Lawmakers struggle to agree on immigration fix ahead of House votes Thursday

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen met with House Republicans Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol to answer questions about the president's new executive order ending immigrant family separation while also urging members to pass a legislative fix. Add Immigration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Immigration news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

Jews Gather To Pray And Protest Immigration Crackdown At New York ICE Building

Hundreds of people holding purple placards with messages including "This is what 'Never Again' looks like," gathered outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in lower Manhattan Thursday evening to protest President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. The protest - organized by T'ruah and co-sponsored by groups including J Street NYC and Bend the Arc Jewish Action - comes one day after Trump buckled to pressure and signed an executive order reversing his administration's actions to separate immigrant families.

White House pitches merging education and labor as part of streamlining, drawing skepticism

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, flanked by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, gives a presentation on proposals to consolidate executive agencies as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington Thursday. The Trump administration proposed a major reorganization of the federal government on Thursday, calling for merging the education and labor departments, moving the federal food stamp program to the Department of Health and Human Services and renaming that agency.

Trump Seeks Meeting With Putin Even as Allies Seek to Isolate Russia

President Trump hopes to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in the next few weeks even as the American leader increasingly clashes with European allies over how to counter Moscow's assertive actions in Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Trump is sending his national security adviser, John R. Bolton, to Moscow next week to discuss a possible meeting.

Trump tweet complicates House GOP efforts on immigration

The House killed a hard-right immigration bill Thursday, and Republican leaders delayed a planned vote on a compromise GOP package with the party's lawmakers fiercely divided over an issue that has long confounded them. The conservative measure was defeated 231-193, with 41 Republicans - mostly moderates - joining Democrats in voting against it.

East Texans weigh in on separation of children

In this Sunday, June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. Child welfare agencies across America make wrenching decisions every day to separate children from their parents.

Lawyers to CBP agents: Where are the kids?

Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations. Public defenders to border agents: Where are the immigrant children? Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations.

Teens kept at Virginia centre say they were cuffed, beaten

Virginia's governor ordered state officials Thursday to investigate abuse claims by children at an immigration detention facility who said they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. Gov. Ralph Northam announced the probe in a tweet hours after The Associated Press reported the allegations.

HHS Official Called John Podesta a Pedophile and Claimed Liberals Abuse Children in Satanic Rituals

Mediaite conducted an extensive review of her social media posts and found that the HHS appointee pushed the baseless Pizzagate conspiracy theory even more than previously reported. Her tweets include smearing former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta as "a pedophile," accusing Democrats of hosting "Pedophile dinners," and claiming liberals abuse children during satanic rituals.

House GOP postpones key immigration vote amid party infighting

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan , Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Republican Kevin Brady and House Majority Leader Republican Kevin McCarthy enter a news conference with House Republican leadership on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on June 20, 2018. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan , Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Republican Kevin Brady and House Majority Leader Republican Kevin McCarthy enter a news conference with House Republican leadership on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on June 20, 2018.

Is the blue puddle evaporating?

Since my last article on the declining support for the Democratic party agenda, there have been several more primaries and to date there is no significant evidence that this decline has lessened. We were led to believe by their base that the "Resists" would be highly motivated to go to the polls and the results would be overwhelming.