US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin wants to give Americans who sell pricey assets like stocks or buildings a big tax break.
Fewer immigrants are queuing up to become US citizens, but that doesn’t mean the line is getting any shorter.
Donald Trump’s policy to prosecute all immigrants caught at the border has turned out to be a legal and ethical morass. It’s also been an operational fail.
The US Department of Justice wants US attorneys offices to stop referring to immigrants as “undocumented,” the term that media and immigrant advocates have increasingly used to refer to people who are in the country illegally.
In less than two years in office, Donald Trump has rolled out an impressively diverse set of measures to close America to immigrants. From sweeping prosecution policies to obscure administrative changes, these measures are designed to radically remake the US’s immigration system—except they haven’t, at least not yet.
A prominent advisor to the Department of Homeland Security, Elizabeth Holtzman, quit her position last week in protest of Donald Trump’s immigration policies. In her resignation letter, dated July 16, she says that agency head Kirstjen Nielsen should really be the one stepping down, instead.
The US is well on its way to becoming majority-minority. In other words, non-whites (African-Americans, Asians, Latinos, and other ethnic and racial minorities) could make up more than half of the population by 2043, according to US Census projections.
Last week, 193 countries around the world agreed on a set of principles to tackle the global issue of immigration. These are contained in the “Global Compact for Migration,” a 34-page document crafted by United Nation members states.
The Trump administration said today that it has reunited 57 of the 103 children under five years old who were separated from their parents. It also announced that 46 would not be immediately returned to their families.
A quick trip to the mall is landing some California shoppers in a law-enforcement database.
The first hurricane of the season has officially arrived. Beryl, which was upgraded to hurricane from a tropical storm early Friday, is currently moving over the Atlantic, toward the Lesser Antilles.
Donald Trump vowed to break away from his predecessor’s immigration policy. Now he finds himself in the exact same tough spot as Barack Obama a few years ago: with no good place to put the thousands of Central American immigrants he’s apprehended.
Mexicans today face the monumental decision of choosing their next president. Whoever is elected—and all polls point to leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO—will have to shepherd the country through a brutal violence epidemic, a potentially disastrous fight with its most important trading partner, and the growing divide (paywall) between poor and rich Mexicans.
US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao became a far-right darling overnight after telling off protesters who confronted her husband, senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, over the separation of immigrant families at the border.
The US Supreme Court spelled out what it takes for Donald Trump to take full advantage of his broad powers on immigration policy.
America’s rightwing “constitutionalists” should be proud of the left. Last week, state and local authorities mobilized against a family-separation policy handed down from Washington DC, and in doing so, took a page from the playbook of anti-government conservatives.
Mexico’s ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, paid Cambridge Analytica millions of dollars ahead of Sunday’s presidential election—to keep the data consulting firm out of it.
Donald Trump has said he has no option but to lock up immigrant families to enforce immigration law. That’s a revision of his previous claim that he had no option but to separate kids from their parents.
Donald Trump has aborted his controversial family separation policy, but now immigrant advocates are struggling to track down the parents of the 2,300 immigrant kids already in federal custody. Government records are reportedly missing vital identifying information, such as name and age.
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Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has repeatedly said the Trump administration is required by law to detain and prosecute all immigrants entering the US illegally. She therefore has no choice, she says, but to separate parents and children during detention. But that’s not actually true—in fact, detaining asylum-seekers goes against both her agency’s own policy and international law.
Critics have called the Trump administration’s practice of separating children and parents intercepted at the border “inhumane,” “cruel,” and “immoral” on principle.
Free traders are in pain. The latest protectionist measure they bemoan as a threat to the decades-old free-trade system: 25% tariffs on $50 billion Chinese goods Donald Trump announced today.
Nearly nine months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, nobody knows how many people died because of it. Estimates range from the government’s official toll of 64—broadly seen as a gross undercount—to Harvard University researchers’ 4,645, an extrapolation that some say is wildly inflated.
