[dropcap]E[/dropcap]L PASO, TEXAS — Rival political rallies in Texas – just over 200 yards apart – pitted the president of the United States against a possible election rival as they took opposite sides on the merits of a border wall with Mexico. “Today we started a big, beautiful wall right on the Rio Grande,” declared […]
When U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced a new policy recently to keep asylum-seekers in Mexico while they wait for their cases to be adjudicated, it was the latest in a string of Trump administration policies affecting asylum this past year. According to requirements laid out by the U.N. Convention on Refugees in 1951 […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to shut down the government if Congress does not fund construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to thwart illegal immigration. The U.S. leader claimed opposition Democrats need to give him “the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall!” and other tougher national immigration policy changes. […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump called Sunday for immediately deporting illegal immigrants entering the United States with “no Judges or Court Cases.” In a string of Twitter comments, Trump declared, “We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country…,” contending that “Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and […]