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Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed as DHS Secretary
By MOLLY O’TOOLE, LOS ANGELES TIMES – FEB. 2, 2021 12:35 PM PT SAN DIEGO — Alejandro Mayorkas was confirmed as President Biden’s secretary of Homeland Security on Tuesday, filling a ... -
Dismantle Trump’s despicable immigration policies by executive action and treat migrants like people (Op-Ed)
BY: NICOLE HALLETT, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 2, 2020 Of all the promises Donald Trump made during the 2016 campaign, his pledge to crack down on immigration is the ... -
Trump got his wall, after all
By: Rachel Morris, HuffPost – Nov. 24, 2019 IN THE TWO YEARS AND 308 DAYS THAT DONALD Trump has been president, he has constructed zero miles of wall along the ... -
Shunting asylum seekers to Mexico doesn’t absolve the U.S. of its duty to them
By Editorial Board, Washington Post – December 25 at 3:51 PM IN TESTIMONY to Congress on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at length, and repeatedly, about the threats ... -
Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy is effectively dead
Photo Credit: Andres Leighton/AP Photo- The policy slammed into a series of brick walls — insufficient space for incarcerating families crossing the border, strict legal limits on how children can be ... -
The White House has found ways to end protection for 'Dreamers' while shielding Trump from ...
By Brian Bennett and Michael A. Memoli, Los Angeles Times ~ Feb. 16, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-daca-20170216-story.html While President Trump wavered Thursday on whether he will stop shielding from deportation people who were brought ... -
An Exodus in Our Own Backyard
By THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD ~ JULY 4, 2016 The United States often faces global crises that force it to balance incompatible interests. But there is one test, close ... -
On Immigration, Law Is on Obama’s Side
By RICHARD G. LUGAR, N.Y. Times ~ April 18, 2016 THE legal controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement policies will soon come to a head when the Supreme Court justices ... -
Homeland Security produces first estimate of foreign visitors to U.S. who overstay deadline to leave
By Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn Under pressure from Congress to improve tracking of foreign visitors, the Department of Homeland Security has produced its first partial estimate of those ...