Immigration
Barr Changes Asylum Rules, Limits Family Endangerment Claims
Posted on · The attorney general says Congress never intended for asylum-seekers to include family members as part of a "particular social group" eligible for protection.
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Migrant Children Moved From Texas Border Patrol Center After Outcry
Posted on · Reports of children detained in crowded and unsanitary conditions long beyond the maximum legal limit have created a new controversy over the administration's immigration policies.
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Trump Announces New Tariffs On Mexico To Force Cooperation On Illegal Immigration
Posted on · In a statement issued late Thursday, President Trump said a first round of tariffs will be 5% and will rise to 10% on July 1. The penalties could reach 25% by October.
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Migrants Apprehended At Southern Border Top 100,000 For Second Consecutive Month
Posted on · The head of the U.S. Border Patrol said her agents are spending more and more of their time dealing with families with children who need food and medical care.
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Texas Tech Medical School To End Use Of Race In Admissions
Posted on · The decision is a victory for the Trump administration's efforts to pressure schools to abandon affirmative action policies still allowed by the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court Broadens The Government’s Power To Detain Criminal Immigrants
Posted on · The ruling responds to two class-action lawsuits brought by legal immigrants who served criminal sentences and then were detained years later.
Immigration
U.S. Is Rolling Out Its ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy On Central American Asylum-Seekers
Posted on · The plan, expected to meet with a swift legal challenge, comes out of talks with Mexican officials. The administration is implementing it first at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act As Unconstitutional
Posted on · President Trump praised the ruling by a court in Texas as supporters of the ACA said they will appeal.
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FACT CHECK: What’s Happening On The U.S.-Mexico Border?
Posted on · On Sunday, U.S. agents fired tear gas on migrants trying to cross into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. The migrants were protesting the slow pace with which the U.S. has been processing asylum claims.
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Trump Says He’ll Send As Many As 15,000 Troops to Southern Border
Posted on · The original plan to send about 5,000 troops to the border was announced Monday
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Trump’s Executive Order On Family Separation: What It Does And Doesn’t Do
Posted on · The president ended a policy that sent children to government-run facilities away from their parents, but critics say he created new problems, and kids already held may be there indefinitely.
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Homeland Security Secretary Defends Separating Families Who Cross Border Illegally
Posted on · In a wide-ranging interview with NPR, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the administration is merely following the law
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Trump Threatens China With Additional $100 Billion Of Tariffs; China Ready To Fight
Posted on · In response to Trump's proposal to increase tariffs, the Chinese government vowed to fight the U.S. "to the end" if it escalates a looming trade war that has global stock markets spooked
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As DACA Deadline Passes, Advocates Urge Trump To ‘Fix What You Broke’
Posted on · DACA would have ended Monday but courts have blocked Trump from phasing out the program that protects childhood arrivals. "It's been quite a roller coaster ride of anxiety," says one advocate
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Supreme Court Rules That Immigrants, Including Permanent Residents, Have No Right To Periodic Bond Hearings
Posted on · This means that all immigrants, including asylum seekers, could possibly be held indefinitely in some cases