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Posted Jul 27, 2021, 10:21 am
Dara Lind
/ProPublica
Under a new Biden policy, more than 100,000 immigrants could have their cases dropped. But that discretion is left to individual prosecutors, and many are letting the deportation machine roll on.... Read more»
Posted Jul 26, 2021, 9:35 am
Alyssa Marksz
/Cronkite News
A federal judge’s ruling that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful - the latest in a string of reversals and renewals - should have no practical impact on more than 600,000 covered immigrants for now, but it is sure to have an emotional impact.... Read more»
Posted Jan 28, 2021, 3:36 pm
Emma VandenEinde
/Cronkite News
President Joe Biden's plan to reform the U.S. immigration system includes preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and outlines a path to permanent residence and citizenship for its recipients, but some immigrants remain skeptical about the future.... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2021, 1:38 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Biden administration's 100-day moratorium on deportations of some undocumented immigrants.... Read more»
Posted Sep 30, 2020, 2:04 pm
Chase Hunter
/Cronkite News
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have been extremely limited in their ability to function this year due to COVID-19 and severe budget cuts.... Read more»
Posted Sep 2, 2020, 9:39 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
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»
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Posted Jul 29, 2020, 11:57 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
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.
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Posted Jul 21, 2020, 11:08 am
Farah Eltohamy
/Special to Cronkite News
The federal government is currently not accepting new applications for protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, despite a federal court’s order Friday that it resume doing so.... Read more»
Posted May 27, 2020, 10:11 pm
Lomi Kriel
/ProPublica
Their father was missing. Their mother was miles away. Two sisters, ages 8 and 11, were survivors of sexual assault and at risk of deportation. With the nation focused on COVID-19, the U.S. government is rushing the deportations of migrant children.... Read more»
Posted Apr 28, 2020, 1:32 pm
Christopher Scragg
/Cronkite News
President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration in the face of the coronavirus will “not have much of an effect” on the jobs the president said he’s trying to protect, experts on both sides of the issue said last week. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2020, 2:29 pm
Dara Lind
/ProPublica
The feds promised that information from DACA applications would not be sent to deportation agents. But internal emails show that ICE can access databases where that information is kept — and DHS decided not to tell Congress.... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2020, 10:50 am
Luis Torres & Frankie McLister/Cronkite News
Recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – known as DACA – recently received some welcome news: They can renew their DACA grant and employment authorization card using previously submitted biometrics.
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Posted Apr 3, 2020, 5:36 pm
Dara Lind
/ProPublica
For the first time since the enactment of the Refugee Act in 1980, people who come to the U.S. saying they fear persecution in their home countries are being turned away by Border Patrol agents with no chance to make a legal case for asylum.... Read more»
Posted Mar 10, 2020, 12:47 pm
Christopher Scragg
/Cronkite News
One of the first things Ken Cuccinelli did after being named acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was to issue a directive sharply cutting the amount of time migrants have to make their case for asylum. One problem – Cuccinelli was not legally the acting director, a court ruled.... Read more»
Posted Jan 28, 2020, 8:48 am
McKenzie Sadeghi
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court said Monday that the Trump administration can enforce its proposed new “public charge” rule that will require immigrants show they will not need public assistance before they can gain admission to the U.S.... Read more»
Posted Nov 19, 2019, 7:11 am
Travis Bubenik
/Courthouse News Service
A former government employee who participated in the Trump administration’s policy of sending immigrants back to Mexico from the U.S. to wait out their asylum claims is now speaking out against the program, calling it an illegal process that endangers asylum seekers. ... Read more»