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Chad Wolf, the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Policy, Analysis, and Risk, US Department of Homeland Security.

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently abolished Trump-era changes to H-1B visa rules that businesses and universities complained would make it harder to hire and recruit highly skilled foreign workers and students. Read more»

A young boy seeking asylum waits in Nogales, Sonora in April.

A federal judge told the Biden administration halt using Title 42, allowing a class-action lawsuit to proceed over Customs and Border Protection quickly expelling some migrants if they have traveled through a country with COVID-19 cases. Read more»

Acting DHS Sec. Chad Wolf tours the U.S.-Mexico border in a CBP helicopter in May.

Recent court rulings over the validity of Chad Wolf's tenure as the head of Homeland Security, including a series of policies designed to clamp down on asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border, have forced the acting secretary to resign. Read more»

A young boy in Nogales, Sonora is one of several hundred seeking asylum in the United States, waiting for their cases to be adjudicated under the Migrant Protection Policy.

Untangling the Trump administration's asylum restrictions may prove difficult for President-elect Joe Biden, who has to manage new DHS regulations — even as hundreds of people have waited some for nearly a year to seek protection in the United States. Read more»

Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protest at the United Food and Commercial Workers building in Phoenix on Sept. 5, 2017, the day the Trump administration said it was ending DACA. On Friday, a federal district judge ordered the program restored – a ruling the administration said it will appeal, despite having lost once already at the Supreme Court.

The Trump administration said Monday it will abide by a court order – for now – to start accepting new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications, a move that could affect an estimated 682,000 undocumented immigrants. Read more»

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to end the program. The 5-4 decision — which found the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA arbitrary and capricious — came out of just one of many legal battles over the president’s push for anti-immigration policies.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the immigration program offering deferred action for children entering the United States illegally. Read more»

Darian Benitez Sanchez, a senior at Brophy College Preparatory, is hopeful the Biden administration will allow young undocumented immigrants like him to apply for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the Trump administration nearly ended.

President-elect Joe Biden promised on day one of his presidency to protect young immigrants who've been living in the country for over a decade from deportation, but a federal lawsuit could make or break DACA. Read more»

Residents in San Antonio wait in line at the Bexar County Elections Department on Oct. 5, 2020, hours before the close of voter registration in Texas for the 2020 presidential elections.

From his encouragement of the Proud Boys to his slowing down the mail, the president’s threats to Election Day peace of mind are many and varied, a new lawsuit claims. Read more»

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, in a May 30 file photo.

Fees paid by immigrants applying for asylum, work permits and U.S. citizenship will skyrocket next month, advocates warned in Washington Thursday, arguing the increases are unlawful because the two federal officials who signed off on the hikes were not Senate confirmed. Read more»

Hundreds in Tucson demonstrate in 2017 for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protected people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation for two years and gave them a work visa. DACA was ended by the Trump administration in 2017, however, legal challenges have kept the program alive.

A group of immigrants in New York have asked a federal judge to invalidate a July 28 memo that restricts DACA, and force the government to again process first-time applications, advance parole requests, and renewals under the terms of the original immigrant protection program. Read more»

Hundreds push for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protected people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation for two years and gave them a work visa. DACA was ended by the Trump administration in 2017, however, legal challenges have kept the program alive.

The Trump administration moved to roll back Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which currently protects about 644,000 'Dreamers' from deportation, in a move that flouts a federal court order that required new applications to be accepted. Read more»

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to end the program. The 5-4 decision — which found the Trump administration’s recission of DACA arbitrary and capricious — came out of just one of many legal battles over the president’s push for anti-immigration policies.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will reject all new and pending DACA applications while it considers the program’s cancellation. Read more»

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a press conference with Gov. Doug Ducey at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on July 1, 2020. Pence is leading the White House Coronavirus Task Force and is visiting Arizona, one of the new coronavirus hotspots in United States.

As Arizona broke records Wednesday for new COVID-19 cases and deaths reported in a single day, Vice President Mike Pence flew in to assure Gov. Doug Ducey that the federal government “will spare no expense” in helping the state. Read more»

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a challenge by environmentalists over rule waivers issued by the Trump administration to speed up the construction of the wall along the border with Mexico. Read more»

A photograph from inside one of the Tucson Sector's Border Patrol stations.

Just 12 people have been held for longer than 48 hours in Tucson Sector custody over the last 30 days, as the agency increasingly relies on a provision employed during the outbreak of COVID-19 that allows agents to immediately expel most people back to Mexico. Read more»

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