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Federal Judge in San Francisco Temporarily Blocks Trump's Decision to End DACA Program
A federal judge Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to end the program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of i mmigrants who came to the country illegally as children.
The ruling marks a potentially major shift in the heated political battle over the fate of the so-called Dreamers, which has created a months-long deadlock in Congress.
With his decision, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco granted a request by California and other states to stop the administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at least until lawsuits can play out in court.
Under DACA, which was created by President Obama, about 800,000 young people who came to the U.S. illegally as children have been allowed to live and work legally in the U.S.
In September, with Trump under pressure from officials in several states opposed to DACA, Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions said the administration would begin winding down the program on March 5. The decision was based on Sessions' opinion that Obama had gone beyond his legal authority in setting up DACA.
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Juez Federal Pone Freno al Plan de Trump de Desmantelar "DACA"
WASHINGTON- Un juez federal en San Francisco (California) frenó este martes el desmantelamiento de DACA para cerca de 800,000 jóvenes indocumentados, y ordenó que el programa de alivio migratorio se mantenga en pie hasta que se resuelva el litigio en las cortes.
Según adelantó el diario "Politico", el juez William Alsup ordenó esta noche que la Administración Trump admita los trámites para la renovación de los permisos bajo el programa de "acción diferida" (DACA) de 2012.
A menos que un tribunal de mayor instancia intervenga, el dictamen significa que los "DACAmentados" que no pudieron renovar a tiempo sus permisos antes de que la Administración cerrara el plazo el pasado 5 de octubre, podrán hacerlo.
Los solicitantes con permisos que caducaban más allá del próximo 5 de marzo -plazo que dio el presidente Donald Trump para negociar una solución permanente-, también podrán someter solicitudes para renovarlos.
La orden de Alsup, que es producto de una demanda colectiva de varios "Dreamers" y de fiscales generales de California, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota y otras entidades estatales, sin embargo, no permite nuevas solicitudes.
El fiscal general de California, Xavier Becerra, que argumentó en la demanda que la eliminación de DACA ha causado daño irreparable para los "Dreamers", ha convocado una rueda de prensa para renovar su exigencia de que la Administración restablezca el programa.
"La Administración Trump creó caos en las vidas de los Dreamers cuando intentó terminar el programa de DACA sin obedecer la ley. El dictamen de esta noche es un gran paso en la dirección correcta", dijo Becerra al defender a los "Dreamers" y sus contribuciones en el país.
Administración piensa apelar dictamen
El portavoz del Departamento de Justicia, Devin O´Malley, condenó esta noche la orden de Alsup, y dijo que la agencia federal mantiene la postura de que DACA fue implementado "unilateralmente" para obviar de forma ilegal al Congreso.
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Trump Appears to Endorse Path to Citizenship for Millions of Immigrants
WASHINGTON - President Trump on Tuesday appeared open to negotiating a sweeping immigration deal that would eventually grant millions of undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship, declaring that he was willing to "take the heat" politically for an approach that seemed to flatly contradict the anti-immigration stance that charged his political rise.
The president made the remarks during an extended meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats who are weighing a shorter-term agreement that would extend legal status for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. The 90-minute session - more than half of which played out on national television - appeared to produce some progress: Mr. Trump agreed to a framework for a short-term immigration deal to couple protection for young, undocumented immigrants with border security.
But in suggesting that a broader immigration measure was possible next, Mr. Trump was giving a rare public glimpse of an impulse he has expressed privately to advisers and lawmakers - the desire to preside over a more far-reaching solution to the status of the 11 million undocumented immigrants already living and working in the United States. Passage of a comprehensive immigration law would give Mr. Trump success where Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush failed.
The push for an immigration deal with Democrats has the potential to alienate the hard-line anti-immigration activists who powered his political rise and helped him win the presidency, many of whom have described it as amnesty for lawbreakers. If he succeeds, it could be compared to Richard Nixon's historic trip to China. Only an anti-Communist hard-liner could have made the opening acceptable to his supporters.
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Congresistas acuerdan negociar solución para "Dreamers" y buscar el fin de "inmigración en cadena"
Tras una reunión con el presidente Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca, líderes demócratas y republicanos de ambas cámaras del Congreso afirmaron este martes que acordaron negociar un plan de cuatro puntos para legalizar a los "Dreamers," a cambio de seguridad fronteriza y el fin de la llamada "lotería de visas" y la "inmigración en cadena," con miras a una posible reforma migratoria más adelante.
Un grupo de 25 legisladores - 15 republicanos y diez demócratas- se reunió por más de dos horas con Trump, quien reiteró su deseo de un "proyecto de ley de amor" para los "Dreamers", pero que incluya un muro como parte de una amplia estrategia para la seguridad fronteriza.
"Ustedes van a tener que llegar a una solución. Y si lo hacen, yo firmaré esa solución", prometió Trump, quien se mostró dispuesto a "aguantar" los ataques que vengan de grupos opuestos a un acuerdo, además de que dejó abierta la posibilidad de una reforma migratoria integral más adelante.
El mandatario dijo que cualquier acuerdo debe incluir un muro; cerrar los resquicios en la aplicación de las leyes migratorias; poner fin a la "inmigración en cadena;"; más agentes fronterizos, "y una cantidad muy fuerte de distintas cosas para la seguridad fronteriza."
Pero también insistió en que cualquier acuerdo tiene que ser "bipartidista" y debe incluir elementos para frenar el flujo masivo de drogas y el contrabando de personas "que no podemos tener."
"Tiene que ser un proyecto de ley de amor, verdaderamente tiene que ser un proyecto de ley de amor. Y lo podemos hacer", afirmó Trump, durante el inédito encuentro que fue televisado por casi una hora.
Como ha hecho repetidas veces, Trump reiteró la necesidad de eliminar la " lotería de visas," que cada año otorga unas 50,000 visas a inmigrantes de países con baja representación en el país, con el falso argumento de que los países "envían a gente que no quieren." Leer más
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Their Status is Temporary, but to Salvadorans, the US is Home (Video)
Omar is one of 320,000 recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a humanitarian program extended to people already in the United States who have come from countries crippled by natural disasters or war. Some, who were living in the US illegally when the program began, were allowed to stay and work in the country. Salvadorans who cannot find another immigration status must leave the country.
Republicans and democrats have extended the Salvadoran designation 11 times since 2001, citing infrastructural challenges and violence. The Trump administration is taking a stricter approach to immigration and canceled the program for Nicaragua, Haiti, and now El Salvador. More than half of Salvadoran recipients have lived in the United States for over 20 years.
A recent report from the Center for Migration Studies estimates that 88 percent of them have jobs. 61 percent of Salvadoran parents with TPS have at least one US-born child. US-born children cannot sponsor their parents for a visa until they turn 21. TPS was not set up as a pathway to citizenship. Four bills are now in Congress that would allow current recipients to apply for permanent residency.
This is the story of three generations of a Salvadoran family living with TPS. Watch this Times Documentary, click here.
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Don't Deport the Salvadorans
The Trump administration's decision to end the Temporary Protected Status for nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade comes as no surprise, given President Trump's attitude toward immigration and his past decisions to end protected status for Haitians and Nicaraguans. It's the wrong decision, on humanitarian and practical grounds.
The T.P.S. program was approved in 1990 to allow undocumented foreigners who were in the United States when disaster struck their homeland to remain in the country until it was safe to return. The Salvadorans were granted protected status after a pair of devastating earthquakes in their land in 2001, and their status was extended several times by the George W. Bush and Obama administrations.
Technically, the Department of Homeland Security is right that the conditions created by those quakes no longer exist. But the reasons the Salvadorans, like the Haitians and Nicaraguans, should be allowed to stay far outweigh the technically legal reasons to send them home.
There is nothing stopping Congress and the Trump administration from rewriting immigration law to avoid such harsh choices in the future. And President Trump signaled on Tuesday that he'd consider compromise on the hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.
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"Soñadora" que Demandó a Trump por Cerrar DACA Pide Aprovechar la Oportunidad
Dulce García , una de las seis "soñadoras" que demandó al Gobierno por poner fin a la Acción Diferida (DACA), recomendó hoy a los jóvenes beneficiados que no lograron renovar este amparo migratorio que aprovechen la decisión judicial de este martes de revivir parcialmente este programa.
"Deben tomar ventaja ya, buscar asesoría y hacer este trámite. Por lo menos estamos ganando dos años y más de 15,000 jóvenes habían perdido la protección y ahora podrían obtener esta renovación", destacó a Efe García, de 34 años y abogada de profesión.
El juez federal de San Francisco William Alsup ordenó este martes a la Casa Blanca que acepte renovaciones de DACA hasta que se hayan resuelto todos los desafíos legales sobre esta materia pendientes en diferentes cortes del país.
Sin embargo, no pide al Gobierno del presidente Donald Trump que acepte nuevas solicitudes por parte de jóvenes que nunca antes se habían inscrito en el programa.
García, oriunda de Cuernavaca, augura que el Gobierno apelará la decisión del juez californiano, aunque consideró que esta medida da un "nuevo impulso" a la lucha de los "soñadores".
La joven indocumentada que llegó al país siendo una niña confió en que el fallo judicial contribuya a que se alcance un acuerdo político en Washington y que éste no "perjudique a otros inmigrantes".
Trump se reunió este martes con unos 25 congresistas y senadores de ambos partidos para negociar una solución migratoria para los "soñadores", una medida que la Casa Blanca insiste en vincular a otras exigencias como la construcción del muro con México.
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Dr. GONZALO SANTOS
Analysis and critique of Jorge Castañeda's "A perfect storm is coming to Mexico" Op-Ed in the New York Times
A Mexican neoliberal assessment of what Mexico's elite faces:
"A pity that Mexico proved unable to take advantage of its last 25 years of good fortune in dealing with the United States. Now only God and the Virgin of Guadalupe can help." - Jorge Castañeda, Mexico Secretary of State under the Vicente Fox regime (2000-2006).
Very intelligent analysis from the perspective of the Mexican economic and political elites, staunch allies and practitioners of the United States neoliberal vision.
What follows is my critique of that perspective, in Spanish. I essentially claim that these elites are now trapped in a sort of deep denial of the colossal strategic blunder they made over the past three-and-a-half decades, of tying themselves too closely to the United States and its failed neoliberal vision of economic development and global governance.
e están quedando como novias de rancho: todos vestidos y alborotados, abandonados por su "novio gringo" (rico pero endeudado socio comercial y poderoso pero prepotente aliado geopolítico).
To read more of Dr. Santos' critical analysis, click here.
To read Dr. Castañeda's original paper, click here.
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