PENTAGON — The Pentagon has agreed to house on military bases as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children who illegally crossed the U.S. southern border. Pentagon spokesman Army Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Davis told VOA Thursday that the Defense Department had accepted a request for assistance with migrant detainees from the Department of Health and Human Services. […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has loosened the government’s enforcement of a rule that bars tax-exempt churches from participating in political activity. Trump signed an executive order Thursday that gives “maximum enforcement discretion” to the country’s tax agency, the Internal Revenue Service, in tracking the ban on political activity by religious groups, an edict that already […]
With a stroke of his pen, President Trump began the process to re-open millions of acres of federal waters to make those areas once again eligible for off-shore drilling for natural gas and oil. In a Roosevelt Room signing on Friday, Trump sought to undo a decision by former President Obama, made in late December, […]
A draft memo written by John Kelly, the Secretary of Homeland Security and obtained by the Associated Press outlines a Trump proposal to mobilize up to 100,000 National Guardsmen to participate in the round-up of unauthorized aliens within the U.S. borders, it is being reported on Friday. It has been reported by several news outlets […]