Category: Illegal Immigration

‘Women’s March’ Occupies Washington Day After Donald Trump’s Inauguration

Roughly half a million people of all ages, backgrounds and genders crammed into the nation’s capital a day after President Donald Trump took the oath of office-a demonstration that called itself the “Women’s March,” but protested the GOP agenda on healthcare, immigration and the rights of racial and sexual minorities. Participants packed the center of the city so densely that little actual marching occurred.

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Four federal departments that could be shut down first.

He and Mike Pence have promised, Mother Jones magazine points out, that on Trump’s first day in office he will repeal Obamacare, end the “war on coal,” expel illegal immigrants, begin construction of a “beautiful Southern border wall,” fix the Department of Veterans Affairs, come up with a plan to stop ISIS, get rid of “gun-free zones,” “start taking care of our … military,” withdraw from the TPP trade agreement, cut regulations and designate China a currency manipulator. OK, much of that was probably just campaign talk.

Ecuador Has ‘Hope’ For Good Relationship With Trump Despite ‘Concerns’

But scores of other countries are also closely watching the new administration, including nations like Ecuador that have a sizable number of citizens living in the United States. “Concerns, of course we have, because we’re not deaf and we listened to the campaign and we heard a lot of things that are troublesome, particularly when those things affect our Ecuadorian citizens in the United States,” Guillaume Long, Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs and human mobility, told The Huffington Post in an interview last Thursday.

Republicans in Minn. Legislature, following Trump, take aim at cities’ immigration policies

President-elect Donald Trump swept to the White House promising to clamp down on illegal immigration and so-called “sanctuary cities” like Minneapolis and St. Paul whose leaders vow not to act as local immigration enforcers. Republicans around the country – including the newly empowered GOP majorities in the Minnesota Legislature – have followed suit, threatening to withhold government aid from cities that decline to work with federal immigration authorities, and represent themselves as safe havens against deportation.

Trump poised to reform America’s failed immigration policies

Individuals raise their right hands as they pledge the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony to become United States citizens presented by the Littleton Immigrant Resources Center at the Littleton Center Council Chamber on September 29, 2016. U.S. immigration policy is a joke – a bad joke that President-elect Donald Trump estimates costs our economy $113 billion per year and hurts millions, including both U.S. taxpayers and non – U.S. citizens waiting in line to come here legally.

The Latest: Clapper speaks with Trump about Russia report

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says he has spoken with Donald Trump about the unsubstantiated report claiming Russia had compromising personal and financial information about the president-elect. Clapper says in a statement released Wednesday night that he told Trump the intelligence community “has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable.”

Army veteran who came to the US illegally as a child gives powerful testimony against Jeff Sessions

Army veteran Oscar Vazquez delivered a powerful testimony against Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, arguing the Republican senator would not protect immigrants in the United States. The testimony came as Democrats and civil-rights advocates wage a confirmation battle to block Sessions from the nation’s top law-enforcement post.

Trump’s team examines records of undocumented immigrants

United States President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly taken the first step towards confirming one of the worst fears of undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants who have taken advantage of a programme that grants them temporary stay in the US. According to New York’s Vice News , a US Department of Homeland Security memo, the president-elect’s team is “poking around the agency” for information about recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.

Up Against the Wall, Democrat Party

Or just CLICK THIS LINK to start shopping for anything. Don’t worry – anything you buy through it will pay Daily Pundit a commission! Thanks! The GOP’s willingness to fund Trump’s border wall with taxpayer money could put the party’s deeply held desire to rein in government spending in conflict with its long-standing goal of cracking down on illegal immigration and toughening border security.

Immigration Dept Nabs 35 Illegals In Penang

The Penang Immigration Department detained 35 illegal immigrants during ‘Ops Ikrar’ at several locations in the state yesterday. In the five-hour operation beginning 1am, the department spokesperson said 16 people were nabbed at construction sites in Permatang Pauh, Perai, Sungai Dua, Juru, Seberang Jaya and Alma.

California Focus: Did Obama deportations cost Dems the White House?

With the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump now only weeks away, and the fall election receding into the rear view mirror, one thing becomes ever more clear: The scope of the Latino vote majority Democrats needed and expected to get was significantly less in 2016 than in many earlier elections. And while outgoing President Barack Obama has spent some of the last few weeks skirting this fact by whining about how Democrats didn’t turn out, the diluted Latino vote very possibly means he cost his party the White House.

.com | California gets ready to protect foreigners from Trump

California, home to many foreigners without residence papers, is girding to fight any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to expel them. Trump, who takes office on January 20, has vowed to deport from the country as many as three million immigrants with criminal records and build a wall along the border with Mexico.

Newhouse co-sponsors bills on healthcare, gun rights, abortion funding, undocumented immigrants

U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., was sworn in Tuesday for his second term representing the 4th Congressional District and immediately added his name to several bills and resolutions. Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 to recognize 2nd Amendment rights by ensuring valid concealed carry permits issued in one state are valid for carrying concealed handguns in other states that also recognize their own residents’ right to conceal carry.

The Media’s Dishonest Reporting on Firearms

If you ever have had any dealings with the Associated Press, you know it to be a placid, slow-moving bureaucracy. But it can spur itself into action, as when it revises its style book which it often does along ideological lines, e.g., barring the phrase “illegal immigrants” to describe illegal immigrants, or its recent insistence that services such as Uber and Lyft cannot be described as “ride-sharing” arrangements.

Chicago Paper: Make All Universities – Sanctuary Campuses’

The Chicago Sun-Times editorial board is now asking that every college and university in the state be transformed into ‘sanctuary campuses’ for shielding illegal immigrants from federal law. In a piece , “Make colleges a sanctuary from deportation threat,” asks that every college and university in Illinois risk losing federal funding for the cause: Universities have an obligation to stand up for their students – all of them.

Ex-top cop slams mayor’s plans to destroy municipal ID records

The city’s former top cop slammed the de Blasio administration’s move to destroy personal information of New Yorkers who apply for the municipal ID program. Howard Safir claimed the program – started in January 2015 to help undocumented immigrants obtain public assistance – makes it easy for potential criminals to obtain fraudulent identities.

California Licenses 800K Illegal Aliens as Motor Voter Law Looms – Breitbart

Over the last two years, the Golden State has licensed over 800,000 illegal aliens to drive, and as the new motor voter law AB 1461 goes into effect in 2017, anti-Trump lawmakers are vowing to fight the Trump administration on attempts to enforce immigration law. AB 60 went into effect on January 1, 2015, inviting well over a million illegal aliens in California to apply for driver licenses with lawmaker promises that their non-citizen status would not be shared with immigration authorities.

Watch: Drugs baron jailed after using Burton house as cannabis factory

A Vietnamese man who controlled a work force of illegal immigrants as ‘gardeners’ to cultivate cannabis at a house in Burton has been jailed. Toi Van Le was described as a ‘valued and trusted’ member of a team producing skunk cannabis on a commercial and industrial scale worth several million pounds in premises across the country, including a house in Burton.

Watch: Drugs baron jailed after using Burton house as cannabis factory

A Vietnamese man who controlled a work force of illegal immigrants as ‘gardeners’ to cultivate cannabis at a house in Burton has been jailed. Toi Van Le was described as a ‘valued and trusted’ member of a team producing skunk cannabis on a commercial and industrial scale worth several million pounds in premises across the country, including a house in Burton.

Cotton: Trump earned clearmandate to stop illegal immigration

Sen. Tom Cotton argued Wednesday that President-elect Trump has a A clear mandateA to weed out illegal immigration and reform a system to prioritize American workers over unskilled, foreign workers. “President-elect Trump now has a clear mandate not only to stop illegal immigration, but also to finally cut the generation-long influx of low-skilled immigrants that undermines American workers,” Cotton said, arguing that the immigration system skews toward the rich and powerful and their ability to bring in cheap, migrant workers in order to drive down wages.

Mexico eyes border, migration as leverage in talks with Trump

Mexico aims to defend free trade with the United States by using border security and immigration policy to gain leverage in talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump after he takes office next month, senior officials say. To defuse Trump’s threats to disrupt trade and investment, policymakers say Mexico aims to strike a balance between hearing out his concerns over illegal immigration and U.S. jobs, and adopting a firm posture to protect its own economic interests.

Poll: Utahns support Trump plan to deport law-breaking immigrants

An overwhelming majority of Utahns want President-elect Donald Trump to keep his promise to deport undocumented immigrants who have criminal records, a new poll shows. Seventy-five percent of Utahns either strongly or somewhat support Trump’s plan to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records, according to a UtahPolicy.com poll released Tuesday.

NY Times: Trump Seeks Path for Mexico Wall

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has contacted border officials to ask where a wall could be constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to The New York Times. Trump referred to the “big, beautiful wall” as a key campaign promise, one he said would combat illegal immigration, and his aides continue to say that border wall construction is a priority for the new administration.

Cardinal Mahony: churches may offer sanctuary to a DREAMersa who face deportation

Writing in L’Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Roger Mahony, who served as archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 to 2011, discussed the plight of “DREAMers”: persons who were brought illegally to the United States by their parents when they were children. “While President-elect Donald J. Trump has pledged to implement several severe immigration policies, including the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants and the construction of a wall on the Mexican border, the most pressing and imminent challenge his incoming administration presents on this critical issue is its promise to rescind the DACA program,” Cardinal Mahony wrote.

Illegal immigrant, deported 4 times, steals $1.6 million in gold

An illegal immigrant who has been deported multiple times from the United States is believed to have stolen gold flakes valued at $1.6 million in a New York City heist. The diminutive 53-year-old native of Ecuador, Julio Nivelo, who also goes by David Vargas and other aliases, was captured on a surveillance camera video on September 29 but only released by New York Police today.

Illegal immigrant, deported 4 times, steals $1.6 million in gold

An illegal immigrant who has been deported multiple times from the United States is believed to have stolen gold flakes valued at $1.6 million in a New York City heist. The diminutive 53-year-old native of Ecuador, Julio Nivelo, who also goes by David Vargas and other aliases, was captured on a surveillance camera video on September 29 but only released by New York Police today.

‘Info leak not by security forces’

Kuala Lumpur: Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Shahidan bin Kassim assured that there was no leak of information from law enforcement agencies and security forces in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone . He said the leak of information was currently focused on “tali barut” , especially among the illegal immigrants in Sabah.

[Peter Singer] The empathy trap

Soon after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, he told a young girl, “We don’t have enough empathy in our world today, and it is up to your generation to change that.” Obama expressed a widespread view, so the title of a new book, “Against Empathy,” by Yale University psychologist Paul Bloom, comes as a shock.