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  • Trump Is Headed for Another Failure with a Deplorable Immigration Bill

    By Rob Garver

    Back when his presidential candidacy was still a longshot, Donald Trump had a go-to method for firing up his supporters if he sensed that a campaign rally was losing its momentum. He described it in...

  • The Wider Image: The Rio Grande under Trump

    Trump Will Allow Young Immigrants to Stay: Here’s a Rundown on DACA

    By Rob Garver

    A release from the Trump administration on Thursday night surprised many of the president’s detractors when it made suggested that the administration plans to leave President Obama’s Deferred Action...

  • What Would Joni Mitchell Say?

    How Much Energy Would Trump's Solar Border Wall Actually Produce?

    By Leanna Garfield, Business Insider

    During a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US-Mexico border wall. As Axios reported , he pitched covering the wall...

  • FILE PHOTO: A view of a section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence at El Paso, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

    Here’s a Basic Problem With Trump’s Plan to Deport Undocumented Immigrants

    By Rob Garver

    According to the Government Accountability Office, if the Trump administration really plans on maintaining its accelerated pace of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, something is...

  • Senator Warren questions Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf at Senate Banking Committee hearing on firm's sales practices on Capitol Hill in Washington

    Here's How Broken Washington Is — Even Without Trump

    By David Dayen

    A problem caused by a government-granted monopoly looks like it’ll actually get solved. Or it did, until conservatives found the name “Elizabeth Warren” atop the bill.

  • A worker stands next to a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez

    Bad News for Trump’s Wall: Watchdog Finds Plenty of Ways Around It

    By Eric Pianin

    A new report by the Government Accountability Office suggests there are plenty of ways for illegal immigrants, illicit drug smugglers and human traffickers to breach almost any barrier the...

  • People are taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol near Falfurrias, Texas

    These Big, Expensive Giveaways to Illegal Immigrants Will Backfire on Liberals

    By Liz Peek

    As Trump ramps up border security, liberal Democrats vow ever-greater resistance. Blue states are increasingly adopting policies that bolster their pro-immigrant bona fides, but that may ultimately...

  • Trump Can Grow the Economy or Cut Immigration. He Can’t Do Both

    By Rob Garver

    The Trump administration is fixated on driving down immigration and on driving up economic growth. But there’s good reason to believe that if it succeeds at the first, it will almost certainly fail...

  • Can Trump’s Wall Really Pay for Itself Over 10 Years?

    By Rob Garver

    The original plan for President Trump’s border wall, repeated ad nauseam on the campaign trail, was that it would be paid for by Mexico. On Sunday, though, Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated a...

  • A sign on the National Mall tells visitors of the closures do to the federal government shutdown in Washington

    Trump Pushes Congress to the Wall to Avoid a Government Shutdown

    By Rob Garver

    The already-complicated effort to avert a government shutdown on April 29 is taking on another layer of complexity, with the White House demanding that any spending measure that funds the federal...

  • Couple with pregnancy test

    Why Having Sex Is Good for the Economy

    By Rob Garver

    Over the past decade, Washington, DC has tried all sorts of things to stimulate economic growth: tax cuts, stimulus spending, rock-bottom interest rates, and more. But one of the key ingredients in...

  • Migrants protest in front of the Bicske railway station in Bicske

    An Employment Pipeline for New Immigrants Delivers on America’s Promise

    By Dillon Tauzin

    A new non-profit in New York City called Emma’s Torch is lighting the way for refugees to become chefs in the United States. Emma’s Torch works with groups like the International Rescue Committee and...

  • U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets members of the press at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York

    Trump’s Cabinet: A Conservative About Face Toward Growth and Change

    By Edward Morrissey

    Personnel is policy , Richard Nixon’s budget chief Michael Horowitz remarked after the 1972 election, when the re-elected incumbent asked for resignations from two thousand of his appointees. The OMB...

  • Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters in Charleston, West Virginia

    Like LBJ, Trump Is Loving the Role of America’s Dealmaker

    By Liz Peek

    Think Donald Trump is a one-off? Not quite -- in many ways, he appears a successor to LBJ. Following the unprecedented election of Donald J. Trump, many continue to look for precedents. The real...

  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks with the media after meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York

    Some Sanctuary City Officials Will Stonewall Trump Over Criminal Deportations

    By Eric Pianin

    Scores of cities and counties that have refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in detaining or informing on illegal immigrants are bracing for what is likely to be a bitter battle...

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