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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.
US Supreme Court poised to uphold Donald Trump's controversial travel ban
• 7 years agoIn the court's first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, the conservative justices who make up the court's majority seemed unwilling to hem in a president who has invoked national security to justify restrictions on who can or cannot step on U.S. soil.
Donald Trump likely to win travel ban case in US Supreme Court as 2 chief justices signal support
• 7 years agoPresident Donald Trump appears likely to win his travel ban case at the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy both signaled support for the travel policy in arguments Wednesday at the court.
Two female justices from the US Supreme court are helping students learn civics through computer games
• 7 years agoO’Connor and Sotomayor never served together on the high court, but they have found a common calling in advocating for civics education in schools.