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In reversal, Biden considers detaining migrant families
By Colleen Long & Elliot Spagat | Los Angeles Times | MAR. 7, 2023 | Photo by Evan Vucci for AP WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross into the U.S. without permission as it prepares to end COVID-19 restrictions at the border with Mexico, according to ... -
Is the renewed ‘Dream Act’ more than a tease this time?
Bills to give legal residency to immigrants brought to U.S. as children have been floating around Congress for more than two decades. Column by Michael Smolens | The San Diego Union-Tribune | FEB. 15, 2023 | Photo by Lynne Sladky You have to give backers of the Dream Act this: ... -
Biden asked for immigration reform in the State of the Union. Can it pass a ...
By Gillian Brassil | The Sacramento Bee | FEB. 10, 2023 | Photo by Jacquelyn Martin President Joe Biden made a wistful comment at his State of the Union Tuesday that there was a time when Congress found common ground on immigration reform. “Let’s also come together on immigration and ... -
"America’s New Trail of Tears - 600,000 DACA People"
Letter to the Editor | PennLive News | FEB. 10, 2023 Between 1830 and 1850, 60,000 members of five tribes were forcibly removed from eastern states under presidential order to western states. This was called the Trail of Tears. Nine Republican-led states, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Kansas, South Carolina, ... -
Nine Republican-led states ask federal court to end DACA protections for 'Dreamers'
By Ella Lee | USA Today | FEB. 1, 2023 | Video by Omar Ornelas, Hank Farr & Josh Morgan A coalition of nine Republican-led states on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Texas to block a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program rule which gives protections to undocumented immigrants brought ... -
7 Things That Would Fix Immigration in the U.S.
By John Austin & Steve Tobocman | TIME | FEB. 7, 2023 | Photo by Jim Watson With the Republican Party in such a chaotic state as evidenced by the recent battle over who will be Speaker, and the surreal saga surrounding George Santos, it is hard to predict how a Republican Congress ... -
Supreme Court Weighs Reviving Biden Immigration Guidelines
The justices wrestled with questions about states’ standing to sue, whether the guidelines were lawful and the limits of judicial power over immigration. By Adam Liptak | The New York Times | NOV. 29, 2022 | Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez WASHINGTON — In a tense and tangled argument on Tuesday, ... -
Latest DACA decision offers ‘sigh of relief’ but keeps Dreamers in limbo
By Julia Mueller | OCT. 5, 2022 | TheHill.com | Photo by Greg Nash A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program can renew their “Dreamer” status but that new applicants are blocked as Biden administration revisions of the program are sent ... -
Immigration advocates call again for DACA renewal in Congress, as possible end looms
By Ariana Figueroa | Nebraska Examiner | OCT. 11, 2022 | Photo by Mark Wilson WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they remained hopeful Congress could create a legal pathway to citizenship before the end of the year for the more than 600,000 undocumented people enrolled in a ... -
"We need to take away children.” The secret history of the U.S.government’s family-separation policy
An investigation by The Atlantic reveals the Trump Administration's desire and intent to traumatize asylum seekers. By Caitlin Dickerson | The Atlantic | AUG. 7, 2022 | Photo from U.S. Government As a therapist for children who are being processed through the American immigration system, Cynthia Quintana has a routine ...