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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Monday he is suing President Donald Trump's administration to block it from ending protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. and left the issue for Congress to resolve legislatively in the next six months, when work permits and deportation protections will begin to lapse for many of its recipients.
After the 2016 presidential election, Xavier Maciel felt compelled to act. He created a unique spreadsheet of universities that identify as sanctuary campuses , including his own Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Pope Francis said he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump would re-think his decision to end a program protecting undocumented immigrant children, saying it was important for young people to have roots. "One hopes that it is re-thought somewhat," Francis said on Sunday in answer to a question on the plane returning from Colombia about the program started by his predecessor and known as Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals .
Pope Francis said he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump would re-think his decision to end a program protecting undocumented immigrant children, saying it was important for young people to have roots.
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein accused Myanmar of waging a "systematic attack" on the Rohingya. The situation in Myanmar is a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing", the United Nations said on Monday, as the number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh topped 300,000.
Mexico's top diplomat is expected to meet with California officials and young immigrants on a visit to a state that has sought to push back against the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray will meet Monday with Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislative leaders in Sacramento.
President Trump wants the wall to stop drugs from entering the United States, but the majority of drugs are smuggled through legal ports of entry. "Just to add on, tremendous drugs pouring into the United States at levels that nobody has ever seen before.
Words have been abused and, like, cheapened in our present day, but they're still, like, important. He who controls the language, as Orwell reminded us, controls the debate.
President Donald Trump has caught a lot of heat for rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program with a six-month wind-down. Few people seem aware that he's ending an administrative amnesty for illegal aliens that President Barack Obama lacked the constitutional and legal authority to implement.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is the topic of discussion. The Trump administration officially announced the long-awaited rescission notice for the unconstitutional Obama-era program that shielded illegal aliens who entered the U.S. as minors from deportation as long as they paid the $495 application fee and met all the requirements .
Adriana Gonzalez, a student at Hartnell College, speaks at a news conference Saturday at the college called by Rep. Jimmy Panetta. At left is another student, Katherine Hernandez, who also spoke about her experiences as an undocumented immigrant.
The next six months are going to tell us a lot about what kind of country this is, and whether the United States Congress is still capable of fulfilling its constitutional duties. That's because Congress now has a deadline, and unlike past deadlines, it's not one that can just be postponed through a continuing resolution or legislative trick.
Phil Murphy, the Democratic nominee for governor, said he would block the federal government from using any personal information it has collected from New Jersey's undocumented immigrants for enforcement or deportation purposes. Murphy has condemned President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gave a form of amnesty and Social Security numbers to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
We have every reason to assume the worst when it comes to President Trump's motivation in rescinding DACA - the program allowing undocumented immigrants to live and work openly if they came to the United States as children. Trump's public justification is that President Obama's creation of DACA by executive action was unconstitutional.
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade says 6,000 Jamaicans will be affected by the Donald Trump Administration's decision to discontinue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival programme in the United States. The "dreamers" policy, implemented by former US President Barack Obama, allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the US as minors to remain in that country.
There's a common saying in Catholic charity circles: We don't help people because they're Catholic, we help them because we are. To understand that sentiment is to understand why so many Catholics were incensed by accusations from a former Trump administration official on Thursday that the church has an ulterior motive in advocating on behalf of undocumented immigrants to the United States.
Cesar Montelongo Hernandez remembers when his parents made the risky decision to overstay their migrant worker visa and keep the family in the U.S. "My family lived in Juarez in Mexico. We were very poor," he recalls.
President Donald Trump pulled the plug this week on the so-called Dreamers' program that gave deportation relief to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, ending the amnesty order created by President Obama. In the end, this matter is not about whether the Dreamers' amnesty program was good or bad; it is about whether we are going to require that the people's representatives make the nation's laws, or confer an imperial power on presidents to make whatever laws they see fit to make.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it would repeal the DACA , or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, program. DACA allows undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to live, work, and study in the U.S. legally, and ending the program puts hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation.