Immigration drives nation’s population growth
A recent immigration surge brought newcomers to every state this year, helping to offset a continued drop in U.S. births.
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As Texas landowners resist border wall, it’s fragmented and built in remote areas
By Zach Despart, Yuriko Schumacher and Uriel García,
photography and video by Ben Lowy and Eli Hartman
In December 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to South Texas to inaugurate the first 880-foot stretch of the state’s newly constructed wall on its border with Mexico.
At the press conference, with cameras zoomed tightly on him against a backdrop of the three-story high, slatted wall in Starr County, the Republican governor declared the barrier to be impenetrable. He banged a mallet
At least a third of landowners approached by state officials have refused to let wall be built on their properties.
Immigrants and allies at U.S. Capitol urge Biden to act before Trump deportations begin
Immigrants and allies on Tuesday urged President Biden to offer protections for immigrant communities before Donald Trump is inaugurated.
Family Separations Persist. In Some Cases, the Government Doesn’t Say Why.
U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 of them Russian.
House Republicans Grill USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou Over Parole Program
The chair of the full Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, also grilled USCIS Director Ur Jaddou about if parole programs “of this magnitude” had been used before.
Tony Gonzales, Chip Roy Clash Over Mass Deportation Plans
Gonzales’ warning that mass removals of undocumented immigrants are unfeasible got pushback from Roy, who said everyone in the country illegally must be deported.
How the Issue of Immigration May Evolve in a Second Trump Term
538's Galen Druke and Carlos Odio, co-founder of Equis Research, discuss how much is known about the mass deportation and immigration policy of president-elect Donald Trump.
The Looming Fight to Make Local Cops Part of Trump’s Deportation Machine
Arizona voted to grant state and local police the authority to make immigration arrests, going against Supreme Court precedent.
What ‘America is For Americans Only’ Really Means
“America is for Americans, and Americans only,” said Stephen Miller, the former president’s senior adviser, at a Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Fact-Checked by Progressive With Receipts
Progressive Delia Ramirez unleashes her fury on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump, and MAGA extremists in the GOP.
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