Immigration

The World Economic Forum (WEF) released the results of a survey Sunday, just before its annual summit in Davos, showing that more than two thirds of Italians consider immigration to be “mostly bad” for the country.

BERLIN (AP) – The German government says that in a first, more asylum-seekers were transferred to other European Union countries than Germany took in last year.

 The Czech Republic is launching a programme to pay non-EU migrants to go home, noting that funding the scheme would cost taxpayers “far less” than if migrant groups targeted remained in the country.

John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream, called for the federal government to end contractual relationships with Catholic Church-affiliated nonprofits in response to revelations of senior Catholic officials’ involvement in sexual abuse and related cover-ups.

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Vice President Mike Pence said President Donald Trump’s offer to Democrats to end the shutdown was not amnesty. Saturday, Trump proposed a deal that includes $5 billion to partially fund a wall

People including employees of an asylum home in the German town of Guben are said to have been injured after a migrant went after employees armed with a hatchet.

A former imam from Pakistan who migrated to Germany and converted to Christianity now claims that he faces death threats in his native country from many including members of his own family.

During Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” host Jeanine Pirro hammered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her show’s “Opening Monologue” segment. Pirro suggested that Pelosi and other congressional Democrats cared more about illegal immigrants than Americans and called her

Lindsey Graham lauded Trump’s compromise proposal to end the partial government shutdown and expressed enthusiasm about turning the plan into law.

Pro-American immigration reformers say President Trump’s plan to offer a work permit amnesty to about a million illegal aliens and foreign nationals could encourage more caravans of Central Americans to come to the United States at the U.S-Mexico border.

Vice President Mike Pence and administration officials expressed great hope in “rank and file” Democrats late Saturday to pass the immigration, border security, and government reopening package President Donald Trump unveiled moments before.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) reacted to President Trump’s proposal on immigration and the government shutdown by stating President Trump is trying to “play us for fools.” Cleaver said, “Well, there’s no table. The president

Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, co-founder of Angel Families, says President Trump’s plan to secure $5.7 billion in border wall funding by offering a million illegal aliens and foreign nationals three-year work permits is a “brilliant move.”

Several prominent Democrats have made statements over the past two years saying they would open to obtaining funding for a wall along the U.S. southern border in exchange for DACA amnesty.

El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials say smugglers are using large groups of family unit migrants and unaccompanied minors to distract agents so they can move drugs across the border in other locations.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said in a statement on Saturday that President Donald Trump “captured the moral high ground” in his speech proposing a compromise between Republicans and Democrats on the border wall fight.

Democrats immediately rejected President Donald Trump’s offer of a work-permit amnesty for one million registered migrants in exchange for 230 miles of new border wall. 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) charged in a statement on Saturday that “we must deliver” for the American people by securing the country’s southern border. 

During a statement on Saturday, President Trump proposed funding for humanitarian assistance and drug detection technology, increases in Border Patrol agents and immigration judges, changes to the asylum application process for minors, promotion of family reunification, $5.7 billion in border wall

President Donald Trump will address Americans from the White House Saturday at 4 p.m. with a  “major announcement” on the “humanitarian crisis” on the southern border.

The compromise shutdown deal reportedly being prepared by aides to the president would expand catch and release rules to aid millions of current and future illegal migrants and would paralyze enforcement for at least three years, immigration reformers said.

Farhad Manjoo, the New York Times columnist who is urging Democrats to formally adopt an open borders policy, tried to justify his nation-changing proposals via a Twitter video.

The Austrian government has released statistics showing that in 2017, four out of every ten migrants who claimed to be underage were lying in order to have a better chance of getting asylum.

President Donald Trump will offer another compromise deal on Saturday to end the shutdown over the border wall, and Democrats will approve $1.1 billion to buy extra surveillance technology and additional immigration judges, according to Friday evening media reports. 

The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor class organizations is asking Republicans and Democrats to “seize” upon the government shutdown to pass a permanent amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. 

The cost of educating illegal aliens and their children could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, if not billions, experts say.

House and Senate Democrats are geaing up to push amnesty for at least 1.5 million illegal aliens rather than negotiating over a border wall.