Trump faces more domestic flak over tariffs, trade policies

In a loud, bipartisan message from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and across the landscape of American business and agriculture, President Donald Trump is facing sharp questions about his tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and Europe, as businesses and farmers say they're being economically harmed by the President's actions on trade. In hearings this week in Congress and at the Commerce Department, in speeches on the floors of the House and Senate, and in news conferences outside the Capitol, the message has been simple the Trump Tariffs are hurting, and more won't help.

Trump faces more domestic flak over tariffs, trade policies Source: Cox Media Group

In a loud, bipartisan message from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and across the landscape of American business and agriculture, President Donald Trump is facing sharp questions about his tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and Europe, as businesses and farmers say they're being economically harmed by the President's actions on trade. In hearings this week in Congress and at the Commerce Department, in speeches on the floors of the House and Senate, and in news conferences outside the Capitol, the message has been simple - the Trump Tariffs are hurting, and more won't help.

As cost of trade war grows, farmers stick with Trump – at least until fall harvest

President Donald Trump's trade disputes with China, Mexico and Canada are already eroding the value of American agricultural production, with soybean growers alone expected to lose at least $3.2 billion during the next crop season. But many farmers - including some whose incomes are plunging as exports stall - are sticking by the man they helped vote into office.

Pompeo meets next Mexican president, says Trump wants better ties

MEXICO CITY: U.S. President Donald Trump wants to strengthen and improve ties with Mexico after "bumps in the road," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Mexico's next leader on Friday, following the leftist's landslide victory this month. President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in turn, handed Pompeo a letter addressed to Trump with his plans to reset the relationship, focussing on trade, immigration, development and security, said Marcelo Ebrard, an aide to the incoming president.

San Benito, Southwest Key enter agreement

The school board has entered into an agreement with Southwest Key Programs to provide educational services to children housed in the shelter at the former site of the Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital. The agreement is similar to the Harlingen school district's 2013 contract with Southwest Key, an Austin-based nonprofit organization housing undocumented immigrant children who were without parents or guardians when detained.

Mexicans comprise a bigger share of border prosecutions since Trump…

Mexicans have made up a larger share of the migrants prosecuted for crossing the border illegally since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end family separations, a USA TODAY analysis of the nation's most active court for immigration prosecutions shows. The analysis also shows a shift away from prosecutions of migrants from the Central American countries that the Trump administration associates with the violent MS-13 gang.

AMLO Presidente! A New Era for Mexico?

President elect of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the celebration event, at the end of the Mexico 2018 Presidential Election on July 1, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. The months leading up to the July 1st victory of Mexican president-elect AndrA s Manuel LA3pez Obrador were fraught with uncertainty: would entrenched economic and political interests ever allow him to win? The attempt to prevent him from ever becoming president succeeded twice, in 2006 and 2012, through a combination of outright electoral fraud, vote-buying, terror, murder, judicial harassment, and McCarthyite scare tactics.

3 Things U.S. Catholic Bishops Can Do About Family Separation and Incarceration at the Border

Salvadoran migrant Epigmenio Centeno and his sons enter the shelter House of the Migrant, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez At the spring meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this week, Tucson Bishop Edward Weisenburger asked for guidance on how "border bishops" should respond to the Department of Homeland Security policies that separate immigrant children and parents.

Groton Nonprofit Working With Child Separated From Parents At The Border

A migrant mother walks with her two daughters on their way to the port of entry to ask for asylum in the U.S. on June 21, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. A migrant mother walks with her two daughters on their way to the port of entry to ask for asylum in the U.S. on June 21, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico.

New directive takes aim at immigrants fleeing gang violence

The MS-13 gang made Jose Osmin Aparicio's life so miserable in his native El Salvador that he had no choice but to flee in the dead of night with his wife and four children, leaving behind all their belongings and paying a smuggler $8,000. Aparicio is undeterred by a new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions declaring that gang and domestic violence will generally cease to be grounds for asylum.

Critics blast Trump, Sessions for sending border detainees to prison

In this May 7, 2018, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens during a news conference in San Diego near the border with Tijuana, Mexico. A judge allowed a lawsuit challenging U.S. immigration authorities for separating parents from their children to go forward on Wednesday, June 6, but said he would decide later whether or not to order a nationwide halt.

Valley Interfaith pushes lawmakers to support DACA

Bishop Daniel Flores of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville was one of several speakers who spoke at a press conference hosted by Valley Interfaith in which they discussed local congressman's stance on the DACA discharge petition in Congress and other changes regarding Homeland Security Bishop Daniel Flores of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville was one of several speakers who spoke at a press conference hosted by Valley Interfaith in which they discussed local congressman's stance on the DACA discharge petition in Congress and other changes regarding Homeland Security HARLINGEN - Valley church leaders yesterday called on U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar to join the push for a Congressional showdown to decide the fate of the so-called Dreamers.

Missing Children’s Day renews attention on 1,475 migrant children unaccounted for

A migrant child from Honduras looks across the US-Mexico Border from Tijuana, Mexico. Friday was National Missing Children's Day, which put renewed attention on revelations from last month that the government had lost track of almost 1,500 migrant children placed with sponsor caretakers.

Deportation protection restored in high-profile Georgia case Source: AP

Federal immigration authorities have agreed to renew the temporary protection from deportation for a Mexican woman whose case made national headlines eight years ago when she was a Georgia college student, according to a court filing. The settlement agreement signed Monday and filed Friday in federal court in Atlanta is the latest twist in 30-year-old Jessica Colotl's quest to stay in the country she has called home for nearly two decades.

Mexican Presidential Hopefuls Debate Relations With Trump And U.S.

In this photo released by the National Electoral Institute , presidential candidates, from left, independent Jaime Rodriguez, known as "El Bronco," Ricardo Anaya of the Forward for Mexico Coalition, Jose Antonio Meade, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with the MORENA party, attend the second of three debates in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday.

Inside Mexico’s violent drug cartel operations fueling heroin addiction in the US

Up a dusty road, in a sun-dappled field in northwest Mexico, a small team of workers bent over, quietly tending to the crops on a farm. But hidden in between the legal crops of corn and garbanzo beans are fields of pretty purple flowers that have become the root of an American catastrophe.