WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has given President Donald Trump a major victory by reviving his disputed ban on foreign travelers from six Muslim-majority nations. The justices rejected a series of lower-court orders that had blocked Trump’s po…
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Trump Fires Off Fuming Tuesday Tweets Attacking ‘Dirty Fake News Media’ and ‘Dangerous’ 9th Circuit
Donald Trump started his Tuesday morning with a couple of angry tweets amid a cat and mouse game with the media over White House “tapes”, and reports that the president is considering firing the special counsel in the Russia probe, Robert…
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Trump Admits Immigration Order is a ‘Travel Ban’ in Monday Morning Tweetstorm
Contradicting months of arguments and haranguing of the press by the White House for calling Trump’s immigration order a “travel ban” on Muslims, Donald Trump confirmed in a Monday morning tweetstorm that that’s exactly what i…
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Russian HIV-Positive Gay Asylum Seeker Detained By ICE Freed Following 5-Week Ordeal: VIDEO
An HIV-positive gay Russian asylum seeker detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Florida since he returned from a vacation to the U.S. Virgin Islands has been freed after five weeks in custody. Thirty-year-old San Jose residen…
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Designs for Trump’s Border Wall are Here. They Fall into 4 Categories.
Imagine the Great Wall of China along the banks of the Rio Grande. Or maybe an animal-friendly barrier that keeps migrants out but lets roadrunners in. These are some of the designs contractors submitted this week in the first round of bids to build…
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This is the Data We No Longer Get about Immigration Enforcement Under the Trump Administration
When US Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned sanctuary cities and counties in a press conference on Monday that they could lose federal grants, he cited a new immigration report about immigrants who were not detained by immigration officials: “The c…
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Gay Couple Separated by Trump’s Travel Ban : WATCH
The Human Rights Campaign has highlighted the plight of a gay couple who are engaged to be married but whose plans are on hold while the Trump administration’s travel ban takes effect. Paul Harrison is a Texas man who since 2015 has been in a l…
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Ben Carson: Slaves Were ‘Immigrants’ Coming to ‘a Land of Dreams and Opportunity’ – WATCH
Ben Carson referred to slaves as “immigrants” in his first speech as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development today, addressing a room full of federal workers. Said Carson: “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and oppor…
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A Year On, ‘Mr. Gay Syria’ Feels Under Threat in Istanbul
The winner of a contest held in Istanbul last year meant to empower and highlight gay Syrian refugees has reported his situation as deteriorating. In an interview last week with German public news service Deutsche Welle, Hussein S.—who asked his surn…
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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Comes into Focus in DHS Memos
A forceful crackdown by the Trump administration on unauthorized immigrants is coming into focus thanks to memos from the Department of Homeland Security, VOX reports: On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly issued memos to senior officials…
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