GOP governor gives up effort to enshrine ban on sanctuary cities
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey wanted to put a ban on sanctuary cities in the state constitution.
By Associated Press - February 21, 2020Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey wanted to put a ban on sanctuary cities in the state constitution.
By Associated Press - February 21, 2020A judge said the government couldn’t deport five young immigrants. The government deported them anyway.
By Associated Press - February 20, 2020Immigrants, who make up just a small portion of those receiving benefits, will no longer be granted permanent residence if they use Medicaid, food stamps, or housing vouchers.
By Associated Press - January 27, 2020The administration is coming out with new visa restrictions aimed at restricting so-called ‘birth tourism.’
By Associated Press - January 22, 2020White evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016 — but they still think Trump’s family separation policy is wrong.
By Emily Singer - January 02, 2020Tens of thousands of American citizens are waiting for loved ones to obtain travel ban waivers in a process shrouded in unpredictability.
By Associated Press - December 29, 2019Video shows the teenager was unresponsive in a cell for hours before agents found his body, contradicting Border Patrol’s recollection of the incident.
By Associated Press - December 05, 2019The U.S. government held 69,550 immigrant children in custody over the past year — ‘enough infants, toddlers, kids, and teens to overflow a typical NFL stadium,’ according to a new report.
By Associated Press - November 12, 2019The proposal assumes immigrants will commit crimes in the U.S., even though data show immigrants commit less crime than citizens.
By Associated Press - October 21, 2019Doctors worry that people who need care won’t go to hospitals out of fear of deportation.
By Associated Press - October 20, 2019The bipartisan resolution reaffirms the ‘importance of the United States to promote the safety, health, and well-being of refugees and displaced persons.’
By Josh Israel - September 24, 2019The Trump administration smeared a federal judge who ruled that asylum-seekers can’t be jailed indefinitely without due process.
By Emily Singer - July 03, 2019The vile comments and memes dehumanizing immigrant children who died in U.S. custody were uncovered by ProPublica.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2019An internal watchdog warned in May of the squalid conditions at a border camp in Texas, yet the Trump team did nothing.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2019Trump issued a veto threat against a $4.5 billion House bill because it creates protections for children the Trump administration is jailing in unsafe conditions at the border.
By Emily Singer - June 25, 2019Trump’s favorite Senate defender admitted out loud what we’ve known all along: Trump’s border wall is a waste of time.
By Emily Singer - June 11, 2019While Trump was creating diplomatic disasters, Democrats were passing landmark legislation and blocking extremist GOP laws in states across the country.
By Emily Singer - June 07, 2019