Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA.) Talks to revamp the trade deal start again this week, and should reveal whether the US president has been bluffing, or is serious about ending the 24-year-old pact between US, Mexico, and Canada.
Update (12:15am ET): As of 12:15am eastern time on Saturday, the US Senate has not approved a short-term funding bill and so the US government will shut down.
For the millions of people around the world threatened by persecution and violence in their home countries, acceptance as a refugee somewhere else is a lifeline. But what kind of life that will be largely depends on where they end up.
In a scathing speech to Congress today, Arizona senator Jeff Flake compared Donald Trump to Josef Stalin, called the president’s criticism of the press repulsive, and accused him of being too thin-skinned.
Donald Trump has turned to data to argue for stricter immigration policies. According to a report his administration released yesterday, more than 70% of people convicted of “terrorism-related charges” from 2001 to 2016 were born outside the US.
Donald Trump’s disputed “shithole” incident will not go away. During a congressional hearing on Tuesday (Jan. 16), his Homeland Security chief was grilled about whether the president used that word—or one similar to it—to refer to African countries during an Oval Office meeting last week.
In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. remarked on the dismal state of school integration. By that time, the US Supreme Court had already declared segregation unconstitutional in its seminal Brown vs. Board of Education decision, yet only a sliver of black students was sharing classrooms with white students in the South. “At this pace it will take 92 more years to integrate the public schools,” he said.
Updated |US ambassador to Panama John Feeley is stepping down from his post because he can no longer serve president Donald Trump.
The H-1B visa, which allows American companies to hire skilled foreign workers, from engineers to fashion models, is under siege.
Donald Trump’s plans to build a “big, beautiful wall” between the US and Mexico have gotten less grandiose the longer he’s been president.
In his first year as US president, Donald Trump targeted people in the country illegally. Now his administration is also going after those with permission to be in the country.
It’s been three months since Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico, causing billions of dollars in damage throughout the island and knocking out power for weeks.
If you go by the number of people who check the “Hispanic” box in US Census Bureau forms, people of Latin American descent make up 18% of the population. But, among the adult population, there are another 5 million, who don’t consider themselves Hispanic but descend from Latin America, according estimates from Pew Research Center.
The unlikely win of a US Senate seat by a Democratic candidate in deeply Republican Alabama has underscored the power of black voters—and the terrible job Democrats have done of courting them in the past.
It would seem the entire US has processed Democrats historic win in Alabama’s special senate election Tuesday (Dec. 12), and has moved on to parsing what it means for the future. Except for one person: failed Republican candidate Roy Moore.
In 2014, Democrats thought winning a senate seat in Alabama was such a long shot that they didn’t even field a candidate—Republican Jeff Sessions, now US attorney general, ran unopposed and won.
Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate running against Roy Moore, eked out a surprise victory in Alabama’s special Senate election tonight (Dec. 12.)
Americans all over the US are watching Alabama. The southern state is holding a special election today (Dec. 12) to pick a replacement for Jeff Sessions, who left his senate post earlier this year to become Donald Trump’s attorney general.
For a quick picture of immigrants’ contributions to the US, take a look at the country’s Fortune 500 firms.
The looming threat of a US government shutdown has created a rare moment of synchrony for politicians on both sides of the aisle trying to help America’s “dreamers.”
Anti-immigration advocates in the US tend to claim that the latest waves of immigrants are failing to adapt to the American way. More recent arrivals, the vast majority Mexican, congregate in cultural enclaves and have little incentive to speak English, they say. This notion is supported by data from large national surveys—but the data is incomplete.
Last week, the Trump administration pulled out of a global effort to tackle immigration. The reason, according to the US State Department: The UN-led Global Compact on Migration could undermine the United State’s “sovereign right” to enforce its immigration laws.
US Homeland Security officials on Tuesday (Dec. 5) touted their accomplishments since president Donald Trump took office: The agency has reduced the number of immigrants trying to enter into the country illegally, and increased arrests of those already in the country.
Washington D.C. is abuzz with news that former White House Security advisor Mike Flynn pled guilty to lying to law enforcement officials on Friday (Dec. 1.)
