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Senate will take up immigration reform next week

by Susan Ferrechio | Feb 5, 2018,  Senate Republican leaders said they plan to bring an immigration reform measure to the floor next week but have not indicated the specifics of the legislation. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner lawmakers will debate immigration next week as long as Congress is able to clear a must-pass spending […]

He told them they could become citizens by getting adopted. Now he’s going to jail

Florida Immigration

Helaman Hansen, a charismatic Elk Grove businessman who defrauded 471 undocumented immigrants out of their savings by promising them they could be adopted into citizenship, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday. “He has hurt so many people, and even today he still believes he’s done what he could for these people,” said […]

Meet El Salvador’s growing middle class: Deportees from the U.S.

The smell of slow-cooked Texas barbecue wafted over the outskirts of San Salvador as Jose Reyes cracked open another beer. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and Reyes had gathered with several dozen friends in a parking lot outside a stadium where the game would be screened. Dressed in baggy NFL and college jerseys, they traded jokes […]

Trump admin to issue temporary new restrictions on travel

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke is set to issue new, temporary restrictions on travel for foreign nationals coming to the U.S., which are tailored on a country-by-country basis, Trump administration officials told reporters on a call Friday. The Supreme Court is reviewing the travel ban October 10. Why it matters: Trump’s travel ban’s 90-day review […]

Trump Takes a (Calculated) Risk on Immigration

His voters don’t care what Steve Bannon thinks. But they might care if their president acts like a career politician. Republican Representative Steve King of Iowa says that President Donald Trump will see his base “destroyed” if he agrees to provide legal status to illegal immigrants who came here as children, or at least if […]

Trump’s decision on ‘Dreamers’ could spell fate of immigration reform

President Trump’s forthcoming decision on the fate of so-called Dreamers – unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the U.S. before adulthood – could have far-reaching consequences not only for his quest for immigration reform and an impenetrable border wall. As the Washington Examiner reported last week, Trump is under mounting pressure to terminate or phase […]

DOJ ask Supreme Court for ‘immediate intervention’ on immigration ban, documents show

The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court that a lower court ruling earlier this week altering an executive order on immigration would bring thousands more refugees into the county and requires the justices’ “immediate intervention,” according to filing documents obtained early Saturday by Fox News.   In a victory for the administration, the Supreme […]

Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England

Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England ICE arrests of non-criminal immigrants living in New England without authorization have more than tripled so far this year. Even before then-President-elect Trump took office, his message on immigration was clear — he planned to deport millions of immigrants living in the country without […]