"Whether you like them or not, we love them all, we want to take care of everybody," Trump said during the National Christmas Tree lighting event.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has publicly encouraged citizens to report migrants without legal status in their area, framing the action as a potential pathway to more affordable housing. "Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area," DHS wrote in a post on X.

Federal agents fanned across New Orleans on Thursday for the second day of a massive U.S. Border Patrol operation, conducting scattered arrests as pounding rain cleared foot traffic in the kinds of public spaces agents swarmed in force a day prior.

The changes were outlined in a policy memo posted Tuesday on the website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency tasked with processing and approving all requests for immigration benefits.

But after 40 years of building a life in this country, Nedd and 85 others officially became United States citizens at a naturalization ceremony on Thursday — the first since the government shutdown ended. "We are a better nation because you came," U.S. Circuit Court Judge Joseph F. Bianco told the new citizens.

U.S. consumer finances remain broadly healthy, even though there are some signs of stress for borrowers with lower credit scores, Brendan Coughlin, president of Citizens Financial Group , said on Wednesday.

In the lawsuit filed Sept. 30 in federal court, MERS accuses a financial adviser of misconduct similar to what MERS is accused of in a Dec. 1 lawsuit.

President Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum is rolling out a Christmas tree and firewood savings plan to “make Christmas affordable again."