13 h. ago ‘If Jesus were born in America now’: church’s nativity challenges ICE policy

Mother Mary wearing a respirator mask to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands, wrapped in a thin blanket that looks like aluminium foil. Masked centurions with sunglasses and green vests labelled “ICE”. This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston in suburban Chicago chose to assemble its nativity scene for the Christmas season. The church and its leaders have been vocal critics of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz and expressed a message with their...

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4 d. ago What if Trump embraced immigrants like Nixon did China? | Opinion

What if Trump embraced immigrants like Nixon did China? | Opinion  The Tennessean

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7 d. ago Trump vows to freeze migration from ‘Third World Countries’ after Washington attack

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration will “permanently pause” migration from all “Third World Countries”, following an attack near the White House he attributed to Biden-era immigration vetting failures. Trump did not identify any countries by name or explain what he meant by third-world countries or “permanently pause”. He said the plan would include cases approved under former president Joe Biden’s administration. “I will permanently pause migration from all Third...

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8 d. ago Trump orders review of immigrant visas after National Guard attack

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would review the immigration status of every permanent resident or “green card” holder from Afghanistan and 18 other countries following the attack on National Guard troops in Washington. The announcement came as US President Donald Trump said that one of the National Guard members, 20-year-old Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, had died of her wounds, while the other, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, 24, was ‘fighting for his life’. US officials have...

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9 d. ago Immigrant with family ties to Trump spokeswoman Leavitt detained by ICE

A Massachusetts woman who was once engaged to the brother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt remains in ICE custody two weeks after being arrested on her way to pick up the son she shares with her former fiancé. Bruna Ferreira, 33, was driving to her son’s school in New Hampshire on November 12 when she was pulled over in Revere, Massachusetts, her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, said on Wednesday. “She wasn’t told why she was detained,” he said. “She was bounced from Massachusetts, to New...

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2 w. ago Trump ‘uniquely consistent for decades’: Singapore’s Vivian Balakrishnan

Singapore’s top diplomat said on Wednesday that United States President Donald Trump had held the same views on free trade and immigration for decades, despite being widely seen as erratic and among the most unpredictable of American leaders. Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan was responding at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum to a question on how his country would navigate Trump’s less consistent, more freewheeling and unilateralist approach. Balakrishnan pointed to a 1988 interview with...

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2 w. ago Charlotte, North Carolina, becomes next target of Trump immigration crackdown

A new deployment of federal agents arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday as part of US President Donald Trump’s expanding immigration enforcement campaign, marking the latest push to carry out large-scale arrests in Democratic-led cities. “We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed,” Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. She did not provide any details of the...

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