Donald Trump Is Tired of Following the Law
Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA According to CNN’s Jake Tapper, Donald Trump began raging at a meeting two weeks ago and demanded that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen close the port of entry at El Paso. Eventually he was talked out of this: Trump, however, was insistent that his administration begin taking another action —…
Trump Reportedly Told Border Agents to Do Something That’s Illegal
April 6, 2019 – Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. – United States President Donald J. Trump waves as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon his return to Washington from Las Vegas, Nevada on April 6, 2019. .Credit: Yuri Gripas / Pool via CNP (Credit Image: © Yuri Gripas/CNP via ZUMA…
Judge Blocks Trump Policy That Forces Asylum Seekers to Wait in Mexico
Ariel, a Honduran asylum-seeker, hugs an attorney before entering the United States in March to begin his asylum case after being returned to Mexico.Gregory Bull/AP A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration’s policy of forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their US court dates. The move will, at least temporarily, end the…
That Time Trump Did Business With an Oligarch Linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
AP Photo/Alex Brandon On Monday, the Trump administration officially designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group. But just a few years ago, as Donald Trump ran for president, he pursued a deal with an Azeri family that allegedly has close ties to the guard corps, an elite branch of the regime’s armed forces…
A 23-Year-Old Went on Fox News and Schooled Their Hosts on the Green New Deal
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jack Vandeleuv’s Thursday night went like this: He went to a diner in Riverside, Missouri, ordered himself a vegetarian omelet and served up arguably the most clear-eyed defense of the Green New Deal yet broadcast on Fox News. In a…
Quote of the Day: DHS Is On the Chopping Block
Senior Advisor for Policy Stephen Miller.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA From an unnamed senior administration official: There is a near-systematic purge happening at the nation’s second-largest national security agency. So far this includes: Kirstjen Nielsen, secretary of Homeland Security United States Citizenship and Immigration Services director Francis Cissna Office of the General Counsel’s John Mitnick Secret…