Voters see more restrained exchange than first meeting. President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden engaged one another in their final debate Thursday evening. With less than…
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Supreme Court to Review Immigration Policies
Will take up questions of border wall, and detention centers. The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would be hearing two separate challenges to President Trump’s immigration…
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Ninth Circuit Blocks Further Border Wall Construction
President’s invocation of emergency powers for funding was illegal, they say. On Friday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2019 district court summary judgment ruling that…
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Honduran Migrant Caravan Heads for the U.S.
Over 1,000 have already crossed illegally into Guatemala. Young men and women carrying backpacks and small children are among the more than 1,000 Honduran migrants that have formed…
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President Trump Lowers 2021 Refugee Cap
Accepted asylum seekers set at record low of 15,000. Late Wednesday, the State Department, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services submitted the President’s Report to Congress on…
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Ninth Circuit Allows End to Some Immigration Protections
Temporary protections had been for humanitarian reasons. A three-judge panel in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, by a 2-1 ruling, reversed a lower court decision that…
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Work Permits Tougher for Asylum Seekers
New rule requires one year wait time. Under a new rule, it will now be more difficult for asylum-seeking migrants to obtain work permits in the U.S. The…
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Trump Administration to Review DACA Program
No new applications will be accepted. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said the president’s administration will undertake a review of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…
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Counting Illegal Immigrants for Congressional Districting Barred
Redrawing districts should not include numbers of illegal immigrants. On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order to prevent illegal immigrants from being counted for the purposes of…
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Automatic Loan Forgiveness Suggested by Treasury
Department said that loans under PPP program should be seen as grants to small businesses. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday that Congress should consider automatically forgiving Paycheck…
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