Outside the Beltway

A Federal Judge has blocked enforcement of a Dept. of Justice policy purporting to block funding to so-called ‘sanctuary cities.’

Trump makes a DACA deal, apparently.

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

The University of California has joined the list of Plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration over its decision to end DACA.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

Several Democratic Attorneys General are threatening to sue the Trump Administration over the decision to end DACA, but their legal arguments appear to be especially weak.

But, the problem is, they seem unlikely to act.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

The Trump Administration’s decision to end DACA motivated former President Obama to speak out, and he’s absolutely right.

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

The problematic nature of Arpaio’s tenure goes beyond just his contempt charge.

Donald Trump is threatening to shut the government down if Congress doesn’t pay for the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

The fundamental premise at the heart of the immigration bill that President Trump backed earlier this month has no merit whatsoever.

Chicago is joining the growing list of jurisdictions challenging the Administration’s policy on sanctuary cities.

The President has endorsed a bill that would cut legal immigration in half.

Finally, “law and order” Joe Arpaio gets what he has long deserved.

In a decision that hands a victory to both sides, the Supreme Court has partly upheld, and partly lifted, the stay on President Trump’s Executive Order that banned travel from six majority-Muslim nations.

President Trump took to Twitter again this morning and promptly shot himself in the foot.

The Administration suffers another defeat in defense of its effort to ban Muslim immigrants.

Another day in Court for President Trump’s Muslim ban.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

Another Federal Court has found another Trump Executive Order unconstitutional.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke suggests building Trump’s Wall on Mexican territory.

Two more losses for the Trump Administration.

Hawaii is the first state to challenge the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim travel ban.

The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.

All the effects of a wall, given its cost, needs to be taken into consideration.

Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.

By the end of last night’s oral argument, at least two of the three judges hearing the appeal of the stay on the President’s Muslim travel ban appeared to be skeptical of the Federal Government’s arguments.

Two Republican Senators are introducing legislation that would result in drastic reductions in the number of people allowed into the country legally.

Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

The Acting Attorney General was fired last night after announcing that she would refuse to defend President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. As a result she was fired. Contrary to some arguments, this was not improper.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.

Nice work, Mr. President.

Once again, Donald Trump has played his supporters for suckers.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

Even if Donald Trump loses next month, the political forces inside the GOP he tapped into are likely to remain very powerful.

A new study debunks an old idea.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.