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Even the most ardent critics of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration must acknowledge they are undeniably sweeping, historic in scope and will have a huge impact on the large undocumented long-term residing population of the United States with one or more U.S. citizen children or children who are Lawful […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Melvin Vasquez was just hours away from being deported. He sat in a holding cell — filled with other fathers like him — just steps away from a plane to ship him back to Honduras. He had been detained for weeks, away from his three children, […]
NEW ORLEANS — The immediate fate of President Obama’s sweeping immigration overhaul now rests with a three-judge appeals panel after an intense legal clash on Friday between lawyers for the federal government and for a 26-state coalition that has challenged the executive actions. A federal district court judge in February […]
A federal appeals court in New Orleans heard oral arguments in a case that could determine the viability of President Obama’s plan to temporarily shield more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and issue them work permits. At stake is whether the president will get to implement his plan […]