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Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Challenge to DACA
Immigrant advocates head to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday in hopes of saving an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of people brought into the U.S. as children.
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El Minuto 6/15 Spanish Edition
La oficina del alguacil de la Ciudad de Nueva York confiscó al menos una docena de camiones que operaban para Weed World Candies, que pueden o no estar comprando más que productos de CBD, por multas de estacionamiento pendientes por un total de medio millón de dólares, dijeron las autoridades el martes.
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El Minuto 6/15 English Edition
The New York City Sheriff’s office seized at least a dozen trucks operating for Weed World Candies, which may or may not be shopping more than CBD products, for outstanding parking tickets totaling a half-million dollars, officials said Tuesday.
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A Decade of DACA: A Middle-Class Launching Pad for Thousands Is at Risk
The 2012 Obama-era policy opened job and educational pathways to thousands of undocumented and mainly Latino young Americans. Ten years later, its future is tenuous.
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10 Years After DACA Began, Advocates Renew Calls For Permanent Solution
On June 15, 2012, the Obama Department of Homeland Security announced DACA, a policy stating the U.S. would no longer deport some undocumented young people who arrived here as children, and allow them to get two-year work permits. But DACA allows no path to permanent status like citizenship, and immigration activists like Jose Munoz from United We Dream are urging...
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Biden Administration Takes Steps to ‘Bulletproof' DACA From Legal Challenges
The Biden administration has released a plan to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation
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Ruling Leaves Immigrants Who Newly Applied for DACA in Limbo
Tens of thousands of young immigrants in the U.S. without legal status are in limbo once again after a court ruling last week declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal.
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Biden Pledges Appeal of ‘Deeply Disappointing' DACA Ruling
President Joe Biden says the Justice Department intends to appeal a federal judge’s ruling deeming illegal an Obama-era program that’s protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
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‘A Blaring Siren' for Democrats After Ruling Halts DACA
Advocates are calling on Congress and President Joe Biden to act quickly on legislation that would provide a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants after a federal judge in Texas ordered the end to an Obama-era program that protects them from deportation
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Judge Orders Biden Administration to Stop Approving New DACA Applications
The ruling puts in jeopardy the Obama-era DACA immigration program, which President Joe Biden had sought to preserve.
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DACA Turned 9 Years Old This Week. Where's the Path to Citizenship?
“I celebrate DACA, I’m really proud of the program that means that I get to stay here with my family,” says Greisa Martínez Rosas. The Obama administration program gave deportation and work protections to undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children. Advocates are still calling for a path to citizenship for DREAMers, farmworkers and people with temporary protected...
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Biden Meets DACA Recipients in Immigration Overhaul Push
President Joe Biden has met with six young immigrants who benefited from an Obama-era policy that protected those brought to the U.S. illegally as children
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First New DACA Applications Approved in Final Weeks of 2020
The U.S. government says it has approved the first new applicants in several years to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants brought to the U.S. as young people.
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No Immediate Ruling After Hearing on Fate of DACA Program
A federal judge didn’t immediately issue a ruling following a court hearing on the fate of a U.S. program shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children
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DACA Faces New Court Challenge in Texas
A federal court will consider whether to invalidate a program that shields from deportation immigrants brought to the United States as children, potentially creating complications for the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden
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‘A Surge of Relief': What DACA's Reinstatement Means for Thousands of Dreamers
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is officially accepting new applications for the first time in three years after a federal judge fully reinstated the program. LX News welcomed DACA recipient Osiris Ordaz and Andrea Anaya, who is now eligible to apply for the first time, to discuss what the restoration of the Obama signature immigration policy means to them...
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US Fully Restores Protections for Young Immigrants
The Trump administration has fully restored the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for immigrants brought to the U.S. as young people, complying with a federal judge’s order.
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Federal Judge Reinstates DACA, Orders Homeland Security to Accept New Applicants
A New York federal judge on Friday restored the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — which President Donald Trump has tried to end — in a court ruling that would swiftly grant thousands of immigrants whose parents brought them to the U.S. as young children the ability to continue to work and study in the country. U.S. District Judge...
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5 Things to Know About Alejandro Mayorkas
President-elect Joe Biden nominated Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security. Here are five things to know about the former deputy secretary of DHS.
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Judge: DHS Head Didn't Have Authority to Suspend DACA
A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class of migrants brought to the United States illegally as children is invalid. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Trump administration wrongly tried to shut down protections...