Trump Administration Cuts Refugee Limit to Lowest Level on Record for Second Year in a Row
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcing a record-low annual cap for refugee admissions at the State Department on Monday.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the United States will cap refugee admissions at 30,000 people in the 2019 fiscal year, which…
Texas Cops Just Arrested an Alleged Serial Killer. He’s a Border Patrol Supervisor.
A file photo of a US Border Patrol agent on patrol.Jae C. Hong/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A US Border Patrol agent has been arrested, accused of murdering four woman and abducting another in Laredo, Texas. “We have the serial killer in custody.”The suspect, identified by the Webb County…
Concession by the Trump Administration Caps Off a Big Legal Victory for Separated Families
Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug at a Catholic Charities facility in Texas in July after being separated by the Trump administration. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration to reunite a family separated at…
The First Dreamer to Run for Office in New York Has a Message for Donald Trump
CatalinaCruzNY/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s incredibly hot on this August morning in Jackson Heights, Queens, but here’s Catalina Cruz in her element. “Our community deserves to stay in our barrios, and we’re gonna make sure that happens,” she says, standing before roughly a dozen supporters, across the street…
Jeff Sessions Is Executing Trump’s Immigration Plans With a Quiet, Efficient Brutality
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on immigration and law enforcement actions to cadets from Lackwanna College Police Academy.Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past few months, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has faced fierce criticism for his role in the Trump administration’s family separation policy. But…
An Old Anti-Irish Law Is at the Heart of Trump’s Plan to Reshape Legal Immigration
An 1893 cartoon titled “Looking Backward” depicts the irony of American immigrants turning away additional newcomers. The caption reads, “They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.” Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Boston’s 1845 census grouped the home countries of the city’s indigent…