A crowd of several hundred pro-immigrant activists blocked the intersection of Loyola Avenue and Poydras Street for several hours Thursday afternoon to protest what they describe as “harsh” and “devastating” tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The protest, organized by the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, resulted…
DetailsIt’s now looking extremely unlikely that Congress will enact immigration reform this year. And that raises a question: Could President Obama use his executive powers to effectively legalize some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the United States? Toni L. Sandys / The Washington Post This possibility has actually been raised…
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The nomination of Jeh Johnson to be the next Secretary of Homeland Security and the controversial departure of his predecessor open the door for pivotal questions about the future of the government’s largest agency, especially related to its approach to immigration.
Below are several essential questions for Mr. Johnson to answer before his appointment is accepted.
“If you see , if you see harm, I think it is the responsibility of the executive branch of government—given the inaction of the legislative branch—to expand DACA to the parents of the DREAMers, to expand DACA to American-citizen children whose parents are in fear of being [deported],” Gutiérrez said. Obama has said multiple times that he wou…
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