Laura Benshoff
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Time is running out for DACA recipients hoping to stay in the U.S. legally
Time is running out for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA recipients hoping to stay in the U.S. legally — at least for another two years.
8 years ago
Four takeaways from a freshman, moderate Republican in Congress under Trump
U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Bucks County may be an endangered species — a moderate Republican who makes a point of working with Democrats.
8 years ago
Search for border agents brings recruiter to Temple job fair
Border Patrol agent Lanllony Molina stood next to a folding table, covered in tote bags and pens emblazoned with the U.S. Customs and Bor ...
8 years ago
ListenShapiro details massive, multistate probe into drug companies’ role in opioid crisis
Standing on the turf of Upper Dublin High School’s football field, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro drew the connection b ...
8 years ago
ListenOn Delaware County visit, Trump emissaries point to progress on opioids
President Donald Trump campaigned on lifting the United States from the depths of the opioid epidemic. Amid criticism that his adm ...
8 years ago
ListenAfter DACA decision, leaders of ‘sanctuary campuses’ reaffirm support for dreamers
Last year, some schools in the Philadelphia area became “sanctuary campuses,” promising to protect undocumented students and ...
8 years ago
DiNardo, cousin will stand trial in slaying of 4 men in Bucks
A judge has held both defendants accused in the Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, killings of four young men for trial in October. ...
8 years ago
‘Dreamers’ react in anger, fear, but not surprise over Trump ending DACA
Anel Medina was five when her mother illegally brought her to Chester County from Mexico. On Tuesday, the 26-year-old registered n ...
8 years ago
Pa. small courts improve access to translators in criminal cases, still lag in other areas
Small courts in Pennsylvania are not consistently using professional interpreters, according to a recent report on 19 magisterial distric ...
8 years ago
After immigration judge frees kids from 22-month detention, ICE fights to bring them back
On a video-conferencing screen at an immigration court in York County Prison, a 4-year-old boy appears, sitting in a white plastic chair ...
8 years ago
Listen 2:38After marrying U.S. citizens, undocumented immigrants coming out of the shadows attract ICE scrutiny
Marriage tests couples in any number of ways. Lillie Williams and Jonatan Palacios, both 27, have just spent about an hour being q ...
8 years ago
Listen 5:23Paving way to citizenship, new Philly program offers eligible immigrants financial tools
More than 90 percent of all Latinos with lawful permanent status in the United States say they would become citizens if they could, accor ...
8 years ago