In President Trump's mind, there are only two approaches to policing the border — neither of them good."If you're really, really pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people," Trump asserted in a meeting before signing an executive order to stop family ...
What was that all about?After months of defending his policy that separated children and parents who illegally enter the U.S., after searing images of crying children being held in chain-link cages were met with howls of worldwide disapproval, President Trump declared, "we want to keep families ...
While we would hope that most voters’ attentions are focused on today’s primary election, some are already putting their sights on the Nov. 6 general election.Last week, the Orem City Council voted to call a special election in November for its February zoning decision on the planned ...
Not too long ago, I returned to my parked car and found a sheet of paper on the windshield bearing an expletive-laden message. The anonymous poster had obviously gone to some effort to make these flyers on his home computer -- complete with color cartoon figures and such. It let me know what an ...
The Chicago Tribune on the World Health Organization designating compulsive video gaming as a mental health disorder:The World Health Organization has a lot on its plate these days. Ebola's made a comeback in central Africa. There are still parts of the world where polio has yet to be rubbed ...
If she wanted to, 17-year-old Mary Grace Geise could pretend that what is happening to migrants at our southern border has nothing to do with her lucky life.She lives with both parents and her younger sister in Bay Village, a predominantly white, affluent suburb of Cleveland. She is a rising ...
There is a different standard of law when it comes to certain people in this country. That is the real message behind the inspector general's report just released on June 14. And although many on the left are doing a happy dance about it, they shouldn't be.First, as authors like Andrew McCarthy ...
The nation has been consumed in the debate and subsequent outrage by an increase in children being detained separately from their families after crossing the U.S. border illegally under a new zero-tolerance policy in conjunction with laws put in place under previous presidents’ ...
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President Donald Trump climbed down on separating families at the border, but the underlying argument is not going away.The central question isn't whether we should separate families -- even most immigration hawks would prefer to hold families together -- but whether migrants should stay in the ...
