Trump administration targets ‘sanctuary’ cities in latest wave of immigration arrests

The Trump administration has arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in cities that are hostile to the federal government's deportation crackdown, the latest salvo in a growing battle over sanctuary jurisdictions. Federal officials said Thursday that "Operation Safe City" specifically targeted some of the fiercest opponents of President Trump's immigration policies , including New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Washington.

FBI releases shocking new data on murder rates hidden by Obama administration

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released the 2016 edition of its Crime in the United States report, which is a part of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports . Covering January-December 2016, the FBI report "reaffirms that the worrying violent crime increase that began in 2015 after many years of decline was not an isolated incident."

Palestinian kills 3 Israelis in settlement near Jerusalem

White House and congressional Republicans finalizing a tax plan that would slash the corporate rate while likely reducing the levy for the wealthiest Americans. White House and congressional Republicans finalizing a tax plan that would slash the corporate rate while likely reducing the levy for the wealthiest Americans.

Stand up for our Dreamers

The Salt Lake Tribune) Hundreds of "We are Dreamers," a Utah pro-Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival group, marched in solidarity from the Utah Federal Building to the State Capitol with undocumented immigrants who will be affected by the end of DACA. What if our six congressional representatives joined forces to create and pass bipartisan legislation to permanently establish the legal status of the DACA Dreamers, those individuals who came to the U.S. as children with their undocumented parents? Utahns who value family and children could be very proud of our federal representatives for leading this important legislative action.

Bangladeshi prime minister condemns Myanmar over Rohingya treatment

The Bangladeshi Prime Minister has delivered a sharp judgment on neighboring Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled across the border to Bangladesh in recent weeks to escape violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Addressing the UN General Assembly late Thursday, Bangladesh's leader, Sheikh Hasina, said she did so with a "heavy heart."

Italy to establish Training Center at Egyptian police academy

The Training Center will organise workshops to train African policemen in securing borders, managing migration affairs, and combating trafficking, said the Assistant of the Minister of Interior and the Head of Police Academy Ahmed El-Amry. Italy seeks, through that center, to exploit human and financial potentials of the police academy and its leading to do vocational training courses for the security personnel in African countries, added El-Amry.

Dona t put it off: Congress must address how to deal with DACA immigrants

U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, spoke candidly about how federal legislators have failed to address an urgent issue. “For too long, Congress has punted fixing our broken immigration system,” she was quoted as saying in a story published Saturday by the Watertown Daily Times.

Attorney General Sessions steps up anti-a sanctuarya rhetoric after setbacks

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped up the Trump administration's critique of so-called sanctuary cities on Tuesday, saying local and state policies to limit cooperation with immigration enforcement are a criminal's "best friend." Sessions' remarks, at a gathering of law enforcement authorities in Portland, Oregon, came days after repudiation of his stance against the sanctuary movement in separate actions by a federal judge in Chicago and the California legislature.

Aung San Suu Kyi speaks on Rohingya Muslims; here are 10 takeaways from her speech

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech to the nation over Rakhine and Rohingya situation, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar September 19, 2017. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday addressed the Rohingya crisis, saying her government was prepared to begin a verification process for those who wish to return to the country.

How Democrats won the presidency

Hillary Clinton - who lost the 2016 election, in case you weren't sure - is on a book tour with her campaign memoir, Donald Trump - who is still campaigning despite having won - is chatting up Democrats to try to get something done. Anything! By week's end, he was recanting every mean thing he ever said about illegal immigrants and was softening his vow to send Dreamers back to their point of conception.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warns Democrats about working with Trump on DACA bill

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged Democrats to proceed with caution as they begin negotiating a deal with President Trump protecting young illegal immigrants from deportation before the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program end in March. "I don't like the starting point of this negotiation, and I think the Democrats have to exercise extreme caution because basically what the transaction is is the president saying to the Democrats, 'I'll give you what you already have,' which is DACA," Cuomo said in a radio interview Sunday with 970 AM.

With little to lose, Democrats cautiously share the driver’s seat with Trump

Democratic lawmakers shut out of governance for much of this year now find themselves at the center of high-stakes negotiations with President Donald Trump that could achieve a prize they have sought for nearly a decade: permanent legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants. For a small but vocal contingent of Democrats, these talks are fraught with peril, largely because of their total distrust of a man who began his presidential campaign two years ago describing Mexican immigrants as rapists.