By John D. Harden and Margaret Kadifa July 10, 2017 A Houston police officer chasing routine calls Sunday afternoon saved 12 people who were being smuggled inside of a locked cargo truck where the temperature reached 100 degrees, authorities said Monday. After canvassing a strip mall’s parking lot, the patrol […]
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By JONATHAN TEPPERMAN | JUNE 28, 2017 During a speech in Iowa last week, in the middle of his red-meat calls for a border wall and tougher immigration enforcement, President Trump called for something decidedly less sanguinary: “a total rewrite of our immigration system into a merit-based system.” This is […]
On June 28, 2017, the U.S. Department of State issued a memorandum to consular posts implementing the President’s Executive Order 13780, which temporarily halts travel to the United States of citizens and nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court partially upheld the […]
28 June 2017 On March 6, 2017, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum calling on the heads of the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security to implement protocols to “enhance the screening and vetting of applications for visas and all other immigration benefits”, with a focus on “ensuring the […]