The agreement between Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the panel, includes $2.88 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services to be directed to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which […]
WASHINGTON — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the liberal freshman Democrat from New York who has made fighting for immigrants’ rights a signature issue, on Tuesday described the Trump administration’s border detention facilities as “concentration camps,” provoking backlash from Republicans who said she was minimizing the […]
They argue that the Trump administration created the situation on the southern border and that redirecting funds toward a wall “in the face of a nonexistent threat” will “undermine national security by needlessly pulling resources from Department of Defense programs that are responsible for […]
The money will be used for housing, food and necessities for the Central American migrants. The funds will be split among 27 projects in 16 Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, according to the release. “Men and women, often with young children, flee poverty and violence, […]
“Now we’re sending many of them to sanctuary cities, thank you very much,” he told a crowd in Green Bay, Wisconsin. “They ain’t too happy about it. I’m proud to tell you that was actually my sick idea.” On Friday in a speech to […]
Mexico’s National Public Safety Secretariat registered 682 homicides in Veracruz from January through March, along with 122 kidnappings. Veracruz, with its 400 miles of coastline on the Gulf of Mexico, is one of the country’s most important areas for importing and exporting goods but […]