immigration
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John Delaney Believes a Moderate Democrat Will Beat Trump, Says He's a 'Compassionate Capitalist'
I think a moderate Democrat is the best person to beat Trump by far. By any measure. So if you want change, we gotta beat Trump.—John Delaney text Former congressman and presidential candidate John Delaney told The Root in an interview that he believes a moderate Democrat will defeat Donald Trump in 2020. Unlike many…
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FBI Arrests 69-Year-Old Militia Leader Whose Group Boasts Ties to U.S. Border Patrol
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, the 69-year-old leader of the United Constitutional Patriots, an armed border militia group spreading conspiracies and rounding up asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border, has been taken into custody by the FBI. The New Mexico Resident allegedly illegal detained immigrants crossing the border while posing as United States Border Patrol. The organization has…
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A Group of Wannabe Feds Is Going Around Pointing Guns at Immigrants at the US-Mexico Border and Calling It Citizen's Arrest; ACLU Calls It Kidnapping
Members of a local militia in New Mexico apparently decided to take matters into their own hands regarding this nation’s immigration policy and detained a group of asylum seekers at gunpoint before turning them over to U.S. Border Patrol. Video posted online by a group calling itself United Constitutional Patriots show armed militia members, wearing…
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Donald Trump Handed Rare Victory as 9th Circuit Rules in Favor of Returning Asylum Seekers to Mexico
According to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trump Administration is allowed to continue sending asylum seekers back to Mexico. The ruling comes after an appeals court decision halted the practice, and days after a federal judge in California blocked the policy, dubbed the Migration Protection Protocols. In a two-paragraph ruling, the 9th Circuit…
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Trump Administration Wanted to Release Detained Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities to Target Those Who Opposed the President's Border Wall: Report
Because the Trump administration takes its cues from The Walking Dead and thus believes that immigrants crossing the border are akin to zombies, a new report reveals that Trump officials tried to pressure the Department of Homeland Security into releasing walkers detained immigrants into sanctuary cities as retaliation against those who opposed the president’s plan…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls Trump Adviser Stephen Miller a 'White Nationalist'; Her Critics Accuse Her of Anti-Semitism
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) isn’t here to be liked, she’s here to call it as she sees it, and as such, she’s quickly moving up the “Auntie Maxine reclaiming my time” list of righteous women who don’t have the energy to placate the public. On Monday, Omar called Stephen Miller, the assumed puppet master behind…
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Trump Declares Country 'Full' As States Sue to Block Wall Funding
At this rate, folks, Trump’s next executive order might have ICE agents play “Closing Time” from tank stereos situated along the border. Trump participated in a briefing on immigration in Calexico, a small city situated along the border between the U.S. and Mexico, where he used his bully pulpit to hammer home the creeping threat…
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Here They Go Again: Trump Faves Diamond and Silk Drop 'Gems' of Wisdom on Climate Change and More
Watching Donald Trump stans Diamond and Silk is like viewing the evil twins of characters Nisi and Mickey of the ‘90s film B*A*P*S — if Nisi and Mickey thought they knew anything about climate change, Earth science, immigration or the politics of slavery. But unlike the relatively harmless fictional characters in the (yes, quite regrettable)…