Immigration

Trump Is Headed for Another Failure with a Deplorable Immigration Bill

By Rob Garver

Back when his presidential candidacy was still a longshot, Donald Trump had a go-to method for firing up his supporters if he sensed that a campaign rally was losing its momentum. He described it in...
Trump Will Allow Young Immigrants to Stay: Here’s a Rundown on DACA

By Rob Garver

A release from the Trump administration on Thursday night surprised many of the president’s detractors when it made suggested that the administration plans to leave President Obama’s Deferred Action...
How Much Energy Would Trump's Solar Border Wall Actually Produce?

By Leanna Garfield, Business Insider

During a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US-Mexico border wall. As Axios reported , he pitched covering the wall...
Here’s a Basic Problem With Trump’s Plan to Deport Undocumented Immigrants

By Rob Garver

According to the Government Accountability Office, if the Trump administration really plans on maintaining its accelerated pace of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, something is...
Here's How Broken Washington Is — Even Without Trump

By David Dayen

A problem caused by a government-granted monopoly looks like it’ll actually get solved. Or it did, until conservatives found the name “Elizabeth Warren” atop the bill.

Bad News for Trump’s Wall: Watchdog Finds Plenty of Ways Around It

By Eric Pianin

A new report by the Government Accountability Office suggests there are plenty of ways for illegal immigrants, illicit drug smugglers and human traffickers to breach almost any barrier the...
These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals

By Liz Peek

As Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...
Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both

By Rob Garver

The Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...
Can Trump’s Wall Really Pay for Itself Over 10 Years?

By Rob Garver

The original plan for President Trump’s border wall, repeated ad nauseam on the campaign trail, was that it would be paid for by Mexico. On Sunday, though, Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated a...
Trump Pushes Congress to the Wall to Avoid a Government Shutdown

By Rob Garver

The already-complicated effort to avert a government shutdown on April 29 is taking on another layer of complexity, with the White House demanding that any spending measure that funds the federal...

Want to Resurrect the Grand Bargain? Try Immigration Reform

By Marc Joffe

The White House and Congress have repeatedly failed to put together a compromise that will reduce entitlement spending and trim the budget deficit. Could an immigration compromise be the catalyst to...
Voters Know What We Should Do on Immigration

By Eric Pianin

GOP lawmakers and the president couldn’t be farther apart on what needs to be done on immigration and when it should be done – but not so the public, according to recent polls by Gallup, Pew, CBS...
Administration Unlawfully Freed Thousands of Illegal Immigrants

By Rob Garver

A new report from the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security finds the administration unlawfully freed thousands of illegal immigrants. If you thought the fight over the border was...
Most of the 51,000 Child Immigrants Are With Their U.S. Families

By Eric Pianin

With Congress and the president on vacation and the situation in Iraq and Syria boiling over, the spotlight has shifted away from the humanitarian crisis along the Southwest border – and what is...
Immigration Update: 5 Myths on the Border Crisis

By Douglas Farah, The Washington Post

The surge of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children to the United States from Central America’s Northern Triangle — Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala — has sparked an emotional debate over the...

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