Concerns about immigration and its impact on crime and taxes have soared to the highest level ever recorded, according to a new Gallup survey. The polling company said that more Americans than ever before cited immigration as their top concern in the most recent study.
A recent story in The New Yorker about an asylum seeker from Honduras tells a compelling story about a woman seeking to escape a violent past. The reporter, like many before her, fails to ask crucial questions that, if pursued, would give the reader a much fuller and more accurate understanding of the actual facts of the case.
The White House Office of Management and Budget has started reviewing a proposed rule that would allow lengthy detentions of migrant children, according to the agencies website, as reported by Politico. The rule aims to free the Trump Administration from the restrictions of the 1997 Flores settlement agreement.
Last night, President Trump officially launched his re-election campaign in Orlando Fla. to a stadium filled to the brim with nearly 25,000 spectators. President Trump told his supporters that Democrat calls for amnesty for illegal aliens, an open border, and a never-ending flow of cheaper, foreign workers to compete against Americans is the "greatest betrayal" to the working and middle class.
Bruno Lozano, the Democratic mayor of Del Rio, Texas, a small town in the U.S. Mexican border is fed up with the lack of action taken by the Federal Government to solve the current crisis at the Southern Border. During a town hall meeting with the staffs of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), Mayor Lozano rebuked the Federal Government and lawmakers.
On Monday the New York Senate passed the "Green Light Bill," which is designed to give illegal aliens what New York considers the "right to a driver's license. Last week, the New York State Assembly passed the bill with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, last night Gov. Cuomo signed the bill into law.
As the humanitarian and security crisis and the U.S. southern border shows no signs of slowing down, reaching record high levels not seen in over a decade, the U.S. may be facing another surge. However, this one does not originate from Central America; instead, it comes from Central Africa.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) promised a freestanding funding bill to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border today in an interview with "Fox and Friends." The bill would appropriate $5 billion to address humanitarian concerns, not security concerns at the border.
This morning on "Fox and Friends" President announced that he will declare former ICE chief Tom Homan as a new "border czar." "Tom Homan's coming back," President Trump told the host of the morning talk show via phone-call adding, "I would say that would be announced next week except I'd rather announce it now."
A Republican Congressman, Paul Gosar (R-Ariz), is introducing legislation that could end the 20 year old OPT program, which allows foreign graduates to work in STEM fields while still on their F-1 student visas for as long as 36 months, allowing all other foreign graduates to work in their field of choice while still on their F-1 student visa for 12 months.
Today, the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, wrote a joint letter to Congress urging the immediate passage of emergency funding to their agencies, citing the ongoing crisis at the southern border.