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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Maher and actor John Leguizamo sparred after the actor said there's 'plenty of room' in the U.S. for undocumented immigrants.
Bill Maher got into a heated exchange over the term 's---hole countries' with John Leguizamo after the actor said that there's 'plenty of room' for undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Maher was had been ripping former President Joe Biden's border policy—which he characterized as 'come one, come all'—before Leguizamo pushed back during Maher's Club Random podcast. 'There's plenty of room in America, come on,' the Romeo+Juliet actor and liberal activist said. 'There's not a lack of room in America.'
New York Times
06-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Can Democrats Find Their Way on Immigration?
The Democrats onstage saw themselves as morally courageous. American voters, it turned out, saw a group of politicians hopelessly out of touch. Standing side by side at a primary debate in June 2019, nine of the party's candidates for president were asked to raise their hand if they wanted to decriminalize illegal border crossings. Only one of them held still. Six years later, the party remains haunted by that tableau. It stands both as a vivid demonstration of a leftward policy shift on immigration that many prominent Democratic lawmakers and strategists now say they deeply regret, and as a marker of how sharply the country was moving in the other direction. Last year, 55 percent of Americans told Gallup that they supported a decrease in immigration, nearly twice as many as in 2020, and the first time since 2005 that a majority had said so. The embrace of a more punitive approach to illegal immigration includes not only white voters but also working-class Latinos, whose support Democrats had long courted with liberal border policies. 'When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party,' said Representative Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, who saw Mr. Trump win every county in his district along the border with Mexico. 'This is a Democratic district that's been blue for over a century.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Washington Post
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Escalating German-Polish border dispute hampers Europe's free movement
BERLIN — In the latest sign that Europe's principle of free movement of people and goods is succumbing to domestic political pressures, Poland and Germany are locked in an escalating dispute over border policy, with Poland set to impose retaliatory controls Monday at crossings with its western neighbor. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the change this week, calling it a response to Germany's unilateral decision earlier this year to tighten its own border checks and turn away asylum seekers. 'We remain advocates for freedom of movement in Europe,' Tusk said, 'but the condition is the shared will of all neighbors, symmetrical and united action, to minimize the uncontrolled flow of migrants across our borders.'
Al Arabiya
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Judge Blocks Order Barring Asylum Access at Border and Gives Administration Two Weeks to Appeal
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's order suspending asylum access at the southern border was unlawful, jeopardizing a cornerstone of the president's plan to curb migration. However, the ruling was put on hold for two weeks to allow the government time to appeal. In a January 20 order, Trump declared the situation at the southern border an 'invasion' of America and suspended migrants' physical entry and ability to seek asylum indefinitely. US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington stated that his order blocking Trump's policy will take effect July 16, giving the Trump administration time to appeal. Moss wrote that neither the Constitution nor immigration law permits the president an 'extra-statutory, extra-regulatory regime' for repatriating or removing individuals from the US without an opportunity to apply for asylum or other humanitarian protections. The Department of Homeland Security didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, but an appeal is likely. The president and his aides have frequently criticized court rulings that undermine his policies as judicial overreach. The ruling follows a sharp drop in illegal border crossings. The White House stated on Wednesday that Border Patrol made 6,070 arrests in June, down 30 percent from May and on pace for the lowest annual figure since 1966. On June 28, Border Patrol made only 137 arrests, a stark contrast to late 2023 when arrests exceeded 10,000 on the busiest days. Arrests declined dramatically when Mexican officials increased enforcement within their own borders in December 2023 and again when then-President Joe Biden introduced stricter asylum restrictions in June 2024. They fell further after Trump became president in January, deploying thousands of troops to the border under a national emergency declaration. Trump and his allies contend that the asylum system is being abused. They argue that it attracts people who know it will take years to process their claims in the country's backlogged immigration courts, during which time they can work and live in America. But supporters maintain that the right to seek asylum is guaranteed by US law and international commitments–even for those who cross the border illegally. They say that asylum offers vital protection for people fleeing persecution–a protection guaranteed by Congress that even the president lacks the authority to disregard. People seeking asylum must demonstrate a credible fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social or political group. In the executive order, Trump argued that the Immigration and Nationality Act empowers presidents to suspend the entry of any group they deem detrimental to US interests. Groups working with immigrants–the Arizona-based Florence Project, the El Paso, Texas-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and the Texas-based RAICES–filed the lawsuit against the government, arguing that the president was wrong to equate migrants arriving at the southern border with an 'invasion.' They also argued that Trump's proclamation amounted to the president unilaterally overriding 'the immigration laws Congress enacted for the protection of people who face persecution or torture if removed from the United States.' However, the government argued that because both foreign policy and immigration enforcement fall under the executive branch, the declaration of an 'invasion' was entirely within the president's authority. 'The determination that the United States is facing an invasion is an unreviewable political question,' the government wrote in one argument.
The Independent
02-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Judge blocks order barring asylum access at border and gives administration two weeks to appeal
A federal judge said Wednesday that an order by President Donald Trump suspending asylum access at the southern border was unlawful, throwing into doubt one of the key pillars of the president's plan to crack down on migration at the southern border. But he put the ruling on hold for two weeks to give the government time to appeal. In an order Jan. 20, Trump declared that the situation at the southern border constitutes an invasion of America and that he was 'suspending the physical entry' of migrants and their ability to seek asylum until he decides it is over. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington said his order blocking Trump's policy will take effect July 16, giving the Trump administration time to appeal. Moss wrote that neither the Constitution nor immigration law gives the president 'an extra-statutory, extra-regulatory regime for repatriating or removing individuals from the United States, without an opportunity to apply for asylum' or other humanitarian protections. The Homeland Security Department did not immediately respond to a request but an appeal is likely. The president and his aides have repeatedly attacked court rulings that undermine his policies as judicial overreach. The ruling comes after illegal border crossings have plummeted. The White House said Wednesday that the Border Patrol made 6,070 arrests in June, down 30% from May to set a pace for the lowest annual clip since 1966. On June 28, the Border Patrol made only 137 arrests, a sharp contrast to late 2023, when arrests topped 10,000 on the busiest days. Arrests dropped sharply when Mexican officials increased enforcement within their own borders in December 2023 and again when then-President Joe Biden introduced severe asylum restrictions in June 2024. They plunged more after Trump became president in January, deploying thousands of troops to the border under declaration of a national emergency Trump and his allies say the asylum system has been abused. They argue that it draws people who know it will take years to adjudicate their claims in the country's backlogged immigration courts during which they can work and live in America. But supporters argue that the right to seek asylum is guaranteed in U.S. law and international commitments — even for those who cross the border illegally. They say that asylum is a vital protection for people fleeing persecution — a protection guaranteed by Congress that even the president doesn't have the authority to ignore. People seeking asylum must demonstrate a fear of persecution on a fairly narrow grounds of race, religion, nationality, or by belonging to a particular social or political group. In the executive order, Trump argued that the Immigration and Nationality Act gives presidents the authority to suspend entry of any group that they find 'detrimental to the interests of the United States.' Groups that work with immigrants — the Arizona-based Florence Project, the El Paso, Texas-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and the Texas-based RAICES — filed the lawsuit against the government, arguing that the president was wrong to equate migrants coming to the southern border with an invasion. And they argued that Trump's proclamation amounted to the president unilaterally overriding '... the immigration laws Congress enacted for the protection of people who face persecution or torture if removed from the United States.' But the government argued that because both foreign policy and immigration enforcement fall under the executive branch of government, it was entirely under the president's authority to declare an invasion. 'The determination that the United States is facing an invasion is an unreviewable political question,' the government wrote in one argument. ___
