Federal Judge Blocks New DACA Applications for Dreamers Who Came to U.S. as Kids
Federal Judge Blocks New DACA Applications for Dreamers Who Came to U.S. as Kids
A federal judge ruled that the executive branch did not have a right to create the program allowing Dreamers to remain in the country because Congress hadn t granted it the power to do so
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A federal judge in Texas has suspended an immigration program that has protected from deportation thousands of undocumented young adult immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
Created by former president Barack Obama with a 2012 executive order, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protects these immigrants, known as “Dreamers,” from being sent to their country of origin after they have spent years living in the U.S. as long as they entered the country before age 16 or applied for the program before age 30.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) It’s been nearly three decades since Virginia’s only woman to win a statewide race held political office. That drought will end in November when voters decide whether Democratic Del. Hala Ayala or former Republican legislator Winsome Sears will be their next lieutenant governor. Either will make history as the first woman […]
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23 Candidates Are on Ballot for Open Texas Congressional Seat
The front-runner in Saturday’s election is Susan Wright, who has been endorsed by Donald J. Trump and is the widow of Representative Ron Wright, who died of Covid-19 in February.
A display of election posters outside an early voting location in Mansfield, Texas. There are 23 candidates on the ballot in Saturday’s special election for a vacant House seat.Credit.LM Otero/Associated Press
May 1, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
AUSTIN, Texas Not long ago, Texas’ Sixth Congressional District seemed to be securely in Republican hands. Ron Wright, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was poised to advance the G.O.P.’s agenda after he was elected in 2018.