Rep. Thomas Massie's fresh insights on the AHCA, Trump taxes, and more
5:04 PM, Mar 15, 2017
Less than one day after House Republicans publicly revealed the American Health Care Act, their highly-anticipated plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., sat down with the Washington Examiner for an in-depth interview on that legislation and other leading issues facing Republicans in Congress this session. Massie, a libertarian-leaning opponent of the GOP establishment, is an important voice on Capitol Hill. As a representative located squarely in the middle of Trump Read more
Poll: Oprah leads Trump 47%-40% in 2020 matchup
2:25 PM, Mar 15, 2017
TV's Oprah Winfrey's hint that she might be interested in a presidential bid has caught fire around the nation and now a new poll puts her well ahead of President Trump in a faceoff. Winfrey leads Trump 47 percent to 40 percent in a new Public Policy Polling survey, and has a better favorability rating than the president. Winfrey recently said that she never seriously thought of a run, believing that she didn't have the needed experience. But in considering Trump's background as a businessma Read more
Bipartisan bill would bring 2,500 additional Afghan interpreters to US
12:46 PM, Mar 15, 2017
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Wednesday to allow 2,500 more Afghans who worked as translators for U.S. forces to come to America. The special immigrant visa program allows Afghans who supported the military there to come to America and bring their families. Many face threats of death or violence because of their work with the military. The Obama White House asked for 4,000 additional visas in its fiscal 2017 request to bring in Afghan interpreters, but the final fiscal 20 Read more
Jamaican man dies in ICE custody following prison release
7:31 PM, Mar 14, 2017
A Jamaican man in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody died on Monday from what is believed to be cardiac arrest, according to an agency statement issued Tuesday evening. Roger Rayson, 47, was arrested in November 2014 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami for possession of cocaine. Rayson was convicted of importation of cocaine and sentenced to 30 months in prison in April 2015. Rayson was released from prison and into New Orleans ICE custody on Jan. 28. After two and a Read more
Border Patrol rescues 4-year-old whom human smugglers abandoned
7:12 PM, Mar 14, 2017
Human smugglers abandoned a four-year-old girl after being spotted by border agents near border town Mt. Signal, Calif., early Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday. "Who in their right mind abandons a four-year-old little girl in the middle of a vast desert?" Assistant Chief Patrol Agent David S. Kim said in a statement. "It sickens me to think that someone would leave a child that young to fend for herself." Border Patrol agents from the El Centro Sec Read more
ICE targets 'sanctuary city' Philadelphia in arrest of 248 criminal illegals
1:11 PM, Mar 14, 2017
Making good on the president's campaign pledge to target illegal immigrants with criminal records or facing charges, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday announced the arrest of 248 in just three states, including 50 previously deported. ICE officials said that the arrests by Enforcement and Removal Operations were in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. They occurred Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 through Friday, Mar. 10, 2017. "ICE officers make extraordinary efforts to keep our communiti Read more
What Steve King would add to his 'someone else's babies' tweet
9:49 PM, Mar 13, 2017
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, on Monday evening said he wishes he had had more than 140 characters to explain what he meant on Sunday when he tweeted that the U.S. cannot restore its civilization with "someone else's babies." "What I should have done, if I had more characters in that tweet, just added 'you can't rebuild our civilization with somebody else's babies unless we adopt them,'" King told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. King, sharing an article from the Voice of Europe, wrote over the weeken Read more
Rep. Luis Gutierrez arrested after protesting ICE headquarters in Chicago
3:32 PM, Mar 13, 2017
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., was briefly arrested on Monday after protesting President Trump's immigration policy at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Chicago. "We are staying until we get answers from ICE," Gutierrez tweeted Monday afternoon. He said federal officials warned him that they could be arrested if they stay at the headquarters, and they said he was briefly arrested, but then released. I was arrested, cuffed then cuffs were cut off. Waiting for further word on if/w Read more
Washington attorney general demands hearing on Trump travel ban
1:41 PM, Mar 13, 2017
Washington state's attorney general has filed a new complaint asking for a hearing to stop President Trump's travel ban. Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed the complaint on Monday, and argued that the president's new executive order is illegal and unconstitutional. He also asked that an injunction that was used to prevent enforcement of Trump's initial order be used for the new one. Ferguson also requested U.S. District Court Judge James Robart, who granted the Feb. 3 injunction, to hold a he Read more
Steve King ingests the poison of nationalist ideology
1:13 PM, Mar 13, 2017
The internet is abuzz with Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King's tweet about immigration: Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017 Members of Congress — King included — frequently say kooky things that make us laugh. This isn't a case of that. Nor is it the typical case of leftists absurdly arguing that all conservative positions Read more
Jeb Bush rebukes Steve King over 'somebody else's babies'
11:27 AM, Mar 13, 2017
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush became the latest Republican Monday to criticize Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, after the lawmaker warned against repopulating the United States with "somebody else's babies." "America is a nation of immigrants," Bush tweeted in response to King's warning. "The sentiment expressed by Steve King doesn't reflect our shared history or values." America is a nation of immigrants. The sentiment expressed by Steve King doesn't reflect our shared history or values. https://t Read more
Democrats demand body cameras on deportation officers
11:11 AM, Mar 13, 2017
More than a dozen House Democrats have introduced legislation that would require all U.S. deportation officers to wear body cameras, which Democrats say would help protect the rights of illegal immigrants as they are deported. The ICE Body Camera Act, from Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., would require all Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to wear body cameras soon after her bill becomes law. "The bill would mandate that ICE develop procedures for training agents and deploying body camer Read more
Illegals fear Trump, stopping in Mexico to seek asylum
9:09 AM, Mar 13, 2017
Central American immigrants who for years have entered the United States illegally are now stopping short of the border in Mexico to seek refuge and asylum, worried that President Trump's policies will land them in jail or back home. Reports in local newspapers and from the Center for Immigration Studies suggest that the slowdown in illegal border crossings are due to those from countries south of Mexico deciding to seek refuge or asylum in Mexico. And Mexico appears open to accepting them i Read more
Byron York: New Trump executive order hurts Hawaii's feelings
8:26 PM, Mar 12, 2017
There's a race going on for states to file or join new lawsuits against President Trump's second executive order temporarily halting entry into the U.S. for some people from a few terror-plagued countries. The new actions promise to be rehashes of the states' earlier suits against Trump's original order. Washington State, for example, which managed to stop the first order, has gone so far as to argue the new order and the now-rescinded original measure are identical, and has asked a judge to sim Read more
National groups advising illegal aliens how not to get caught: Report
5:43 PM, Mar 12, 2017
A number of organizations are offering classes to illegal immigrants in the U.S., hoping to help them avoid being deported if President Trump follows through on promises to enforce immigration laws. Some of those groups' "know your rights" sessions — including some by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Make the Road — advise illegal aliens not to open the front door if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers show up, and neither to sign their name on any federal immigration do Read more
'Insecurity' among immigrants after Trump's immigration orders
2:44 PM, Mar 12, 2017
Immigrants are growing nervous after two rounds of President Trump's immigration orders, which have created uncertainty and have prompted an uptick in green card applications, and left immigration lawyers struggling to keep up with the changing legal landscape. The rapid succession of orders under Trump — one in January, followed by a second one in March that was a response to a successful court challenge of the first — has left lawyers scrambling to keep up with the changes. "There was whipla Read more
Maryland expected to join lawsuit against Trump over travel ban
7:28 PM, Mar 10, 2017
Maryland is expected to join a Washington state-led lawsuit against the Trump administration over its revised travel ban against six countries in the Middle East and North Africa, according to a statement from the attorney general's office on Friday evening. Democratic Attorney General Brian Frosh said his office will officially join Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and other states in the legal action on Monday. "The administration persists in an effort to implement a policy that is inhumane and Read more
ICE releases Mississippi woman with expired status
7:12 PM, Mar 10, 2017
An illegal immigrant who was taken into federal custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after speaking at a public event about her expired status as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient has been released from detention, her attorneys announced on Friday evening. Daniela Vargas was apprehended on March 1 after speaking at a public demonstration about protecting illegal immigrants in Jackson, Miss. Vargas said she worried about being deported because of her lack of per Read more
Mattis: 'Climate change' is a national security threat
03/14/17 06:04 PM
Byron York: Congress leads Trump down wrong path
03/14/17 11:17 PM
Trump's 2005 tax return leaked to media
03/14/17 09:38 PM
Former ICE deportation agent convicted of harboring illegal alien, accepting bribes
5:49 PM, Mar 10, 2017
A former federal deportation officer was convicted in court on Thursday for accepting cash bribes and sex in exchange for providing employment authorization documents as well as secretly employing an illegal alien at a hair salon he ran on the side, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Newark federal court trial lasted one week and the jury deliberated for one day before convicting Arnaldo Echevarria on six bribery charges, each of which carries a maximum of 15 years i Read more
White House: Trump not wavering on border wall
2:13 PM, Mar 10, 2017
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday that President Trump will not abandon his promise to build a border wall, despite complaints from some Republicans that the wall is not the best way to boost national security. When asked if support for the wall is weakening among Republicans, Spicer answered simple, "No." "The president was very clear, that was something that he campaigned on and promised the American people as an effort to both protect our national security and our economic secur Read more
Pelosi 'hopeful' for immigration deal, yearns for days of George W. Bush
10:51 AM, Mar 10, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi revealed Friday that she is "hopeful" that President Trump can strike a deal on immigration, and spoke glowingly about former President George W. Bush and his work on the issue late in his presidency. Pelosi told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor Friday that she sees "a path" to passing comprehensive immigration reform, even under Trump, who she said breaks a line of presidents from both parties who had a sympathetic view on the Read more
DHS to seek designs for 30-foot-high border wall next week
4:18 PM, Mar 09, 2017
The Department of Homeland Security next week expects to make its first formal request for designs of President Trump's proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, which Trump has said is necessary to enforce U.S. immigration laws. DHS said that while detailed requirements are still being worked out, it expects to erect 30-foot-high concrete walls along the border. "[W]e anticipate procuring concrete wall structures, nominally 30 feet tall, that will meet requirements for aesthetics, ant Read more
Four states sue over Trump's newest travel ban actions
2:36 PM, Mar 09, 2017
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday his office is asking a federal judge to extend its blockade of President Trump's immigration ban to the newest executive action taken by the president. Three states joining Washington's effort include Minnesota, New York, and Oregon. The state of Hawaii was the first to go to court against Trump's new immigration ban, in a suit on Tuesday. "President Trump's latest executive order is a Muslim Ban by another name, imposing policie Read more
Sessions directs federal prosecutors to focus on 'most violent offenders'
11:05 AM, Mar 09, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors late Wednesday to focus on the "most violent offenders" as part of a Justice Department crackdown on crime nationwide. Sessions issue a memo to the department's 94 U.S. Attorney's offices to "use every tool we have" to fight crime, and to do so by working more closely with federal, state, local and tribal authorities to target the most violent offenders in each district. "Turning back our nation's recent rise in violent crime is a top Read more
McConnell on whether Mexico will pay for border wall: 'Uh, no'
10:27 AM, Mar 09, 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shot down any idea Thursday that Mexico will be paying for President Trump's border wall, as Trump promised over and over on the campaign trail. When asked at a Politico Playbook breakfast Thursday morning if the Mexican government will be footing the bill for Trump's planned border wall, McConnell brushed that idea aside. "Uh, no," McConnell said. The comment comes more than a week after Trump pledged during his address before a joint session of Congres Read more
Top 3 'sanctuary states' voted big for Clinton, will lose millions
9:19 AM, Mar 09, 2017
In bold defiance of President Trump's threat to kill funding to so-called "sanctuary cities" that hide criminal illegal immigrants, the list of outlaw cities and counties has reached 600, according to a new analysis of the crisis. What's more, the left-leaning Center for American Progress has come up with an estimate of how much funding those cities, counties and even states threaten to lose under Trump's immigration executive orders: $870 million. While other expert groups have estimated Read more
Border arrests hit five-year low after Trump's executive order
9:28 PM, Mar 08, 2017
The number of people apprehended for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border dropped sharply in February, which the Department of Homeland Security said is a sign of decreased traffic of illegal immigrants, and a sign that President Trump's immigration policies are already having an effect. Apprehensions in February were 18,762, which is lower than any of the totals seen over the last five years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics released late Wednesday. Homeland S Read more
An inadvertent argument for Trump's immigration proposal
2:28 PM, Mar 08, 2017
Do immigrants and their children make positive contributions to the economy and the nation generally? Yes, says the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a longtime booster of immigration. In a Tuesday editorial , the paper cites the results of the Regeneron Science Talent Search, in which 83 percent of last year's finalists were children of immigrants. "Immigration literally spawns innovation," the Journal writes. Yup. But not all immigrants are equally represented. Of the 40 finalists intervie Read more
Trump's immigration enforcement policy remains one of the most popular parts of his presidency
1:25 PM, Mar 08, 2017
A new Quinnipiac poll shows that, for now, Americans are split right down the middle on President Trump's immigration enforcement strategy. In fact, this appears to be the one area where he's nearly kept his head above water, despite many widely-shared complaints about him among the electorate on other matters. The immigration result is all the more interesting because there are so many other bad numbers for Trump in this poll. For example, a vast majority — 67 percent — say Trump "should publ Read more
Hawaii goes to court against Trump's new travel ban
12:11 PM, Mar 08, 2017
Attorneys for the state of Hawaii filed a request late Tuesday asking that portions of President Trump's new executive action on immigration be invalidated. Hawaii's action against the new immigration ban is the first such suit. The attorneys argued in the suit that Trump's new order "is damaging Hawaii's institutions, harming its economy and eroding Hawaii's sovereign interests in maintaining the separation between church and state as well as in welcoming persons from all nations around th Read more
