All posts tagged "Immigrants"

The Trump Department of Homeland Security rescinded a Biden administration rule that protected immigrants who rely on government benefits.

According to a DHS final rule, immigration officials will be able to deny immigrants green cards if they rely on food stamps, Medicaid, housing aid, and other aid programs.

The rule nullifies a 2022 DHS final rule under Biden that the Trump administration rule repeatedly described as a "straitjacket" for immigration officers. It will go into effect and apply to green card applications filed after September 15, according to a post on X by immigration lawyer and policy analyst Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. ...

The Department of Justice wants to strip a dozen Americans of their citizenship, including a former United States ambassador and National Security Council official, as it moves forward with denaturalization, according to a new report.

According to a report by The Hill, the DOJ announced on Friday that it is seeking to "denaturalize" 12 U.S. citizens between the ages of 26 and 75. One of them is former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha, The Hill reported.

The DOJ is alleging that the 12 people hid serious offenses by lying during the naturalization process, according to The Hill. The DOJ said they lied about providing material support to terrorists, war crimes, and sexual abuse of a minor, The Hill reported. ...

President Donald Trump fawned over a violent outlaw motorcycle gang while simultaneously blasting criminal immigrants during an unusual and rambling press conference on Tuesday marking the anniversary of his second inauguration.

Trump spoke for more than 70 minutes, claiming during a bizarre speech and unusual slideshow presentation featuring placards of suspected criminal immigrants, that the immigrants ICE wants to apprehend were more dangerous than the notorious gang Hells Angels — dubbed a criminal enterprise by the Department of Justice.

"People that came in illegally. Many cases, they're criminals in many, many cases," Trump said. "Remember when they used to say that the people that come into our country as immigrants are very nice people? They're wonderful people. They don't commit crime. No. They make our criminals look like babies. They make our Hells Angels look like the sweetest people on earth. The Hells Angels are now considered a nice, high quality person. I like the Hells Angels. They voted for me. They protected me. Actually, believe it or not. But they make our criminals look like babies."...

A Democratic lawmaker gave President Donald Trump a verbal tongue-lashing Tuesday over his xenophobic rant against Somali immigrants living in Minnesota.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that the president's rant during the Cabinet meeting and press conference on Tuesday against the Somali immigrant community, including Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), was absurd.

"What a what a sick and diseased guy!" Kaine exclaimed. "'They contribute nothing?' You know, I have friends and family in Minnesota who talk about the Somali community with a lot of pride and affection. If there's bad apples in that community or any community, they ought to suffer legal consequences justified by their actions. But to use a broad brush to paint Somalis as negative..." ...

Reactions rolled in Friday after liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a scathing dissent of the majority conservative U.S. Supreme Court's latest decision, with some saying it told lower courts they have "absolutely no power over the executive branch."

Brown Jackson called the high court's decision to remove legal protections for more than 300,000 immigrants from Venezuela "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."

"I view today’s decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them," Jackson wrote in her dissent Friday....

Investigative journalists with ProPublica published a disturbing video essay showing ICE officers smashing car windows to get to frightened undocumented migrants locked inside.

"We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office," reads the introduction to the piece. "ICE claims its officers use a 'minimum amount of force.' You can judge for yourself."

The essay guides viewers through an initial six videos of ICE agents, some wearing masks and wielding various instruments to break into the vehicles....