By Gene Johnson SEATTLE — Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump’s new travel ban — mindful of the chaos that accompanied his initial executive order but hopeful the forthcoming version will be rolled out in a more orderly way. The […]
Daily Archives: March 1, 2017
By Jill Colvin and Erica Werner WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump surprised congressional leaders when he suddenly suggested he was open to broad immigration reform. But while there is appetite on Capitol Hill for legislation, there is also skepticism, and the president’s hard-line rhetoric over the past two years could […]
By NICHOLAS KULISH, CAITLIN DICKERSON and RON NIXON In Virginia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited outside a church shelter where undocumented immigrants had gone to stay warm. In Texas and in Colorado, agents went into courthouses, looking for foreigners who had arrived for hearings on other matters. At Kennedy […]
By Chuck Lindell – American-Statesman Staff Trump administration drops complaint that the Texas voter ID law was intended to discriminate. Move reverses Obama-era claim that Republicans tried to suppress black, Hispanic voters. In a sharp reversal from the Obama administration, the U.S. Justice Department told a federal judge Monday that […]