Objections to immigration usually surge when unemployment is high. But U.S. unemployment is at 4.7 percent. The argument that immigrants are taking jobs from locals doesn't make sense in the current ...

President Trump hit familiar notes on immigration and culture in his speech Tuesday night, but he largely underplayed the ...

President Donald Trump marked the first anniversary of his second inauguration with a press conference in the White House briefing room, using the occasion to highlight his administration's ...

The past, as the saying goes, is a foreign country. Turn back the dial to the 1970s and American politics become almost unrecognizable. California leaned Republican. Texas was run by Democrats — a not ...

Emergency Aid Won't Solve Immigration Courts' Problems President Barack Obama wants to hire more immigration judges and lawyers to confront the growing humanitarian crisis on the Southwest border, but ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Last Saturday, federal border patrol agents shot and killed progressive protestor Alex Pretti in Minnesota. After his death, a video surfaced from a week earlier where Pretti had spat on border patrol ...