Zachary Roth With polls showing unauthorized immigration as Republicans’ best issue for the fall, the GOP is looking to raise the alarm about voting by non-citizens and the undocumented. The multi-pronged effort has been advanced in congressional legislation, public statements by top election officials and U.S. senators, plans produced by …
Read More »Texas’ New Immigration Law Is Blocked Again
Alejandro Serrano and Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal appeals court late Tuesday night stopped a state law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border — hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed it to go into effect. Earlier in the …
Read More »Texas Federal Judge Dismisses Ken Paxton’s Lawsuit Against Biden’s Immigration Program
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal judge in Texas rejected a lawsuit on Friday filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton against a Biden administration immigration program that allows each year up to 360,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to legally migrate to the U.S. U.S. District …
Read More »Presidential Campaign Moves To The Border, As Biden Urges Trump To Back Immigration Deal
Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon paid competing visits to the nation’s southern border, where Biden called on Congress to reconsider a bipartisan border security deal that Republicans tanked at Trump’s direction. Biden traveled to Brownsville, Texas, while Trump journeyed to …
Read More »Texas Law Allowing Police To Arrest Migrants Suspected Of Being In Country Illegally Blocked By Federal Judge
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal judge in Austin on Thursday halted a new state law that would allow Texas police to arrest people suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. The law, Senate Bill 4, was scheduled to take effect Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Ezra issued …
Read More »Texas’ Standoff With The Feds AT The Border Is Igniting Calls For Secession And Fears Of Violence
Robert Downen and Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune Daniel Miller felt encouraged last week, as fears of a new civil war trended online and a coalition of powerful Republicans coalesced behind Gov. Greg Abbott’s standoff with the Biden administration. As the longtime leader of Texas’ unlikely secessionist movement, Miller …
Read More »Biden Pledges to Halt Border Crossings When ‘Overwhelmed’ If Given New Congressional Authority
Jimmy Williams President Joe Biden has made a strong commitment to bring a halt to border crossings when the system is “overwhelmed,” contingent on Congress passing bipartisan immigration legislation that grants him emergency authority. In a statement, Biden endorsed an emerging immigration deal in the Senate, emphasizing it as the …
Read More »Senate Republicans Insist They Won’t Bow To Trump Demands To Quit Immigration Talks
Ariana Figueroa, Kentucky Lantern Top U.S. Senate negotiators said Thursday that final details on an immigration policy deal remain under debate in the U.S. Senate, despite outside pressure from GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to sink any agreement as he makes immigration his central campaign message. The No. 2 Senate …
Read More »Biden Says He’s ‘ready to act’ On ‘significant’ Changes At The Border, Including Asylum
by Ariana Figueroa, Florida Phoenix President Joe Biden Friday said he backs “significant policy changes” to asylum law, amid ongoing immigration policy negotiations between the White House and Senate tied to passage of a global security package. “I believe we need significant policy changes at the border, including changes in …
Read More »Senate Republicans Warn House Republicans on Immigration Negotiations
Jimmy Williams Senate Republicans are cautioning their counterparts in the House against playing political games with ongoing immigration negotiations, emphasizing that securing a better deal might not be possible under a potential second Donald Trump presidency. Senator Lindsey Graham expressed to reporters that expecting a better deal under a future …
Read More »With GOP Pushing Hard On Immigration, Parole Emerges As A Make-Or-Break Issue In Congress
Ariana Figueroa, SC Daily Gazette Passage of a multi-billion-dollar supplemental package hinges on curbing an executive authority used to grant immigration protection, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said during a Wednesday press conference. “If we don’t fix parole, there will be no deal,” Graham said alongside Senate Republican Whip John …
Read More »Senate Negotiators See Progress In Immigration Talks, But No Deal Likely Until 2024
Jennifer Shutt, Arkansas Advocate Senators attempting to clinch a bipartisan agreement on immigration and border policy gave the clearest indication yet Tuesday they’ll work into the new year, further delaying aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. “We are closer than ever before to an agreement, but … we need to …
Read More »Texas Governor Signs Controversial Immigration Law Granting Sweeping Powers to Police
Jimmy Williams Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law a controversial piece of legislation that grants extensive powers to law enforcement officials to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally. The law also authorizes local judges to issue orders for migrants to leave the country. Critics argue that …
Read More »Senate Postpones Winter Break As Lawmakers Try To Craft An Immigration Deal
Jennifer Shutt, Kentucky Lantern Members of the U.S. House headed home Thursday for a three-week winter break without completing work on several must-pass bills, but senators are now scheduled to return to Capitol Hill on Monday as leaders in the upper chamber and the White House look for an agreement …
Read More »With Time Growing Short, Senate Talks Extend On Immigration Overhaul
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Members of Congress left the Capitol on Thursday without a deal on sought-after changes to immigration policy that’s tied to aid for Ukraine and Israel — leaving them just one week to resolve the dispute before lawmakers depart for a three-week holiday break. Negotiations among a …
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