Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders resigned on Tuesday, which goes into effect on July 5, amid detention center controversies at the US southern border.
President Donald Trump knew changes would come to the agency, but he tried to convince Sanders to stay on the job.
I have reviewed the toxicity of the opioid fentanyl, which officials have determined as a key factor in the escalating number of drug overdose deaths sweeping the nation.
Now, according to an internal memo, the Trump administration has thought about labeling fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Is he serious or trying to get Congress to finally reform our immigration laws? Who knows, but President Donald Trump tweeted that his administration is “giving strong considerations” to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities.
It wasn’t enough that #TheResistance shouted DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a private DC restaurant in the summer of 2018. It wasn’t enough that...
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned on Sunday after butting heads with President Donald Trump over policy and border control issues. He recently asked her “to close the ports of entry along the border and to stop accepting asylum seekers, which Ms. Nielsen found ineffective and inappropriate.”
Trump has...
President Donald Trump has arrived in McAllen, Texas, to visit the border and speak with border patrol agents.
We will update this post throughout his visit.
A new policy from Kirstjen Nielsen and the DHS may affect how long international students can stay in the country and a lot of people in higher ed are freaking out about it.
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard decries ‘destructive’ new Trump admin policy
Harvard University signed a statement in late December denouncing U.S. Secretary...
The lower federal courts repeatedly have attempted to strip the executive (meaning THIS executive, because he’s Trump) of his constitutional and legislatively-granted powers.
We saw it in the Travel Order cases, which resulted ultimately in a Supreme Court rebuke of this judicial overreach.
The House Appropriations Committee has introduced a fiscal year 2019 Homeland Security bill that includes $5 billion for a border wall that spans 200 miles and money to hire more ICE and border patrol agents.
This could trigger a showdown with the Senate since that chamber only
It looks like you got your wish, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). She told MSNBC that #TheResistance will “harass them [members of the administration] until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No, I can’t hang with you.'”
Professor Jacobson documented the times that members of President Donald Trump’s administration has...
The totalitarian impulses of #TheResistance have been a focus here ever since the attempt soon after the 2016 election to intimidate Electoral College Electors into not honoring the vote in their states. Since then, whether through Antifa or more normalized liberals, anything goes so long as it seeks to unwind the...
President Donald Trump’s administration has decided to end special protections given to some El Salvador immigrants who came to America in 2001 after devastating earthquakes.
Now, before you get all crazy, I’m seeing outlets bury this important detail: the protections will not end until September 2019. This will give those immigrants plenty...
One of the key reasons President Trump won last November was his stance on illegal immigration. Between the wall and his promise to provide relief to ICE agents whose hands were tied by the Obama administration, the president won a first: an endorsement for a candidate in a presidential election from ...
Have you suspected there are still people embedded in the government who worked for Obama and might not share President Trump’s vision for America? You were right. In fact, there are quite a few of them.
President Donald Trump’s administration has finally waived the Jones Act, which will allow foreign ships to bring aid to hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico.
The Jones Act has been enforced since its inception in 1920. It states that any goods transported by water into U.S. ports must come in on ships made in...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have filed a lawsuit on behalf of eleven people against the federal government to end warrantless searches of electronics at the border by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). From The New York Times:
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the American...
Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the House Intelligence Committee over the Russia probe into possible interference and collusion into our presidential election.
Last summer, the Democrats accused the Russians of hacking into their system after a trove of emails appeared on Wikileaks. But Johnson told the committee...
