Durbin Visits Separated Migrant Children In Care Of Chicago Charity
The Heartland Alliance is providing care for 66 children brought to Chicago in the last few weeks, specifically because of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy.
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The Heartland Alliance is providing care for 66 children brought to Chicago in the last few weeks, specifically because of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy.
House Republicans are moving forward with two immigration bills aimed at keeping families together after illegal border crossings.
What signs asked for, local students demanded during the rally.
"Congress by now should have passed a law to ban them. Period."
During the president's first official State of the Union address Tuesday, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin says he'll be focused on what Trump has to say about immigration.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is standing by his account of the now infamous meeting with President Donald Trump, in which the president allegedly made vulgar and racist comments while discussing immigration.
Chicago has a Haitian-American population estimated at 50,000.
Sen. Durbin and Rep. Schakowsky traveled to Southeast Asia to see the oppression facing the Rohingya communities.
"Clearly he has established a body of evidence, and many of those elements are going to be used against him," Durbin said.
Durbin says the echoes of 1974 are becoming louder and louder.
The vote was 51-49, largely along party lines. Not a single Democrat voted in favor of the legislation,
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said he hopes Republican members of the Illinois congressional delegation "stand up and say no" to GOP tax plans he believes would harm most Illinois taxpayers.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said the first indictments in the Russia probe are troubling for the nation.
"You're not helping us solve the murder problem in the city of Chicago by taking away these federal funds," Durbin said.
Durbin called Trump's criticism of Corker a mistake, and said it will make more Republicans question whether the president will support them.
President Trump's hardline stance on illegal immigration could mean the end of DACA.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said President Donald Trump has to stop trying to put white supremacists and those who oppose them on the same level.
Durbin said he and Sen. Tammy Duckworth have tried to convince Rauner to publicly weigh in on the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
"Here's a simple answer: why don't we get together? A bipartisan approach," U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said.
President Trump said he and Russian President Putin agreed their countries would work on a cyber-security network -- then walked it back. WBBM's Craig Dellimore reports.
Illinois elected officials took to social media to praise first responders and express condolences to Congressman Steve Scalise, who was shot in Virginia.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says Sessions' testimony is headline news "because there's so much controversy involved in this administration."
"President Trump is in dangerous territory. What we are facing now is a question of whether there's obstruction of justice," Durbin said.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said cooperation on the spending bill could be a good sign for health care negotiations.
Wednesday was a very important morning for more than 100 people celebrating their first hours as U.S. citizens.
