New family immigration visa rules 'penalise couples' A family visa is required for a British citizen or settled resident wanting to bring a foreign partner or spouse, and potentially children, to live in the UK together. The minimum income required to ... 04/23/2024 - 6:14 pm | View Link
Kim Reynolds signs Texas-style immigration law criminalizing 'illegal reentry' into Iowa The law, which goes into effect July 1, makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter Iowa if they were previously deported from the U.S. 04/10/2024 - 10:35 am | View Link
Deja vu: NC lawmakers likely to try again to compel sheriffs to work with federal immigration officials which would require sheriffs to hold suspected undocumented immigrants in custody without a warrant at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ICE's program for this ... 04/10/2024 - 3:22 am | View Link
Under the Dome podcast: Immigration and the return of the ICE bill in NC It’s part of a national series of stories that McClatchy newspapers is publishing on immigration. Bajpai has stories coming about detention requests that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ... 04/7/2024 - 5:59 pm | View Link
Reacting for the first time to Donald Trump’s vow to order the Justice Department to investigate his political opponents, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he would not allow his agents to conduct any investigation that doesn’t comply with “our rules, our procedures, our best practices, our core values,” NBC News reports.
Wisconsin U. S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) missed a line in the Pledge of Allegiance at a recent appearance, skipping “one nation, under God” and going right to “indivisible,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Politico: “If the opening week of Trump’s hush-money trial laid bare the courtroom’s constraints on Trump, no single 24-hour stretch demonstrated the extreme asymmetry of the unfolding campaign more than Tuesday. There was Biden making campaign stops with fawning supporters of abortion rights in Tampa, Florida, while Trump was sitting in a “freezing” Manhattan courtroom, with barely any supporters in sight.”
Said Trump: “He’s out campaigning, and I’m here in the courtroom, sitting here, sitting up as straight as I can all day long.”
He added: “It’s a very unfair situation.
There is a lot to dislike about Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has consistently held a high disapproval rating in his home state. However, most people would agree with two things McConnell has said. One of them was his speech just after Donald Trump whipped his lint-licking base of supporters into a frenzy to attack the Capitol.
Day 2 of the Donald Trump Election Interference Criminal Trial was a rocky one - for Donald Trump and his lawyers. It started off with the long awaited Gag Order Hearing where Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, got the legal equivalent of a tongue lashing that surely left bruises.
A bit of the highlights, from both sides:
Out of the gate.
"Defendant has violated this order repeatedly and hasn't stopped," prosecutor says, adding that Trump even did it on Monday in the halls of the courtroom.
— Kaelan Deese (@KaelanDC) April 23, 2024
Lots of back and forth about posts and statements, but the prosecutors make it clear that they have Trump's number.