Border still porous
Critics of President Donald Trump's various proposals to crack down on illegal immigration say there is little need to do so. The number of people coming into our country illegally has dropped dramatically, they say.
Category Archives: Illegal Immigration
Assam leaves 13m citizens off its register
Around 13 million people living in northeastern India's largest state have been left off a controversial draft list of citizens released yesterday by the authorities, who are under pressure to identify and expel illegal immigrants. Assam has long struggled to curb illegal immigration and is the only Indian state to compile a register of citizens.
Congress faces difficult issues when it returns this week
Congress faces a jam-packed to-do list when it returns this week, with deadlines looming on difficult issues - including how to fund the government and avoid a shutdown, stabilizing the nation's health-insurance program for poor children, and whether to shield young undocumented immigrants from deportation. Fresh off a party-line vote to overhaul the tax code, the negotiations will test whether Congress and the White House still have the potential to craft any form of bipartisan agreement.
Trump lays out immigration deal demands
Washington, Dec 30 - US President Donald Trump has said that there will be no deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation without funding to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, the media reported. The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed wall at the Southern Border and an end to the horrible Chain Migration and ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc, Trump tweeted on Friday.
Indian state tense ahead of citizens list targeting ‘illegal Bangladeshis’
GUWAHATI, India/NEW DELHI: India has mobilised around 60,000 police and paramilitary troops in a sensitive border state ahead of the publication of a list of citizens it says will be used to detect and deport illegal immigrants: mainly Muslims: from neighbouring Bangladesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party took power in the eastern state of Assam for the first time last year, vowing to act against illegal Muslim residents who take away jobs from local Hindus.
Rep. Scott Taylor of Virginia and the missing investigation
In early December, a political disagreement got very nasty. One of the parties to the disagreement is Rep. Scott Taylor, a former Navy Seal and now congressman from Virginia.
Mexico claims stronger U.S. ties in 2017 despite Trump’s wall rhetoric
Despite their public differences over trade and immigration, Mexico strengthened its ties with the United States in 2017, the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement on Monday. At the start of the year, President Enrique Pena Nieto formulated 10 goals and five principles to guide his country's relationship with the new U.S. government under President Donald Trump.
2017: A Year of Change in Immigration Policy
Less than a year into his presidency, Donald Trump has reshuffled the list of priorities as to who, among the country's refugees, undocumented immigrants and immigrant hopefuls gets to stay in the United States, or enter the country. Few campaign promises have yet to come to fruition, and not without strong opposition and legal challenges.
Trump and the Meat Tycoon: Backstory to a Commutation
After he served 8 years of a 27-year sentence for money laundering, kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin had his sentence commuted. On May 14, 2008, hundreds of officers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement swooped down on Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, with helicopters in the largest single-site raid in US history, arresting half of the eight-hundred-person workforce.
Sheriff Tony Estrada, another kind of Arizona lawman
Born in Nogales, Mexico, Marco Antonio Estrada was raised just north of the U.S. border, giving him a unique perspective on issues related to it and strong opinions about treatment of immigrants. Pointedly, the white-haired, 74-year-old Spanish-speaker has said he's "not a fan" of President Donald Trump, his proposed border wall or his hardline immigration policies.
Logic need not apply: Trump’s odd commutation
On the subject of clemency: Color us confused about President Trump's decision to free Brooklyn-born Sholom Rubashkin, in the pen for bank fraud after sneaking payments to undocumented immigrant workers in an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant. To quote the President's inaugural address on his credo for the country: "We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American."
Infrastructure, welfare reform, and immigration are on Congress’ agenda for 2018
For the rest of December, Washington Examiner reporters will be exploring what 2018 has in store in a number of areas, from the White House and Congress to energy and defense. See all of our year ahead stories here .
Dems take heat over failure to secure DACA fix this year
Democratic leaders in Congress are facing criticism from progressive groups for failing to secure legislative protections for young undocumented immigrants in the year-end stopgap spending bill.
Did Democrats lose their leverage on DACA?
In the end, the calendar won -- and that has some recalculating who will have leverage in January for negotiations on immigration. Congress finished up its business for the year Thursday night and left town without resolving major outstanding issues -- including a resolution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which lawmakers had repeatedly pledged to fix before the end of the year.
Departments of Justice and Homeland Security Release Data on…
On Dec. 18, 2017, DOJ and DHS released the FY 2017 4th Quarter , complying with this order. The report found that more than one-in-five of all persons in Bureau of Prisons custody were foreign born, and that 94 percent of confirmed aliens in custody were unlawfully present.
A Man Got Stranded On A Fountain After Taking A Ton Of Molly And…
Democrats unlikely to force DACA vote this week, probably averting shutdown - Democrats are backing away from a pledge to force a vote this month over the fate of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children, angering activists but likely averting the threat Meryl Streep Targeted by Street Artists With "She Knew" Posters - The posters appeared in several locations in Los Angeles. - In posters that appeared in several locations in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Meryl Streep was seemingly depicted as a Harvey Weinstein enabler by anonymous street artists.
Witch Hunt
This piece generated a vitriolic response from fritzbw: "The PIT is indeed suffering from a toxic atmosphere, but not the kind described in the article by Katie Fernelius. The PIT is suffering from the toxicity of a witch hunt, in which mudslingers are given free rein and not held to any standards of rational thinking.
How I chronicled the story of an undocumented immigrant
I didn't plan to meet Jessica Esparza every two years, but interesting changes kept happening in her life. Jessica is an undocumented immigrant, brought to the U.S. by her parents as a child.
Surprisingly, Republicans and Conservatives shouldna t fear a national popular vote
Republicans are hesitant to switch from our winner-take-all state laws allocating electors to the electoral college to using the National Popular Vote. The National Popular Vote Plan would award all of a state's electors to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in all fifty states.
Consul General of Brazil visits Hyannis
The Consul General of Brazil in Boston visited Hyannis on Dec. 7 to meet with members of the Brazilian community and local leaders to discuss services the diplomat could provide to Cape constituents. Interestingly, the concern looming large over the local Brazilian community - increased emphasis on enforcing illegal immigration laws in the U.S. by the Trump Administration - was only briefly touched upon during the hour-long meeting.