by Khadija Islow | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s proposed $2 billion budget increase for the agency to $10.4 billion, saying the agency needs more resources for the influx of migrants to the border....
by Megan Lebowitz | Mar 3, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
FAIRFAX, VA. – “I’m OK. We’re OK. Hang up the phone. Don’t talk too much.” Irade Kashgary remembers her aunt’s warning during a phone call several months ago — the last contact Kashgary had with her relatives in Xinjiang, China. Kashgary, 26, is a Uyghur American...
by James Pollard and Suzy Vazquez | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON –The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that could ultimately decide whether the First Amendment protects the people who encourage unauthorized immigrants to remain in the country. The case, United States v. Sineneng-Smith, centers on...
by Megan Lebowitz | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Senators Tuesday pressed Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s $2 billion proposal for border wall construction and also criticized the construction’s potential harm to tribal lands and...
by Sneha Dey | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, Immigration, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump touted hard-line border policies at his third State of the Union, impressing on his anti-immigrant supporters he has fulfilled his 2016 campaign promises. “If you come illegally, you will now be promptly removed,” Trump said....
by Brooke Fowler | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted 59-41 Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration of a national emergency, with 12 Republicans joining the 47 Democrats to send a message to the president that he had overstepped his authority. Trump said he declared...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON –– The Department of Homeland Security has been regularly “misleading” Congress and the public by denying it was separating thousands of children from parents at the border and failing to give the House Homeland Security Committee documents related to the...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – In the months after the Trump administration formally ended its family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, more than 200 new immigrant children were separated from their families and the number previously separated was much larger than reported....
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...
