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Outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, many protesters held signs that read “No Muslim Ban” and “We Will Not Be Banned” as they protested the court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban.
U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz will join more than 25 members of Congress this weekend on another visit to the Rio Grande Valley as President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy continues to separate immigrant families who cross the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully.
The White House fended off a barrage of criticisms and concerns over its plan to reorganize the federal government during a hearing to review the proposal on Wednesday, with members of both parties pushing back on key parts of the plan.
When U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, visited two detention centers and a processing center at the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, the first thing that struck her was the quiet. There were 300 children in one facility she visited, she said, and it was quiet enough for her to have a normal conversation.
U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence said Wednesday she was shocked by what she saw last weekend at immigration facilities in Texas, including mothers wailing uncontrollably for their children. "The experience I had there has changed me," she said. Lawrence, a Democrat from Southfield, joined U.S. Rep.
Two women are demanding investigations into their allegations of sexual abuse at an immigration detention center be reopened and that the facility be audited for compliance with federal law. The women, whose cases are being handled by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said they were sexually abused beginning more than a year ago by staff members at the women's only T.
It was a stunning display. I’m not talking about the jacket. I’m talking about Melania Trump traveling all the way to Texas to ask questions she should have asked over the breakfast table – if she and her husband ever have breakfast. I’m talking about how removed our elitist First Family is from the America where the rest of us live.
After touring a border processing facility on Saturday, Democratic lawmakers said they weren’t convinced the Trump administration had any real plan to reunite immigrant children separated from their parents by U.S. border authorities. The delegation of 25 members of Congress, which included U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, visited a U.S.
As members of Congress visited immigration detention and processing centers Saturday in a Texas city near the Mexican border, tensions flared as protesters gathered and tried to stop a bus ferrying immigrant children. U.S. Rep.