Immigration

NPR - For decades, the Small Business Administration has granted loans to immigrants who are legal permanent residents in the United States.  But in March, the U.S. small-business agency stopped approving loans to firms that are not fully owned by U.S. citizens, a first in its history. 

Congressional Insider  -  A retired National Guard veteran says immigration agents detained his Honduran wife during a routine check-in in Dallas, leaving their family in shock. Homeland Security says she entered the country illegally and has a long-standing deportation order, showing how old cases now drive new arrests.  

The veteran says his wife returned in 2018 so their U.S.-born son could get serious medical care, highlighting real family and health pressures.  This case reflects a wider Trump-era shift, where spouses of service members are no longer shielded and both sides feel the system serves elites, not families.