Tag: Deportation

If the Trump administration amps up deportations of Dreamers and a deal isn't passed in the coming months, immigration activists say Republicans will feel the political ramifications more than Democrats in 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats, activists prepare to lay blame at Republicans’ feet if DACA fix doesn’t pass

Laura Barrón-López · February 16, 2018 12:00 pm

The clean energy package reconciles some of the key provisions from Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Joe Manchinâs sweeping bipartisan energy bill, the American Energy Innovation Act, and House Democratsâ similar Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act.

Short of votes, bipartisan Senate gang tweaks its immigration ‘compromise’

Susan Ferrechio · February 15, 2018 6:57 pm

"Law enforcement faces a constant flow of opioids, trafficked humans, criminal aliens to our communities. Nowhere is it clearer than sanctuary cities, which is creating a safe haven for criminality," said Sheriff A.J. Louderback. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Sheriff tells House lawmakers: ‘Sanctuary cities are a cog in the expanding opioid crisis’

Anna Giaritelli · February 15, 2018 4:18 pm

White House official attacks Lindsey Graham, questions competence of GOP senators supporting immigration compromise

Steven Nelson · February 15, 2018 2:56 pm

"The McCain-Coons proposal does not authorize a single penny for appropriations for border security, ensuring that our nation's border is never secured or our national security protected," the Department of Homeland Security said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

DHS: McCain, Coons’ immigration proposal doesn’t give ‘a single penny’ for border security

Anna Giaritelli · February 14, 2018 5:49 pm

President Trump is pushing for four principles in an immigration deal, trading legalization and a 10-12 year path to citizenship for 1.8 million young people for a border wall, an end to the visa lottery system, and limits on U.S. citizens' ability to sponsor family for green cards. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House official warns of largest immigrant wave ‘in the history of the world’ if family sponsorship isn’t nixed in DACA deal

Steven Nelson · February 14, 2018 5:19 pm

Beltway Confidential

House conservatives threaten to upend leadership over immigration

Susan Ferrechio · February 14, 2018 1:06 pm

March 5 is the deadline President Trump set for Congress back in September, when he announced he would phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals over six months but was willing to sign a legislative fix for Dreamers, or immigrants who were brought into the United States illegally as children.
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

How important is the DACA deadline, really, for Dreamers?

W. James Antle III · February 14, 2018 5:01 am

A new court order from a federal judge in New York requires the Trump administration to continue processing initial applications to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (iStock)

Second federal judge blocks Trump administration’s move to end DACA

Melissa Quinn · February 13, 2018 9:38 pm

"If they refuse to take yes for an answer, then they have no one to blame but themselves," said Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Tom Cotton: ‘No question’ Democrats are to blame if DACA bill fails

Pete Kasperowicz · February 13, 2018 1:44 pm

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has maintained the Republican Party is committed to bringing down the national debt, but timing is everything. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

John Cornyn: GOP hasn’t given up on reducing deficits and debt

Al Weaver · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

Omarosa Manigault Newman, former director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, has been vocal in her criticism of President Trump telling housemates on the new season of "Celebrity Big Brother" she would not vote for Trump again "in a million years." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Omarosa Manigault Newman: ‘We would be begging for the days of Trump’ if Mike Pence became president

Naomi Lim · February 13, 2018 4:17 am