Posts Tagged: Trump immigration
US to Suspend Visa Processing for 75 Nations, State Department Says
The Trump administration is suspending all visa processing for applicants from 75 countries, a State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday. The spokesperson did not elaborate on the plan, first reported by...
Trump Says He Will Suspend All Immigration Into US Over Coronavirus
President Donald Trump said on Monday he will suspend all immigration into the United States temporarily through an executive order in response to the coronavirus...
Immigration, Trump and Pharaoh
As the row over President Trump’s border wall gathers pace, with thousands of Central Americans camped in Tijuana on the Mexican-American border, and the president...
Jewish Solutions at the Mexican Border?
When the US Department of Homeland Security began separating children from their parents who entered the US illegally seeking asylum, American Jewish organizations spoke up. Now,...
Trump Promises Immigration Crackdown Ahead of US Elections
President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration planned to require immigrants seeking asylum in the United States to come into the country through a...
Trump Urges Republican Lawmakers to Drop Immigration Effort
US President Donald Trump urged Republicans lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections that he hopes will see more party members voted into Congress. The Republican president, faced with...
Don’t Separate Families at the Border — but Don’t Expropriate the Holocaust Either
As an Orthodox rabbi, it is not for me to comment on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ invocation of the New Testament to justify separating children from...
Trump Says Would Back Both House Immigration Bills as Separation Crisis Grows
US President Donald Trump told Republican lawmakers on Tuesday he would back either of the immigration billsmaking their way through the House of Representatives, as the outcry grew over his administration's separation of immigrant parents and children...
Sources: Trump Questions Taking Immigrants From ‘Shithole Countries’
President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned why the United States would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some as "shithole...
Trump Reveals 70-Point Immigration Enforcement Plan
Determined to finally solve illegal immigration, the White House submitted a 70-point enforcement plan to Congress Sunday proposing the stiffest reforms ever offered by an administration -- including...
Another Attempt at ‘Extreme Vetting’
Donald Trump first coined the phrase "extreme vetting" in July 2016, in the aftermath of the truck attack in Nice, France. For nine months, he and...
Trump Pushes for Stronger Enforcement of Immigration Laws, Deportation Rules
President Trump has directed his administration to enforce the nation’s immigration laws more aggressively, unleashing the full force of the federal government to find, arrest...
Trump’s Refugee Ban Echoes Past US Wartime Paranoia and Outright Bigotry
JNS.org -- There are many axioms reminding us that if we fail to learn from the tragedies of the past, we are doomed to relive them in...
Why Jews Should Oppose Trump’s Immigration Policies
In 1939, the United States turned back a ship carrying more than 900 mostly German-Jewish passengers -- 254 of whom were later killed in the Holocaust. We Jews need to...
