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Key Democrats are lobbying to block any additional money from going toward what they call President Trump’s cruel immigration enforcement policies, saying they won’t be complicit in helping his strict interpretation of enforcing the laws.
An 8-year-old illegal immigrant girl arrested at the border was found to have measles, the Border Patrol said Thursday.
Yuma, a city on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, declared a state of emergency Tuesday, saying it cannot handle the crush of illegal immigrants the government is being forced to release onto its streets.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a video posted Monday, adding she doesn’t believe the “agency can be reformed.”
Top administration officials have been discussing ways to increase pressure on countries with high numbers of citizens who overstay short-term visas, as part of President Trump’s growing focus on immigration heading into his re-election campaign.
President Trump shared some unlikely praise for Cher on Monday after the iconic singer and outspoken liberal questioned how Los Angeles is planning to take care of the influx of illegal immigrants when the city “isn’t taking care of its own.”
Democratic committee chairs announced a probe Monday into President Trump’s nascent plan to ship illegal immigrants away from the border and release them into sanctuary cities, calling the proposed move “alarming.”
The border debate has once again been upended by President Trump’s exploration of a plan to take illegal immigrants nabbed at the U.S.-Mexico border and ship them to sanctuary cities for release.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Sunday the president wants to explore a twice-rejected proposal to send migrants to “sanctuary cities,” but it was not the preferred solution to fix the straining immigration system.
House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler said Sunday it’s “unforgivable” if President Trump promised to pardon Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan if he broke the law by denying entry to asylum seekers.
The Pentagon is expected to unveil the list of military construction programs department leaders will suspend in order to free up money for President Trump’s Mexico border wall.
President Trump said Friday that he is considering a plan to release illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities, saying it is fitting punishment for Democrat-led communities that refuse to get tough on border security.
The Senate’s top Republican and the House’s top Democrat each said Thursday that they’re open to a broad immigration debate this year, sending the issue soaring back to the top of the congressional agenda.
A small, armed militia based in New Mexico has set up camp in the southeastern-most pocket of the state in an effort to assist the United States Border Patrol in guarding the southern border until President Trump’s wall is built.
As President Trump rails against an influx of migrants at the border, two of his most influential White House power players are at odds over the future of his immigration policy.
Ronald D. Vitiello officially resigned from acting director at ICE on Wednesday, just days after President Trump canceled his nomination to be the agency’s permanent chief.
President Trump suggested Wednesday that illegal immigrants from Central America are worse than those from Mexico, changing tone from his campaign declaration that Mexico was sending the worst of the worst to the U.S.
Hundreds of Honduran migrants, many carrying young children, set out in a caravan for that country’s border with Guatemala on Wednesday, hoping to reach the United States.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Tuesday that she’s “ashamed” of the more moderate views she held on illegal immigration in the past, telling potential supporters that her beliefs have significantly changed since her Blue Dog days.
President Trump on Tuesday ruled out a restart of family separations at the border, but a top administration aide laid out an expansive agenda they hope to accomplish otherwise, including rules to make it tougher to claim asylum and powers to let the administration detain illegal immigrant families who jump the border.
Democrats will try over the next few months to pass a bill granting citizenship rights to millions of illegal immigrants, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday.
A Mexican national accused of killing four people in Kansas and one in Missouri in 2016 is dead after being found unresponsive in his St. Louis jail cell.
The point man for the administration’s handling of illegal immigrant children on Tuesday dealt a severe blow to plans to restart the zero tolerance border policy, saying the government doesn’t have the capacity to handle the surge of children that would result.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley warned President Trump Monday against firing additional leaders within the Department of Homeland Security — following the departures of outgoing DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Secret Service Director Randolph D. “Tex” Alles, and rumors that Lee Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, might be next.
Rep. Xochitl Torres Small said Tuesday the absence of permanent leadership in the Department of Homeland Security is the cause of ineffective border policies being enacted.
Getting any pick through the Senate is going to be rough for President Trump, who over the weekend ousted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
With Democrats controlling the House and migrants still inundating the southern border, it’s clear that President Trump won’t fix the nation’s immigration problems in his first term.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop its new policy of sending asylum-seekers who jumped the border back to Mexico to wait while their cases proceed, ruling Monday that the plan was likely illegal.
Rep. Don Bacon said Monday Congress has to “come together” to find a bipartisan solution on illegal immigration, and he blamed lawmakers’ inaction on preventing President Trump from having a legislative success.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen brought a resignation letter with her at her meeting with President Trump Sunday afternoon, a meeting that ended with her being fired, Axios reported on Monday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says his visit to El Salvador is a counter to President Donald Trump’s “demoralizing” and “toxic” rhetoric about Central American migrants.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Sunday he favors a comprehensive immigration overhaul.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen submitted her resignation to the White House Sunday as President Trump continued a housecleaning at the department amid the growing border crisis.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the federal government to either quickly bring asylum seekers to a judge to argue for bail or else release the migrants outright, in a ruling that deals another blow to President Trump’s attempts to crack down on the border crisis.
House Democrats officially filed their lawsuit Friday afternoon challenging President Trump’s plans to shift money to build his border wall, demanding federal judges step in and referee between the two sides.
Former U.S. Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan says he must “restrain” himself while addressing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that agents “cage children at the border and inject them with drugs” out of “hatred.”
President Trump said Friday he pulled his nominee for country’s top deportation officer because the man wasn’t tough enough.
President Trump took to Twitter Friday to explain his new plan for tackling illegal immigration, saying either Mexico finds a way to stop the illegal cross-border traffic or else it will face economic consequences.
Sen. Jeff Merkley said Friday President Trump is creating the surge of illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border, adding that more people from Central America try to cross whenever he talks about closing the boundary.
Congress failed to stop President Trump’s border emergency wall-building campaign through the legislative process, so now Democrats are turning to the courts.
President Trump retreated Thursday from his tough talk of closing the southern border, saying his new solution will be to slap tariffs on Mexican auto imports if America’s southern neighbor doesn’t do more to stop the smuggling of drugs and people.
Some of President Trump’s staunchest allies on Capitol Hill have told him in no uncertain terms that they won’t back his threat to “close” the U.S.-Mexico border, describing the move as economic suicide.
As President Trump prepares to visit the southern border, the White House is accusing Democrats of allowing the crisis of surging asylum seekers and gridlock at ports of entry to grow even worse.
Top Democrats offered their solutions to the border crisis Wednesday, saying the surge of illegal immigrants from Central America can be solved by sending more money to the region, and by shifting resources here at home.
President Trump doubled down Wednesday on his ultimatum that he will “close” the border unless Congress acts, brushing aside advice from his own team at the White House, from business groups and from members of Congress that it would be an economic catastrophe.
Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro slammed the Trump administration for calling the situation at the Mexican border a crisis and outlined ways he would fix the immigration system if elected in 2020.
President Trump delivered an ultimatum to Congress on Tuesday, saying either lawmakers change immigration laws to stop the surge of illegal immigrants streaming north from Central America or he will take unilateral action to “close” the border.
White House Strategic Communications Director Mercedes Schlapp said Tuesday President Trump’s threats to close the border is one of the “little choices” left to deal with the crisis of illegal immigration.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed off President Trump’s threat to close the U.S.-Mexican border as unrealistic.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Tuesday President Trump should not close the nation’s southern border with Mexico, adding “we’ve neglected our hemisphere too long.”
Border Patrol agents will soon add asylum officer to their list of duties, according to agents who say they are about to be part of a pilot program aimed at trying to speed up the processing of illegal immigrants.
As he threatens to shut down the southern border, President Donald Trump is considering bringing on a “border” or “immigration czar” to coordinate immigration policy across various federal agencies, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
Sen. Ben Cardin said President Trump’s calls for closing the U.S.-Mexico border to address the immigration crisis ‘makes no sense.’
Sen. Marsha Blackburn said Monday she agrees with President Trump’s threats to close the U.S. border with Mexico, adding that “every town is a border town” until it happens.
