Donald Trump threw a dynamite stick into the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement last week, by calling for import tariffs on steel and aluminum. He continued the attack on Monday by suggesting that the only way Canada and Mexico—the US’s NAFTA partners and two of its biggest suppliers of steel—could avoid the tariffs was by ceding to his other trade demands.
Mexicans are no longer outsiders in Hollywood. The Shape of Water, from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, and Coco, Pixar’s love letter to Mexico and its Day of the Dead traditions, picked up six Oscars combined at the 90th Academy Awards on March 4.
The steel and aluminum tariffs Donald Trump proposed earlier this week have left economists, politicians, and chief executives around the world aghast and angry.
Donald Trump is launching a defense of US steel and aluminum producers by imposing tariffs on imports of the raw metals from foreign producers.
Donald Trump would like to kill the immigrant protection program known as DACA—but it’s the states that voted for him that will pay the bill.
Donald Trump has energized Democrats across the country; Republicans, not so much. In deep-red Texas, the difference is making conservative politicians anxious.
In the wake of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, many US conservatives are resisting calls to ban semi-automatic weapons and the accessories that make them fully automatic.
Trump’s anti-immigration crusade is taking a toll on the same Rust Belt communities that voted for him.
US negotiators will push for a series of protectionist measures at negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement this week. These include the demand that a higher share of the parts and components in goods traded between the three countries be made in the US.
The National Rifle Association says the US needs to fix its flawed background check system to prevent deadly shootings as the one in Parkland, Florida last week.
The US should no longer be seen as a nation of immigrants, at least from the perspective of US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The federal agency charged with processing immigrant visas, known as USCIS, removed the characteristic phrase from its mission statement today.
Donald Trump hosted today students who survived the attack at a Parkland, Florida high school last week that left 17 dead. Also present were survivors and parents of students killed in 1999 at Columbine High School in Colorado, and in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
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The future of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers remains uncertain after the US Senate rejected three proposals that would have given them legal status on Feb. 15. One thing is clear from the votes though: president Donald Trump’s proposals to radically remake the US’s immigration system stand no chance.
Less than two months into 2018, there have already been 18 shootings at schools in the US. The latest incident happened in Parkland, Florida, where an unidentified man opened fire at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14.
Donald Trump is selling his proposal to dramatically cut immigration to the US as a necessary protection for the blue-collar workers of the US. Fewer immigrants would mean higher wages for American workers, and more opportunities for them to flourish, White House officials told reporters during a Feb. 14 call about the president’s plan.
The case of Heather Holland, a Texas teacher who died of the flu this month, has become a cause of outrage over high drug prices. The 38-year-old held off on buying medication prescribed by her doctor because of sticker shock: she would have had to pay a $116 copay under her insurance.
The US Congress is again debating how to permanently welcome Dreamers, the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children.
Donald Trump has repeatedly assured the American public that he is not a racist. However, the immigration policies he proposed during his State of the Union address on Jan. 30 would dramatically cut the number of black and Hispanic immigrants, according to an analysis by the Center for Global Development.
Donald Trump says the US does more than any other country for the world’s most unfortunate, but that he has to put American citizens first.
Donald Trump promised Americans that he would make their country great again. He vowed to make the economy stronger and multiply the number of jobs, and to reduce the US trade deficit and illegal immigration, both of which he sees as economic evils dragging the US down.
A man is known by the company he keeps. For a preview of Donald Trump’s talking points during his State of the Union address tonight, look at his guest list.
The Trump administration has a new plan to solve the immigration quandary that shut down the government last week.
Despite winning the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump last year launched an investigation into what he claims was “massive voting fraud.” Some of it, in his view, was committed by undocumented immigrants.
