The Trump administration will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era directive that provided work permits and protection from deportation for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children, after a six-month window, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced…
The Trump administration has hit another court challenge to an immigration-related executive order. On Tuesday, a district court judge in California issued a preliminary injunction against last month's order from the White House that so-called sanctuary cities—those localities that choose to harbor…
After President Donald Trump spoke to workers in Wisconsin on Tuesday, he signed an executive order calling on the government to fully review its H-1B visa program for temporary workers and to prioritize American firms when working with contractors.
Federal judges who are blocking President's Trump new executive order restricting migration are making a mistake, using flawed reasoning, and setting back the larger cause of immigration reform. On Wednesday night, Derrick K. Watson, the U.S. District Judge in Hawaii, penned a 43-page jeremiad in…
President Trump signed a new executive order on Monday to replace a previous order that restricted travel into the United States from several foreign countries. The new order maintains the restriction from six of the seven countries in the original one—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and…
In 2007 and 2008 Senator Barack Obama campaigned against the Bush administration’s use of executive power. But for the next eight years President Obama wielded unilateral power energetically: through his administrative agencies and from his own office—via his "pen" and "phone," as he famously put…
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld a nationwide temporary injunction on President Trump's executive order relating to refugees and visas from seven Muslim-majority countries. The White House says it will not take the case to the Supreme Court, but is rather drafting a…
A new poll shows that President Trump's controversial executive order on immigration is not unpopular:
Donald Trump's most contentious cabinet appointee (so far), Betsy DeVos, is now the Secretary of Education. Her nomination cleared the Senate Tuesday afternoon after all 48 Democrats voted unanimously against her (along with 2 Republicans), resulting in a 50-50 tie that Vice President Mike Pence…
The Trump administration's emercency motion requesting an immediate stay of a Washington federal court's restraining order of President Trump's immigration executive order has been denied.
A government lawyer said in federal court Friday morning that more than 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Donald Trump's executive order on refugees and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. But a State Department official later placed the estimate at almost half…
Reuters commissioned a poll about President Trump's executive order that caused so much controversy over the weekend. Here are the results:
Former president Barack Obama just couldn't help himself. Barely a week out of office, he inserted himself into the fray. He gave his benediction to the protests against President Donald Trump's executive order on travel. "President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in…
Multiple legal experts have criticized former acting Attorney General Sally Yates for allowing her personal views of President Trump's executive order on refugees and travel to the United States to interfere with the Justice Department's role of defending what is lawful.
President Donald Trump has relieved Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who instructed DOJ employees not to defend his executive order on halting entry by immigrants to the United States from certain countries.
Acting attorney general Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, has ordered DOJ attorneys not to defend President Trump's controversial executive order which temporarily bans those from seven countries, from entering the country. The countries were chosen as part of the Visa Waiver…
The White House will neither confirm nor deny reports that Homeland Security secretary John Kelly was not briefed beforehand on last Friday's executive order banning travel from citizens of seven Muslim countries.
Spencer Ackerman at the Guardian has the story of several Iraqis who served alongside American troops in the Iraq war who now find themselves caught in limbo (or worse) as a result of President Trump's executive order restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, including Iraq:
In between keeping tabs on the Trump administration's mess-up over its executive order on immigration, I spent some time over the weekend reading. I don't have the best track record with New Year's resolutions, but so far I'm ahead of schedule on my plan to read the complete works of Shakespeare.…
The White House seems to be backing away from aspects of President Trump's executive order on immigration. Chief of staff Reince Priebus explained Sunday morning that green card holders from the seven countries specified in the order—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen—would not be…
In a joint statement issued Sunday, Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona expressed concern that Donald Trump's temporary ban on individuals from seven Middle Eastern and North African countries from entering the United States would prohibit the Iraqi military from…
Over at National Review, Andrew McCarthy writes that President Trump's executive order instituting a temporary ban on entry into the United States for foreign nationals from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen is statutorily and constitutionally sound:
President Donald Trump derived power from a 2006 law to order work on a "secure, contiguous, and impassable" barrier along the United States's southern border Wednesday, advancing a campaign promise many critics have said is too ambitious to fulfill.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday reinstating the Mexico City Policy, which bars federal funds from going to overseas organizations that perform or promote abortions.
So long as everyone expected a Hillary Clinton victory in November's presidential election, high-minded rhetoric ruled the day at the White House. Michelle Obama's quote from the Clinton campaign trail—"When they go low, we go high"—became something of a mantra. Initially, Barack Obama even spoke…