(CNN)— The Acting Director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli re-worked the poem written at the base of the Statue of Liberty…which stands as a symbol for showing the path to freedom. The poem reads, “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. In an interview with NPR, Cuccinelli defended the…
(CNN) President Donald Trump is following through with his plan of limiting immigration into the country. The Trump administration’s new plan heavily favors skilled workers over legal immigrants who require food stamps and subsidized housing. Tuesday, the President calling immigrants who need public assistance “a tax burden”. Each year, more than 500-thousand people apply for green cards and the new…
Columbia, SC (WOLO) — The beige City Hall structure along Main street downtown Columbia (1737 Main Street, Columbia, SC) is going to look just a little bit different tonight. Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin requested the building be illuminated in the color orange. The move is to recognize what city leaders call a gun violence epidemic happening in 0ur community and…
Just over a week after the mass shootings in both El Paso & Dayton, in addition to the additional more than 250 mass shootings throughout the United States this year, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin requested City Hall be illuminated the color orange.
(WOLO, CNN) – More than 200 mayors are calling on the US senate to take action on gun control now. In a letter on the US Conference of Mayors website, mayors urge senate and congressional leaders to end the recess and pass a bipartisan bill extending background check review periods and increase law enforcement’s ability to trace criminal weapons. Thursday…
(CNN) – US Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham announced he will push a bipartisan “Red Flag” bill to give law enforcement the tools to work with mental health professionals who can detect the signs of violent individuals. Graham says the senate needs to look at more than just one contributing factor causing the mass shootings across the country. Graham…
(CNN) – while president trump has expressed his openness to stronger background checks, it isn’t sitting well with his voters. NRA chief Wayne LaPierre reportedly told the president that support for a background check bill would cost him his voter base. Despite the warning, the president said he plans to work with congress to address mass shootings, starting with background…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – With the growing call for hate crime legislation in South Carolina in recent days from lawmakers and Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, we asked the governor’s office what Henry McMaster’s stance is on a potential hate crime law. We were referred to a 2018 republican gubernatorial debate in which the governor was asked about the need…
CHARLESTON, SC (CNN) —In the wake of two mass shootings a 2020 Presidential hopeful spoke today at the site of the worst mass shooting in South Carolina history. Wednesday morning New Jersey Senator Cory Booker spoke to the congregation at Emanuel AME in Charleston. Booker used the time to address gun violence in America and to discuss his proposals which…
Thousands watched as 22 Democratic Presidential candidates took center stage last week. Here’s who won, lost according
to a Quinnipiac Poll conduct by phone August 1st.
