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The nation's attention is currently on the southern border, where the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy has caused a crisis over separated immigrant children. Forgotten in all this is that an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants continue to live in the United States - and most of them work.
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that people who enter the United States illegally should be sent back immediately to where they came from without any judicial process, likening them to invaders who are trying to "break into" the country. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Trump said: "We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country.
Jeff Sessions defends Trump border policy in Reno, says cartels use kids to smuggle drugs Follow this story for live updates from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' visit to Reno today. Check out this story on rgj.com: Attorney General Jeff Sessions talks Monday, June 25, 2018 about the Trump administration's policies affecting families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Private property signs block entrance to a dirt road along the perimeter of a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 21, 2018. Private property signs block entrance to a dirt road along the perimeter of a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 21, 2018.
One little news item emerged from the ongoing investigation of the Russia investigation . The outrage machine moved on to the border, to immigration and children separated from their illegal alien parents.
A review of Americans' ratings of President Donald Trump across a series of personal dimensions shows that at least half consider him intelligent, strong and decisive, and able to bring about change. However, much smaller proportions deem him honest, likable or admirable, or say he has appointed good advisers or works well with both parties.
Despite taking heat from both sides of the aisle and receiving an email that threatened she might be lynched, Rep. Maxine Waters didn't back down Monday from her call for voters to "push back" against members of the Trump administration if they bump into them in public. On Sunday, Waters, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Los Angeles, Carson and south Los Angeles, was widely quoted arguing for personal confrontation.
TODAY'S WORD is penultimate . Example: "The Last of the Mohicans" was a great movie, but its prequel, "The Penultimate Mohican," wasn't nearly as entertaining.
Mayor Sylvester Turner called on the owner of a building east of downtown Houston and the nonprofit hoping to operate the former warehouse as a detention center for immigrant children separated from their families at the nation's southern border to reconsider their plans. The mayor also said he is in no rush to issue city permits at the site, and called on the state not to issue a childcare license to the 54,000-square-foot facility two blocks north of BBVA Compass Stadium for use by federal contractor Southwest Key Programs.
Mitt Romney is flashing his familiar smile at city parks and backyards in Utah's mountains and suburbs this week, making his final pitch after being forced into a Republican Senate primary Tuesday against a conservative state lawmaker. His opponent has painted him as an outsider who can't get along with President Donald Trump, but Romney has quieted his once-strident criticism.
Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, which was merely the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something.
A pair of U.S. senators wants to use federal legislation to give diabetic people better access to therapeutic shoes. Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown say their legislation would allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to certify patients' need for the shoes.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick frequently talk tough about illegal immigration, but they refuse to publicly support the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy that's spurred outrage for ripping thousands of undocumented children out of the arms of their parents.
Two fisherman rescued the pilot of a hot air balloon that hit power lines, caught on fire and crashed in a Livingston County lake at a balloon festival Sunday, according to TV news reports, festival organizers and the Federal Aviation Administration. No one was hurt during the morning incident at the Michigan Challenge Balloonfest in Howell.
West Virginia Republican congressional candidate Carol Miller is taking a wait-and-see approach on several issues if elected to the U.S. House from the 3rd District. Miller was noncommittal in an interview with the Charleston Gazette-Mail when asked for her stance on a range of issues, including the opioid epidemic, health care coverage and energy policy.
Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said President Donald Trump's administration was ill prepared for its policy that led to the separation of babies, children and adolescents from their parents. Corker described the roll out of the "zero tolerance" immigration policy as one that was "done in a ready, fire, aim way."
Congressman David Valadao, R-Hanford, has taken $500,000-plus in farm subsidies - still, he complains that "burdensome government regulations" have stacked the deck against his dairy farm . Strike one for poor management of one's personal budget.
Residents of a New Mexico Hispanic village near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test say they were long ignored about the lingering health effects and were expected to share their stories with Congress . The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium plans to travel to Washington, D.C., to testify Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee about how the Trinity Test hurt generations of Tularosa residents.