Federal Judge Rejects Administration Challenge To “Sanctuary Cities”
A Federal Judge in California has largely rejected a Trump Administration challenge to a series of new laws in California designed to protect so-called “sanctuary cities.”
A Federal Judge in California has largely rejected a Trump Administration challenge to a series of new laws in California designed to protect so-called “sanctuary cities.”
Democrats are rallying around the “Abolish ICE” slogan in response to the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, but it could end up backfiring on them.
America promised immigrants who volunteered to serve in our military a fast track to citizenship. Now, we’re throwing them out.
Today is a great day to reflect on the Enlightenment ideals that fueled a Declaration.
The calls to “Abolish ICE” are spreading to potential candidates for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.
Trump uses an array of ugly language about immigrants. He pretends like he is just talking about MS13 but that is not the case.
The House of Representatives has left town after once again failing to pass an immigration reform bill,, thus likely ensuring that nothing will be passed before the midterms.
Donald Trump continues to demonstrate that he has nothing but utter contempt for the Rule of Law. At some point, he will either be called to account for this or our nation’s institutions will suffer as a result.
Some activists on the left are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. While that may be a great sound bite, it doesn’t really accomplish anything.
The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.
The crying Honduran girl who has become a symbol of a brutal policy actually is not one of its victims.
Either the President of the United States is a knowing liar or he is very easily duped. Neither is a comforting thought.
The odds of an immigration bill passing the House were already low. This morning, President Trump pretty much guaranteed failure.
Notwithstanding the rhetoric of the President and his supporters, most Americans believe that immigration is a good thing for the United States.
Melania Trump visited a detention center in Texas where children are being held by the Federal Government, but it was her choice of apparel that seemed to garner the most attention.
President Trump has reversed the family separation policy and replaced it with a family detention policy. This is likely to lead to Court challenges.
House Republicans are supposed to vote on one or more immigration bills this week, but can’t even agree what their policy should be.
Trump’s former Campaign Manager mocked a ten-year-old girl with Down’s Syndrome who was taken away from her parents.
Donald Trump wants Republicans to make his immigration policies the centerpiece of the midterm campaign. What could possibly go wrong?
New polling shows that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is widely unpopular, with only Republicans supporting it. That last fact, though, is why Trump is unlikely to change the policy.
Trump supporters seeking to justify the Trump Administration’s family separation policy are drawing a false, and baseless, equivalence between immigrant families and people who have been convicted of crimes.
Children are not political bargaining chips, but that’s exactly what this President plans to turn them into.
The Trump administration’s approach to immigrant children is a serious test of our national morality.
President Trump and his supporters are blaming the policy of separating parents and children at the border on Democrats. This is, simply put, a lie.
A Trump Administration policy announced in April has resulted in roughly 2,000 children being taken from their parents at the border.
House Republicans put forward a plan to protect DACA beneficiaries, but President Trump appears to have doomed it already.
Two months ago, the President called on states to send National Guard troops to the border. As expected, they’re not guarding the border.
The Federal Government is signing on to an effort by Texas and several other states to have the DACA program declared unlawful.
Another Federal Judge has held that the Trump Administration’s efforts to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ violates both Federal law and the Constitution.
Donald Trump continues to claim that Mexico will pay for his still non-existent border wall. Mexico says otherwise.
A small group of Senators is engaged in a seemingly quixotic effort to save DACA before the election.
An inordinate amount of cruelty is being perpetrated in the name of border security. It’s only partly the fault of the current President.
The Trump Administration has lost track of nearly 1,500 children at the same time that it is implementing a new policy that will result in children who arrive at the border with their parents or other family members.
When “reasonable suspicion” and free speech collide.
The effort by a group of Republican rebels to force a vote on a DACA bill is moving closer to success, but that may end up being the easy part.
Enforcing our immigration and drug laws comes at the cost of fundamental rights.
A small group of Republican rebels in the House are attempting to push legislation protecting DACA beneficiaries to a floor vote. Unfortunately, they’re not likely to succeed.
A new lawsuit seeks to have the 2012 DACA program declared unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the challenge to President Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban. It didn’t appear to go well for the challengers.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a Trump Administration Order that purported to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities.’
The answer is, of course, no. Really, this is a post about the wall as policy.
President Trump’s call for National Guard troops isn’t going over well even with Republican Governors.
Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.
The “caravan” of immigrants that sent the President off the deep end on immigration issues is basically coming to an end.
President Trump wants to send the military to the Mexican border. This is both unnecessary and a bad idea.
More than 1200 refugees, mostly from Honduras, are trying to come to the United States. What should we do about it?