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The latest Zogby Analytics poll conducted for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that likely U.S. voters in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin — all swing states in the 2020 presidential election — by a majority support ending the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. Nearly 70 percent of all legal immigration to the U.S.

“ICE is requesting 500 beds from Sherburne County to detain immigrants,” she wrote. “It’s un-American to criminalize immigrants for wanting to come to this country for a better life. This is why ICE needs to be defunded”:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s eldest son will meet with the Senate intelligence committee Wednesday behind closed doors, according to two people familiar with the meeting. The people requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the confidential interview. The meeting with Donald Trump Jr. comes after the committee’s Republican chairman, North Carolina Sen.

WASHINGTON — Last week, a group of freshman Democrats — primarily from districts long held by Republicans — approached the House majority leader with a seemingly odd demand: Block our pay raises. It has been 10 years since members of Congress have gotten even a cost-of-living increase, and the leader, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, had privately negotiated a deal with Reps. Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, and Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading the 2020 primary field among likely Democratic voters in Massachusetts, a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll has found. Biden had 22 percent support in the survey, released on Tuesday, followed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren at 10 percent, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., at 8 percent, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at 6 percent.

Massachusetts voters really don’t like President Trump, but that doesn’t mean they want Democrats on Capitol Hill to try to impeach him. Sixty-one perecent of those surveyed in a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll viewed Trump unfavorably — far more than any of the other politicians included in the question. Just 30 percent held a favorable view of Trump. However, 49 percent of Mass. voters said the House of Representatives should not seriously consider impeaching Trump, according to the survey released Tuesday.

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House Democrats and the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday de-escalated tensions in Washington for the first time in months by striking a deal that will provide lawmakers with critical documents underlying special counsel MORE’s report on Russia's election interference.  The agreement marks a rare case of cooperation between Democrats, who are pursuing investigations into whether MORE obstructed Mueller's probe, and an administration that's largely rejected congressional requests for information and witness testimony. The breakthrough also

House Democrats are pulling a spending bill that would give lawmakers a pay raise for the first time in a decade amid a backlash from swing-district freshmen. The House is still slated to consider the rest of an appropriations package for other agencies, including the Defense and State departments, but not the section concerning legislative branch operations.  A senior Democratic aide said that consideration of legislative branch spending will remain on hold as lawmakers discuss the pay raise issue.  Close to a dozen vulnerable swing-district Democratic freshmen had submitted or co-sponsored a