Jimmy Williams President Joe Biden is set to unveil a significant new immigration policy on Tuesday that will protect tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens from deportation. This move, seen as a strategic election-year action, has been a long-standing demand by many Democrats. At a White House …
Read More »Biden Administration Issues Rule Expanding DACA Health Care Access
Ariana Figueroa, Michigan Advance The Biden administration published a final rule Friday that will allow about 100,000 uninsured people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to enroll in state-run or private health insurance plans provided under the Affordable Care Act, administration officials said. The new rule from the …
Read More »DACA Recipients To Gain Health Coverage Under New Plan From Biden Administration
Ariana Figueroa, Source New Mexico President Joe Biden announced last week that he will direct his administration to allow undocumented people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to enroll in Medicaid or private insurance provided under the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services …
Read More »Dream Deferred For DACA Recipients Until Congress Delivers Permanent Protection
Commentary Beatriz Pascoal, New Jersey Monitor During this week’s State of the Union address, President Biden failed to commit to bold action to protect immigrant communities and instead celebrated anti-immigrant measures his administration has adopted. This sends a troubling message to the thousands of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients like …
Read More »Talks Over Protecting Dreamers Pick Up In Congress, But Agreement Still Elusive
Ariana Figueroa, Arizona Mirror In a last-minute push, U.S. senators are working on a bipartisan agreement to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children. But the success of any major immigration deal appears unlikely, as a lame-duck session of Congress …
Read More »Senate Democrats Make Last-Ditch Push For Pathway To Citizenship For Dreamers
Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent Democratic U.S. senators have set a December deadline for passing bipartisan legislation that would create a pathway to citizenship for more than 600,000 undocumented people who were brought into the country as children — but they don’t yet have enough Senate Republican votes to make it …
Read More »DACA Remains Intact As Appeals Court Sends Case Challenging Its Legality Back To Lower Court In Texas
By Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal appeals court on Wednesday sent a case challenging the legality of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — a national program that provides some undocumented immigrants work permits and temporarily protects them from deportation — back to a lower court …
Read More »DACA Déjà Vu: Biden Reaffirms, Doesn’t Expand, Migrant Protection Program
Tristan Richards/Cronkite News, Arizona Mirror The Biden administration reaffirmed its commitment Tuesday to DACA, officially posting regulations to extend the 10-year-old program that has protected hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. The rule, which takes effect Oct. 31, makes few changes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and …
Read More »Biden Administration Takes Steps To Preserve DACA
The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that it is proposing a rule that would “preserve and fortify” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. DACA, which was created in 2012 through executive action by then-President Barack Obama, has allowed about 600,000 immigrants, most of whom were brought to …
Read More »Federal judge says DACA ‘Violates the Law’, blocks new applications
A federal judge has issued a decision Friday that blocks new DACA applications, after Texas and several other states filed a lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen sided with the states in his ruling, agreeing that then-President Barack Obama had overstepped his …
Read More »Judge Says New DACA Applications Must Be Accepted By the Trump Administration
As President Trump heads out of the White House with his head down, his administration has been hit with another blow. A judge ruled that the Trump administration give the public notice that new applications for the Obama-era program protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children …
Read More »New DACA Rules Are Invalid
In a ruling on Saturday, a federal judge ruled that Chad Wolf was not legally serving as acting Homeland Security secretary when he signed rules limiting applications and renewals for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Those rules are now invalid. DACA is the program that started under the …
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