Immigration

Trump Is Headed for Another Failure with a Deplorable Immigration Bill

By Rob Garver

Back when his presidential candidacy was still a longshot, Donald Trump had a go-to method for firing up his supporters if he sensed that a campaign rally was losing its momentum. He described it in...
Trump Will Allow Young Immigrants to Stay: Here’s a Rundown on DACA

By Rob Garver

A release from the Trump administration on Thursday night surprised many of the president’s detractors when it made suggested that the administration plans to leave President Obama’s Deferred Action...
How Much Energy Would Trump's Solar Border Wall Actually Produce?

By Leanna Garfield, Business Insider

During a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US-Mexico border wall. As Axios reported , he pitched covering the wall...
Here’s a Basic Problem With Trump’s Plan to Deport Undocumented Immigrants

By Rob Garver

According to the Government Accountability Office, if the Trump administration really plans on maintaining its accelerated pace of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, something is...
Here's How Broken Washington Is — Even Without Trump

By David Dayen

A problem caused by a government-granted monopoly looks like it’ll actually get solved. Or it did, until conservatives found the name “Elizabeth Warren” atop the bill.

Bad News for Trump’s Wall: Watchdog Finds Plenty of Ways Around It

By Eric Pianin

A new report by the Government Accountability Office suggests there are plenty of ways for illegal immigrants, illicit drug smugglers and human traffickers to breach almost any barrier the...
These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals

By Liz Peek

As Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...
Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both

By Rob Garver

The Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...
Can Trump’s Wall Really Pay for Itself Over 10 Years?

By Rob Garver

The original plan for President Trump’s border wall, repeated ad nauseam on the campaign trail, was that it would be paid for by Mexico. On Sunday, though, Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated a...
Trump Pushes Congress to the Wall to Avoid a Government Shutdown

By Rob Garver

The already-complicated effort to avert a government shutdown on April 29 is taking on another layer of complexity, with the White House demanding that any spending measure that funds the federal...

Clinton Slams Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in Wake of Orlando Attack

By Rob Garver

Just hours after her likely rival in November’s presidential election accused American Muslims of failing to warn the rest of the country about the terrorist who killed at least 49 people in an...
Donald Trump Speaks With Forked Tongue on Immigration

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Politician Donald Trump, now leading in the Republican primaries, is strongly anti-immigrant. But Businessman Trump wants more high-skill visas and hires foreign workers in his Florida Mar-a-Lago...
Here’s the Problem With Trump’s Plan to Pay for the Border Wall

By Rob Garver

Donald Trump has, at long last, revealed how he plans to force Mexico to pay for a thousand-mile border wall to separate it from the US, and like many Trump proposals, it created a storm of...
Free Health Care for Illegal Immigrants Now a Campaign Issue

By Eric Pianin

With Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and other conservatives stoking the flames of anti-illegal immigrant sentiment, state and local governments are struggling with the question of...
Here's Where Most Immigrants Are Coming From (and It's Not Mexico)

By Tim Henderson, Stateline

In 37 states, a country other than Mexico is now the most common country of origin for newly arrived immigrants, according to a Stateline analysis of census data. The numbers reflect a steep decline...

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