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early and often
Oct. 7, 2022
Biden Calls Out MAGA Judges, Democratic Congress on DACA The president’s odd remark underscores that he and his allies need a better strategy for keeping their promises to Dreamers.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Advance Citizenship for 3.5 Million Immigrants A path to citizenship for Dreamers and migrant farmworkers heads to the Senate again, but the GOP will stall it to rail at the “border crisis.”
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Admin Defies Federal Court by Rejecting New DACA Applicants The Department of Homeland Security will no longer process new Dreamer applications, despite a direct order from a U.S. district court judge to do so.
By Matt Stieb
supreme court
June 18, 2020
Supreme Court Thwarts Trump’s Effort to Kill DACA The Court rebuked Trump for the second time this week, blocking him from ending the program that protects Dreamers from deportation, for now.
By Ed Kilgore
‘Home Is Here’: Supreme Court Blocks Trump From Ending DACA It’s a huge victory for Dreamers, but the fight is far from over.
By Bridget Read
vision 2020
Dec. 30, 2019
My Existential Dread of 2020 The long-awaited reckoning with Trumpism is about to arrive.
By Ed Kilgore
immigration
Nov. 18, 2019
4 Undocumented Women on What the End of DACA Would Mean “Without DACA, I could lose both of my jobs. I would lose the support I give to my family … I would also lose faith that I have in this government.”
As told to Araceli Cruz
supreme court
Nov. 13, 2019
Trump Won’t Own His DACA Decision. But the Supreme Court Might Choose to. The president has hidden behind spurious legalese in trying to remove protections for 700,000 Dreamers. Will John Roberts allow him to prevail anyway?
By Cristian Farias
democratic debates
Sept. 12, 2019
Debate Protesters Cut Off Biden: ‘We Are DACA Recipients, Our Lives Are at Risk’ Before Biden told a devastating story of the death of his wife and daughter, protesters yelled for candidates to protect migrants and defend DACA.
By Matt Stieb
supreme court
June 28, 2019
Supreme Court to Hear DACA Cases Next Term But the Court chose not to review an Alabama ban on the procedure used in most second-term abortions, with Thomas calling for reversal of precedents.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Jan. 11, 2019
It’s Official: We’re in the Longest Government Shutdown Ever The only path to a reopened federal government right now seems to be a national emergency declaration loaded with legal and political pitfalls.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Jan. 2, 2019
Latest White House Meeting on Government Shutdown Resolves Nothing Goes to show that a lot of lower-level spadework and a ripening of political conditions must precede any deal to reopen the government.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Jan. 2, 2019
Elusive Wall-for-DACA Deal Could Be Key to Ending Government Shutdown Trading relief for Dreamers for wall funding has long been on (or near) the table in Trump’s talks with Dems. But will he finally agree to a deal?
By Ed Kilgore
border wall
Nov. 28, 2018
Trump: The Dreamers Are My Hostages – But the Wall Is Not My Ransom Trump says he won’t negotiate over DACA because he thinks he’ll get a higher ransom once the Supreme Court makes Dreamers vulnerable to deportation.
By Eric Levitz
DACA Gets Big Win in Court From Judge Who Thinks It’s Illegal The never-ending legal drama around the program took a surprising twist on Friday.
By Benjamin Hart
immigration
Aug. 13, 2018
ICE Arrests of Undocumented Immigrants Without Criminal Records Triple Through targeted sweeps and “collateral arrests,” ICE is beginning to terrorize immigrant communities.
By Ed Kilgore
Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restart DACA in Full The administration may be forced to resume accepting new DACA applications by the end of the month.
By Chas Danner
immigration
July 22, 2018
500,000 Undocumented New Yorkers Are Living in a City of Fear 20,000 of the city’s immigrants have been identified for deportation since Trump took office. The rest worry they’ll be next.
House Democrats Refuse to Take Bait on ‘Abolish ICE’ Vote Arranged by GOP Republicans want to distract attention from their own immigration disagreements and burn a straw man, but House Democrats aren’t cooperating.
By Ed Kilgore
Why the GOP Might Face More Humiliation on Immigration Republican attempts to pass a bill were huge failures. But there’s always room to fail again.
By Ed Kilgore
At the End of the GOP’s Immigration Battle Stands Stephen Miller With a Veto Pen The already long odds against passage of an immigration bill face the additional problem of a White House that may prefer outrage to accomplishment.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Blames Democrats for His Most Horrifying Immigration Policy As furor grows over separating parents from the children at the border, Trump ducks responsibility for the crisis he created.
By Benjamin Hart
Trump’s Pick to Run Refugee Program Is a Fellow at Anti-Immigrant Group An outspoken critic of undocumented immigrants, Ronald Mortensen may soon be in charge of protecting refugees.
By Adam K. Raymond
Trump Evinces Interest in a ‘DACA for Wall’ Deal As moderates try to push protections for Dreamers through the House, the president suggests he could support a bill if it “includes a wall.”
By Eric Levitz
Paul Ryan Scrambles to Block Vote on DREAM Act GOP moderates are five signatures away from forcing a House vote on legal status for Dreamers. The Speaker is trying to stop them.
By Eric Levitz
Why the U.S. House May Finally Pass an Immigration Bill Endangered House Republicans from Latino-heavy districts are playing chicken with Paul Ryan — and indirectly the president — and may force a vote.
By Ed Kilgore
Report: Kelly Calls Trump ‘Idiot,’ May Be on Way Out of White House Oh, and he convinced the president not to pull all troops out of South Korea.
By Benjamin Hart
Third Federal Judge Agrees: Trump Administration Must Keep DACA A district court judge in D.C. said if they can’t provide a better justification, they must start accepting new applications, too.
By Margaret Hartmann
President Trump Apparently Doesn’t Know What DACA Is An anti-immigrant tweet reveals that his policy ignorance knows no bounds.
Yes, Romney the Presidential Candidate Was Right Wing on Immigration Mitt Romney may be trying to pander to conservatives by talking tough on immigration. But that’s something he’s been doing for a long time.
By Ed Kilgore
Alexander and Murray’s Bipartisan Obamacare Alliance Disintegrates When Obamacare stabilization measures reached their moment of truth, bipartisanship ceased and the GOP agenda took over.
By Ed Kilgore
Lou Dobbs Clip Inspires Trump to Undermine His Own Legal Position on Immigration Imagine the chagrin of Justice Department lawyers who woke up to find that a tweet from POTUS had sabotaged their legal fight with California.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Floats ‘DACA Extension for Wall Money’ Deal The president just realized he’s about to lose his last, best chance to build a border wall. But it’s probably too late to make a deal.
By Eric Levitz
GOP Congressional Leaders Ready to Wrap Up 2018 Very Soon Congress will soon find reasons not to act on much of what was supposed to represent its 2018 agenda — other than campaigning for reelection.
By Ed Kilgore
SCOTUS Hands Trump Temporary Setback on DACA Cancellation The March 5 deadline set for DACA’s demise is now a dead letter as the Ninth Circuit and then perhaps SCOTUS will review Trump’s action.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Position on Dreamers Is Indefensible — and He Knows It The president’s whole plan is to hold the Dreamers hostage and lie about what he’s doing. The media can’t let him get away with it.
By Eric Levitz
Senate Votes Down Every Immigration Proposal Trump’s own proposal and a bipartisan compromise that he angrily opposed both went down in the Senate.
By Ed Kilgore
Team Trump Fighting Immigration Compromise Even as a bipartisan bill emerges that might get 60 Senate votes, the administration is opposing it stridently.
By Ed Kilgore
A Dreamers-for-Wall Deal Could Pass the Senate — If Trump Lets It A bipartisan group of senators just struck such a deal. But Trump is (reportedly) unwilling to compromise on cuts to legal immigration.
By Eric Levitz
Will Trump Make or Break an Immigration Deal? The odds of any legislation making it through the abattoir of both houses of Congress is limited at best — unless Trump gives Republicans cover.
By Ed Kilgore
In Defense of the ‘Dumbest Shutdown’ The spending deal that Rand Paul held up for a few hours was pretty dumb, too.
By Ed Kilgore
backwards and in heels
Feb. 7, 2018
By Katie Van Syckle
Pelosi’s ‘DACA-buster’ Speech Likely a Record-Setter for the House Pelosi can’t stop a spending deal that excludes DACA. But she can talk about it.
By Ed Kilgore
The Supreme Court Would Be Crazy to Jump Into the DACA Dispute The Supreme Court has an opportunity to weigh in on the future of DACA, but the justices should let Trump fix the mess he created.
By Cristian Farias
Trump Has Lost the Upper Hand in the Immigration Fight The president took hostages that he’s unwilling to shoot. Now, the Dreamers’ allies have no reason to pay his ransom.
By Eric Levitz
state of the union
Jan. 29, 2018
By Carolyn Twersky
How Trump’s Immigration Proposal Could Be Trouble for Democrats Turns out Americans are much more open to restrictions on legal immigration than they are to deporting Dreamers.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Surprise Immigration Proposal The White House presented the outline of a deal — amnesty for Dreamers, but big asks — that might just make everyone mad.
By Ed Kilgore
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