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...
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...
