Of the more than 24,000 unaccompanied children who entered the United States illegally last year, most haven’t left — even those who were detained. “Eighty-seven percent of those are still here in [court] proceedings because we have no final orders,” said Tom Homan, executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations for U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
SANTA FE, N.M. — Trying to deal with a tide of thousands of undocumented immigrants, as many of 50,000 of them children, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is about to convert a training center for the U.S. Border Patrol in the southern New Mexico town of Artesia into a detention center. But Gov. Susana […]
The tax reform debate about the child tax credit (CTC) continues. Hopefully the discussion sheds light on whether the CTC expansion is the best policy. My purpose in writing has been 1) to point out that there is a trade-off: the bigger the CTC expansion, the less we can cut the more economically harmful taxes […]
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the 27-year-old mother of two condemned to death for her Christian faith, has been freed after a court in Sudan ordered her release today. According to SUNA, Sudan’s official news agency, the Khartoum Court of Appeals canceled Ishag’s sentence and ordered all charges dropped. Ishag’s lawyer, Mohaned Mostafa, told Reuters she […]
Rob Bluey is editor in chief of The Daily Signal and leads The Heritage Foundation’s digital media department. Source material can be found at this site.
“What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” —Madeline Albright, 1993, as she argued for sending U.S. troops to Bosnia There’s an undertone to Albright’s quip, one that suggests a sharp distinction between how progressives and realists view the purpose of the people in the […]
“What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” —Madeline Albright, 1993, as she argued for sending U.S. troops to Bosnia There’s an undertone to Albright’s quip, one that suggests a sharp distinction between how progressives and realists view the purpose of the people in the […]
Monica Sanchez is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Source material can be found at this site.
Kelsey Harkness is a news producer at The Daily Signal. Source material can be found at this site.
Texas officials won’t wait on the federal government to secure their southern border with Mexico. Thousands of illegal immigrants, predominantly children from Central America crossing without their parents or other adult relatives, have flooded in to McAllen and other south Texas communities in recent weeks, creating a humanitarian and security crisis. In a letter to the […]
