WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to rescue the president’s overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. urged the court to take prompt action to reverse an “unprecedented and momentous” appeals court ruling last week that blocked President Obama’s plan […]
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By Miriam Jordan For the first time since the 1940s, more Mexicans have been leaving the U.S. to return home than arriving, a reversal that brings down the curtain on the largest immigration wave in modern American history, according to a new study. Mexican migration has been falling for some […]
5th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Injunction Against DAPA and Expanded DACA
11 Nov
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
On November 9, 2015 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld the temporary injunction for both the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program that defers removal from the United States and extends […]
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court said Monday that President Obama could not move forward with his plans to overhaul immigration rules by providing up to five million people with work permits and protection from deportation. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, […]