The nearly 850 immigrants currently serving in the military or waiting to start basic training won’t face deportation despite the ongoing federal wrangling over the fate of people who came to America illegally as children, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. Mattis said Thursday he spoke with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen […]
Establishment GOP budget plan is facing a MAJOR obstacle
Congress and the President Donald Trump White House are facing another government shutdown — but, this time things are different and Washington is on the edge. Hard-line conservatives are threatening to scuttle establishment Republican leaders’ plans to prevent a weekend government shutdown. GOP leaders lack the votes to push their […]
Trump administration to consider options on immigration legislation
The Trump administration would consider immigration legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young people, the U.S. Homeland Security secretary said Tuesday, while emphasizing no decision on that issue has been made and a border wall remains the priority. Congress is considering three options, including […]
Trump: No border wall? NO DACA!
President Donald Trump is saying there won’t be protection for young immigrants brought into the country illegally unless he gets funding for a border wall and other items. Trump said on Twitter Friday: “The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately […]
Dems at a crossroads over fate of “Dreamers”
For Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a passionate, liberal Democrat of Puerto Rican descent, there is no more important issue in the year-end budget showdown than protecting from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children — and who have only known America as their […]
Trump border walls finished! Here’s what happens next…
The U.S. government announced Thursday that prototypes for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico have been completed and will be subjected to punishment to test their mettle — by workers wielding sledgehammers, torches, pickaxes and battery-operated tools. The testing lasting up to two months could lead to officials […]
U.S. trucking company shut down after alleged ties to human trafficking
Federal safety regulators have shut down a troubled Iowa trucking company that owned the semitrailer involved in a human trafficking case in which 10 immigrants died in Texas. Pyle Transportation was placed under an “out-of-service order” Monday by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after a review found the company’s […]
17 illegal immigrants found locked inside TX tractor-trailer
Police in Texas acting on a tip found 17 immigrants locked inside a tractor-trailer parked at a gas station about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the border with Mexico, less than a month after 10 people died in the back of a hot truck with little ventilation in San Antonio. […]
Mass. governor REFUSES to protect violent illegal immigrants
Gov. Charlie Baker says he does not support a bill that would make Massachusetts a so-called sanctuary state. The Republican issued a written statement on Friday explaining his opposition as the Legislature’s Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security convened a public hearing on the bill that calls for sharp […]