Donald Trump is reportedly planning to squeeze in a trip to Mexico to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto hours before his planned speech on immigration on Wednesday. The visit has not been confirmed and there are logistical concerns as to how it could be pulled off. Hillary Clinton was also reportedly invited to…
Donald Trump Jr. insists that his father is not “softening” his stance on illegal immigration. In an interview with Anderson Cooper set to air Tuesday evening, the Republican presidential candidiate’s son said, “He wasn’t softening on anything. He didn’t change his stance on anything.” Addressing an informal poll Trump appeared to take with Sean Hannity’s…
Despite building his presidential campaign on fears of foreign labor stealing Americans’ jobs, Donald Trump’s modeling agency allegedly forced foreign models to work illegally in the United States, often under “sweatshop”-like conditions. According to a Mother Jones report, at least three non-citizen Trump models were employed by the agency without the proper work visas—two of…
Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he will make a speech about immigration Wednesday in Arizona. Last week, he postponed a speech he was planning to make in Colorado on the topic. Early in his campaign, Trump said he would build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and deport the estimated 11 million undocumented…
The anti-immigrant GOP presidential candidate said in a TV interview that aired Wednesday night that his time on the campaign trail has made him sympathetic to the plight of many undocumented people who have been in the U.S. for a long time. The anti-immigrant GOP presidential candidate said in a TV interview that aired Wednesday…
The release of never-before-seen nude photographs of Melania Trump is raising doubts about the former model’s tale of her immigration to the United States. According to a Politico report, Trump appears to have come to the U.S. on a short-term visa, which would not have allowed her to legally work as a model. Additionally, the…
The Supreme Court effectively blocked President Obama’s plan to let 5 million immigrants in the United States illegally stay. The 4-4 decision upheld a lower court’s nationwide injunction against the administration’s 2014 deferred-action policy. The policy granted quasi-legal status to illegal immigrants whose children are U.S. citizens or have green cards, known popularly as “Dreamers.”…
The White House is seeking to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people living in the country illegally from deportation and make them eligible to work in the U.S.
Even Bill O’Reilly isn’t buying Trump’s Deportation Plan: ‘It Could Never Happen Today’. Watch Donald Trump on The O’Rielly Factor if you can stomach it. Bill O’Reilly told Donald Trump tonight that the Republican presidential contender’s plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants will never work.
A federal appeals court on Monday ruled against President Barack Obama’s plan to shield around five million people living in the United States illegally from deportation. In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a May injunction blocking the president’s immigration action. Republicans decried Obama’s plan as executive…
About 7,000 refugees and migrants struggle Thursday to cross Greece’s northern border into Macedonia in what Greek police said was the largest single wave they had seen so far. Macedonian police formed a human chain on the border to limit the flow of refugees into more manageable groups, letting families with young children cross first.…
Hungarian police allowed hundreds of migrants to pour into Budapest’s main railway station in hopes of travelling to western Europe. Report by Victoria Laurence.
The bodies of as many as 50 people believed to be migrants were found in a truck on the side of a highway in Austria early Thursday. The driver was nowhere to be found, but the vehicle had a Hungarian license plate. The gruesome discovery comes on the heels of record numbers of migrants attempting…
Trump also had time to troll Bush, retweeting someone who called the former governor of Florida “crazy” and urging him to speak English, not “Mexican,” in reference to Bush’s border visit earlier Monday in which he spoke in Spanish about his Mexican-American wife, Columba, and children. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trump-megyn-kelly-twitter-tirade-121707.html#ixzz3jppOMbMs "@YoungYoung54: @JeriHyatt @megynkelly @JebBush So true.…
After Donald Trump spoke in the Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, a man who said he’s from Mexico confronted him during his Q&A and said he’s “incredibly insulted” by what Trump has been saying about illegal immigrants and Mexico. He told Trump he’s being unfair to paint all illegal immigrants with a broad brush, but…
Donald Trump held a press conference in Los Angeles, joined by family members of individuals killed by illegal immigrants. Trump met with them in private earlier today before holding the presser. Trump started things out by again insisting that his remarks about immigrants were absolutely on-point, saying that Mexico is deliberately sending less than its…
Hillary Clinton said Tuesday during her first 2016 campaign stop in Nevada — I am strongly in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., and my would-be Republican rivals are not. “We can’t wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship,” Clinton…
The GOP promised action and a break in the gridlock once they took over the Senate (and House), but now the do nothing congress is worse than ever and John Boehner is still bad at his job. President Obama’s executive order on immigration reform has Republican leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell struggling to galvanize…
A federal judge has temporarily halted President Obama’s executive action on immigration, officials said Monday night. The federal government is expected to appeal the ruling, which halts Obama’s orders that could spare as many as five million people who are in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
President Barack Obama’s Immigration Executive Action which could stop the deportation for 4.7 million undocumented immigrants violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge found on Tuesday, handing down the first legal ruling against the plan. The ruling has no immediate impact, with the government saying there was no reason for Judge Arthur Schwab of the…
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson opened the nation’s largest family detention center used to hold unauthorized immigrants in Dilley, Texas, on Monday. The South Texas Family Residential Center, which can hold as many as 2,400 people, was previously a camp for oilfield workers 100 miles north of the Mexican Rio Grande border. The center will…
“Retiring Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, in an interview with USA Today’s Susan Page yesterday, seemed to both warn about and threaten white violence against President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform, saying the president’s speech Thursday night could provoke “violence” and “anarchy.” He even suggested that the reaction could parallel the demonstrations and violence in…
TO WATCH THE LIVE EVENT President #Obama’s Live Speech On Immigration #Livestream >> CLICK HERE Post by The White House. Obama Announces plans to sign an executive order TONIGHT on Immigration, and on Friday President Obama plans to address the nation from Las Vegas. The president has been long expected to make an announcement that…
Waiting Forever for Immigration Reform
NBC and ‘Meet the Press’ did a great media smear job on the President in a very depressing program featuring President Barack Obama’s Interview With NBC’s Chuck Todd. (They should try a rename as ‘Meet the Depressed’ or Beat the Pres.?). From the depressing graphics, to Chuck trying to shove words into the President’s mouth,…
In some would call a political savvy move, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, White House officials said. The move is certain to infuriate immigration advocates while offering relief to some vulnerable Democrats in tough Senate re-election contests. Two White House officials said…
The Rand Paul-eo diet on The Stephen Colbert Repor. LOL Senator Rand Paul finds a healthy alternative to answering questions about immigration reform.
Jose Antonio Vargas, has been detained by Border Patrol in McAllen after attempting to board a plane to Los Angeles, the immigrant youth-led organization United We Dream said in a statement on its website. Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim, tweeted a photo he described as Vargas in handcuffs. Grim told Business Insider he obtained the picture…
Switzerland voted Sunday to impose curbs on immigration by European Union citizens, in an exceedingly close referendum that threatened to ignite a row with Brussels. “This is a turning point in our immigration policy,” said Toni Brunner, head of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which piloted the referendum campaign in a country that has steadfastly…
Speaker John Boehner “has signaled he may embrace a series of limited changes to the nation’s immigration laws in the coming months, giving advocates for change new hope that 2014 might be the year that a bitterly divided Congress reaches a political compromise to overhaul the sprawling system,” the New York Times reports. “Although the…
