seek asylum

For weeks, President Donald Trump has expressed alarm about a caravan of Central American migrants heading for the United States and vowed to keep them out. But on Tuesday, U.S. officials allowed a second group of the asylum seekers across the border, their fate now in the hands of immigration officials and judges.

USC prof decries ‘cabal of right wing provocateurs’ who look to shut down left wingers

David Bernstein at Reason.com alerts us to a blog post by a USC professor who believes free speech on campus is under attack by a "cabal of right wing provocateurs" who are looking to make universities look bad because they shut down conservative speakers. Recently, the Federalist Society invited South Texas College of Law Houston's Josh Blackman to lecture at CUNY law school.

Diane Abbott clashes with TV host Piers Morgan over immigration

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott repeatedly declined to spell out her position on the deportation of illegal immigrants as she was pressed on the issue eight times in a live TV interview. Ms Abbott told ITV1's Good Morning Britain she did not back an amnesty of the kind floated by Boris Johnson and said it was "not Labour's position" that up to a million people believed to be living illegally in the UK should be made to go home.

Sajid Javid to be UK home secretary after Windrush scandal resignation

British Prime Minister Theresa May has moved swiftly to shore up her government in the wake of the sudden resignation of a senior minister over an immigration scandal late on Sunday night. May appointed Sajid Javid, a second-generation migrant whose parents came to Britain from Pakistan, as Home Secretary on Monday morning, plugging a hole left when predecessor Amber Rudd fell victim to a growing controversy over the treatment of the so-called Windrush generation of immigrants.

First wave of migrant caravan reaches U.S. border, demands asylum

The illegal immigrant caravan swamped border officials in San Diego Sunday as hundreds of people showed up at the San Ysidro port of entry and demanded admittance and asylum as reporters, immigrant rights activists and Mexican watched. After a month of traveling across Mexico, hundreds of people, most of them from Honduras, massed in Tijuana and began to present themselves to U.S. border officials, reciting the script they've been coached to deliver to clear the first hurdles toward asylum.

Migrant caravan arrives at California’s doorstep, amid protests, cheers and questions

A group of immigrants from Central America, whose caravan north earned the ire of President Donald Trump and became a flash point in the roiling debate over illegal immigration, requested asylum at the California border Sunday in a scene marked by emotion and theater. As the boisterous gathering at the border fence in Playas de Tijuana grew to hundreds, some waved Honduran flags, called out chants and waved bouquets of yellow flowers.

UK home secretary Amber Rudd quits over growing immigration scandal

Prime Minister Theresa May's office said late Sunday that May had accepted the resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd. Rudd had been due to make a statement to Parliament on Monday over the "Windrush scandal," which has dominated headlines in Britain for days and has sparked intense criticism of the Conservative government's tough immigration policies.

Amber Rudd resignation signals new Cabinet woes for Theresa May

Prime Minister Theresa May will be forced into making another Cabinet reshuffle after the resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Sunday evening. Ms Rudd became the fifth departure from the Cabinet since last year's snap general election, after admitting she had "inadvertently" misled MPs over the existence of targets for removing illegal immigrants.

Amber Rudd resigns as UK Home Secretary

London, April 30 - UK Home Secretary Amber Russ has resigned, saying she inadvertently misled MPs over targets for removing illegal immigrants, the media reported on Monday. The resignation came late Sunday after the Guardian revealed that in a leaked 2017 letter to Theresa May, Rudd had told the Prime Minister of her intention to increase deportations by 10 per cent, seemingly at odds with her recent denials that she was aware of deportation targets.

British interior minister resigns for misleading parliament over deportation targets

Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd resigned on Sunday, saying she had mistakenly misled parliament over whether her department had targets for deporting illegal immigrants. Rudd had faced calls to stand down after she said the government didn't have targets for deporting people - only for new evidence to emerge contradicting her claims.

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