by Cameron Peters | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — In a contentious House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz interrogated Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert McMahon over the reallocation of funding for President Donald Trump’s national emergency...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 14, 2019 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — The United States will soon have to grapple with its rapidly decreasing working-age population, but experts are torn about whether immigration is the cause or the remedy for the decline. Steven Camarota, the director of research for for the...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — Democrats called for an end to what they characterized as human rights abuses by the Trump administration on Thursday in two consecutive, emotionally charged press conferences. Along with activist groups like Indivisible, MoveOn and United We Dream,...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer announced Wednesday that the Senate will vote Thursday on the president’s weekend proposal for border wall funding and a three-year reprieve from deportation for thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s rollback of a program that allows undocumented students to leave the U.S. for education or work and return legally has hurt so-called “dreamers,” the executive director of the California-Mexico Studies Center told several...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 25, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in issuing a travel ban against eight countries, but a Justice Department lawyer said the ban is based on national security requirements and isn’t...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Once the most prosperous country in Latin America, Venezuela now has the worst hyperinflation in the world, and the resulting exodus of its citizens may produce more refugees than the Syrian conflict, according to some experts. Venezuela is experiencing...
by Stavros Agorakis | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — When Li was seven years old, he left Mexico to reunite with his family in New Jersey. Seventeen years later, holding a temporary visa through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, he walked for two weeks to send a message to Congress — pass...
by Stavros Agorakis | Feb 14, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — With only 19 days until protection for “dreamers” expires, Congress is more divided than ever in reaching a bipartisan fix that satisfies the demands of Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump on immigration. After a Senate vote on altering the...
by Priyanka Godbole | Feb 14, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Ending a program that provides temporary legal immigration status for Salvadorans could have massive economic impacts on the U.S., immigration experts and advocates said Wednesday. “We have had a fruitful and very close relationship with the...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — “Dreamers” – the young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and now face deportation – have valuable skills and should be eligible to enlist in military service, three retired military officials said in a press conference call...
by Stavros Agorakis | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, SOTU2018
WASHINGTON — During his first State of the Union address, several of President Donald Trump’s remarks Tuesday were met with silence or lukewarm applause from Democrats. None of them appeared to divide the House chamber more, though, than his immigration reform...
