Outside the Beltway

Apparently, the President thinks shooting people is amusing.

Once again, a fight is set to brew over funding for the President’s border wall. Will he force another shutdown in an election year?

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

The case of Roland Gramajo is an excellent example of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

The odds have increased all border districts will be represented by Democrats after 2020.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

President Trump threatened mass immigration raids. What was delivered was far less met the eye.

How times have changed, and not for the better.

Well, maybe.

Another case where the cruelty is the point?

A symbolic gesture sure to backfire

The Trump Administration is expected to begin mass deportation raids as early as this weekend.

Another court loss for Trump and his border wall.

The Trump Administration has informed Federal District Court Judges in Maryland and New York that it intends to still try to justify putting a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

Christian doctrine actually has a lot to say that is of relevance to the border.

Not a new observation, but one that should not be forgotten.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal in a series of cases challenging the President’s decision to end the DACA program.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

One photograph that has gone viral is standing as a visualization of the Trump Administration’s inhumane asylum policies.

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

Either Trump doesn’t understand what he is talking about, or he thinks his supporters are dumb.

Wherein I explore the notion that ignorance is bliss.

Last night, President Trump announced a new round of tariffs against Mexico for reasons that have nothing to do with trade itself.

A Federal Judge has put at least a partial hold on President’s Trump’s effort to use a “national emergency” to fund his border wall.

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt another legal setback to the Trump Administration’s efforts to end the DACA program,

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.

There are several months to go before a budget must be passed but there are already signs that the White House and Congress could be headed for an impasse.

A months-long standoff is stopping hurricane relief.

The House of Representatives is asking a Federal Judge to block the President’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

More pressures on a region already struggling.

Trump and company have a cartoonish view of immigration policy.

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

The US is reproducing below the replacement rate.

Trump really has no plan about the border save for demagoging the issue.

Says “He’s pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal.”

Trump’s threat will not make things better (and the notion of actually closing the border is insane).

Note to the folks at Fox and Friends: Central America is not part of Mexico.

Trump declares he will end aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

President Trump will ask for $8.6 billion for his border wall in his Fiscal Year 2020 budget. He’s unlikely to get it.

More polling evidence that the public does not support Trump’s emergency declaration or his wall.