Tag: Deportation

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent directs a group of undocumented men being deported to Mexico at the U.S.-Mexico border. The number of criminal and noncriminal illegal immigrants deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2017, was about 17 percent lower than the number the agency removed during the same period a year earlier. (David Maung/Bloomberg)

ICE deportations dropped under Trump last fall compared to Obama in 2016

Anna Giaritelli · February 23, 2018 7:29 pm

President Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speak during a news conference at the White House. "I want to thank you for your commitment to immigration reform and your merit-based immigration system," Trump told Turnbull. "You've been very successful and we're hoping to follow in your footsteps." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

‘We’re hoping to follow in your footsteps’: Trump praises Australian immigration system

Gabby Morrongiello · February 23, 2018 7:28 pm

"Every church that I know of has that same kind of policy," Rep. Jim Jordan said. "There are parishioners each Sunday who've had the training — maybe they're retired law enforcement, retired military ... they have a policy in place." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Freedom Caucus leaders support arming teachers, oppose Trump’s other gun ideas

Al Weaver · February 23, 2018 5:50 pm

President Trump said, mockingly of other countries, "You think they're giving us their good people?" Then he said, "We pick out people. Then they turn out to be horrendous." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

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Trump’s horrendous CPAC speech

Philip Klein · February 23, 2018 5:46 pm

President Trump said, "The Senate Democrats and the House Democrats have totally abandoned DACA, they don't even talk to me about it. They have totally abandoned it," referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump predicts DACA deal ‘will never happen’ unless more Republicans elected

Steven Nelson · February 23, 2018 5:06 pm

$Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the cause of his death has not yet been determined. The Department of Homeland Security agency also said detainee deaths are "exceedingly rare and occur at a fraction of the rate of the U.S. detained population as a whole." (AP Photo/Mark Avery)$ Immigration

Cuban man dies in ICE custody before being deported

Anna Giaritelli · February 22, 2018 2:38 pm

California tax lawyer Charles Rettig, who has worked on tax cases with the firm Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez for more than 35 years, would replace acting commissioner David Kautter as head of the tax collection agency. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Illegal immigrant pleads guilty and vows to self-deport after stealing $1M through bogus Earned Income Tax Credit claims

Anna Giaritelli · February 20, 2018 8:57 pm

Many Republicans have problems with provisions dealing with immigrant farm workers, while others don't like the immigration reduction numbers and mandatory E-Verify, which are also opposed by the business community.

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Immigration reform faces high hurdle in the House

Susan Ferrechio · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

The budget proposal Trump's White House released days later would raise deficits by as much as $7 trillion over 10 years if enacted.

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Deficits drive a wedge between Trump and fiscal conservatives

Sarah Bedford · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

In this 2017 photo, President Trump arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump is set to speak again at this year's CPAC, but some of his initiatives are unpopular among the movement conservatives who dominate CPAC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Is Trump conservative enough, and does CPAC care?

W. James Antle III · February 20, 2018 5:01 am

Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals outside the Capitol. Republicans have staunchly opposed linking immigration and government spending in a single bill, but the Senate's failure to pass an immigration reform bill raises the chances an immigration measure will end up hitching a ride on the upcoming spending bill, which must pass by March 23. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Immigration battle threatens to complicate spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · February 18, 2018 5:01 am

In this 2017 photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by ICE aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants, and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. This week, ICE deportation officers and special agents took a total of 212 people into custody during 122 notices of inspection to businesses throughout the southern California region. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

ICE nabs 195 criminal illegal immigrants during workplace inspections in Los Angeles

Anna Giaritelli · February 16, 2018 6:36 pm