There's this notion in America that undocumented migrants are operating in the dark, trying to avoid detection from law officers, but that's not necessarily true. There are tens of thousands of undocumented migrants who are known to law enforcement officers who have made themselves known and who are trying to follow the law. They appear in immigration courts across America for routine immigration checks before judges seeking legal status through these routine hearings.In New York City, undocumented folks re ...

Laura, today the Trump administration told states to immediately undo any actions to provide food stamps. What are you hearing from organizers there and from from people looking for food to feed themselves and their families. There's a lot of frustration here today.We're at Bethl Original Church in Decar, Georgia. This is the food to life organization providing all kinds of food for people here at the church and around the community. Fresh produce like apples and pineapple and cucumbers and avocado.Amazing ...

America is still processing what happened on Tuesday, November 4th. A night that rewrote the story of inevitability because what unfolded across this country was not pre-ordained. It was not destiny. It was agency.Your agency that made Tuesday night's victories possible. On Tuesday night, my colleague Nicole Wallace, as part of our election coverage, wore a shirt that said something simple and profound. Democracy isn't a spectator sport.She's right. You can't just watch from the sidelines and expect democra ...

MSNBC's Aaya Gardner is at the White House for us. So, Aaya, what did leader F say and what does this mean. >> Well, Alex, it sounds like there's been major breakthrough in the last hour on Capitol Hill.Senator John Thun said today that there will be a vote to open the government. The exact contents of that vote, we still don't know yet, but Senator Mark Way Mullen predicted that we could see a vote within the next four to six hours. Take a listen to him earlier today talking about negotiations.>> There's a ...

On February the 18th, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson screened a film for senior government officials in the East Room of the White House. It was called The Birth of a Nation, a three-hour piece of propaganda that glorified the Ku Klux Clan and portrayed emancipated black Americans as unworthy of freedom. and marked a chilling inflection point when white nationalism stepped out of the relative shadows and into the center of the federal government.And if that sounds familiar to you, it's because we're watchin ...

New York City's mayoral election was fought and won largely on the issue of affordable housing. It's easy to understand why. According to realtor.com, the median asking rent in New York City accounted for 55% of a typical household income, which is well above the commonly accepted 30% affordability threshold. End quotes. Households that spend more than 30% of their income on rent are considered costburdened by the government.New York City is America's most expensive city, but home affordability is not just ...

Donald Trump has been doing something lately that sounds on the surface like it is pretty out of character. He has been musing about wanting to end the filibuster and it is something of course that many Democrats have previously called for to get voting rights passed and to move Joe Biden's agenda forward at certain moments. This is not about policymaking for Trump considering he has said that he has already accomplished much of what he wants to do with the big ugly bill.So is it about the shutdown as he cl ...

Millions of Americans may be going hungry as the Trump administration tries to wrigle out of distributing food stamp funds during the shutdown. Last night, the Supreme Court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to withhold about $4 billion in SNAP money. The order was issued by Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, who says the temporary decision was required so that the appeals court, lower court, can consider the government's arguments in full.It'll then go back to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, everyday ...

Democrats are reveling in newfound momentum after Tuesday's decisive victories against Trump aligned Republicans. After all, a president's power is only as strong as his standing with the American people. And right now, America is just not that into him.A new Emerson College poll this week finds Trump's approval rating at only 41%, the lowest of his terms so far. This story from Politico summarizes the political vibe shift. Quote, "Hours after witnessing his party's worst electoral drubbing in at least six ...

Tuesday night was historic with several Democrats scoring record setting firsts across America. In Virginia, we saw the first Muslim woman in US history elected to statewide office. State Senator Gazla Hashmi won her bid to become Virginia's Lieutenant Governor.Abigail Spamberger is the first woman elected governor of Virginia. Zoran Mandani will become the first Muslim and South Asian man to serve as New York City mayor. And in Detroit, Mary Sheffield was elected as the city's first ever female mayor.Here' ...