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At Texas Border, Some Support for Abbott’s Crackdown Is Waning
Gov. Greg Abbott’s intensive campaign to turn back migrants was initially welcomed on the border. But in Eagle Pass, the effort’s main focal point, residents are having second thoughts. By Edgar Sandoval | The New York Times | AUG. 22, 2023 | Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar When Gov. Greg Abbott ... -
Visa Refusals And Immigration Policies Lead To Fewer Students
By Stuart Anderson | Forbes | AUG. 9, 2023 | Photo by Alex Wong Consular officers denying visas and uncompetitive immigration policies have contributed to a drop in international students attending U.S. universities. Analysts say the decline harms U.S. economic efforts to attract talent and weakens America’s soft power focused ... -
Inside Trump's new plan to limit immigration
By Stef W. Kight | AXIOS | AUG. 21, 2023 | Illustration by Sarah Grillo Former President Trump wants unprecedented restrictions on immigration and the border if he's elected in 2024 — such as screening prospective immigrants for "Marxist" ideologies and a naval blockade to target drug smugglers, Axios has learned. Why it matters: As ... -
Trump’s Sickening Plans for an All-Out War on Immigrants
If you thought his first term was bad, wait until you see what he’s plotting for round two. By Edith Olmsted | The New Republic | AUG. 21, 2023 Donald Trump is reportedly planning an immigration crackdown that would make his first stint in the White House look tame. Axios reports that Trump, if ... -
DACA Court Case Updates: Summary of Litigation and Potential Supreme Court Case
The Supreme Court could decide the fate of the DACA policy within the next two years. DACA provides protection from deportation and gives legal work authorization to roughly 600,000 undocumented individuals who came to the U.S. as young children. A pending federal court decision will likely send the case to ... -
Dreamers Say GOP States Challenging DACA Lack Standing
By Rae Ann Varona | Bloomberg Law360 | AUG. 9, 2023 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients chided Republican-led states for citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, telling a Texas federal court the states overlooked facts that show they actually lack ... -
Justice Department questions states’ standing to challenge DACA
The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal court to dismiss a case challenging Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. By Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP | JUL. 20, 2023 Key Points: Additional Information: District Court Judge Andrew Hanen is hearing the DACA case after ... -
‘You do it or we do it’
By German Lopez | NYT Morning Newsletter | JUL. 31, 2023 | Photo by Todd Heisler Mexico has been one of America’s closest allies for years under both Democratic and Republican administrations, even Donald Trump’s. That may be changing. Republican officials and voters have not only expressed criticisms of Mexico ... -
‘Dreamers’ need not apply: DACA recipients still can’t work for Congress
Aspiring staffers stuck in limbo as lawmakers go ‘round and round in this circle’ By Justin Papp | Roll Call | July 27, 2023 | Photo by Bill Clark Edgar Vazquez came to D.C. in the summer of 2021 with a plan: complete his congressional internship and turn it into ... -
Years after a border separation, a family’s reunion was in a judge’s hands
By Kevin Sieff | The Washington Post | JUL. 21, 2023 | Photo by Johnie Izquierdo NASHVILLE — She sat on the edge of a picnic table outside the Comfort Inn and waited for the hearing to begin. “Hello?” Magdalena Hernández Pérez said into her phone. “Can you hear me?” ...