POSTVILLE, Iowa — Sister Mary McCauley recalls hearing rumblings in the days leading up to what was then the biggest immigration raid in U.S. history. She received two calls from contacts in Des Moines, one of whom was a newspaper…
President Trump flared Saturday at Democrats, immigration laws and Mexico, crowed again that his poll numbers are higher than President Obama’s and insisted the country is doing better than ever — all in the sort of defensive pitch that Republicans…
NEW YORK — The Trump administration said Friday that it is ending special immigration protections for about 57,000 Hondurans, adding them to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from other countries battered by violence and natural disasters who are losing permission…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is threatening to sue the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to stop its ongoing raids to detain illegal immigrants wanted for serious crimes like assault and rape. A staggering 80 percent of those apprehended in recent…
National Small Business Week, which runs from April 29 to May 5, highlights the hard work of the United States’ business owners, entrepreneurs, and innovators. America’s small businesses—nearly 30 million in total—employ almost half of all U.S. workers. In order…
Lora Livingston, a district judge who handles civil and family court cases in Travis County, Texas, was in her chambers on a Friday last spring when a court staffer called her to tell her that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
NEW YORK — The interfaith ministry begins its April 13 meeting at the Dunkin’ Donuts on Broadway, across from the massive Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. It is a place to rendezvous, as five women get ready for a trip…
The race for the Republican nomination for governor became a bit more contentious following Ron DeSantis’ comments he made regarding his opponent Adam Putnam on the syndicated radio show of Donald Trump supporter John Fredericks. The race, which until now…
In June 2015, in Johnson v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the “residual clause” of the Armed Career Criminal Act. The Armed Career Criminal Act provides that if a person is convicted of a crime involving the…
JACKSON — Republican U.S. senators are concerned about the makeup of their chamber, which currently gives their party a slight edge in Congress by a one-vote margin. The stakes on Mississippi’s Senate races, consequently, are quite high. Sen. John Thune,…