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Immigration

Caleb Arnold (left) is Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's pick to fill the newly created position of immigrant rights coordinator.
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

Fulfilling campaign vow, Philly DA adds position to focus on immigrant issues

Krasner has hired Caleb Arnold, a former activist, criminal defense attorney, and immigration attorney to oversee this process in the role of immigration counsel.

8 years ago

Listen 1:57
Yesenia Aguilar of Reading, Pa. holds her one year old daughter Denalli Urdaneta at an immigration rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018.  (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump plan offers citizenship path to 1.8 million immigrants

Democrats said they were heartened Thursday by Trump's support, while Republicans were more cautious.

8 years ago

Children hold signs at a November news conference in Miami in support of renewing temporary protected status for immigrants from Central America and Haiti. (Lynne Sladky/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

NAACP sues Trump administration over ending protected status for Haitians

At least 46,000 Haitians are living in the U.S. with protection from deportation and the ability to work under the TPS program.

8 years ago

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed a major immigration law that offered amnesty to people in the country illegally who arrived prior to 1982.
NPR
Politics & Policy

The GOP’s evolution on immigration

For decades, leading figures in the GOP went out of their way to sound a compassionate note when it came to immigration policy.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, January 24, 2017

New Jersey’s new Attorney General joins a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s plan to end the DACA program.  We look ...

Air Date: January 24, 2018

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 In this June 21, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Bethesda, Md. Sessions is visiting the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, which he has called a fine place to house new terrorism suspects. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Justice Dept ramps up pressure on so-called sanctuary cities

The Justice Department ramped up pressure Wednesday on so-called sanctuary cities seeking public safety grant money.

8 years ago

Diana Colin, right, with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), shouts,
NPR
Courts & Law

What the latest immigration polls do (and don’t) say

Here's a look at immigration polls to explain what findings are shaky — and to highlight what can reasonably be concluded about Americans' views on immigration.

8 years ago

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

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