February 16th, 20180The only times that Congress will attend to international matters is when there is, at stake, a domestic political advantage in appeasing supporters or striking out at rivals.
Domestic American politics have become so cripplingly partisan that Congress can't pass a long-term spending bill or deal with critical issues like immigration...
February 16th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the White House rejected a bipartisan Senate proposal to protect young "Dreamer" immigrants and tighten border security, saying it would weaken enforcement of current law and produce a flood of illegal immigration.
Ahead of expected Senate votes, the White House said advisers would recommend that...
February 16th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump proposed a budget on Monday that calls for cuts in domestic spending and social programs such as Medicare and seeks a sharp increase in military spending and funding for a wall on the Mexican border.
While running for president in 2016, Trump pledged to leave popular benefit programs such as...
January 26th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump is ready to sign on to a plan that would open a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million "Dreamers," young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, senior White House officials said on Thursday.
The White House presented the offer as a major concession aimed at attracting...
January 12th, 20181By Tareq Abdel Wahed
DEARBORN — On December 5, the Supreme Court ruled to fully implement President Trump's decision to ban travel from six Muslim-majority countries, despite several legal challenges against it in lower courts.
The decision to approve the third iteration of Trump's travel ban has disappointed many in the legal...
January 12th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. immigration agents fanned out to nearly 100 7-Eleven convenience stores nationwide on Wednesday, arresting 21 people suspected of being in the country illegally and giving owners a tight deadline to prove other employees are authorized to work.
The operation was the largest worksite enforcement by U.S....
December 22nd, 20172DETROIT — Six months ago, about 30 heavily-armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed into the home of Briana Moore and her husband, Ahmed Mohammed, a 52-year-old Iraqi American truck driver who'd served time in prison for allegedly stealing a rental car about a decade ago.
"Are you going to kill my dad?" Moore...
December 15th, 20170DETROIT — The Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center (SWIRC) will open its third free legal clinic next month, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Oakland County Bar Foundation, and an additional $25,000 from the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Program.
SWIRC's first clinic opened up in June 2015 and has since became the...
December 15th, 20170DETROIT — On December 20, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith will entertain a motion asking for the immediate release of more than 100 Iraqi nationals. Code Legal Aid and ACLU asked for their immediate release.
"These people have businesses, homes and families; they are great contributors to our community," said Nadine Yousif...
December 8th, 20170WASHINGTON — A growing number of Americans hold favorable opinions of Arabs and Muslims, a new survey by the Arab American Institute (AAI) shows.
The survey released Tuesday found attitudes toward Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans and Muslim Americans have risen to the highest levels in a decade.
Conducted two months after the White...
December 1st, 20170CINCINNATI — "Every year, 15 to 20 women and girls in Jordan are burned, beaten or stabbed to death by family members because they are seen as having transgressed social codes of 'honor,'" according to a recent report from Rothna Begum, a researcher in the Women's Rights Division of HumanRightsWatch.org.
Ruling unanimously in "Olga...
November 13th, 20170WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court in California on Monday let President Trump’s latest travel ban go partially into effect, ruling the government can bar entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries with no connections to the United States.
A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
October 6th, 20170DEARBORN — To those who are regularly held for questioning at airports or border crossings and believe they may be wrongfully placed on a federal watch list, the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center has news: You are most likely a terrorist or somehow connected to a suspected terrorist.
In Dearborn, where about half of residents are...
September 22nd, 20171DETROIT — Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh, was deported to Jordan and left the U.S. from Chicago O'Hare Airport on September 19. Odeh was convicted of lying on immigration forms and sentenced last month.
Federal prosecutors said Odeh lied about being convicted in Israel in the late 60s for two bombings, one of which killed two...
September 15th, 20170WASHINGTON ― Republican infighting over the fate of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children could be so vitriolic that the party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Trump, said in an interview airing on Sunday.
Bannon, whose far-right views...
September 11th, 20170Washington — Republican Rep. Dave Trott (R-Birmingham) said Monday he will retire from Congress at the end of his second term and return to the private sector.
“Our country’s Founding Fathers envisioned a government where citizens leave private life, serve for a brief time, and then return home to their communities," Trott said...
September 8th, 20170DETROIT — "I'm 16 years old and I am undocumented," said a young Detroit woman at the Defend DACA rally at Clark Park on Tuesday.
Jose Franco, a founding member of One Michigan, organized the event as a response to President Trump's executive order to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
DACA was enacted...
August 18th, 20171DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Dearborn's neighboring city seems to be tackling drastically similar types of reckless driving on its roads and has found no better way to control it than to heighten traffic enforcement.
The Dearborn Heights Police Department kicked off the crackdown in July, According to Police Chief Lee Gavin, it's been a...
August 18th, 20171WASHINGTON, D.C. — On July 25, the Pew Research Center released a report on Muslim Americans and their concerns regarding their place in society; despite the data showing high concern from U.S. Muslims, 92 percent of them are proud to be American.
The survey was conducted between January and May. It showed that half of Muslim...
July 17th, 20170WASHINGTON- The U.S. government is allowing 15,000 additional visas for temporary seasonal workers to help American businesses in danger of suffering irreparable harm because of a shortage of such labor, the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly found after consulting with Labor...
June 16th, 20171SOUTHFIELD — On Monday, June 12, dozens gathered outside the Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield to protest a recent wave of ICE raids that targeted, captured and detained dozens of Iraqi immigrants at multiple locations across Metro Detroit, including local churches, homes and even a hospital.
Shocked and outraged...
June 16th, 20170LANSING — Activists and local officials made their final impassioned plea before a Michigan House committee passed bills on Wednesday, June 7 that prevents any city or county from passing "sanctuary" laws.
The two bills, introduced by State Reps. Pamela Hornberger (R-Chesterfield Twp.) and Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain), passed in...
May 19th, 20170NEW YORK — U.S. arrests of suspected illegal immigrants rose by nearly 40 percent in the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, following executive orders that broadened the scope of who could be targeted for immigration violations, according to government data released on Wednesday.
The acting director of Immigration and...
May 3rd, 20170WAHINGTON, D.C.-Before Julie Kirchner was appointed by President Donald Trump to Citizenship and Immigration Services Investigator, she served as the executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigrant hate group, for 10 years before leaving the position in 2015.
Kirchner previously served...
April 19th, 20170President Donald Trump will be ordering a thorough review of the country's high-skilled immigration visa program Thursday after having signed an executive order Tuesday targeting the H-1B program.
The move signals a further attempt at Trump to target foreign companies that typically hire foreign workers over Americans.
In the...
April 7th, 20170DEARBORN —At 7 a.m. on Thursday, March 30, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents detained an Iranian Schoolcraft College student at his apartment in Dearborn.
According to his roommate, the student, Mohammad Salar Fard-Hajian, 24, holds a valid student visa and has been living in the U.S. for three years.
Police said he...
March 31st, 20170DEARBORN- At 7 a.m. on Thursday, March 30, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents detained an Iranian Schoolcraft College student at his apartment in Dearborn.
According to his roommate, Mohammad Salar Fard-Hajian, 24, was taken to the Dearborn Police Station where he was held in a cell and reached out to friends over the...
March 28th, 20170DEARBORN – A meeting on Monday, March 27 with community activists and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly turned antagonistic, when a local attorney and civil rights advocate pressed Kelly about orders and harassment that target Arabs and Muslims.
The meeting, held at The Arab American National Museum, was a second...
