Jenny Rodriguez, 26, right, and Rita Mendoza Chapa, left, are trying to sustain their family after Rodriguez’s partner and Mendoza Chapa’s son Henry Alvarado was deported to Honduras last month. Lawyers across the country and throughout Texas say immigration authorities are wrongly detaining or even deporting immigrants who should no […]
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Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) accused President Obama on Friday of hurrying a federal judge in Texas for a more favorable ruling on his executive actions concerning immigration. “They’re trying to rush it through the system because they want the judge to change his mind and the president wants to — […]
The U.S. House passed a bill to fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2015. The bill passed with little time to spare before March 6th, when the department’s current funding is set to expire. The DHS was not funded […]
The states suing the U.S. government over President Barack Obama’s November 2014 executive action on immigration filed a motion asking a federal judge not to lift a stay on the changes. “Defendants cannot show anything close to looming irreparable harm,” said the motion filed by the 26-state coalition, led by […]