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Posted Oct 14, 2021, 7:58 am
Diannie Chavez
/Cronkite News
Reversing a Trump-era policy, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it will stop raiding workplaces to search for undocumented immigrants and will focus instead on “unscrupulous employers who exploit the vulnerability” of undocumented labor.... Read more»
Posted Jun 19, 2020, 2:27 pm
Farah Eltohamy & Ellie Borst/Special to Cronkite News
Advocates and DACA recipients across the country celebrated the ruling, which called the administration’s decision to end the program arbitrary and capricious.... Read more»
Posted May 8, 2020, 1:16 pm
Jessica Myers
/Cronkite News
An estimated 29,000 health care workers in the U.S. are undocumented, according to a recent report, but have remained in this country under the DACA program. A program that the Trump administration is trying to abolish.... Read more»
Posted Aug 12, 2019, 2:52 pm
Tim Ryan
/Courthouse News Service
The Trump administration issued a rule Monday that allows the government to deny green cards or visas to people who rely on public benefit programs, or if they might need such programs, including food stamps, Medicaid and housing subsidies, in the future.
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Posted Feb 26, 2018, 12:22 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
By refusing to hear the case, the Supreme Court sends it back to the lower court, leaving in place two nationwide injunctions keeping the Trump administration from ending DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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Posted Sep 6, 2017, 12:21 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Furious with the cancellation of DACA, 150 people protested at Tucson City Hall on Tuesday, vowing to "resist" the Trump administration and push lawmakers to protect thousands from deportation.
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Posted Sep 5, 2017, 8:38 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Trump administration ordered an end Tuesday to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama action that shields about 788,000 people from deportation, and pushed Congress to replace the policy with a legislative fix before March 5, 2018. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 15, 2017, 7:44 pm
Dan Levine & Mica Rosenberg/Reuters
Just hours before President Trump's revised travel ban was set to go into effect, a U.S. federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued an emergency halt to the order's implementation. The judge ruled that while Trump's order did not mention Islam by name, "a reasonable, objective observer ... would conclude that the Executive Order was issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion."... Read more»
Posted Feb 21, 2017, 12:27 am
Ginger Thompson & Marcelo Rochabrun/ProPublica
Buried deep in the Trump administration’s plans to round up undocumented immigrants is a provision certain to enrage Mexico — new authority for federal agents to deport immigrants caught crossing the southern border to Mexico, regardless of where they are from.... Read more»
Posted Jun 29, 2016, 9:55 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge in Tucson unsealed hundreds of pages of documents and photos this week as part of a class-action lawsuit over the treatment of detainees held by Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector.... Read more»
Posted May 31, 2016, 9:04 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
The Obama administration has asked a Brownsville-based judge to rethink an order that requires the federal government to turn over the private information of thousands of undocumented immigrants.... Read more»
Posted Apr 6, 2016, 10:01 pm
Madison Alder
/Cronkite News
Immigration advocates hailed a federal appeals court ruling that reaffirmed other courts’ findings that Arizona cannot deny driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants who qualify for deferred deportation.... Read more»
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Posted Sep 28, 2015, 8:12 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge lambasted the agency for its handling of evidence, including destroying digital video that a coalition of immigration rights groups said shows that the agency regularly breaks its own policies regarding the treatment of immigrants held in Southern Arizona BP stations.
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Posted Sep 5, 2015, 8:44 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge upheld the "papers, please" provision of Arizona's controversial immigration law, rejecting claims that it discriminates against Hispanics. But Judge Susan Bolton issued a permanent injunction blocking part of the law that barred stopping a vehicle to hire day laborers.... Read more»
Updated Jun 10, 2015, 4:33 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
During a six-month period in 2013, people detained by the Border Patrol near Tucson were regularly held more than 24 hours in temporary facilities, breaking the agency's own policies and subjecting immigrants to freezing, overcrowded cells without access to food, water, medical care and legal council, according to a new federal class-action lawsuit.
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Posted Feb 27, 2014, 9:11 am
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
As Republican lawmakers seek to rein in the president's executive authority, proponents of immigration reform are urging the president to keep using it to push through immigration changes.
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