While commentators have focused on the politics of President Obama’s anticipated executive action on immigration, there is a more important question for those waiting in legal immigration backlogs: Will the president focus on providing protection from deportation for individuals here in unlawful status or will he also help those who […]
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‘Sweeping impact’ of immigration overhaul By Lomi Kriel and David McCumber November 13, 2014 President Barack Obama’s expected overhaul of the nation’s immigration system would have a sweeping impact on Houston, home to about one quarter of all immigrants illegally in Texas, immigrant experts and advocates said Thursday. About 11.7 […]
Beth Reinhard In 2000, Ted Cruz was known as a Texas-raised, Harvard-trained domestic policy adviser to the George W. Bush campaign. Bush was a two-term governor from a border state who was determined to fix what he saw as a broken, inhumane immigration system. Cruz helped craft the campaign’s immigration […]