Jason Hopkins Worksite immigration enforcement actions have increased dramatically under the Trump administration, part of the White House’s crackdown on incentives that drive illegal immigration into the country. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) investigative unit opened four times as many worksite inquires in the 2019 fiscal year than it did at the end of former…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The Denver City Council agreed Monday to change to local sentencing guidelines in order to shield legal immigrants convicted of domestic violence from deportation proceedings. In a unanimous 12-0 vote, council members revised criminal penalties for several “low-level” crimes, reducing the maximum sentence to less than 365…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The San Francisco public defender’s office launched a new unit Tuesday dedicated to representing illegal immigrants faced with deportation and focused on providing local tax money for cases heard in the city’s federal immigration courts. The special immigration division, one of only three such programs in the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Seattle City Council members have given the OK for $1 million of tax payer dollars so illegals can hire attorneys and tap into legal services that will — get this — help them fight their deportations, reports the Seattle Times (ST). The city and county will distribute the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Thomas Pippen President Donald Trump’s deportation policies could drive the price of milk up to $8 dollars a gallon, according to a Milk industry expert. Around 80 percent of milk produced in America comes from dairies that use foreign labor, and if those workers leave, the U.S. will see significant milk shortages, Jaime…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Readers might remember the story of the Google higher-up who overdosed while aboard his yacht back in 2015. The woman he had hired to accompany him, Canadian-born escort Alix Tichelman, was given all the blame because she administered the heroin that Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes ultimately overdosed…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Independent journalist Shaun King recently took to social media to share the following: The document featured, allegedly the order itself, can be accessed HERE. Unfortunately for King, this was not quite the smoking gun he was hoping for, as USA Today has since clarified that this was…
Trump Campaign Gives Worrisome Answer on Key Policy Point by Josh Guckert In an interview Sunday morning on CNN’s State of the Union, Dana Bash asked Donald Trump‘s new campaign manager about the candidate’s previous plan for a “deportation force.” The manager, Kellyanne Conway, stated that he wishes only to support a plan to “enforce the…
By Phillip Stucky Staffers for Republican nominee Donald Trump told The Associated Press Sunday Trump has no plans to institute massive deportations of illegal immigrants. “Trump has already said that he will not do massive deportations,” Campaign Latino outreach chair Helen Aguirre Ferre told reporters at a press conference. “He will focus on removing the violent undocumented…
Jacob Bojesson writes The European Union has moved forward with the deportation of rejected asylum seekers to ease the pressure from the Syrian migration crisis. The interior ministers of the E.U. met to discuss a 10-point plan Thursday and agreed to new regulations that will speed up the process of removing more than 400,000 illegal immigrants….