WASHINGTON — The prime-time assertion of executive power was audacious and far-reaching. Nearly a year ago, President Obama vowed that his administration would provide up to four million undocumented immigrants the ability to live and work in the United States without fear of immediate deportation. It almost certainly will not […]
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By Laurel Brubaker Calkins (Bloomberg) –- The Obama administration scrambled Wednesday to convince a Texas judge it shouldn’t be punished for violating his order freezing new immigration rules. At a hearing in federal court in Brownsville, government lawyers repeatedly apologized to U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen for mistakenly issuing 2,600 […]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday that it’s working on employer guidance related to 2,600 three-year work permits mistakenly issued after a court blocked President Barack Obama’s major executive actions policies, in a move that could give companies some much needed compliance advice. Roughly 2,600 Deferred Action for Childhood […]
HOUSTON — Problems have been fixed that led to about 2,100 work permits being mistakenly awarded under President Barack Obama’s executive immigration action after a federal judge in Texas had put the plan on hold, the Justice Department said in newly filed court documents. Federal officials had been ordered by […]