by Jim Heath | Feb 11, 2019 | Headlines, Immigration
Key lawmakers said late today they had reached a tentative agreement over immigration rules and funding for border barriers, a deal that if signed by President Trump would avert another government shutdown set to start at week’s end. The deal falls far short of...
by Jim Heath | Feb 5, 2019 | Headlines, Immigration, Republicans
House Republican lawmakers are being encouraged by their party’s leadership to play up gruesome murders, rapes, and other crimes committed by undocumented immigrants in the United States. In a newsletter sent on Friday, House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz...
by Jim Heath | Feb 3, 2019 | Entertainment, Headlines, Immigration
Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage has been arrested by ICE officers and is in federal immigration custody in Georgia. ICE spokesperson Bryan Cox described the arrest as the outcome of a “targeted operation.” Cox says 21 Savage, real name Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 18, 2019 | Headlines, Immigration
Anyone who has spent time on the border knows that a big wall is destined to be dug under or climbed over. That’s exactly what happened near Yuma, Arizona on Monday. A group of migrants said to be the largest ever illegally tunneled under the southern U.S....
by Jim Heath | Jan 18, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Immigration
President Trump tweeted this afternoon that he will be making a “major announcement” tomorrow from the White House concerning the ongoing government shutdown, and a bipartisan number of lawmakers hope he is not declaring an emergency. Trump wrote in a...
by Jim Heath | Jan 18, 2019 | Congress, Headlines, Immigration
Republican Congressman Will Hurd of Texas, who represents hundreds of miles along the border with Mexico, has defiantly stepped forward to challenge President Trump calling any claims of a border crisis a “myth.” Hurd is a former undercover CIA officer,...
