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Second Federal Judge Issues Injunction to Keep DACA in Place
By Alan Feuer ~ February 13, 2018 ~ NY Times A federal judge in Brooklyn has issued an injunction requiring the Trump administration to keep DACA in place. The program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, has become a flash point in the immigration debate, triggering protests like the one pictured ... -
Bipartisan group of senators reaches immigration deal, fulfilling some of Trump's demands
By Washington Post ~ February 14, 2018 WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators reached a deal on immigration Wednesday as President Donald Trump attempted to preemptively undercut the proposal by delivering an ultimatum: Pass my plan or risk a veto. The self-dubbed "Common Sense Caucus" of bipartisan senators late Wednesday ... -
the Clock is Not Ticking on DACA
By Bill Scher ~ February 14, 2018 ~ Politico All of a sudden this week, Republicans are awfully impatient to get an immigration deal done. “This will be our last chance, there will never be another opportunity! March 5th,” tweeted President Donald Trump, referring to the day his executive order set the ... -
Democrats Can Win on Immigration
By Matt A Barreto ~ February 11, 2018 ~ NY Times LOS ANGELES — To no one’s surprise, President Trump, who has been doubling down on his anti-immigrant rhetoric, used his State of the Union address to draw parallels between the Central American gang MS-13 and law-abiding immigrants in the ... -
“Dreamers” draws from real experiences to create an original, compelling story.
By Samantha Diaz ~ February 11, 2018 ~ 49er A family separated, the fear of being deported, a constantly changing political landscape. California Repertory Company will touch on these issues in its upcoming play, “Dreamers: Aqui y Alla” directed by Andrea Caban and Julie Granata-Hunicutt. The story begins in 2012 and ... -
With DACA in Limbo, Teachers Protected by the Program Gird for the Worst
By Erica L. Green ~ February 5, 2018 ~ NY Times Karen Reyes spends her days teaching a group of deaf toddlers at Lucy Read Pre-Kindergarten School in Austin, Tex., how to understand a world they cannot hear. For the first time in her four-year teaching career, Ms. Reyes, 29, ... -
Most Americans Want Legal Status for ’Dreamers.’ These People Don’t.
By Miriam Jordan ~ January 30, 2018 ~ NY Times For Pav Sterry of Columbus, Ohio, legalizing any undocumented immigrants — even those who came as children without a choice in the matter — is just plain wrong. Huy Pham of St. Paul believes any concessions for the so-called Dreamers will unleash ... -
Do Democrats Even Want a Compromise on Immigration?
Schumer and Durbin act as if they’d rather have an issue to use against the Republicans in November. By Jason L. Riley ~ Wall Street journal ~ January 31, 2018 Officially, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are working to craft an immigration fix before the March deadline set by President ... -
Trump’s Speech Leaves Two Sides Further Apart Than Ever on Immigration
By Michael D. Shear and Peter Baker ~ NY Times ~ January 31, 2018 WASHINGTON — For years, immigration advocates have defined hundreds of thousands of young people brought to the country illegally as children by the sympathetic term “Dreamers.” Long irritated by the rhetorical branding, President Trump finally came ... -
Trump Sets Up a Grand Bargain on Immigration
By George J. Borjas ~ NY Times ~ February 2, 2018 To end the polarized and paralyzed debate over immigration policy, President Trump has proposed a deal. The president will grant amnesty to an estimated 1.8 million so-called Dreamers — young people who were brought illegally to the United States as ...
