| Court fight over DACA highlights legal rights of noncitizens Posted: 05 Mar 2018 02:11 PM PST ![Court fight over DACA highlights legal rights of noncitizens]( "Court fight over DACA highlights legal rights of noncitizens") When Clete Samson was a government prosecutor at the Department of Homeland Security's special immigration court, he says that respecting the constitutional rights of immigrants accused of breaking US laws was part of the job. "It's a myth that noncitizens don't have constitutional rights because they are non citizens," says Mr. Samson, who for eight years prosecuted cases for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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| Why Syrians in besieged eastern Ghouta refuse to leave Posted: 05 Mar 2018 02:11 PM PST ![Why Syrians in besieged eastern Ghouta refuse to leave]( "Why Syrians in besieged eastern Ghouta refuse to leave") Hope came to the embattled Syrian region of eastern Ghouta today, as a 46-truck convoy carrying food and humanitarian supplies entered the rebel enclave for the first time in weeks. "Even if the regime was being genuine, we cannot trust it," Mr. Zeidan told the Monitor in a series of voice messages.
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| Trump and press corps put feuding aside – for a night Posted: 05 Mar 2018 01:19 PM PST ![Trump and press corps put feuding aside – for a night]( "Trump and press corps put feuding aside – for a night") It always made sense that, sooner or later, President Trump would attend one of the big annual Washington press dinners. True, we media denizens are part of the "swamp" Mr. Trump loves to hate, but we also give him oxygen. Last year, the president pointedly skipped both the White House Correspondents' Dinner and the smaller, off-camera Gridiron Dinner, the annual gala and satirical show put on by Washington's oldest journalistic club.
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| Italy's vote drives home a message: migration matters Posted: 05 Mar 2018 01:00 PM PST ![Italy's vote drives home a message: migration matters]( "Italy's vote drives home a message: migration matters") The voters of Italy have not so much spoken as snarled and shouted. While Sunday's election handed no party a clear mandate to govern, it drove home a message with sobering implications for the rest of Europe and beyond: the issue of immigrants and refugees, weaponized politically by populist firebrands promising to seal off borders and "reclaim" their countries' true identity, has become a dominant force in Western politics. A five-month political stalemate in Germany – finally resolved only as the Italians were voting – has provided further evidence.
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