Category: undocumented immigrants
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Schumer Says Enough Democrats Will Vote Today to Avert Government Shutdown
Schumer says he’ll vote to advance the G.O.P. spending bill, arguing that a shutdown would further empower Trump. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, broke with his party on Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, arguing that…
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Shutdown Looms as Democrats Say They Won’t Back Spending Bill
Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown. Senate Democrats said on Wednesday that they would refuse to back a Republican-written stopgap bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, significantly raising the chances of a government shutdown at the end of the week. After two days of intense closed-door party…
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Playbook: Shutdown week is here
With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine CARN BEFORE THE STORM: Former central bank chief Mark Carney was anointed the new PM of Canada last night as the Liberal Party closes the door on the Justin Trudeau era. Carney won the support of a whopping 85 percent of Liberal Party members following…
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House to Host Executives for First ‘Crypto Summit’
Trump Says He Asked Iran to Open Nuclear Talks Image President Trump is seeking to negotiate with the Iranian government regarding nuclear weapons.Credit…Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a deal to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He…
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Why have Costa Rica and Panama agreed to take Asians deported by Trump?
United States President Donald Trump‘s administration has deported thousands of undocumented immigrants since taking office last month, in a crackdown that critics argue is violating immigrants’ rights to due process. During his first month in office, the Trump administration has deported 37,660 people, according to data from the US Department of Homeland Security, often to…
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Trump Administration Live Updates: News on Mass Firings, Deportations and White House Memes
Trudeau thumbs his nose at Trump as Canadians revel in a hockey victory. Video transcript transcript Team Canada Fans Boo During U.S. National Anthem At hockey and basketball games, fans jeered during “The Star-Spangled Banner” after President Trump’s past taunts and economic threats toward Canada. [music: “The Star-Spangled Banner”] You heard the people booing the…
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Trump Is Taking His War on Immigrants to Despicable New Lows
Politics / February 20, 2025 It’s not hyperbole to say that the White House is making slavery porn the hallmark of its immigration agenda. A screenshot from the White House’s video showing the deportation of an unidentified immigrant. (White House) After a month’s worth of vicious and empirically vacuous assaults on the basic operations of…
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump’s Gaza Proposal Overshadows Rubio’s First Mideast Visit
Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, blamed the Biden administration for higher egg prices and persisting inflation during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He claimed that cuts to government spending, tax cuts and deregulation that the Trump administration is pushing for would lower prices. Image Credit…Cheriss May for…
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US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama
The US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to Panama, in a move signalling an intensification of the Trump administration’s deportation effort. A military plane carrying 119 immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Pakistan flew from California to Panama City…
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Playbook: A make-or-break moment
With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine Good morning. This is Eugene Daniels in the driver’s seat on a consequential day for the House GOP, President Trump’s legislative agenda, American health care, the FBI, India and all of Europe. No pressure. Get in touch. BUDGET OR BUST: It’s do-or-die time for Speaker…
