Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, has enabled beneficiaries to build lives and careers in the United States. But the Obama-era initiative was intended to be a short-term fix.
Category: Immigration
President Biden will allow legal status to lapse for migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua
The Biden administration said it would allow the temporary legal permission for migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua to lapse.
These Americans naturalized just in time to vote. Many can’t wait to cast a ballot
The responsibility to vote has special meaning for these new Americans and newly registered voters, who made the cut less than two weeks before the Oct. 7 registration deadline.
A Donald Trump mass deportation of immigrants would cost hundreds of billions, report says
The report comes as a majority (54%) of Americans have said they support mass deportation, according to a Scripps News/Ipsos poll taken in September.
Biden administration doubles down on tough asylum restrictions at border
The Biden administration said it is making asylum restrictions at the southern border even tougher, as it’s increasingly eager to show voters uneasy over immigration that it is taking a hard stance on border security.
How JD Vance and Tim Walz differed from their running mates on immigration in the VP debate
Though mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally has been a central talking point of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, on the national debate stage both the former president and his Republican running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, have offered few details about how it would work. Asked to explain during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate how a Trump administration would carry out what he …
How Trump credits an immigration chart for saving his life and what the graphic is missing
The chart is representative of how the Trump campaign has addressed immigration, making a strident argument for tougher border measures while erasing or misstating key parts of his record.
Name stripped from Frank Lloyd Wright cottage in Glencoe after historians discover racist past
The Glencoe Historical Society has removed the name of Sherman Booth from a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage after discovering the extent of Booth’s efforts to reduce the number of Black citizens from Glencoe roughly 100 years ago by using racially restrictive covenants. The cottage now located at in the Ravine Bluffs neighborhood was designed by the noted architect Wright as a gift to Booth, his friend and attorney. GHS took possession of the structure several years ago amid demolition fears. GHS officials said they were previously aware of the large decline in Glencoe’s Black population in the 1920s, but they […]
She defended ‘El Chapo.’ Now this lawyer is using her narco-fame to launch a music career
By MEGAN JANETSKY MEXICO CITY (AP) — Riding in a black SUV with tinted windows, lawyer Mariel Colón rolls up to the gates of a remote mansion, strolling past a security guard side-by-side with Emma Coronel, the wife of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Sporting suits and sunglasses, the pair stride into a […]
Biden administration set to make asylum limits more permanent
The Biden administration is expected to take action next week to make it harder to lift its policy banning asylum for migrants who cross the southern border illegally, three people with knowledge of the matter said.