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Fifteen states and Washington, D.C., are suing the Trump administration to stop plans to end the program that keeps young undocumented immigrants from deportation. They argue that the decision to scrap the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is unconstitutional because it would deny those affected the due process of law against arbitrary punishment.
Half of the Environmental Protection Agency's entire workforce can retire with full benefits within the next five years, according to a review of documents The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained Wednesday. Nearly 25 percent of the agency's current workforce can retire today with full benefits, while another 25 percent can retire in the next five years with full benefits, according to the documents, which were part of a wider trove of material released to Reuters and TheDCNF.
Refusing to uphold the law became somewhat fashionable in the Obama era - especially when it concerned immigration. Well, now enter Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez lashed out at White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly for his role in ending protections for children brought to the U.S. illegally.
Senators are launching hearings to help Republicans and Democrats decide if they can forge a modest agreement to shore up the nation's individual insurance markets. The effort will show whether divided Republicans are ready to pivot from trying to obliterate the Obama health care law to helping it survive, and if both parties can overcome lingering raw feelings over that battle.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes a statement at the Justice Department in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, on President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program.
People in Oregon covered their faces with scarves to keep choking ash from wildfires from filling their lungs and wiped the soot from windshields, similar to what long-time residents said they had to do in 1980... People in Oregon covered their faces with scarves to keep choking ash from wildfires from filling their lungs and wiped the soot from windshields, similar to what long-time residents said they had to do in 1980 during the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history has made its first landfall in the islands of the northeast Caribbean.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday began dismantling Barack Obama's program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, declaring he loves the Trump didn't specify what he wanted done, essentially sending a six-month time bomb to his fellow Republicans in Congress who have no consensus on how to defuse it.
Former U.S. president Barack Obama will speak on global citizenship in Toronto on Sept. 29 at a time when all eyes are on his Oval Office successor, Donald Trump.
In a Sunday Sept. 3, 2017 photo, Michele Kessler holds a sign of support at a Defered Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA rally on Public Square in Wilkes Barre Pa.
Now, , who introduced the program during his time as president, is responding to what many are calling an unconscionably cruel decision. The former president, who has spoken out against President Donald Trump's policies on a few occasions, released a statement regarding the news on Facebook.
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday bashed his successor's decision to rescind an immigration order shielding some children of undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling the move "cruel" and "self-defeating." "To target these young people is wrong -- because they have done nothing wrong," Obama wrote in a post on Facebook hours after the decision was announced by President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation and triggering a furious political battle, U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to eliminate a Barack Obama program that protects young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Tuesday. Trump's decision jeopardizes the futures of 800,000 people, many of whom are university students or professionals familiar with no other country and largely indistinguishable from their American-born peers.
Donald Trump will phase out a programme that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the US illegally as children and call for Congress to find a legislative solution to protect them, sources have said. He suggested in an earlier tweet that it would be up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of those covered by Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, which has provided nearly 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the US.
President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday it's up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children. Trump was referring to former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, which has provided nearly 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the U.S. The Trump administration was expected to announce termination of the program - but only after giving Congress six months to come up with a legislative solution to protect the immigrants, sometimes known as "dreamers."
Public community college officials in Massachusetts are taking a stand in support of a 5-year-old immigration program put in place by President Barack Obama, but on the chopping block under President Donald Trump. Obama signed an executive order in June 2012 and the Department of Homeland Security subsequently began accepting applications for "deferred action" from immigrants who met certain criteria, such as being brought to the country before they turned 16. Under the program, known as DACA, qualifying immigrants, often described as "dreamers," are protected from deportation for at least two years, and become eligible to apply for a work permit.
The most eye-popping figure in the latest Fox News poll is that 56 percent of those surveyed say President Trump is tearing the country apart. Not surprisingly, there's a dramatic partisan split in those numbers: Some 68 percent of Republicans say the president is drawing the country together, while 93 percent of Democrats say he is tearing the country apart.
President Donald Trump and Melania Trump pass out food and meet people impacted by Hurricane Harvey during a visit to the NRG Center in Houston Saturday. It was his second trip to Texas in a week, and this time his first order of business was to meet with those affected by the record-setting rainfall and flooding.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that any decision by the United States to supply defensive weapons to Ukraine would fuel the conflict in eastern Ukraine and possibly prompt pro-Russian separatists to expand their campaign there. On a visit to Kiev last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he was actively reviewing sending lethal weapons to Ukraine to help it defend itself, an option that previous U.S. president Barack Obama vetoed.
At various times during our history, American troops abroad have been targeted with special ferocity by enemies aware that the more U.S. troops they killed, the more likely our government would be to accelerate already declared timetables for withdrawal. That ends now, President Donald Trump declared in his recent speech about policy toward the war in Afghanistan.