Trump Administration Announces Legally Dubious Crackdown on Asylum-Seekers
A family from Cuba wait at a Texas port of entry in July. The Trump administration will force some or all asylum-seekers to go ports of entry, despite what are already weeks-long waits. Carol Guzy/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The election is over and Jeff Sessions is gone, but…
Even Fox News Is Rejecting Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Campaign Ad
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a campaign speech for governor candidate of Georgia Brian Kemp who is Secretary of State in Macon, Georgia on November 4, 2018. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )Daisuke Tomita/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook, Fox News, and NBC will no longer run…
New Department of Labor Numbers Show Farmers Are Increasingly Turning to this Controversial Visa Program
Bill Wagner/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For years, California’s avocado farms have been scrambling to find enough people to pick their fruit. As a result, growers there and in several other states are increasingly turning to a controversial visa program, the H-2A, to import workers. New numbers released by the…
Trump Wants Executive Order Terminating Birthright Citizenship
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump claimed that he is “in the process” of preparing an executive order that would seek to end birthright citizenship for children of non-US citizens or undocumented immigrants born in the country. “It was always told to me that you…
A Wave of Misinformation About the Migrant Caravan Is Spreading on Social Media
Omar Marques/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to claim, without evidence, that a caravan of approximately 7,000 immigrants heading from Guatemala to the Mexican border contained “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.” It didn’t take long for this claim,…
Trump’s Response to the Migrant Caravan Is Self-Defeating
Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States rest in tents in southern Mexico on Monday. Pedro Pardo/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off aid to Central American countries as punishment for not stopping the migrant caravan that is heading—slowly—toward the…