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US SC upholds travel ban: Conservative justices defer to President Donald Trump's power, liberals dissent with 'profound regret'
Fp Staff • 7 years agoThe US Supreme Court broke down on partisan lines on Tuesday when it upheld President Donald Trump's ban on travel from mostly Muslim countries in a 5-4 decision.
US Supreme Court upholds Donald Trump's anti-Muslim travel ban, rejects discrimination claim: All you need to know
Fp Staff • 7 years agoA sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld US President Donald Trump's latest version of ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries - but not only those countries - rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority. A dissenting justice said the outcome was a historic mistake.
US Democrats expand campaign to fight forced separation of migrant children from families at Mexico border
• 7 years agoDemocratic lawmakers on Sunday visited a detention centre outside New York City and headed to Texas to inspect facilities where children have been detained
Hopes rise for US immigration deal on DACA while legal immigrants remain on edge in midterm election year
Fp Staff • 7 years agoA leader of US House moderates said Thursday that a tentative deal with conservatives has emerged to help young "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the US as children and later given temporary protections by the Obama government now stay in the U.S. legally. But where does all this leave those who are legally in America and waiting in line?
US Congress races against time to fix contentious US immigration problems - the new tinderbox of American politics
Fp Staff • 7 years agoWhile the US president and his A team on hardline immigration chart their own course, deep fault lines have surfaced within the Republican party on a mind-stretching gamut of issues that have come to define the catchall of immigration policy in the US.
Donald Trump on midterm campaign mode whips up immigration storm; seizes on opponents' glaring social media errors
Fp Staff • 7 years agoUS President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents.