President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to start the largest deportation effort in American history — his signature 2024 campaign promise — as soon as he takes office, signaling this week that he would enlist the help of the US military for the massive operation to deport undocumented immigrants. Earlier this week, he shared a social…
Cricket, you might think, is among the more benign legacies of British imperialism—a sport that unites blazer-wearing English toffs and players who first applied bat to ball in the slums of Kingston or Kolkata. But in Monfalcone, a town in north-eastern Italy, cricket has become a political football. (Sorry.) Almost a third of Monfalcone’s more…
While electing officials to make and enforce laws, voters in dozens of states are also deciding on more than 140 ballot proposals affecting the way people legally live, work and die. As 10 states consider measures related to abortion or reproductive rights on Tuesday’s ballots, about a half-dozen states are weighing the legalization of marijuana…
AURORA, Colo. , AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Donald Trump is detouring from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that’s been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American cities and towns, often using false or misleading claims to do so. Trump’s…
NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested that migrants who are in the US and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes.” There are, he added, “a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” It’s the latest example of Trump alleging that immigrants are changing the…
The first and only vice-presidential debate between Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Republican Ohio Senator JD Vance took place Tuesday night at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. The debate focused on key issues such as immigration, border security, and the opioid crisis. It followed the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and…
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. , A day after Vice President Kamala Harris discussed immigration at the US-Mexico border, former President Donald Trump is expected to respond by again linking her to illegal border crossings at an event in a western Wisconsin river town. Trump heads Saturday to Prairie du Chien, a town of about 5,000…
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump, who has made anti-immigration rhetoric a key part of his reelection campaign, warned Wednesday that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the country under two key Biden administration programs if he is reelected. Speaking to Fox News, Trump railed against two immigration programs…
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon elections officials said Monday they had struck over 1,200 people from the state’s voter rolls after determining they did not provide proof of US citizenship when they were registered to vote. Of those found to be possibly ineligible, only nine people voted in elections since 2021, the Oregon secretary of state’s…
SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump has long pledged to deport millions of people, but he’s bringing more specifics to his current bid for the White House: invoking wartime powers, relying on like-minded governors and using the military. Trump’s record as president shows a vast gulf between his ambitions and the legal, fiscal and political realities…
