Sergio Mattarella said Italy “can take care” of itself after Elon Musk criticized Italian judges who did not approve a government request to hold a group of migrants in Albania.
Compared to its recent November notice, ICE was more detailed about its 2025 plans in a different notice released last year. This earlier notice shows that ICE was preparing for a more intense immigration policy on the horizon regardless of who eventually won the election. In the 2023 notice, ICE says that ISAP’s parent program, […]
President-elect Donald Trump is starting to fill key posts in his second administration, putting an emphasis so far on aides and allies who were his strongest backers during the 2024 campaign. Here’s a look at who he’s selected so far. Wiles, 67, was a senior adviser to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and its de facto […]
Kamala Harris speaks about border security during a campaign event in Douglas, Ariz., on Sept. 27, 2024. Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images Just six weeks after Joe Biden’s inauguration, 80 House Democrats urged the newly sworn-in president to immediately renew diplomatic engagement with Cuba and end the “cruel” sanctions imposed by the […]
President-Elect Donald J. Trump won the White House based partly on his promises to rein in immigration, with targeted policies that range from sending criminals to their home countries to more sweeping ones like mass deportations. During the campaign, Trump pledged to end the Temporary Protected Status that allows workers from select countries to come to […]
Donald Trump rode his way to a comeback with a quintessential law-and-order campaign: He exaggerated crime trends, talked about American cities as though they were war zones, and directed his ire at migrants, flooding the Republican National Convention with “Mass Deportation Now!” signs. It’s hard to know exactly how Trump’s harsh immigration policies will play […]
Joe Biden will leave office having taken more action on climate change, arguably, than any US president before him — but one pillar of his climate plan has fallen apart. Climate-driven disasters have displaced millions all over the world, an issue Biden acknowledged early in his term yet did little to address. But as climate […]
These questions, says immigration lawyer Ira Kurzbanare asked to see whether an applicant obtained their residence validly, a prerequisite for citizenship. US immigration authorities have, he says, become “very exacting” on this point over the past 10 years. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service didn’t respond to an inquiry about whether forms used by its […]
One of the most horrific and inhumane policies practiced by Donald Trump’s first administration was the separation of migrant families—a sadistic program that caused irreparable harm made even worse by the Trump White House’s refusal to pay for mental health services for the people it scarred. As of January 2024, i.e. years after the policy […]
Rarely has American democracy felt so precarious as we await November 5. Will voters decide that Donald Trump, who has mused about suspending the Constitution, is fit to protect it? Will they ignore the warnings of Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, and other former officials and ex-generals, about the GOP nominee’s fascistic tendencies? […]
