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...

Budweiser’s Super Bowl Message: Immigrants, They Get the Job Done

By Janna Herron

The company that makes Budweiser — the popular brew that rebranded itself as “America” last summer — appears to be wading into the nation’s immigration debate in the wake of President Trump’s travel...
In Trump’s White House, Even the Leakers Can’t Get Their Stories Straight

By Rob Garver

A swirl of confusing leaks from the White House about President Trump’s contentious interactions with the leaders of some of the country’s closest allies, and accusations by anonymous sources in the...
Trump May Try to Weed Out Immigrants Who Cost Taxpayers $279 Billion Annually

By Eric Pianin

Last fall, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published a massive report that attempted to answer questions that have bedeviled the debate over immigration policy for years...
Could Trump’s Attack on Sanctuary Cities Trigger a Tax Revolt?

By Eric Pianin

California is leading scores of cities and states fighting back against the Trump Administration’s executive order seeking to punish them financially for providing safe havens for illegal immigrants...
After Three Years of Extreme Vetting, I Nearly Gave Up on My American Dream

By Riyadh Mohammed

I am an Iraqi Muslim who is about to become an American citizen. In July 2011, I boarded a flight to New York City, seated next to an old Iraqi couple. When we landed at JFK, the scene was quite...

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