Eric Cortellessa, Time Magazine, Feb. 29, 2024 "Legal experts say that Biden can’t unilaterally override immigration law without legislation. The current federal statute requires the U.S. government to grant asylum to persons who have been forcibly...
David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1, 2024 "For more than a century, immigration and border enforcement have been seen as falling exclusively under federal control, and when states tried to exert a greater role, courts shut them down. Texas is now...
Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 28, 2024 "As negotiations faltered Friday, Biden released a statement saying a bipartisan group of senators have been working around the clock over the past two months to address the border crisis and that the deal being...
Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Jan. 17, 2024 "As members from separate branches of government point fingers at one another, the persistent situation at the border leaves voters with plenty of questions. "What branch of government is ‘really’...
Ellen M. Gilmer, Bloomberg, Dec. 22, 2023 "US border and immigration policies face make-or-break decisions in federal courts in 2024, with the fate of key executive powers, status for “Dreamers,” and state authority on the docket. Judges have...
Kevin Frey, Spectrum News, Dec. 19, 2023 "Negotiations to tighten the southern border continue in Washington, as senators search for a potentially elusive deal. However, some immigration experts question if an agreement would have any tangible impact —...
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Aarón Torres and Alfredo Corchado, The Dallas Morning News, Nov. 14, 2023 "A sweeping border security bill prioritized by Gov. Greg Abbott would allow for Texas to order undocumented migrants to return to Mexico, but experts, including former federal...
Jorge Cancino, Univision, Nov. 10, 2023 "After a review of the political scenario and the stagnation of the immigration debate in both houses of Congress in the last two decades, a group of academics from Cornell University, New York, urged the legislature...
Chris Matthews, MarketWatch, Nov. 3, 2023 "Top Biden officials are pushing Democrats to accept a deal on immigration. President Joe Biden wants Congress to approve more than $75 billion in new spending to bolster Israel and Ukraine's war efforts, and...
Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Nov. 2, 2023 "The vow to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history would face potentially insurmountable operational barriers. The deportation branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for example,...