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Immigration

Fifty protesters chanted and held signs in an overflow room at the Bensalem Township municipal building on January 22, 2018.
Courts & Law

Bucks Co. township’s effort to partner with ICE sparks fears of racial profiling

A proposed partnership between the Bensalem Township police department and federal immigration enforcement derailed a run-of-the-mill township council meeting Monday night.

8 years ago

Protesters outside the courthouse where 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges were hearing Hawaii's challenge last month to the Trump administration's latest travel ban. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court to hear latest challenge to Trump’s travel ban

Almost a year after Trump tried to bar travelers from entering the US, the Supreme Court announced that will consider a legal challenge to the third version of that ban.

8 years ago

The Supreme Court of New Jersey, at the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton, NJ.
Courts & Law

Top N.J. court: Question on defendant’s immigration status ‘improper’

The N.J. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that attorneys cannot ask about the immigration status of a defendant in order to attack his or her credibility.

8 years ago

Protesters opposed to Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration march outside of Terminal A at Philadelphia International Airport. (Branden Eastwood for NewsWorks)
Politics & Policy

In Trump’s first year, Philly’s ‘sanctuary city’ label led to more arrests, lawsuits

ICE officers arrested 3,600 people across Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia in budget year 2016. The next year, 5,000 were arrested.

8 years ago

Listen 4:30
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, January 17, 2018

The Department of Justice has ...

Air Date: January 17, 2018

Listen 22:01
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at a news conference after touring the U.S.-Mexico border on April 11. The Justice Department is warning so-called
Courts & Law

DOJ appeals decision in Philadelphia’s win in ‘sanctuary city’ case

The U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

8 years ago

Demonstrators protest at Sen. Dean Heller's, R-Nev., office in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Temporary Protected Status (TPS), programs on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
NPR
Politics & Policy

No closer to DACA deal, Republicans push Plan B to keep government open

A continuing resolution is due to expire this Friday, but Republicans have proposed kicking the can down the road again with an extension on stop-gap funding through Feb. 16.

8 years ago

 In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (Eric Gay/AP Photo, File)
PBS
Community

As Trump ends temporary protections for Salvadorans, this poet writes to humanize the immigrant story

8 years ago

DACA advocates march near Trump Tower in August in New York City. The government says it will resume DACA renewals. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

DACA recipients can apply for renewal, government says

The Department of Homeland Security says it will once again accept renewal requests from recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

8 years ago

United States Circa 1900: Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York. (Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

President Trump’s idea of good and bad immigrant countries has a historical precedent

From 1924 to 1965, the United States allocated immigrant visas on the basis of a candidate's national origin.

8 years ago

President Trump (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump denies calling African countries vulgar slur; Top Dem says he said it

"This was not the language used," Trump said in a tweet.

8 years ago

Advocates of the New Jersey proposal tout safety as a main advantage, arguing that unlicensed drivers have not been tested on the rules of the road and are less likely to have car insurance. (Andy Kazie/Bigstock)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Push to extend licenses to unauthorized immigrants resumes in N.J.

With Gov.-elect Phil Murphy ready to take office, proponents of allowing immigrants in the country illegally to get a driver's license are optimistic.

8 years ago

Listen 1:58
Diego Rios, 23, of Rockville, Md., rallies in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, outside of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. President Donald Trump will end a program that has protected hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children and call for Congress to find a legislative solution. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the changes Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

DACA and immigration reform negotiations

Guests: Olivia Vasquez, Alan Gomez, Sarah Stillman A lot happened around immigration policy this week. Congressio ...

Air Date: January 12, 2018

Listen 49:29
U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD), holds a bipartisan meeting with legislators on immigration reform on January 9, 2018.  REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
PBS NewsHour
Politics & Policy

Trump asks why U.S. would want to admit more immigrants from ‘s***hole countries’

Trump made the remark in a meeting as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was explaining the outlines of an agreement that six senators had reached.

8 years ago

Cristina Jimenez speaks to demonstrators urging the Democratic Party to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act (DACA) rally outside the office of California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in Los Angeles Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. California has the largest number of people who are affected by the law, also known as the Dream Act. (Reed Saxon/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

GOP senator says lawmakers reach immigration compromise

The group has been working for months in hopes of securing legislation to extend DACA.

8 years ago

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