Donald Trump with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago forum on Tuesday (Photo Credit: Used Under Creative Common License 4.0).
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Illegal immigration has been spoken of in the last few years as if it were an existential threat to American democracy, with a sense of urgency. Looking deeper, one perceives that this narrative has relatively little to do with reality and everything to do with a conservative agenda. As will be evidenced by data and statistics, illegal immigration offers minimal risks to our democratic institutions and considerable benefits to our economy and higher education landscape.
In a Presidential debate more cringeworthy than a straight-to-Tubi movie, one of the more uncomfortable moments occurred when the "Black people" portion of the...
As the Trump Administration continues to attack and threaten America’s immigrant communities with ICE raids, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) is strengthening...
FORD AND HOWARD C. MEDLEY CALL ON PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO MAKE
RE-ENTRY INTO AMERICAN SOCIETY A PRIORITY
CHICAGO- State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago,...
President Barack Obama will announce executive orders on immigration Thursday during an address to the nation, the White House confirmed in a Facebook video.
"Everybody agrees that...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans, scrambling to win conservative support for a bill addressing the immigration crisis on the border, have scheduled a companion...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to quickly approve increased funding to deal with the crisis of immigrant children flooding across...
As President Barack Obama pushes Congress to pass immigration reform, there are some who believe he isn’t pushing hard or fast enough for solutions. According to Talking Points Memo, he encountered such a person yesterday in San Francisco. President Barack Obama was interrupted by a pro-immigration reform activist on Monday while pushing for a comprehensive solution to the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants in California. While speaking at the Betty Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Obama rebutted a heckler who shouted that the president could stop all deportations by merely signing an executive order. “You have a power to stop all deportations,” the heckler said. “Actually, I don’t,” Obama responded. ”The easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws. If in fact I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, I would do so.” Earlier in the address,...
Mamadou Kane, originally from Mali and living in the Brooklyn borough of New York, poses for a portrait while attending the "Rally for Citizenship,"...
