After approving impeachment articles against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, that are doomed in the Senate, House Republicans are facing a confounding question: How — and when — do you take a political loss in the least embarrassing way? It has been nearly a month since House Republicans impeached Mr. Mayorkas by a […]
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Donald Trump, Seeking Cash Infusion, Meets With Elon Musk
Donald Trump, who is urgently seeking a cash infusion to aid his presidential campaign, met on Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla., with Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, and a few wealthy Republican donors, according to three people briefed on the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private […]
Read MoreThe Biggest Issue on Americans’ Minds Is Also a Tough One to Agree On
I don’t know how to make sense of it. It just hurts my heart. It should not be that hard. Americans have argued about immigration for decades, often with anger, fear and racial resentment. But if the debate stands out today, it is for another sentiment coursing through the conversation: exhaustion. Decades of neglect and […]
Read MoreArizona Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Police to Arrest Migrants
Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona vetoed a bill on Monday that would have authorized the state police to arrest undocumented immigrants. It was the first veto of the year from Ms. Hobbs, a Democrat who shot down a record number of bills passed by Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature in 2023 dealing with abortion, elections, L.G.B.T.Q. rights […]
Read MoreDonald Trump Is Running Against Dystopian Fantasies
President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting […]
Read MoreJudge Upholds Parts of Arizona Law Requiring Voters to Prove Citizenship
Republicans and Democrats alike claimed victory days after a federal judge issued a mixed decision in Arizona’s ongoing battles over voting rights and public trust in elections, upholding requirements for voters to prove their citizenship but limiting the ways that voters could be disqualified. The decision, issued last Thursday, dealt with two voting laws passed […]
Read More‘Io Capitano,’ Italy’s Oscar Nominee, Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
Of all the offerings this Oscar season, one stands out: “Io Capitano.” A nominee for best international feature film, the film is a visually stunning and often harrowing account of the journey from West Africa to Europe. Based on many real-life stories, it shows the horrors of the perilous route across the Sahara Desert and […]
Read MoreHow the Biden-Trump Border Visits Revealed a Deeper Divide
Even the participants in President Biden and Donald J. Trump’s overlapping visits to Texas on Thursday seemed to sense there was something remarkable about their near encounter along the southern border. Rarely do the current and former commanders in chief arrive on the same scene on the same day to present such sharply different approaches […]
Read MoreBiden Challenges Trump to ‘Join Me’ in Tightening U.S.-Mexico Border
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump made dueling visits to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, with Mr. Biden challenging his predecessor to “join me” in securing the country’s southern frontier and Mr. Trump blaming the president for lawlessness at the border. The remarks came at a moment of political peril for Mr. Biden, […]
Read MoreFederal Judge Blocks Sweeping Texas Immigration Law SB4
A federal court in Austin on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would allow state and local police officers to arrest migrants who cross from Mexico without authorization, siding with the federal government in a legal showdown over immigration enforcement. The ruling, by Judge David A. Ezra of the Western District of Texas, was a […]
Read MoreThe Politics Behind Trump and Biden’s Dueling Border Stops
Americans will get their first look at the likely presidential rematch coming this fall as President Biden and Donald J. Trump make dueling visits to the Texas border on Thursday, a rare convergence on the campaign trail that shows just how volatile and potent a political issue immigration has already become in the 2024 race. […]
Read MoreIn Eagle Pass, Texas, a Round of ‘Combat Golf’
At the center of a fierce legal battle over immigration enforcement lies a city park along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas. In January, Gov. Greg Abbott directed National Guard troops to take over the park, known as Shelby Park, to intercept migrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico. Now, at a place where residents […]
Read MoreHow China Broke One Man’s Dreams
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Read MoreICE Considers Slashing Detention Capacity Because of Budget Shortfall
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering a plan to reduce its detention capacity significantly after Republicans in Congress blocked a bill that would have provided the agency with more than $7 billion, officials said Wednesday. To stay within its current budget, ICE would need to cut detention levels by more than 10,000 spots within […]
Read MoreIn New York Win, Democrats Sense a Pivot on Immigration and Border Politics
A victory in a New York special election on Tuesday injected Democrats with fresh optimism that the party might have found some of the basic ingredients to neutralize immigration and the border as political issues, which party officials have privately seen as among their deepest areas of vulnerability in 2024. The success in the race […]
Read MoreIllegal Border Crossings Plummeted in January
The number of people crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico has dropped by 50 percent in the past month, authorities said on Tuesday, as President Biden comes under growing pressure from both parties over security at the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it had encountered migrants between ports of entry 124,220 […]
Read MoreHaley’s Hard-Line Immigration Record Runs Counter to Trump’s Attacks
Former President Donald J. Trump and his allies have spent weeks painting Nikki Haley as a bleeding heart on immigration as he seeks to dispatch her as his last remaining rival for the 2024 Republican nomination. In Mr. Trump’s telling, Ms. Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and the daughter of Indian immigrants, is […]
Read MoreDenver Strains Under Migrant Influx
In his first six months in office last summer, the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, managed to get more than 1,200 homeless people off the streets and into housing. That seemed like a fitting feat for a city that prides itself on its compassion. It would turn out to be a footnote compared with the […]
Read MoreMigrants Face Cold, Perilous Crossing From Canada to New York
In a dilapidated farm shed in New York’s rural North Country, the belongings of a migrant family who quietly took shelter one night were still visible months later: some clothing and children’s shoes, stiffened by the cold and a thin blanket of snow. Thomas Brassard recalled his surprise when he saw the family — a […]
Read MoreAt the Border, a Blending of Politics and Religion
Last Saturday, a crowd of several hundred people gathered in a grassy field near the bank of the Rio Grande in Quemado, Texas, for a rally in support of the state’s defiant stance on immigration. The event, which was held by the protest group Take Our Border Back, marked the final stop of a dayslong […]
Read MoreOn a Frozen Border, Finland Puzzles Over a ‘Russian Game’
Poking up through the snow drifts on the Finnish-Russian border lies a symbol of Moscow’s biggest provocation yet toward NATO’s newest member: a sprawling heap of broken bicycles. The battered bikes are sold for hundreds of dollars on the Russian side to asylum seekers from as far away as Syria and Somalia. They are then […]
Read MoreHow Biden Could Act on the Border, and Help Himself in November
The Senate killed the bipartisan proposal to curb illegal immigration, but as President Biden’s Republican critics have suggested, he can, on his own authority, take measures that will limit the number of undocumented workers crossing the border. If given sufficient fanfare, these measures could help Mr. Biden and the Democrats in November. They are also […]
Read MoreTrump Came for the Republican Party and Took Over Their Souls
I thought I was beyond shockable, but this week has been profoundly shocking for me. I spent the bulk of my adult life on the right-wing side of things, generally rooting for the Republican Party, because I thought that party best served America. People like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump chased me out of the […]
Read MoreMigrant Crisis Complicates Democrats’ Bid to Regain George Santos’s Seat
Just two months ago, George Santos’s expulsion from the House looked like everything Democrats could have asked for. It gave them an open Republican seat in a winnable New York district, with an electorate still reeling from the congressman’s spectacular unraveling. The party even had a name-brand candidate, Tom Suozzi, who had won the seat […]
Read MoreOn Live TV, Guardian Angels Tackle Man Sliwa Misidentified as Migrant
The Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa was being interviewed live from Times Square on Tuesday night by the Fox News host Sean Hannity when their exchange took a startling turn. The topic was what both men seemed to agree was a migrant-fueled wave of crime and chaos that they claimed had overtaken New York amid […]
Read MoreHalted Deportation Flights to Venezuela Set Back Biden’s Migrant Strategy
When deportation flights from the United States to Venezuela resumed last fall after four years, it was a move meant to show that President Biden was aggressively tackling the record numbers of crossings at the U.S. southern border. The expulsions were also meant to deter other Venezuelans who might be considering the journey. But on […]
Read MoreTrump’s Border Intervention Gives Biden a Chance to Shift from Defense to Offense
When President Biden agreed to bipartisan talks on border legislation last fall, Democratic strategists hoped a deal might take the issue off the table for his re-election campaign. But with the collapse of the resulting bipartisan immigration agreement this week at the hands of former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Biden got something else instead: […]
Read MoreRepublicans Against Border Enforcement
The United States has had a porous border with Mexico for decades, and the situation has worsened in the past few years, with more than 10,000 people entering the U.S. on some days. Many then remain for years, even without a visa or citizenship. Mayors, governors, and immigration experts — as well as voters — […]
Read MoreJames Lankford Stands in Border Deal Wreckage Wrought by His Own Party
It was late on a Thursday afternoon in the marbled halls of the Senate, and a small group of negotiators — one Republican, one Democrat and one independent — had just about finished a painstakingly put together border security compromise it took them months to forge. But what should have been a triumphant moment felt […]
Read MoreThis Immigration Bill Was Never Going to Fix the Border
On Sunday, lawmakers in Washington released the first major bipartisan bill to reform immigration policy in a decade. The Senate may vote on the proposal, a $118 billion plan that includes $20 billion aimed at bolstering immigration enforcement, as early as Wednesday, but the likelihood that it reaches the president’s desk is slim. The House […]
Read MoreMcDonald’s, Costco and Other Companies Crack Down on Child Labor in the U.S.
Many major U.S. companies — including some of the country’s biggest consumer brands — say they are taking steps to eliminate child labor in their domestic supply chains amid revelations that children are working throughout American manufacturing and food production. As hundreds of thousands of migrant children have crossed the southern border without their parents […]
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