Mr. Cuccinelli good morning. Its a pleasure to be here with you today. Im ken cuccinelli, head of Immigration Services. And President Trump has once again delivered on his promise to the American People to enforce longstanding immigration law. Today, uscis, the agency i head as part of homeland security, has issued a rule that encourages and insurers selfreliance and selfsufficiency for those seeking to come to or to stay in the United States. Help immigrants find success as they seek opportunity here. Throughout our history, selfreliance has been a core principle in america. The virtues of perseverance, hard work, selfsufficiency laid the foundation of our nation will step it defined generations of immigrants seeking opportunity in the United States. Our current law, which is generations old, recognizes that some new arrivals to our country need the help of their family and community. It requires some of those who seek to live and remain in the United States to have a sponsor who will
Financier and friend to the rich and powerful Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his manhattan jail cell saturday morning. Epstein was a convicted sex offender being held on federal child sex trafficking charges after being arrested last month. His indictment alleged epstein recruited girls as young as 14 for sex. Epsteins death comes just a couple of weeks after he was discovered injured in his sell cell, put on suicide watch after that. But sources tell nbc news he was not on suicide watch at the time of his apparent hanging saturday morning. Its unclear why. Now, two federal agencies are investigating. Its hard to understand how this could have happened. Attorney general william barr said he was appalled to hear of the death and snorp ben sas said heads must role after the Justice Department failed to keep epstein safe until trial. Also outraged epsteins accusers. He brought me up to the upstairs room which had the epsn of raping her at 15. She said in a statement while epstein is go
Morning on the 5 factors that will determine the gun control debate, of that list, what is the strongest factor . Strongest factor is President Trump himself, as well as mitch mcconnell. Men withoutwo support from those men, no gun control measure will move through the congress and get to the president s desk and be signed into law. A lot of this has to depend on how serious President Trump is when he says he supports and endorses background checks. We have heard in the past after the parkland shooting in florida, the president say that he supports background checks. Of course, as we know, that was anybacked up that by sort of action on capitol hill. It was uttered, but never followed up on. Instead, after strong lobbying on behalf of the nra, President Trump and his administration shifting shifted toward what they called was a hardening of schools really boosting and ramping up security of the Public School system. That became the focus rather than any background checks. It remains to
That topic and 9 30. Callsays, we take your and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington host the white house plans to go ahead with the change to the Legal Immigration system which could affect potential new immigrants. It would factory and Financial Stability for those looking for green cards. This is the washington journal for august 13. We will learn more about those changes in our first hour. We want to hear from legal u. S. Immigrants only about your experience in coming to the u. S. How you are doing now that you are here and perhaps give comments on these changes. If you are a legal immigrant and have been in the country for less than 10 years, give us a call at 2027488000. If you have been in the u. S. For more than 10 years, 2027488001 is the number to call. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Changes are written about in the changes of pages of the litter, pages of politico. Deny green cards to le
Charge. All of this comes after a change of venue motion was filed last week . And . After her appearance on the dr. Phil show right here on cbs 2. On the show, she claimed the relationship lasted for 9 months and gave intimate details about their encounters. Haglin also appeared on two other national shows, where she shared similar details. Details. Although class d is the lowest level felony charge, haglin could still face up to five years in prison if shes convicted. An arraignment is schedule for next month. We will continue to follow this investat it develops. Dora miller, cbs 2 news cbs 2 news took a viewer concern to the city and now the problem is fixed. Someone etched racial slurs into a street in downtown cedar rapids. We reached out to the city after a viewer sent us these images. The city removed the slurs immediately. The viewer asked to remain anonymous but says the graffiti had been there for about a year. The latest group to try and get a casino built in downtown cedar