After immigration agents detained two Iraqis on Saturday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, their lawyers and two U. S. representatives accompanying them tried to cross into a secure area – and were stopped themselves. “Step back! Step back!” the agents shouted at them. A few minutes later, Heidi Nassauer, chief of passenger … Read more
The Obama administration on Thursday announced the repeal of a measure granting automatic residency to virtually every Cuban who arrived in the United States, whether or not they had visas, ending a longstanding exception to U. S. immigration policy. The end of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which allowed any Cuban who reached U.S. … Read more
U. S. Vice President-elect Mike Pence said on Sunday he was not offended by pointed comments made to him by a cast member of “Hamilton” after he attended the hit Broadway show. “I wasn’t offended,” Pence said on “Fox New Sunday,” declining to ask for an apology as President Donald Trump had demanded. Pence acknowledged … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday demanded an apology from the cast of the Broadway hit “Hamilton” for appealing from the stage to Vice President-elect Mike Pence to uphold American values, with the conservative in the theater. “The Theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night … Read more