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  • 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...

  • The Wider Image: The Rio Grande under Trump

    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...

  • What Would Joni Mitchell Say?

    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...

  • FILE PHOTO: A view of a section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence at El Paso, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

    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...

  • Senator Warren questions Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf at Senate Banking Committee hearing on firm's sales practices on Capitol Hill in Washington

    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.

  • A worker stands next to a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez

    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...

  • People are taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol near Falfurrias, Texas

    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...

  • A sign on the National Mall tells visitors of the closures do to the federal government shutdown in Washington

    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...

  • Rick Perry, the Oracle of Oops, Prepares for 2016

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    Everyone makes mistakes – but when mistakes made on a stage in front of millions of people get magnified, they become a Really Big Problem. It’s been more than two-and-a-half years since Texas...

  • A Long Wait at the Back of the Immigration Line

    By Eric Pianin

    A political catch phrase of the prolonged immigration reform controversy in Congress is that, regardless of what changes eventually are hammered out, the more than 11 million undocumented residents...

  • CEOs Say Government Inaction Has Hurt Jobs and Growth

    By Rob Garver

    The chief executive officers of some of the largest companies in the country are increasingly frustrated by a Congress that has failed to take action on issues that would boost the economy in the...

  • Visas for Afghan Interpreters Reveal Failing Security

    By Timothy R. Homan, The Fiscal Times

    A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington is pushing to renew a special visa program for Afghan interpreters who risked their lives working with U.S. forces, an admirable step on the part of...

  • Boehner Has Backed Himself into a Corner on Immigration

    By Rob Garver

    House Speaker John Boehner says he’s “hell-bent” on passing immigration reform this year and has not bothered to hide his contempt for his colleagues in Congress who see the issue as too politically...

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