Missouri and Arizona are pushing back against a tide of states that have been making college more affordable for undocumented immigrants or those who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children. “The trend has been to offer access to in-state tuition rates and, more recently, state financial aid to students […]
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by Suzanne Gamboa Advocates were urging young immigrants awarded three-year work permits with deferred deportation to return them to the federal government as the administration began on Thursday visiting homes of people who still have the permits. “Our message to those who received their three-year work authorizations is, return them […]
by Griselda Nevarez Shortly after securing what they saw as a major victory for young immigrants without legal status, Arizona immigrant advocates are facing an attempt to wipe away the victory awarding in-state college tuition. The state’s Attorney General Mark Brnovich has appealed Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Arthur Anderson’s […]
NEW ORLEANS — Government lawyers labored on Friday to persuade federal appeals court judges here to allow President Obama to move ahead with sweeping initiatives to protect immigrants in the country illegally. But the judges’ questions seemed to make it ever more unlikely that the president’s programs, which he has […]