Tag: US immigration ban

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 - 18:36 UTC

  Trump toughens immigration policy: millions could be targeted for deportation

  

  Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation — including people simply arrested for traffic violations — under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 11:45 UTC

  Trump sacks attorney general for “betraying” and questioning legality of immigration ban

  

  President Donald Trump has fired the acting US attorney general, after she questioned the legality of his immigration ban. Sally Yates, who had been appointed under Barack Obama, earlier ordered justice department lawyers not to enforce the president's executive order.