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Daily Archives: April 19, 2016

CALLS for comprehensive immigration reform have been circulating in the halls of Congress for decades. But lawmakers have accomplished little in the effort to reckon with America’s 11.3m undocumented residents. When, in 2013, Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to consider a bipartisan Senate bill drafted by the so-called […]

By Amy Taxin LOS ANGELES — The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the U.S. border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. The government has long said that it places the children […]

U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they are divided on a challenge to President Barack Obama’s plan to shield millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation. Hearing arguments in a case that will shape Obama’s legacy and the November election, the justices clashed Monday over contentions that the president overstepped his authority […]