Trump in-laws promote thorny visa-for-sale program in China
WASHINGTON (AP) — Plenty can go wrong when foreign money mixes with immigration green cards, real estate deals and political connections. Revelations that the sister of Jared Kushner, President Donald...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: US digs for evidence of Haiti immigrant crimes
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Trump administration weighs extending humanitarian protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants, officials are digging for unusual information: How many have been convicted...
View ArticleKushner firm apologizes for reference to White House ties
WASHINGTON (AP) — Plenty can go wrong when foreign money mixes with immigration green cards, real estate deals and political connections. Revelations that the sister of Jared Kushner, President Donald...
View ArticleImmigration agents aid in arrests of accused gang members
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration agents have helped arrest more than 1,300 accused gang members across the United States in the last six weeks, the Homeland Security Department said Thursday. The...
View ArticleMS-13 gang targeted in pre-dawn sweep across Los Angeles
The raids are part of a multi-agency case led by the FBI that started in 2014. More than half of those arrested and charged are in the country illegally. It was unclear how long they had been in the...
View ArticleUS to extend protections for Haitians 6 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will extend until January a humanitarian program that has allowed roughly 58,000 Haitians to live in the United States, but it is hinting that...
View ArticleElectronics banned in cabins of U.S.-bound flights from 8 nations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is temporarily barring passengers on certain flights originating in eight other countries from bringing laptops, iPads, cameras and most other electronics in...
View ArticleIt won’t be from sea to sea; how long will border wall be?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House insists that plans for President Donald Trump’s border wall are on track despite resistance from Congress. What it’s not saying is how it envisions the wall these...
View ArticleAP FACT CHECK: The record behind Trump’s Cabinet preening
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump preened before his Cabinet and the cameras on Monday, making claims that are unsupported by the record. A sampling from a portion of the Cabinet meeting opened...
View ArticleAP fact check: The trophies in Trump’s display Cabinet
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump showed off a few too many trophies in his display Cabinet. Trump opened part of a Cabinet meeting to the press Monday and filled that time with self-congratulation...
View ArticleDHS chief hints laptop ban may not be extended right now
WASHINGTON (AP) — It may not be necessary to expand a ban on laptops and other large electronics in the cabins of many international flights into the United States right now, Homeland Security...
View ArticleAdmin revokes blocked program to protect immigrant parents
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama-era immigration program intended to protect parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents from deportation has been formally cancelled, fulfilling a key campaign promise from...
View ArticleFate of program to protect young immigrants still undecided
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday it still has not decided the fate of a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation, despite a statement a day...
View ArticlePoll: Courts are right in blocking Trump’s travel ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say federal courts are acting properly in blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
View ArticlePoll: Courts are right in blocking Trump’s travel ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say federal courts are acting properly in blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
View ArticlePoll: Courts are right in blocking Trump’s travel ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say federal courts are acting properly in blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs...
View ArticleUS to issue more temporary worker visas this summer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department has decided to offer extra visas for temporary, seasonal workers, a department spokesman said Wednesday. DHS spokesman David Lapan said Homeland...
View ArticleTrump slashes grant for group combatting white extremism
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday slashed $400,000 in federal funding for one of the few U.S. groups that combat white extremism but denied it is now focusing only on fighting...
View ArticleFew answers on travel ban as launch deadline looms
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration expects to launch a limited version of its travel ban on six mostly Muslim countries on Thursday, but has yet to say how it will be implemented or what it...
View ArticleUS demands more security on international flights to US
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is demanding that airlines around the world step up security measures for international flights bound for the United States or face the possibility of...
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