The White House considered a plan to release detained immigrants into"sanctuary cities",a plan that critics branded as an effort to use migrants as pawns to go after political opponents.
Flying home on a Coast Guard jet,Nielsen was angry at Trump's latest announcement. She blamed Stephen Miller,the White House border hawk,for goading Trump.
Atlantic writer Adam Serwer likes to say that the"cruelty"of Trump's policies"is the point". That's true,but so is the worldview animating that cruelty.
The move was one of Trump's harshest yet as he escalates a confrontation with Mexico and Central America over a surge in irregular migration.
The Democratic-controlled House fell short on Tuesday in its effort to override President Donald Trump's first veto,handing him another victory.
President Donald Trump played down any threat posed by racist white nationalism after the gunman accused of the New Zealand mosque massacre called the president"a symbol of renewed white identity."
Donald Trump has vetoed a resolution blocking border wall funding,a day after 12 Republicans voted to cancel his declaration of an emergency on the southern border.
This week,in a remarkable series of bipartisan rebukes to the president,Congress showed signs of pushing back.
Donald Trump will be forced to issue his first presidential veto,after 12 Republican senators voted to reject his declaration of a national border emergency.
President Donald Trump said that last week that"America is winning again". But his administration has been on a pronounced losing streak over the past week.
In a 245-182 vote,the Democratic-majority house rejected Trump's assertion that he could use money that Congress had appropriated for other purposes for the wall .