Nick Miroff The Washington Post
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US Moves To Deny Green Cards, Citizenship For Poor Immigrants
Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.
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Donald Trump Wants His Border Barrier To Be Painted Black With Spikes
The barrier that President Donald Trump wants to build along the Mexico border will be a steel bollard fence, not a concrete wall as he long promised, and the president is fine with that. He has a few other things he would like to change, though.
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Man With Fake Papers Worked For Trump Sons For 18 Years
One morning last May, Eric Trump sent a text message to the caretaker of the shooting range he and his brother own in upstate New York. The weather was getting warmer, and it was time to plant crops to attract deer that the Trumps and their friends could hunt.
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Before Collapse In Custody, Dying Migrant Girl's Condition Went Unnoticed
Twenty-seven hours before she died at an El Paso, Texas, children's hospital, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal walked across the U.S. border with her father and 161 other migrants outside Antelope Wells, New Mexico.
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration In US Border Control Custody
A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Thursday.
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Republicans Seize On The Death Of US Girl To Focus On Illegal Immigration
Far from the courtrooms where President Donald Trump was battered this week by bad news, a slaying in small-town Iowa has given him ammunition to defend some of his most raw statements about illegal immigration.
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Trump Orders End To Separation Of Families At Border Amid Global Backlash
President Donald Trump sought to stanch a public outcry over his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy Wednesday, signing an executive order to end family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after days of insisting he was legally unable to act.
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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Family Separations At Border
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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Trump Proposal Would Penalize Immigrants Who Use Tax Credits And Other Benefits
Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration, which is seeking to reduce the number of foreigners living in the United States.
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At A Texas Meatpacking Plant, Jobs Americans Won't Take
The DJs at the Spanish-language radio stations gave warnings whenever Immigration and Customs Enforcement came around. "Be careful out there," they'd say. "The relatives are in town."
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US Immigration Agents Target 7-Eleven Stores In Nationwide Sweep
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents blitzed dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to interview employees and deliver audit notifications, carrying out what the agency said was the largest operation targeting of an employer since President Donald Trump took office.
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Trump Seeks $18 Billion From US Lawmakers For His Border Wall
The Trump administration has told lawmakers that it wants $18 billion over the next decade for the initial phase of a Mexico border wall, laying out for the first time a detailed financial blueprint for the president's signature campaign promise.
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US Customs Agents Are Searching More Cellphones - Including Those Belonging To Americans
US customs agents conducted 60 percent more searches of travelers' cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices during the government's 2017 fiscal year, according to statistics released Friday by US Customs and Border Protection.
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Amid Sugar Cane In Castro's Home Town, Life Isn't Sweet
Not long after Fidel Castro's new government began seizing farms and cattle ranches in a voracious expropriation campaign, his mother, Lina Ruz, looked out the window one day in 1960 and saw bearded soldiers in her orange groves.
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Colombian Rebel Discovers Soft Beds And iPhones After 20 Years In The Jungle
"Do you want to see my gun?" Yurluey Mendoza asked about 90 minutes into our conversation.
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US Moves To Deny Green Cards, Citizenship For Poor Immigrants
Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.
-
Donald Trump Wants His Border Barrier To Be Painted Black With Spikes
The barrier that President Donald Trump wants to build along the Mexico border will be a steel bollard fence, not a concrete wall as he long promised, and the president is fine with that. He has a few other things he would like to change, though.
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Man With Fake Papers Worked For Trump Sons For 18 Years
One morning last May, Eric Trump sent a text message to the caretaker of the shooting range he and his brother own in upstate New York. The weather was getting warmer, and it was time to plant crops to attract deer that the Trumps and their friends could hunt.
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Before Collapse In Custody, Dying Migrant Girl's Condition Went Unnoticed
Twenty-seven hours before she died at an El Paso, Texas, children's hospital, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal walked across the U.S. border with her father and 161 other migrants outside Antelope Wells, New Mexico.
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration In US Border Control Custody
A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Thursday.
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Republicans Seize On The Death Of US Girl To Focus On Illegal Immigration
Far from the courtrooms where President Donald Trump was battered this week by bad news, a slaying in small-town Iowa has given him ammunition to defend some of his most raw statements about illegal immigration.
-
Trump Orders End To Separation Of Families At Border Amid Global Backlash
President Donald Trump sought to stanch a public outcry over his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy Wednesday, signing an executive order to end family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after days of insisting he was legally unable to act.
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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Family Separations At Border
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
-
Trump Proposal Would Penalize Immigrants Who Use Tax Credits And Other Benefits
Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration, which is seeking to reduce the number of foreigners living in the United States.
-
At A Texas Meatpacking Plant, Jobs Americans Won't Take
The DJs at the Spanish-language radio stations gave warnings whenever Immigration and Customs Enforcement came around. "Be careful out there," they'd say. "The relatives are in town."
-
US Immigration Agents Target 7-Eleven Stores In Nationwide Sweep
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents blitzed dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to interview employees and deliver audit notifications, carrying out what the agency said was the largest operation targeting of an employer since President Donald Trump took office.
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Trump Seeks $18 Billion From US Lawmakers For His Border Wall
The Trump administration has told lawmakers that it wants $18 billion over the next decade for the initial phase of a Mexico border wall, laying out for the first time a detailed financial blueprint for the president's signature campaign promise.
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US Customs Agents Are Searching More Cellphones - Including Those Belonging To Americans
US customs agents conducted 60 percent more searches of travelers' cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices during the government's 2017 fiscal year, according to statistics released Friday by US Customs and Border Protection.
-
Amid Sugar Cane In Castro's Home Town, Life Isn't Sweet
Not long after Fidel Castro's new government began seizing farms and cattle ranches in a voracious expropriation campaign, his mother, Lina Ruz, looked out the window one day in 1960 and saw bearded soldiers in her orange groves.
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Colombian Rebel Discovers Soft Beds And iPhones After 20 Years In The Jungle
"Do you want to see my gun?" Yurluey Mendoza asked about 90 minutes into our conversation.
