Minnesota lawmakers on Wednesday advanced proposals to ask voters to continue earmarking state lottery funds for environment and natural resources projects.
The "Driver s Licenses For All" bill has circulated through the Minnesota Legislature for more than 10 years without being passed. Advocates are hopeful that a DFL-controlled Senate, House and governor s office will change that next year.
Biden acts to reverse immigration restrictions, open up new pathways to citizenship The president acted to preserve DACA and reverse the travel ban from Muslim-majority countries. January 20, 2021 9:41pm Text size Copy shortlink:
President Joe Biden made a sweeping effort on his first day in office Wednesday to reverse many of his predecessor s hard-line immigration policies, drawing guarded optimism from local immigration advocates.
He directed his administration to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has offered legal protections to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came as children without legal authorization. President Donald Trump had tried to rescind it. Biden requested Congress give DACA recipients permanent status and a path to citizenship.