President Donald Trump signaled disappointment that the 2,232-page omnibus spending bill only provided $1.6 billion for border fencing, but said that it helped “start” the wall.
President Donald Trump on Friday held a ceremony to sign the $1.3 trillion dollar omnibus budget, at the same time pledging never to sign such a bill again.
“We’re going to win it, it should be easy, but it’s not,” Trump said to the group of law enforcement and members of Congress at the White House, calling it a “common sense” issue.
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) petition to decide whether the Trump administration’s decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is permitted by federal law. But the Court also made clear that it was only denying DOJ’s extremely rare request to skip the federal appeals court that currently has the case, making it almost certain that the nation’s highest court will take up the case later this year.
Another Democrat-appointed federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) violated federal law when it canceled the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty, although this decision will not have any lasting impact because the Supreme Court is certain to take up the controversy in the coming days.
The chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security has recused himself from a variety of hot-button outsourcing issues related to Indian software companies and the huge H-1B and L-1 visa programs.
Senior administration officials quashed a letter from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff recommending the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer negotiate to end a little-known visa program that permits tens of thousands of Canadian and Mexican white-collar workers to work in America.
“If we don’t change it let’s have a shutdown, we’ll do a shutdown,” Trump said. “It’s worth it for our country.”
“A real wall, not a little wall … they have them; they don’t work,” Trump said. “You need a real wall that will work 99.9 percent.”
President Trump’s amnesty plan would potentially give a pathway to U.S. citizenship to an illegal alien population that is roughly six times the number of illegal aliens that were given temporary amnesty under former President Obama.
The White House has canceled their planned meeting with lawmakers to roll out their immigration “framework” that gives U.S. citizenship to at least 1.8 million illegal aliens, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demands more concessions from the administration.
Pro-American immigration reformers are vowing to help “defeat” a plan by White House advisers to give U.S. citizenship to millions of illegal aliens.
American workers went unrepresented during talks of illegal and legal immigration with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday.
A White House expansive amnesty plan crafted by top administration officials is the “beginning of the end” of a Republican majority in the House, a House Republican reportedly told the media.
A year ago, President Trump committed to the American people to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration and the flow of drugs into the country.
Populist conservative Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is firing back after being attacked by pro-amnesty Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), saying the American people voted for “Donald Trump’s vision of immigration policy.”
An expansive amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens, being led by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and his Democrat and Republican establishment allies, known as the “Gang of Six,” would give a pathway to U.S. citizenship to 25,000 foreign nationals who were previously granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in 2013 “it would be governmental chaos” if the Democrats shut down the government in order to give amnesty to illegal aliens.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen are slamming a group of senators’, led by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), latest proposal to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, calling it “totally unjustifiable.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) is “reviewing” the possibility of criminally charging politicians who enforce “sanctuary city” policies where jurisdictions illegally harbor criminal illegal aliens, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Department of Homeland Security oversight, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during her appearance about President Donald Trump’s alleged “shithole” comments. Harris said, “I join issue with the
The Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday, starting the process of challenging that court’s controversial ruling that ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was unconstitutional.
Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Department of Homeland Security oversight, referring to President Donald Trump’s alleged “shithole” comments, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) lectured Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over her testimony. Booker said, “Now, I’ve been in
During an interview broadcast on Tuesday’s “CBS This Morning,” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen stated that if Congress can’t strike a deal on DACA, DACA recipients who are registered and haven’t committed a crime will not be an enforcement priority for ICE.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday criticized a federal judge’s order reinstating DACA as offensive for suggesting that ending DACA is racist. She went on to declare DACA unconstitutional, and unapologetically asserted that her oath of office is to follow the U.S. Constitution.
The administration is not negotiating with over a ‘DACA’ amnesty but is seeking a political deal which upgrades immigration policy and security, the secretary of homeland security told Fox News today.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) defended his deputy, Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), on Sunday after critics questioned Durbin’s claim that President Donald Trump referred to “shithole countries” in a discussion about immigration in the Oval Office on Thursday.
The White House responded to a ruling issued by a federal district court in San Francisco demanding that President Donald Trump immediately reinstate DACA.
A federal district court in California on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately reinstate DACA, in a lawsuit brought by former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano against current DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Tuesday in discussions with lawmakers and President Trump that the United States needs “the wall system” along the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent illegal immigration.
During a meeting at the White House on immigration, President Trump told Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen never to “mention seven years again” in reference to the timeframe that DHS claimed it would take to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said that President Donald Trump’s planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico is “first and foremost” before any deal for amnesty for the recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Deportations of illegal aliens living across the United States in the interior of the country increased 37 percent after President Trump signed his Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States Executive Order five days after being inaugurated.
The vast majority of foreign nationals sitting in American federal prisons are illegal aliens, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed in a year-end report.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen toured the U.S.-Mexico border this week, telling Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade that building the border wall which President Donald Trump has planned was the “priority area” for her
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen touted the end of family-based mass immigration and the Diversity Visa Lottery program after it was revealed that an alleged suicide-bomber in New York City gained entry to the U.S. by taking advantage of the current system.
President Trump demanded the construction of a wall along the United States-Mexico border and major cuts to legal immigration levels during a swearing-in ceremony for newly confirmed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
The new Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, announced on Thursday the creation of an office specializing in “countering weapons of mass destruction.”
The Department of Homeland Security is now being led by two former President George W. Bush officials: Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Deputy Secretary Elaine Duke.
The United States Senate voted to confirm former President George W. Bush bureaucrat Kirstjen Nielsen to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) despite her ties to the “Never Trump” movement and seemingly having no experience working on immigration-related issues.
