President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Friday with six immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children who benefited from an Obama-era policy that protected them from deportation. The Oval Office meeting comes as Biden looks to press Congress to pass legislation codifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
Trump Says He Will Renew Effort to End DACA Protections
WASHINGTON — Undeterred by this week's Supreme Court ruling, President Donald Trump said Friday he will renew his effort to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children. Trump denounced the high court's ruling that the administration improperly ended the Deferred Action...
Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to End Protections for 'Dreamers'
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. For now, those immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in the United...
Dreamers Have Been Political Pawns for Far Too Long: Castro
While I hope the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold protection for Dreamers, I am continually mystified that we find ourselves in this predicament in the first place. Too often, there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding about who these Dreamers are. These young people were brought to the United States...
DeVos Excludes DACA Recipients, Foreign Students From Grants
The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued the restriction in new guidelines released Tuesday telling colleges how to distribute more than...
Costa, Cox Help House Pass Dreamers Bill Despite Trump Veto Threat
Supporters of the American Dream and Promise Act in the visitor galleries roared "Yes We Can" as House Democrats muscled through legislation bestowing a chance for citizenship on an estimated 2 million-plus migrants. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a "No You Can't" the next day. Combined with President Donald...