Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimated that he had signed perhaps more than 300 letters revoking the visas of students, visitors and others to force their expulsion from the United States because of their foreign policy views or criminal activities. He has been signing letters daily to revoke visas since taking office in late January,…
The Trump administration said on Monday that it planned to extradite a handful of Venezuelan men to Chile after declaring them subject to the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law whose novel use is the subject of a pitched court battle. In a statement, Justice Department officials said three men had been declared “alien enemies”…
Can America stay exceptional? Economists and investors are increasingly asking that question as growth forecasts and the stock market slide. The answer, which matters a lot for American businesses and households, is no longer a clear “yes.” Since the 2008 financial crisis abated, America’s economy has been the envy of the developed world. Annual average…
Shortly after the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador this weekend, the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, posted a three-minute video on social media. It featured shackled men being marched off a plane over a dramatic electronic soundtrack and into prison, where they were shaved bald. Mr. Bukele also taunted the U.S. judge…
Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down to their lowest level in decades. Once-crowded migrant shelters are empty. Instead of heading north, people stranded in Mexico are starting to return home in bigger numbers. The border is almost unrecognizable from just a couple of years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people from around…
On Thursday morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico plans to speak with President Trump, in a last-ditch attempt to avert the 25 percent tariffs that Mr. Trump imposed this week on her country’s exports, which would devastate its economy. But already, Mexico is bracing for impact. The tariffs, according to banks and business leaders, are…
Facing the threat of tariffs from President Trump after he took office, Mexico bent over backward to comply with his demands. Almost immediately, the government moved to secure its northern border, severely stanching migration to the United States. Then it hunted cartel leaders in a dangerous fentanyl stronghold. And just last week, in a once-in-a-generation…
Ever since the Berlin Wall fell and the country reunited, Germans could be expected to keep budget deficits relatively low, military spending even lower, and politics at a plodding pace. The next German government is smashing all those traditions before it even takes office. Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democrats and the…
The government of Honduras said it had begun the process of extraditing to the United States an undocumented immigrant who was accused of killing a young Iowa woman in 2016, a case that President Trump made a focal point in his first presidential campaign. The move to fulfill a U.S. request to extradite Eswin Mejia…
Fearful that their son was becoming entangled in a gang and having failed to change his behavior, two London parents tricked him into traveling to Ghana, where they enrolled him in a strict boarding school and left him. A judge ruled on Thursday that they were acting in his best interest. The boy, now 14,…