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Deferred Action
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ImmigrationProf Blog
John Yoo on the Deferred Action Program
Immigration Impact has an interesting post about the latest scholarship of Berkeley Law Prof John Yoo. As a high-ranking Justice Department attorney after 9/11, Yoo authored an infamous legal memo arguing…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Flood of Applications, With a Trickle of Approvals
Julia Preston in the N.Y. Times reports on the initial results in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that the Obama administration announced in June. As of Thursday the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Some of the First Deferred Action Beneficiaries Already Received Notification
Click here for details.KJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
Will Deferred Action DREAMers get Drivers Licenses?
From the Associated Press:Some states, such as Oregon and Georgia, have announced that they will grant driving privileges to those eligible for the new (DACA) program. Others, such as Arizona…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DREAMers Cautious on Deferred Action Offer
Miriam Jordan writes for the Wall Street Journal:The flow of applications for a program allowing undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. and work legally has been slowed by concerns…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Kobach’s Legal Challenge to DACA: The Bridge to Nowhere
ImmigrationProf reported last week that Kris Kobach had filed suit on behalf of ICE employees challenging the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The lawsuit has little chance of success…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Complaint in Kris Kobach’s Latest Immigration Lawsuit and Challenge to Obama Administration
Photo courtesy of KrisKobach.orgBill Hing reported earlier on ImmigrationProf about Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach filing suit in federal court in the Northern District of Texas on behalf of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
ICE Officers Sue to Halt DHS Deferred Action
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A group of ICE officers sued DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to halt the Department's deferred action program,…
Workforce Compliance Insights
States Deny Public Benefits to DREAMers
As you may have heard by now, the Obama Administration decided to act on the issue of children brought to the United States who have gone on to have otherwise…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Linda Chavez Supports Deferred Action Program
Conservative pundit Linda Chavez, nominated by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Labor, has written this interesting op/ed expressing support for the Obama Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. …