President Donald Trump and GOP legislators are withholding their approval as top congressional staffers and leaders work behind closed doors to write the critical details of the 2019 spending plan for border security and the border wall.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, says the federal government needs to provide Minnesota companies with more imported workers.
Democrats are using the 2019 budget debate to block the deportations of economic migrants who get past border guards while allowing the deportations of some dangerous criminals.
Congressional talks over border security and the wall have stalled because Democrats are trying to sharply limit the government’s ability to deport economic migrants.
All Latinos have a race-based right to enter the United States, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday.
President Trump added a line to his State of the Union address, saying that he wants legal migrants “in the largest numbers ever” to come into the United States.
The nation’s failure to control illegal immigration is a moral failure, President Donald Trump declared in his second State of the Union Address as Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi refused to clap.
White House deputies are playing up the role of immigration in the President’s State of the Union speech, creating concerns among immigration reformers.
Rep. Tom McClintock advised President Donald Trump to use emergency powers to “build the wall,” saying Nancy Pelosi is not “negotiating in good faith.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbyist says President Donald Trump’s 2016 voters will stick with him “100 percent” in 2020 if he signs amnesty legislation backed by the Koch business network.
White House aide Jared Kushner is reviving a proposal already rejected by President Donald Trump to offer an amnesty to at least 800,000 unidentified illegal migrants, according to a report by the McClatchy news bureau.
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.
The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump is letting his son-in-law take the lead in border-wall negotiations with hostile Democrats.
Democrats are drafting a plan that would enhance border security with a one-time $5 billion boost in spending — but still not provide a penny for a durable border fence that would curb the smuggling of labor or drugs, states a report in Politico.
President Donald Trump should not offer a combined “DACA-Dreamer” amnesty to win “one-tenth of a border fence,” says William Gheen, founder of the grassroots Americans for Legal Immigration PAC group.
President Trump’s compromise legislation to reopen the federal government funds border security measures and border patrol in Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Libya.
The compromise shutdown deal reportedly being prepared by aides to the president would expand catch and release rules to aid millions of current and future illegal migrants and would paralyze enforcement for at least three years, immigration reformers said.
Sovereign nations around the world have taken steps to end illegal mass immigration, most notably the relatively small countries of Australia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia — all of which have enacted strict border controls.
U.S. voters are evenly split on the merits of building the President’s border wall — but they strongly support “building a fence in high crime areas along the U.S.-Mexico border,” says a new poll.
Nearly all GOP Senators are rejecting a proposal backed by Sen. Chuck Schumer that would have President Donald Trump agree to reopen the shuttered federal agencies in exchange for Democrats promising to debate his border wall funding request, according to Politico.
The United States government should double annual immigration to two million per year because it would help the nation’s “workforce and economic health,” said an op-ed in the New York Times.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to drain political support and funding from the planned border wall by repeatedly urging more federal spending to improve the official gateways through the border.
President Donald Trump’s Tweeted support for foreign H-1B outsourcing workers is a betrayal of his American supporters, say U.S. college graduates who are losing jobs to a huge wave of cheap visa-workers.
The lack of taxpayer payments to Central American economic migrants is the crisis on the border, says California Democrat Scott Peters, who presented the party’s weekend message.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will back a national emergency declaration after President Donald Trump spends three more weeks offering an amnesty deal in exchange for border wall funding.
Hondurans who want to escape poverty and corruption are launching another caravan of migrants towards the Californian border, according to the Washington Post.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reviving the establishment’s “virtual wall” policy on the southern border to soften her uncompromising opposition to President Donald Trump’s push for a real fence on the border.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will pull his country out of the United Nations Migration Pact, declaring that the country will set its own migration rules without external pressures.
Top Democrats responded to President Donald Trump’s call for a border wall by urging a federal welcome for more “refugees.”
Business-first Republican advocates want the President to trade away his “Hire American” policy to get border wall funding, while pro-American advocates say he can win by trading concessions in healthcare, trade, and infrastructure.
President Trump is pressing Democratic leaders for $5.6 billion in border-fence funding for 2019, but Democrats face little public, media, or political pressure to end the shutdown or provide anything above $1.3 billion for some mix of fencing and various “border security” projects.
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.
Up to ten million Venezuelans could leave their homeland over the next three years fleeing socialism, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) said in an interview published Wednesday.
Six Bulgarian nationals have been convicted by Swedish courts for smuggling in migrants and forcing them to beg on the streets in what has become the country’s biggest ever human-trafficking case.
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.
Retiring Paul Ryan today lamented his failure to deliver an endless supply of migrant labor to business donors — regardless of ordinary Americans’ desire for decent wages.
Americans are a threat to migrants, says Never Trump author Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post.
Sen. Chuck Schumer threatened Thursday to keep a government shutdown running into 2019 unless President Donald Trump gives up on his December push for a border wall.
Republicans must deliver higher wages to Americans, a Never Trump leader admitted Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
A conference to endorse the controversial United Nations pact on global migration has opened in Morocco, defying a string of international withdrawals led by U.S. President Donald Trump.
