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  • Trump issues more executive orders targeting immigration and DEI

    Trump issues more executive orders targeting immigration and DEI

    Jan 22, 2025 11:55 PM EDT

    ... to place all DEI office staffers on paid leave starting today. House progressives vowed to push back on Trump's agenda, particularly his crackdown on immigration. Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX): He is trying to flood the news with all of these actions. We're going to hold him accountable ...

  • Pentagon will send troops to southern border to carry out Trump's immigration crackdown

    Pentagon will send troops to southern border to carry out Trump's immigration crackdown

    Jan 22, 2025 11:50 PM EDT

    ... But under the current orders under the current law, they can only be used in that support role. They can't be used to enforce immigration law. Amna Nawaz: But 10,000 U.S. troops at the border, what does that say to you about the use of active-duty ...

  • Some migrant families weighing class attendance as Trump allows immigration arrests at school

    Some migrant families weighing class attendance as Trump allows immigration arrests at school

    Jan 22, 2025 07:06 PM EDT

    ... attendance data, school officials did not feel comfortable sharing it. “We don’t want our school to be targeted,“ Mufleh said. The new policy on immigration enforcement at schools likely will prompt some immigrant parents who fear deportation to keep their children home, even if they face little risk, said ...

  • Justice Department directs prosecutors to investigate state and local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcement

    Justice Department directs prosecutors to investigate state and local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcement

    Jan 22, 2025 02:32 PM EDT

    “If the federal government is going to investigate, that is their prerogative,” said Alderman Andre Vasqez, who is Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked chair of the City Council immigration committee. Vasquez, the son of two Guatemalan immigrants, noted a 2016 campaign rally at the University of Illinois Chicago that ...

  • A look at the history of U.S. immigration policies that led to today's complex system

    A look at the history of U.S. immigration policies that led to today's complex system

    Jan 21, 2025 11:25 PM EDT

    John Sandweg: Smugglers seized upon this opportunity to start coaching people to make asylum claims. Our inability to fund our immigration courts to handle all these claims created a magnet that drew more people here to this country. Laura Barron-Lopez: In recent years, this backlog has ballooned from just ...

  • Trump executive orders will remake immigration policies as immigrant communities brace for crackdown

    Trump executive orders will remake immigration policies as immigrant communities brace for crackdown

    Jan 20, 2025 02:55 PM EDT

    ... sworn into office eight years ago. WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is going to issue a series of orders aimed at remaking America's immigration policies, ending asylum access, sending troops to the southern border and ending birthright citizenship, an incoming White House official said. WATCH LIVE: Donald Trump ...

  • News Wrap: Noem faces questions about Trump's immigration policies

    News Wrap: Noem faces questions about Trump's immigration policies

    Jan 17, 2025 11:40 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Friday, Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem faced questions from senators at a confirmation hearing, President-elect Trump says he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will 'solve many problems together' after the two leaders spoke on the phone and Russia and Iran deepened their ties with a “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty.”

  • Mayorkas defends Biden's homeland security and immigration policies

    Mayorkas defends Biden's homeland security and immigration policies

    Jan 14, 2025 11:20 PM EDT

    The president on day one presented to Congress legislative reform. We have advocated for and supported legislative reform every day since. That is the solution to a broken immigration system. Amna Nawaz: We know president-elect Trump has pledged to carry out mass deportations, this idea of using the U ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Trump allies clashing over immigration policy

    Brooks and Capehart on Trump allies clashing over immigration policy

    Dec 27, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Lisa Desjardins to discuss the week in politics, including tensions in Trump's circle over immigration policy, President Biden’s pardons and commutations and polling shows that Americans are feeling deeply fatigued after the turbulent year in politics.

  • Most Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders think legal immigration gives U.S. a major economic boost, AP-NORC poll finds

    Most Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders think legal immigration gives U.S. a major economic boost, AP-NORC poll finds

    Oct 14, 2024 05:40 PM EDT

    ... overall to see a major economic benefit. Around 9 in 10 AAPI Democrats say that contributions to economic growth are a "major" benefit of legal immigration, compared with about 6 in 10 Democrats overall. Similarly, about two-thirds of Republican AAPI adults think legal immigration is a major benefit for ...

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