SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration has proposed rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance. Federal law already requires those seeking green cards to prove they will not be a burden — or "public charge"...
Tibbetts Slaying Focuses Attention on Immigrants in Farming
DES MOINES, Iowa — The arrest of a Mexican farmworker in the death of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts renewed calls to change immigration laws, but it also focused attention on the immigrant workers whose labor is essential to the state's agricultural industry. Hours after authorities found the body of...
Detaining Immigrant Children Is a Billion-Dollar Business
SAN ANTONIO — Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained...
Sudden US Army Discharge Rocks Immigrant PhD Candidate
SAN FRANCISCO — Growing up in eastern China, Panshu Zhao fell in love with America. He read the Bible his parents gave him, watched Hollywood movies and studied the ideals of democracy. He jumped at the chance to attend graduate school at Texas A&M University. In 2016, Zhao enlisted in...
I-5 Lanes Closed as Fire Jumps Oregon-Cal Border
The Latest on wildfires in the Western United States (all times local Thursday, July 5): 10:39 p.m. Authorities say a fire that jumped across Interstate 5 south of the Oregon border in California has closed the southbound lanes in that area. The Oregon Department of Transportation said Thursday evening the...
How Trump's Travel Ban Threatens U.S. Healthcare
There is something with life-and-death consequences that the Trump administration didn't say a word about during its successful pursuit of a travel ban on people from seven countries. America's healthcare system, especially in rural areas, is dependent on foreigners — including those from the banned countries. Homeland Security Explained Effects on...
Janz Presses Attack Against Trump & Nunes on Immigration
Democratic congressional candidate Andrew Janz of Fresno returned from his weekend trip to the U.S-Mexico border "disappointed" that he wasn't able to see the conditions there for incarcerated detainees. But the Fresno County prosecutor continues to press the attack against President Donald Trump's immigration policies. He remains on the offensive,...
America's Real Problem? Not Enough Immigrants.
Bret Stephens, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, writes that America's real immigration problem "is that we don’t have enough immigrants." That, of course, is contrary to what President Donald Trump and other nativists in the Republican Party say. They claim, without evidence to back them up, that immigrants...
Don't Kid Yourselves, Dems. Obama Struggled With Family Immigration.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Trump administration isn't the first to grapple with the question of how to handle tens of thousands of immigrant families stopped along the U.S.-Mexico border. Four years ago, Barack Obama faced a similar crisis when record numbers of Central American immigrants fleeing violence began showing...
Misleading Tweets by Liberal Activists Fuel Trump
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents. The photos were taken by The Associated Press in 2014, when...