By: Tom Giovanetti – ipi.org – August 22, 2018 Dear Mr. President: We write to thank you for your support of the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person (FIRST STEP) Act, H.R. 5682. Without the support of you and your White House, the FIRST STEP Act may not have passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Achieving Today...

By: Emily Holden – theguardian.com – November 29, 2018 A Trump cabinet member is striking a tone at odds with the president’s calls to meet immigrants at the Mexico border with force and demands that Congress fund a border wall. Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development and Trump’s only black cabinet appointee, delivered a speech to conservative...

By: Julia Manchester – thehill.com – November 27, 2018 Public opinion analyst Karlyn Bowman said in an interview that aired Tuesday on Hill.TV’s “What America’s Thinking” that many Americans would like to see the issue of immigration taken off the national stage. “I think they’d like to remove the immigration issue, for example, from the national stage,” Bowman, a senior...

By: Rachel Bade, Carla Marinucci, & Elana Schor – politico.com – November 4, 2018 House Speaker Paul Ryan got President Donald Trump on the phone Sunday for one final plea on behalf of anxious Republicans: Please, please talk up the booming economy in the final hours before Election Day. But Trump, unsurprisingly, had another issue on his mind. He boasted...

By: George T. Conway III & Neal Katyal – washingtonpost.com – October 30, 2018 Sometimes the Constitution’s text is plain as day and bars what politicians seek to do. That’s the case with President Trump’s proposal to end “birthright citizenship” through an executive order. Such a move would be unconstitutional and would certainly be challenged. And the challengers would undoubtedly...

By: Hans von Spakovsky – dailysignal.com – November 01, 2018 President Donald Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he is preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship has the left and even some conservatives in an uproar. But the president is correct when he says that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does not require universal birthright citizenship. An executive order...

By: Merrill Matthews – arcamax.com – October 30, 2018 President Donald Trump is sending federal troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and taking other steps to stop the Honduran migrant caravan headed for the United States. It’s unfortunate that it’s come to this, but it’s the right thing to do. Millions of foreigners dream of coming to the U.S. because of...

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – October 31, 2018 Having mastered fake news, now the media are trying out a little fake history. In the news business, new topics are always popping up, from the Logan Act and the emoluments clause to North Korea. The all-star panels rush to Wikipedia, so they can pretend to be experts on things they...

By: Edmund DeMarche – foxnews.com – October 30, 2018 The U.S. Border Patrol this week reportedly told Texas landowners along the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for a possible influx of “armed civilians” on their property as the migrant caravan moves closer to the U.S., a report said. The Associated Press reported that these civilians say they intend to support the...

By: Jordan Carney – thehill.com – October 30, 2018 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said that he will introduce legislation to end birthright citizenship after President Trump suggested he wanted to do so through an executive order. “Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship. I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform — and at...