Immigration

The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president's battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

President Trump tweeted out his already-famous, incendiary declaration that young Democratic congresswomen criticizing America should “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” In his message, Mr. Trump was referring to a group of young congresswomen known as “the squad.." All are minorities and, despite the implication of the president’s tweet, three of the four were born in the U.S.

Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is part of a group of Democratic representatives, all women of color, who are the focus of presidential tweets that are being called racist.

President Trump issued an executive order Thursday directing the Department of Commerce to collect data about citizenship from government agency records. He said his administration is abandoning its efforts to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census.