Category: Immigration Reform

Trump says Mexico should reimburse US for border wall

His tweet followed media reports that his transition team and Republican leaders in Congress are considering a plan to fund the wall through the appropriations funding process as early as April. President-elect Donald Trump repeated his promise to make Mexico pay for a border wall in his latest wide-ranging Twitter storm early Friday morning.

Trump on Border Wall: Mexico Will Pay Us Back

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that Mexico will reimburse American taxpayers for a new border wall and that U.S. money spent will be for the “sake of speed.” The dishonest media does not report that any money spent on building the Great Wall , will be paid back by Mexico later! His tweet came as top aides consider a plan to ask Congress to ensure money is available in U.S. coffers for the wall, but to rely on existing law that already authorizes fencing and other technology along the southern border.

Trump may pursue border wall with Mexico without new legislation

Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump’s transition team are exploring whether they can make good on Trump’s promise of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without passing new legislation, officials said Thursday. Under the evolving plan, the Trump administration would rely on existing legislation authorizing fencing and other technology along the southern border.

Trump builds out White House policy team

NEW YORKa S-a SThe Trump-Pence Presidential transition team on Thursday announced the build out of the White House policy team. NEW YORKa S-a SThe Trump-Pence Presidential transition team on Thursday announced the build out of the White House policy team.

Homeland Security pick faces questions on wall, immigration

Republican anxiety is mounting over voting to unravel the health care law without having an alternative in hand, fanned by words of encouragement from Donald Trump to a GOP senator who wants to simultaneously… Republican anxiety is mounting over voting to unravel the health care law without having an alternative in hand, fanned by words of encouragement from Donald Trump to a GOP senator who wants to simultaneously repeal and… A teenager grips the steering wheel and presses pedals. He sees wind-blown snow in front of him as he approaches the runway.

Sheriff offers to send inmates to build Trump’s border wall

A sheriff who runs a Massachusetts jail is offering to send inmates to the U.S.-Mexico border to help Republican President-elect Donald Trump build a wall there. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson on Wednesday announced an initiative called Project N.I.C.E., which stands for National Inmates’ Community Endeavors.

Civil Rights at Risk Under Jeff Sessions

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, cheers on the crowd during a Trump rally in Mobile, Alabama, in December. Confirmation hearings for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, named by Donald Trump to be attorney general of the United States, will begin on Jan. 10, before Trump is even inaugurated.

.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.

Chuck Schumer: Trump opposition leader

Chuck Schumer arrived for his first day as Senate Democratic leader to a large, new Capitol suite still strewn with unpacked boxes. “It’s a little fancier than I’m used to, but it goes with the territory,” Schumer told us, as he sat down for his maiden television interview as the Senate’s top Democrat.

Obama’s Failed Presidencyby Conrad BlackLike most people, I had hoped …

We have been denied that, not by the candidates, who have been dignified, but by the outgoing administration. I have written here and elsewhere before that this has been the most incompetent administration since James Buchanan brought on the Civil War, but I had not realized how the immunity to severe criticism afforded President Obama, because of his pigmentation, had been allowed to disguise how inept this administration has been, how authoritarian and sleazy, and how the president’s demiurgic vanity has gone almost unnoticed as the toadies and bootlickers like Tom Friedman and David Remnick went into overdrive.

The Patriotic Response to Populism

If 2016 was the year of reckless populism, then 2017 must be the year of clear-eyed patriotism. The surest way to confront demagogues like Donald Trump, and to manage ordeals like Brexit, is by appealing not only to reason but also to common purpose and duty.

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.

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Wildlife advocates plan to challenge the approval of a new Yellowstone River dam to benefit farmers that critics say could kill off a dwindling population of a fish dating to the time of dinosaurs. Wildlife advocates plan to challenge the approval of a new Yellowstone River dam to benefit farmers that critics say could kill off a dwindling population of a fish dating to the time of dinosaurs.

Under 3 weeks left: Obama in closing stretch of presidency

His last presidential vacation behind him, Barack Obama is entering the closing stretch of his presidency, an eleventh-hour push to tie up loose ends and put finishing touches on his legacy before handing the reins to President-elect Donald Trump. Obama returns to Washington midday Monday from Hawaii with just two-and-a-half weeks left.

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.

Mexican man charged with rape had 19 deportations, removals

This undated photo provided by the Geary County Detention Center In Junction City, Kan., shows Tomas Martinez-Maldonado. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Martinez-Maldonado a Mexican national accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. nine times since 2003.

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.

The Mail

Dexter Filkins’s article on the Muslim scholar and preacher Fethullah GA1 4len, the founder of the social and religious movement Hizmet, of which I am a participant, misrepresents GA1 4len and leaves unchallenged a series of claims against him . Filkins refers to statements that GA1 4len made decades ago regarding Jews, but does not explain the evolution of his views, which GA1 4len has clarified in other interviews, or mention his consistent criticism of terrorist attacks in Israel and support for interfaith dialogue.

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.

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President Obama sat down with The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates for a series of interviews for Coates’ ‘My President Was Black’ feature, and the president had a lot to say about race and the media in the past eight years. The Atlantic yesterday and today posted the first and second of those interviews, and in both he invoked Fox News and Rush Limbaugh in talking about public perceptions of himself.

Liberal Wishes and Dreams Pinned to Dubious Demographic Prognostication

While we’ve yet to see any semblance of a deep, personal reflection on why the Democratic Party was soundly defeated this year, we do have some idea as to what they think the future holds for them, and it’s about as predictable as them playing the victim is a loss of this calibur. Via Wired : The country is currently in the midst of what Taylor calls a “racial makeover.”

Rep. Keith Ellisona s black nationalist past haunts bid to lead DNC

More than a decade after he persuaded Minnesota voters to look beyond his controversial past and reward him with a seat in Congress, Mr. Ellison is now asking national Democrats to do the same as he seeks to lead their party. The first Muslim elected to Congress, Mr. Ellison is now running to lead the Democratic National Committee next year, when the party will attempt to rebuild in the wake of yet another election spanking.

Caitlin looks just like her mother in throwback family photos

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