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Rather than protect Dreamers, GOP lawmakers push to strengthen border measures

The House passed the American Dream and Promise Act in March 2021, which would allow DACA recipients, or “Dreamers,” to apply for permanent residency and end the legal limbo that has repeatedly jeopardized their ability to stay in the United States.

The power of the purse, prosecutorial discretion, and jurisdiction, are all implicated.

One of the few issues most Americans can agree on when it comes to the thorny topic of immigration is that longtime residents who were brought into the United States illegally as children should be granted permanent status. Congress should seize the opportunity during the lame-duck session to pass such…

An imminent end to pandemic-era asylum restrictions under Title 42 has renewed border policy debates on Capitol Hill.

Since 2012, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has protected more than 800,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, allowing them to work, drive and travel legally.

Tawheeda Wahabzada was tired of hoping she would ever have a permanent place in the country that had been home for nearly her entire life. So in February 2020, after hosting a "self-deportation party" where she said goodbye to her friends and family, she left the U.S.

We must think about the consequences of Senate inaction in human terms. Ending DACA will shatter the lives of nearly 2 million people in our country who were brought here as children.

Republican candidates stressed immigration in the 2022 midterm elections, in campaign ads and pledges to finish Donald Trump's border wall.

Mexican-born filmmaker Jorge Xolalpa is mired in a years-long battle over whether he can keep working legally in the United States

LOS ANGELES — The University of California is considering a proposal to break legal ground by hiring immigrant students without work authorization in what would be a test of federal law that could dramatically alter tens of thousands of young lives.