Tag Archives: Immigration

2/21/2018 The Washington Post today exposed the shady history of Melania Trump’s immigration.  It also suggested that Melania’s parents are in the United States as part of chain migration, the very policy the President is trying to end. Chain migration is the practice of giving preferential immigration treatment to the family members of recent approved immigrants. Once an immigrant becomes ...

1/12/18 President Trump yesterday voiced his objections about an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti and some nations in Africa, demanding to know at a White House meeting why he should accept immigrants from “shithole countries” rather than from places like Norway, according to people with direct knowledge of the conversation. Members of Congress from both ...

9/5/2017 The Trump White House announced the end of DACA on Tuesday.  The Obama program had protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation. The Department of Homeland Security will stop processing any new applications for the program as of Tuesday and rescinded the Obama administration policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. “I am here ...

8/25/2017 President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge’s order not to detain suspected undocumented immigrants. A judge ruled on July 31 that Arpaio committed a crime by disobeying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants.  In 2013, a judge found Arpaio and his deputies had ...

08/02/2017 “It has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to our workers,” Trump said as he endorsed legislation to curb legal immigration.  This proposal “will reduce poverty, increase wages and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars,” said Trump. The proposed legislation would reshape legal immigration to the US, cutting annual admissions in half and prioritizing education ...

7/21/2017 President Trump wants to build a wall to keep foreigners out, unless they want to work for him at Mar-a-Lago. During the White House’s “Made in America” initiative this week to promote American jobs and products, President Donald Trump’s businesses have again taken steps to hire foreign workers.  Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and his golf course in Jupiter, Florida, filed documents to ...