Immigration

By JOSH GERSTEIN Lawyers for the Obama Administration are rejecting claims that the federal government has dawdled in its response to an injunction a federal judge issued last months against President Barack Obama’s plan to make millions more illegal immigrants eligible for quasi-legal status and work permits. When the administration […]

By Ben Kamisa The Justice Department is asking a federal appeals court to lift a lower court’s hold on President Obama’s latest executive actions on immigration, upping its push to lift a court order blocking the controversial programs.Obama’s actions from late last year would shield millions of illegal immigrants from […]

After President Obama in November announced plans to shelter millions of people from the threat of deportation, immigration officials wasted no time in carrying them out. Thousands of young people who had applied for two-year reprieves from deportation instead were given three years free from the threat of being kicked […]