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Trump’s ex-campaign manager refused to apologize for dismissing the seriousness of removal of girl from her mother
Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager has refused to apologize for appearing to dismiss the signi...
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Kirstjen Nielsen, the US homeland security secretary, is confronted by protesters who chant 'shame' as she dines at a Mexican restaurant. The video was originally posted by the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America. Nielsen is seen trying to ign...
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Donald Trump has told Republicans he is “1,000%” behind their immigration reform effort, but did not offer a clear path forward as his administration faced bipartisan condemnation over separating children and their parents at the border.
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The MSNBC host struggles to get through a segment on her nightly show, describing babies being forcibly removed from their parents and taken to shelters under Trump's hardline immigration laws. Maddow eventually crosses to another anchor, appearing...
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On Monday, the conservative news site Drudge Report filled its famous, all-caps lead story slot with the headline “BORDER BATTLE: USA TAKING IN 250 KIDS PER DAY”. Next to the story was a photo of young children holding guns, implying that the childr...
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The Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy has come under attack at a congressional hearing. New York representative Jerry Nadler gave an impassioned speech condemning the separation of migrant families and people being held in cag...
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Nearly 1,800 immigrant families were separated at the US-Mexico border from October 2016 until February of this year, as Donald Trump implemented stricter border enforcement policies, according to a senior government official.
The numbers are the fi...
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A Guatemalan woman shot dead by a border patrol agent in Texas has been named as Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles by local media outlets which reported that she travelled to the US in the hope of finding work to pay for her education.
Gómez, a 20-yea...
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As the migrants fled violence-racked homelands and travelled through Mexico towards the US, the fictions grew wilder.
They were would-be invaders. A dangerous horde bent on violating US law. Pawns of a liberal conspiracy. Living proof of the need to...
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Despite his claim on Tuesday that he is taking an almost unprecedented step, Donald Trump is not the first commander in chief to deploy troops to the US-Mexico border.
Barack Obama sent 1,200 members of the National Guard to the frontier in 2010, fo...
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Donald Trump returned to the offensive on immigration on Monday, repeating a claim that “caravans” of migrants from Central America are threatening to enter the US via Mexico and demanding: “Act now Congress, our country is being stolen!”
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With his original plan for Mexico to pay for a border wall yet to bear fruit, Donald Trump last week reportedly floated a plan B: the US defense department could foot the bill.
Plan B might be even more of a long shot.
While Trump is known for spitb...
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A US border patrol agent accused of shooting across the border into Mexico and killing a teenager five years ago will go on trial on Tuesday on a charge of second-degree murder in a rare justice department prosecution of a fatal cross-border shootin...
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Donald Trump’s visit to California will generate a memorable image: the president inspecting prototypes of his planned border wall.
Four years after he first proposed a wall, an idea that helped vault him to the White House, he will on Tuesday final...