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...

Paul Ryan Rejects Trump’s Plan to Deport 12 Million Illegal Immigrants

By Martin Matishak

Count newly-installed House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) among those who think Donald Trump’s pledge to deport 12 million illegal immigrants is an unworkable pipe-dream.
Trump Stands Alone Calling for Mass Deportation of Illegal Immigrants

By Eric Pianin

Donald Trump surged to the head of the GOP presidential field last summer by adroitly exploiting some conservatives’ contempt for illegal immigrants and vowing to deport 12 million of them while...
Outrageous! $1 Billion to Post One Form on Immigration Site

By Eric Pianin

The 2016 presidential campaign debate over immigration reform has focused almost exclusively on what to do about the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country and whether to build a wall along...
Trump Out of Step With Americans Over Immigration Policy

By Eric Pianin

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump continues to draw roars of approval on the campaign trail with his anti-immigrant rhetoric, including his vow to deport more than 11 million illegal...
New Report Tackles Immigration Stereotypes

By Martin Matishak

There’s a new academic report out on the state of immigration in the United States and some Republican presidential candidates, especially frontrunner Donald Trump, might want to give it a read...

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