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It must be so tiring â and stressful â to be a dreamer.
To be, we mean, one of the young people enrolled in the Obama-era DACA program â Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals â caught between here and there, trying to build a future in the only country theyâve ever known while Congress and courts play volleyball with their lives. These people, doing the best they can with limitations that would drive many crazy, deserve our respect and our admiration.
They also deserve some action from Congress. But itâs anyoneâs guess when theyâll get it.
The latest plot twist in their drama occurred last week when a federal judge in Texas ruled that DACA was an âillegally implemented programâ and said âthe public interest of the nation is always served by the cessation of a program that was created in violation of law.â His ruling prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from approving new applications to the program, which grants
The tenor of the debate on Capitol Hill has been highly personal, with Democrats expressing a sense of distrust toward their Republican colleagues with regard to their personal safety and health, while many GOP members accuse Democrats of using the tragedies of the attack and the pandemic to score political points.
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The Latest: Man who posed in Pelosi’s office, state lawmaker-elect among those charged in Capitol riot
The latest on the turmoil in the U.S. government in the waning days of the Trump administration.
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WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department and FBI announced charges Friday against an incoming West Virginia lawmaker, an Arkansas man who told the media he posed for photos on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and an Alabama man whose truck allegedly carried 11 molotov cocktails and a semiautomatic rifle to this week’s U.S. Capitol riots.