By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden could soon announce a new effort to allow immigrants in the U.S. illegally to obtain legal status if they are married to U.S. citizens, three sources said, an election-year move that could energize some liberal voters. Biden is expected to unveil the […]
Immigration is one of the thorniest public policy issues and one that will define the 2024 election. Biden has had to pivot on some of his border policies after running against Trump’s efforts in 2020. Meanwhile, Trump is seeking to run heavily on immigration this year, similar to his 2016 campaign. Very few issues animate […]
For more than 20 years, I have held one position constant when it comes to immigration policy: We should have one. I am less concerned about the number of immigrants we take in every year than I am about the fact that we — voters, policymakers, politicians, what have you — don’t pick a number. […]
Rishi Sunak has set out plans for a 2p national insurance cut in a multibillion-pound gamble to get the Tory UK general election campaign back on track. Launching the Conservative manifesto at the Silverstone motor racing circuit, the UK prime minister positioned himself as the heir to Margaret Thatcher with tax-cutting promises as he sought […]
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will close a costly Texas detention center and reallocate the funds to increase overall detention capacity as the agency ramps up operations to implement new U.S. border restrictions. In a memo to U.S. lawmakers on Monday, ICE said it would shutter the South […]
This is part two in an ongoing series. Read part one: Abortion. Read part three: War in Gaza. No issue in U.S. politics is more contentious right now than the situation at America’s southern border — so much so that President Biden is set to sign an executive order Tuesday allowing him to temporarily seal […]
Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott’s initiative to stem the flow of immigrants across the Rio Grande, isn’t the first time that the state of Texas has involved itself in immigrant matters. In 1869, as part of the state’s post-Civil War effort to rejoin the Union, writers of a Texas constitution created the Bureau of […]
Attorneys for the state squared off this week with lawyers for immigrants and an advocacy group after an unusual twist in a challenge to a Florida law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration. The lawsuit, filed in July by The Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc. and individual plaintiffs, centers on part of a 2023 […]
Donald Trump railed President Joe Biden’s recent executive action on immigration on Thursday in Arizona, a key battleground state where border issues play a big role in electoral politics. Speaking at a town hall organized by the conservative youth organization Turning Point, the former President pledged to scrap Biden’s executive action that aims to clamp […]
Lindsey Graham boiled down the Republican Party’s cruel, inhumane anti-immigrant agenda to a 30-second clip Tuesday. Flanked by other conservative lawmakers, the South Carolina senator denounced President Joe Biden’s strict anti-immigration crackdown — which involves severe caps on asylum requests — as being too soft. According to Graham, what’s needed is the spectacle of “hundreds […]
WASHINGTON — Looking for a way to shut down the southern border in 2018, President Donald Trump found a 73-word provision in the asylum law that he said gave him “magical authorities” to keep migrants out of the country. President Joe Biden turned to that same provision Tuesday as he took executive action to temporarily […]
A newly released analysis from the Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University ranks members of Congress on bipartisanship. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans on Tuesday argued that migrants coming from the southern border and into K-12 schools have strained resources and teacher-student ratios while leaving a […]