As President Trump plans to shift billions of dollars from the nation’s defense budget to his long promised border wall, his Republican colleagues have been left in a difficult position. According to Politico the money being shifted to the border wall will come from funds set aside for military construction projects and the war on...Read More
Approximately 15% of workers in the agriculture industry are immigrants without legal status. As a result, the recent crackdown on illegal immigration under the Trump administration has created a “labor crisis” within American agriculture. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, over 300 agriculture groups requested federal assistance in...Read More
Several injunctions that were blocking the Trump administration from implementing its new public charge rule have been lifted by a federal appeals court. However, the three judges on the panel were divided in their decisions after voting 2-1 to stay preliminary injunctions issued by federal judges in Oakland, CA, and Spokane, WA. Two of the...Read More
In 2016, Trump promised to build a wall on the U.S. southern border. After failing to convince Congress to provide funding for this project, he officially declared the border a national emergency in February. When Congress rejected this declaration, Trump issued his first veto, subsequently diverting $3.6 billion from over 100 military projects around the...Read More
Recently, President Trump announced a new immigration policy requiring people who legally immigrated to the U.S. to demonstrate that they won’t be a burden for the country’s health care system. Immigrants would be required to get private health insurance within 30 days of arriving in America. If they cannot fulfill this requirement, immigrants must provide...Read More
In August of 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Immigration Council filed a lawsuit regarding the Trump administration’s effort to expand fast-track deportation procedures. Under the original removal process, individuals could be sent back to Mexico without the involvement of the court system if they were: caught within 100 miles of the...Read More
Despite the Trump Administration’s aggressive anti-immigration policies, there has been a significant increase in the number of undocumented migrants attempting to enter the United States. As of August 2019, there have been 811,016 apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border, which is already 200,000 more people than 2017 combined. However, instead of developing new policies to improve...Read More
Last month, the Trump Administration took steps to end a medical relief policy that allows undocumented migrants to stay in the United States while they receive life-saving treatments for serious medical conditions. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), deferred action is “a discretionary determination to defer a deportation of an individual as...Read More
The True Immigration Crisis: Detention Centers Since 2017, the Trump Administration has enacted several controversial policies to prevent migrants and asylum seekers from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. To shift focus away from his weak economic and fiscal plans, President Trump is focusing his 2020 reelection campaign on the so-called “immigration crisis.” During his campaign kickoff...Read More
The Consequences of Fearmongering Since the early days of his election campaign, President Trump has utilized fearmongering tactics to terrify, and subsequently galvanize, a very specific subset of American voters. While he claims that his aggressive actions, racist tweets, and bumbling speeches all part of his “Make America Great Again” plan, the reality is that...Read More
