This is false - there is nothing in the US laws or regulations that discriminates against Christian refugees

"This alone should be shocking, quite apart from his fear-mongering about mosques and refugees, subjects on which he seems to be getting a relative pass, in part because his opponents have not exactly taken heroic stands on the issue."

CAPAC Chair Rep. Judy Chu said she would discuss issues important to the AAPI community, particularly immigration, during the meeting.

Protect American Families Act of 2017

"Trump’s pick for attorney general made the remarks during an interview with Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon, now an adviser to the president-elect."

This could mean helping undocumented immigrants now a crime under Trump.

Jon D. Feere is reportedly in line for a DHS post as White House debates the treatment of children of illegal immigrants.

In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, President Donald Trump says persecuted Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States. “We are going to help them,” President Trump tells CBN News. “They’ve been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the ...

Judge grants emergency stay temporarily halting removal of those detained after Trump order.

The lawsuit filed on behalf of the Iraqis in Brooklyn, New York, cites that the order violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of due process by taking away their ability to apply for asylum, and violates the guarantee of equal protection by discriminating against them on the basis of their country of origin without sufficient justification. It also says the order violates procedural requirements of federal rulemaking.

Legal challenges ensuing from Trump's executive orders will be kept current in the linked cases.

"Bannon described Sessions as “the clearinghouse for policy and philosophy” in Trump’s administration, saying he and the senator are at the center of Trump’s “pro-America movement” and the global nationalist phenomenon."

After a loss in federal court in Massachusetts, a federal judge in Washington issued the furthest reaching order yet against Trump's refugee and travel ban executive order.

They are asking a judge to force the Trump administration to disclose a list of any individuals detained by his ‘extreme vetting’ Executive Order and are also seeking the return of any individuals who were removed from the United States as a result of the order.

The day after it went into effect, a federal judge said customs officials at Dulles had to provide detained travelers access to lawyers.

Officials said the new guidelines to beef up border enforcement will be handled “humanely.”

The Pentagon and State Department had urged the White House to reconsider Iraq's inclusion given its key role in fighting the Islamic State group.

The rule would have allowed foreign entrepreneurs to come to the U.S. to start companies.

About 100,000 spouses and children of H-1B visa holders come to the US on H-4 visas each year.

The waiver excludes rules from major laws including the National Environment Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Historic Preservation Act and the Antiquities Act, among others.

The child was taken away "screaming and crying, pleading with guards not to take her away from her mother."

Critics of the change and experts in the Census Bureau itself have said that the inclusion of a citizenship question could prompt immigrants who are in the country illegally not to respond. resulting in a severe undercount of the population — and, in turn, faulty data for government agencies and outside groups that rely on the census, also bleeding into the redistricting of the House and state legislatures in the next decade.

Other states who said they’d join New York’s effort are Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Washington.

It could affect immigrants protected by DACA if they attempt to file for full legal residency.

He has instructed his staff to give him a spreadsheet each week that tells him about any unaccompanied minors who have asked for one and how far along they are in their pregnancy.

A three-judge panel—all of whom are Republican appointees—ruled that there were strong indications that the administration exceeded its legal authority in trying to implement the new conditions without approval from Congress.

The judge rejected the government’s assertion that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was unlawful.

More than 10,000 migrant children are being held at 100 HHS shelters, which are now 95% full.

The president's order does nothing to address the plight of the more than 2,300 children who have already been separated from their parents.

The new instructions to agents do not allow parents who were separated from their children under President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy to reunite with their children while they await a decision on asylum, a protection sought by thousands of migrant families fleeing violence in Central America.

The job postings show that, despite Trump's insistence that immigration is holding down wages and crowding out native-born American workers, his club believes it cannot find any Americans in South Florida who are qualified to hold two very common restaurant industry jobs.

“This is pretty outrageous,” U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said after being told about the removal. “That someone seeking justice in U.S. court is spirited away while her attorneys are arguing for justice for her?”

The surge has been caused by a new ICE tactic of arresting — without warrants — people who are driving or walking down the street and using large-scale "sweeps" of likely immigrants, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by immigration rights advocates.

Hard-liners in the administration then issued their own report this year that several former officials and rights groups say misstates the evidence and inflates the threat posed by people born outside the U.S.

The huge increases, which have placed the federal shelter system near capacity, are due not to an influx of children entering the country, but a reduction in the number being released to live with families and other sponsors.

When Trump took office, the refugee cap stood at 110,000.

The revelation echoes an admission in April by the Department of Health and Human Services that the government had similarly lost track of an additional 1,475 migrant children it had moved out of shelters last year.

A rule proposed by the Trump administration could force immigrants seeking permanent resident status to prove they will never become reliant on government assistance.

Kirstjen Nielsen maintained the administration did not enact a family separation policy, but a memo she signed stated that the “zero tolerance” policy would have that effect.

Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room. They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases. But in the rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Tex., children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.

Officials now say there are 47 children still in federal custody who are potentially eligible to be reunified with a parent.

The US soon will have more troops along the Mexican border than it has fighting in Iraq and Syria.

The asylum approval rate is just over 33% for the 2018 fiscal year. Under the Obama administration, the rate hovered between 44% and 55%. The last time the rate dipped below 33% was in 1999, during the Bill Clinton administration, when it was 31%.

If the deployment reaches 15,000 troops, it would be roughly equivalent to the size of the U.S. military’s presence in Afghanistan and three times the size of the presence in Iraq. Already, the deployment is believed to be the largest of its kind in more than a century.

When asked about the border mission for active-duty troops, Dunford said the military will not be coming into contact with migrants traveling toward the border.

Authorities say that about 100,000 people legally pass through the San Ysidro border crossing every day.

None of the 2,100 staffers at a tent city holding more than 2,300 teens in the remote Texas desert are going through rigorous FBI fingerprint background checks, according to a Health and Human Services inspector general memo.

“At the end of day, what’s happening here is quite simple: The executive is trying to unilaterally undermine the rule of law,” said an immigration expert.

In a letter to Customs and Border Protection, senior Democrats said the closed-door testimony raised questions about whether the administration is obeying the law.

In a 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts joined his more liberal colleagues in denying the Justice Department's stay request to implement the ban which would bar migrants who enter the US without authorization from requesting asylum.