Up to 5 million undocumented immigrants could be protected from deportation under plan
A lower court blocked the plan, which would have the effect of shifting both political power and federal funds away from urban states with large immigrant populations.
A federal appeals court said President Barack Obama’s controversial executive actions on immigration – aimed at easing deportation threats for millions of undocumented immigrants – must remain blocked.
A federal judge on Friday issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from tapping billions of dollars in military funds to construct a wall on the United States’s southern border. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam issued the permanent injunction in a California federal court after initially ruling last month to temporarily halt the administration’s use of military…
“The district court’s order is unprecedented and wrong,” the filing says.
The Trump administration was thwarted again this week in its efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups of federal taxpayer dollars. The Baltimore Sun reports U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett blocked a new Trump administration rule that prohibits abortion providers from receiving Title X funds unless they completely separate their abortion businesses from […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is signing up a storm. It’s been just a week since Donald Trump took office and the American president has already set a furious...
Up to 5 million undocumented immigrants could be protected from deportation under plan
By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration asked a federal judge in Texas to decide by Monday whether he will put on hold his prior...
Frida Ghitis says that after years in which conservative views dominated the nation, there’s now majority support for many progressive stances
The federal government is struggling to renew work authorizations for thousands of undocumented immigrants temporarily protected from deportation by the Obama administration.
The Trump administration wants a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census, but critics say it could hurt minority communities such as Doral, Fla.
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed Democratic state attorneys general to defend subsidy payments to insurance…
The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the White House is moving forward on plans to expand deportation relief through executive action to roughly 5 million immigrants of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The plans could offer immigrants temporary legal status, similar to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Officials […]
The Supreme Court released its calendar for its March sitting this morning. The calendar includes some high-profile cases – most notably, Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., the case of a transgender student who identifies as a boy and wants to be able to use the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia h
