“The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border,” the New York Times reports.
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“If you’re in the country illegally, you got a problem.” — Border czar Tom Homan, quoted by ABC News. Save to Favorites
Trump Begins Immigration Arrests in Chicago
“The Justice Department announced Sunday it had begun a multiagency immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, as the Trump administration sought to show it is quickly fulfilling a campaign promise to…
Trump Orders Tariffs Against Colombia
“President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was ordering tariffs, visa restrictions and other retaliatory measures to be taken against Colombia after its government rejected two flights carrying migrants,” the…
Wall Street Hopes Trump Pulls Punches on Immigration
“President Donald Trump’s immigration policies would likely have devastating effects on Corporate America’s growth and earnings, but investors haven’t been perturbed yet — largely because they don’t believe he’ll follow…
Trump Swiftly Enacts Retribution
“For those who may have crossed President Donald Trump, the message is sinking in: Payback is coming, and coming fast,” NBC News reports. Said former prosecutor David Laufman: “There are…
Colombia Will Not Accept U.S. Deportation Flights
“Colombia will not accept deportation flights from the United States until the Trump administration provides a process to treat Colombian migrants with ‘dignity and respect,’ the country’s president, Gustavo Petro,…
Graham Sees Justices Backing Trump on Citizenship
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he believes there is a “good chance” that the Supreme Court sides with President Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship, The Hill reports. Save…
No Time Wasted in Justice Department’s Rightward Shift
“Even before Donald Trump’s portrait could be restored to the walls of the Justice Department, interim officials began driving a conservative U-turn at the agency,” the Wall Street Journal reports….
White House Intensely Screening Job Seekers
“Job-seekers hoping to join the new Trump administration are facing a series of intense loyalty tests, with White House screening teams fanning out to government agencies to check for ‘Make…
Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics
Ezra Klein: “There’s nothing new about the problem of money in politics. We’ve been warned for decades that America is or is becoming an oligarchy. But something has felt different…
White House Warns GOP Senators of ‘Consequences’
“The White House is seeking to send a message to reticent Senate Republicans to get on board with all of President Donald Trump’s nominees, warning of political consequences for those…
Trump Just Pardoned Himself
Jeffrey Toobin: “In simple terms, this means that in a few days, there will be no one in prison or facing any sort of criminal penalty for their actions at…
Capitulation Is Contagious
Adrienne LaFrance: “When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness.” Save to Favorites
Trump Suspends Flights for 40,000 Afghans
“President Donald Trump’s foreign aid pause has forced a suspension of flights for more than 40,000 Afghans approved for special U.S. visas and at risk of Taliban retribution,” the AP…
Trump Has a New Operating Style
“President Trump is surprising — even frustrating — some longtime friends in his second administration’s early days with fewer leaks, a lack of exploitable rivalries, and tighter restrictions on access…
Trump Unshackled
Dan Balz: “For President Donald Trump, the first week of his second term was everything he had promised, with multiple attacks on executive agencies, undocumented immigrants, perceived enemies and other…
Trump Believes U.S. Will ‘Get Greenland’
“President Donald Trump has said he believes the US will gain control of Greenland, after showing renewed interest in acquiring the autonomous Danish territory in recent weeks,” the BBC reports….
Trump’s Executive Orders Have More Muscle This Time
Politico: “His first nearly five dozen executive actions are more numerous, go further and are better engineered than the ones he made in the earliest days of his first term…
Democrats at a Crossroads
“House Democrats were preparing a united front to strategically counter President Donald Trump before he was sworn back into office. Then he signed a flurry of executive orders dismantling Democratic…
How Redistricting Helped Republicans Win the House
A New York Times analysis of the nearly 6,000 congressional and state legislative elections in November “shows just how few races were true races. Nearly all either were dominated by…