AP FACT CHECK: Are immigration raids result of Trump policy?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Advocacy groups and the White House say that people suspected of living in the United States illegally are being rounded up in large numbers as part of stepped-up enforcement under...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Trump takes credit for jobs, arrests
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is patting himself on the back for immigration and job-creation initiatives that started before he took office. A look at his statements during a press...
View ArticleFeds arrested 680 immigrants in weeklong roundup
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department said Monday that 680 people were arrested in roundups last week targeting immigrants living illegally in the United States. The figure is far below...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Trump takes credit for jobs, arrests
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is patting himself on the back for immigration and job-creation initiatives that started before he took office. A look at his statements during a news...
View ArticleSecret Service director retiring, led agency amid turmoil
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service director is retiring, for a second time. Director Joseph Clancy came out of retirement more than two years ago to take over the embattled agency amid a series of...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: No Trump order to deport welfare immigrants
WASHINGTON (AP) — A widely circulated report that President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the deportation of immigrants who accept government welfare is false. Trump has signed...
View ArticleMillions targeted for possible deportation under Trump rules
The Trump administration is greatly expanding the number of people living in the U.S. illegally who are considered a priority for deportation, including people arrested for traffic violations,...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Were hands of Obama-era border agents tied?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Assertions from the White House that immigration-enforcement agents had their hands tied in the last administration are difficult to square with the massive deportations of Barack...
View ArticleTrump lays out tougher approach to illegal immigration
Enforcement memos from the Homeland Security secretary shows exactly what the Trump administration plans to do and how many of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Trump claims, and gets, undue credit
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is giving himself too much credit for sending criminal foreigners out of the country and saving money on fighter planes. He’s getting too much credit from one...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: Trump considers 20 million people ‘very few’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that his predecessor’s health care law covers “very few people” as he minimized the impact of replacing it. That’s only true if you consider more...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: DHS report disputes threat from banned nations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Analysts downplay threat from 7 nations in ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump’s budget plan has billions for border, cuts elsewhere
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants billions of dollars to start building a wall at the Mexican border and fund efforts to find, jail and deport immigrants in the country illegally,...
View ArticleAP Explains: Trump’s new office on immigrant crime
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is spotlighting violence committed by immigrants, announcing the creation of a national office that can assist American victims of such crimes. He said during...
View ArticleAP Explains: Trump’s office on immigrant crime
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is spotlighting violence committed by immigrants, announcing the creation of a national office that can assist American victims of such crimes. He said during...
View ArticleTrump signs new anti-terror travel ban —without new fanfare
WASHINGTON (AP) — Without fanfare, President Donald Trump signed a scaled-back version of his controversial ban on many foreign travelers Monday, hoping to avoid a new round of lawsuits and outrage...
View ArticleDHS chief: Agency may separate parents, children at border
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is considering separating children from parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally, Secretary John Kelly said Monday. Kelly said such a move...
View ArticleTrump’s new travel ban comes without the chaos of first one
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump signed his first travel ban with scant warning and little planning seven days into his presidency, he meant to signal he was a man of action. After the...
View ArticleTrump effect? Illegal border crossings down 44% in February
WASHINGTON — Arrests of people crossing the border illegally dropped roughly 44 percent during President Donald Trump’s first month in office, according to Homeland Security data. The Border Patrol...
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