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Deferred Action
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Administrative Action on Immigration Would Benefit American Workers
In light of President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he has requested recommendations from Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to help fix the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Call to Expand Deferred Action — NOW
I received this e-mail this morning. Dear Kevin,Every day, as a pastor at St. Sabrina Parish in Belton, Missouri, I see the systems that are supposed to protect Americans instead denying our…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law — President: Act Now to Halt the Deportation Machinery
The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law yesterday sent a letter to President Obama in response to his request to the Department of Homeland Security on how to slow…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DACA Recipients sue Georgia for in-state tuition
The Latino Times reports that noncitizens granted status under the Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals program have sued the state of Georgia for not allowing them to pay resident fees…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
News: The Dream Act Dies in New York
By Sara Rankin
Almost 15 years ago, before the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Initiative, I started practice as a young associate in a large law firm in Chicago. As…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Protest Shuts Down ICE in Tacoma
From the National Day Laborer Organizing Network:Our civil disobedience action to shut down ICE and demanding Obama to stop deportations and extend deferred action to all undocumented immigrants at the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
San Francisco Says Extend Deferred Action to Families and End I-9 Audits
Yesterday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed this resolution unanimously:RESOLUTIONUrging Suspension of Any Further Deportations of Undocumented Immigrants, Extending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program and Ending the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
29 House Democrats To Obama: Stop the Deportations
Twenty-nine House Democratic members sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday calling for him to halt deportations, arguing that it would help, not hurt, the debate over immigration…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Roots of Deferred Action in the John Lennon Case
Dianne Solis has an interesting retrospective on the issue of prosecutorial discretion in the famous John Lennon deportation case. KJRelated articlesDeferred Action in Immigration Law: The Next Generation by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
ImmigrationProf Blog
MALDEF REPRESENTS DREAMERS IN SEEKING TO DEFEND DACA FROM FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE: Files for Intervention to Offer Statutory Defense to Court
MALDEF filed for intervention yesterday in Crane v. Napolitano, a federal lawsuit in which ten Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are seeking to block the implementation of the federal…