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 […]
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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 […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear arguments in a case Friday that could lift the injunction that has put President Obama’s executive actions expanding protections for millions of undocumented immigrants on hold. The appeal stems from the order Texas Judge Andrew Hanen issued to freeze […]
Time and again, the Obama administration has stepped forward with a new initiative on immigration. Time and again, those efforts have encountered difficulty, and time and again the White House has thrown up its hands, said it has done all it can, and tried to move on. And each time, […]