The COVID-19 pandemic and other U.S. efforts to stop asylum access significantly impacted immigration policy and enforcement in the United States in 2022. In various reports, U.S. border officials and immigration advocates say border numbers reflect the deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries that drive people to come to the southern border of […]
The specific evidence of Trump’s guilt that the committee will be turning over to the Justice Department will be hugely significant. Congress’s January 6 select committee has referred former president Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on the grounds that he incited an insurrection, conspired to defraud the United States, obstructed an […]
“No person is above the law, not even a president of the United States.” After an hourslong debate behind closed doors on Tuesday, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-16 along party lines to publicly release six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Democrats on the committee supported sending a panel report related […]
“How Christian of you, Greg Abbott,” Rep. Joaquin Castro said sardonically. “Being a heartless POS isn’t going to make you the next Republican president.” Human rights defenders condemned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and “extremist Republicans’ cruel values” after several busloads of migrants were dropped off outside U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington, D.C. home in […]