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Democratic legislators are using the budget/wall negotiations to reopen catch-and-release loopholes that have been narrowed by President Donald Trump’s appointees. 

But in theory, an agreement should be possible, because the changes the Trump administration seeks at the border are not radical, and because Democrats have agreed in the past to similar physical barriers to what Trump is proposing.

The city of Portland, Maine is “struggling” due to mass legal immigration primarily from Africa being driven to the region, as public resources and the state’s social safety net are strained. 

Migrant unemployment continues to be a problem in Germany, with government research revealing the majority of asylum seekers who arrived in 2016 are still unemployed.

Pro-migration groups are bitterly denouncing President Donald Trump’s new “Remain in Mexico” policy to end catch-and-release for most asylum-seeking migrants. 

The U.S. government will try to end most catch-and-release policies on Friday by sending migrants back to Mexico pending their asylum hearings in the United States, according to Reuters. 

Progressive advocates and immigration lawyers are denouncing the president’s compromise offer to allow youths in Central America to apply and win asylum in the United States.

Hondurans who want to escape poverty and corruption are launching another caravan of migrants towards the Californian border, according to the Washington Post. 

A Venezuelan Supreme Court Judge fled to the United States on Sunday to protest the continued rule of Nicolás Maduro’s regime, days before the socialist strongman takes power for a further six-year mandate. 

Congress’s toleration of the nation’s catch-and-release rules is responsible for the migration crisis, outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Los Angeles Times.  

The Supreme Court declined on Friday to step into a legal challenge to President Trump’s asylum caravan proceedings, allowing that case to proceed in the lower courts until next year.

Former immigration judge Art Arthur said it is “unclear” if a federal court ruling on Tuesday requires the U.S. government to return all previously deported aliens whose asylum requests were rejected.

The United States agreed in 1980 to implement the United Nation’s rules on refugees. This means a group of recently deported migrants must be flown back to the U.S. and be given another chance to win asylum, a Democratic-appointed judge declared December 17.

Denmark’s migration minister Inger Støjberg has told the country’s Somali migrants to return home and work on improving their own country after the Danish government ruled parts of Somalia safe.

Americans are a threat to migrants, says Never Trump author Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post. 

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s asylum office says people from Iran and Turkey are increasingly applying for international protection throughout the EU.

President Donald Trump’s deputies are arresting more of the illegal migrants who try to pick up their youths and children at the shrinking U.S. exit of the “UAC” smuggling route. 

An organizer of the migrant caravan gathering near the U.S. southern border in Tijuana, Mexico, urged President Trump to let his band of Central American migrants into the country because they “are not bad.”

The establishment media are admitting in multiple reports that Central Americans with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 migrants are not eligible asylum-seekers, but rather looking for jobs and escaping violence.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday pushed back against complaints about China’s abuse of the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province, accusing a Uighur woman of lying about torture and murder at the gigantic internment camps much of the Uighur population has been herded into.

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos on Wednesday evening said that the caravan migrants seeking asylum are becoming more “intelligent” and sneaking into the United States illegally because they have discovered how porous the U.S.-Mexico border actually is.

Central American migrants in the caravan held a press conference in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday and demanded that the United States speed up its asylum process to allow more migrants into the country.

Almost 400 migrants carried other people’s children or youths, or lied about their adult age, to get over the border in the nine months prior to September 30, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) characterized the situation at the border as “a self-created chaotic situation by the president.” Castro called on the president to return to the “orderly process” for asylum that previous

South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy shares President Trump’s opinion that the courts are partisan — even though he wishes they were not.

Central Americans with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 migrants are admitting, en masse, that they are arriving to the United States through the southern border with ineligible asylum claims.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted at Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that she should visit the U.S. Holocaust Museum to educate herself about the differences between Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and the migrant caravan trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Deputies for President Donald Trump and the incoming president of Mexico have penciled a deal that would require asylum-seeking migrants to wait in Mexico until their asylum pleas are heard in U.S. courts, says a report in the Washington Post.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of San Diego Field Operations Pete Flores stated that while the agency is prepared for the worst, they expect members of the migrant caravan

Hillary Clinton on Friday called for comprehensive amnesty reform in the United States that would give a path to citizenship to “millions” of illegal immigrants after her comments about the need for Europe to curb the migration of refugees caused backlash among left-wing activists.