Mission impossible? Here’s the maze of issues Tillerson faces in Mexico visit

Top U.S. officials met Thursday with President Enrique PeA a Nieto for likely contentious talks about relations between the two countries. Mission impossible? Here's the maze of issues Tillerson faces in Mexico visit Top U.S. officials met Thursday with President Enrique PeA a Nieto for likely contentious talks about relations between the two countries.

Donald Trump is on shaky ground with his new immigration order

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events The Trump administration's expanded enforcement against undocumented immigrants may not come as a surprise given the president's strident stance on the issue during the presidential campaign. But, the plan risks crossing a significant line in many Americans' minds: criminality.

Trump is setting the stage for mass deportations. If Congress has…

A Border Patrol agent walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego on June 22, 2016. The Trump administration is about to learn the difference between rhetoric and reality, and could be setting itself up for a spectacular policy failure.

Deportation spat overshadows Trump envoys’ talks with angry Mexico

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is welcomed by U.S. ambassador Roberta Jacobson as he arrives at Benito Juarez international Airport in Mexico City, Mexico February 22, 2017. A bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to deport non-Mexican illegal migrants to Mexico that has enraged Mexicans will top the agenda when officials from both countries meet on Thursday amid a deepening rift between the two nations.

Nativists And White Supremacists Love Trump’s New Immigration Executive Orders

The Department of Homeland Security on February 21 rolled out a pair of memos meant to set internal guidelines for the implementation of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders. The flagship policies of those executive orders are unpopular with a majority of Americans, but they have been a cause for celebration among nativists and white supremacists.

Tillerson, Kelly head to Mexico amid deep strains in bilateral ties

Two top Trump administration officials are heading to Mexico for talks with President Enrique PeA a Nieto and his cabinet primarily aimed at cooling tensions that threaten to derail trade and other agreements on counterterrorism efforts, drug trafficking and immigration. The visit by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly comes a month after a heated volley of tweets between President Trump and PeA a Nieto over who should pay for a wall on the U.S. border prompted the Mexican leader to cancel a visit to the White House.

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown likely to trigger lawsuits

In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, file photo, people wave U.S. flags during a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center, in Los Angeles. Since Trump's immigration enforcement order and travel ban, immigrants have been rushing to prepare applications to become Americans.

Trudeau: No, we won’t be stopping illegal border crossings. Why do you ask?

The other day we looked at a somewhat amusing story of people illegally crossing the border from the United States into Canada. The numbers remain only a tiny trickle compared to the flow of illegal aliens coming into the United States across our southern border, but the trend should still be worrying for Canadians.

Trump admin lays out new approach to illegal immigration

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. Advocacy groups said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are rounding up people in large numbers around the country, with roundups in Southern California being especially heavy-handed, as part of stepped-up enforcement under President Donald Trump.

Student Government discusses University’s stance on immigration policies

Since the beginning of his administration, President Trump has taken a stance on immigration, and UT Student Government is doing the same. On Tuesday, UT's University Leadership Initiative organization fast-tracked Assembly Resolution 23, which calls out the federal government for actions attempting to intimidate undocumented students.

Texas counties see price tags on both sides of “sanctuary” debate

More than a year before Texas Gov. Greg Abbott punished Travis County - yanking away $1.5 million in state grants - for scaling back cooperation with federal immigration officials, he fired a warning shot toward Dallas County. His October 2015 letter came after Valdez - in comments she later said were misconstrued - said she would more closely scrutinize requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold non-citizens in county jails after they were otherwise processed.

Some Lubbock County Detention Center officers getting ICE training

A group of officers at the Lubbock County Detention Center will be trained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify illegal immigrants booked into custody, Sheriff Kelly Rowe said Tuesday in announcing a new LSO policy in working with federal immigration officials. Rowe said he'll send up to eight officers to the four-week training program at an ICE Academy in South Carolina.

Trump to spare ‘dreamer’ immigrants

President Donald Trump's administration are thought to be keeping the protections in place for child US immigrants. Photo: Reuters President Donald Trump's administration plans to consider almost all illegal immigrants subject to deportation, but will leave protections in place for immigrants known as "dreamers" who entered the United States illegally as children, according to official guidelines released on Tuesday.

Hunters shot near border blamed illegal immigrants. But they shot each other, cops say

Hunting guides Walker Daugherty and Michael Bryant were leading a hunting party in southern Texas in early January, when they claimed immigrants illegally crossed the nearby Mexico border, converged on their camp in the middle of the night and tried to rob them. Gunfire erupted.

U.S. to broaden deportation policy for illegal immigrants

In this photo taken Feb. 7, 2017, released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arrest is made during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. The Trump administration is wholesale rewriting the U.S. immigration enforcement priorities, broadly expanding the number of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who are priorities for deportation, according to a pair of enforcement memos released Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017.

Trump administration starts planning immigration crackdown in memos from Homeland Security

The Trump administration said it will try to deport almost all undocumented immigrants caught in the U.S., hire thousands more border patrol and immigration agents and begin building a wall along the Mexican border, enacting an immigration crackdown the president ordered on Jan. 25. The Department of Homeland Security issued a pair of memos on Tuesday enacting President Donald Trump's orders. The memos don't cover Trump's Jan. 27 ban on the entry of foreign travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, which was halted by a federal appeals court.