Outside the Beltway

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

A new poll shows most Americans oppose President Trump’s border wall and support more liberal immigration laws.

The White House isn’t ruling out the idea of a second government shutdown, but Senate Republicans have other ideas.

The initial reaction to President Trump’s proposal to reopen the government is not going over well on either side of the aisle.

President Trump put an offer on the table to end the shutdown, the question is whether it will actually lead anywhere.

Tulsi Gabbard was born in American Samoa, an American territory whose residents are generally not American citizens from birth. However, she is nonetheless a “natural born citizen.”

A Federal Judge has blocked the Trump Administration from going forward with a plan to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

A brewing fight over funding for the President’s border wall could throw a monkey wrench into plans to pass a budget by next Friday.

A Federal Judge has ruled that the Trump Administration’s efforts to limit the ability of migrants to claim asylum violates Federal law.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

National Republicans are worried that the President’s concentration on hot-button issues could end up backfiring. They should be.

While the numbers seem to show that scandal-plagued Senator Bob Menendez will win re-election on Tuesday, national Democrats aren’t taking any chances.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

President Trump wants to send more troops than we have in Syria and Iraq combined to the border to deal with a non-existent threat.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

Thirty-seven years ago, Ronald Reagan spoke out against hatred and bigotry in a way that the current President refuses to do.

One of the longest-lasting characters on The Simpsons may not be long for this world, but before we write him off perhaps we ought to stop and think.

Rather than cauterizing an open wound, she’s fanned the fuels of a fire.

Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.

Care to guess the demographic makeup of the county?

After a week, the race for the GOP nomination for Kansas Governor is over. Now it’s on to what could be an interesting General Election.

The legal fight over DACA could end up posing problems for Republicans in November.

Tuesday’s election results were a defeat for the progressive effort to remake the Democratic Party in their image.

More evidence that the politics of the moment aren’t just about illegal immigration.

A new poll finds that most Americans oppose key elements of the immigration policies that the President and Republicans in Congress support.

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.”

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

America promised immigrants who volunteered to serve in our military a fast track to citizenship. Now, we’re throwing them out.

There is a general anti-immigrant current in this administration.

Today is a great day to reflect on the Enlightenment ideals that fueled a Declaration.

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.

The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.

The odds of an immigration bill passing the House were already low. This morning, President Trump pretty much guaranteed failure.

House Republicans are supposed to vote on one or more immigration bills this week, but can’t even agree what their policy should be.

A new poll out of Arizona gives Republicans some hope that they’ll be able to dodge the possibility of Joe Arpaio or Kelli Ward winning a primary to fill an already vulnerable seat.

A federal trial court has ruled the practice an unconstitutional infringement on suffrage.

House Republicans put forward a plan to protect DACA beneficiaries, but President Trump appears to have doomed it already.

A small group of Senators is engaged in a seemingly quixotic effort to save DACA before the election.

The requirement that the President be a “natural born citizen” is a historical anachronism that has outlived its usefulness or necessity.

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.

A writer at National Review is proposing a compromise on the issue of transgender rights. Needless to say, many conservatives aren’t very happy about it.

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.

Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

New York and nearly two dozen other jurisdictions have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the Trump Administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 Census.

In a bizarre Twitter rant, President Trump declared a DACA deal “dead,” blaming Democrats when it’s clear that it’s largely his fault.

Joe Arpaio is saying he might reopen his “investigation” into former President Obama’s birthplace if he’s elected Senator.