WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court's increasingly fervent support for religious freedom was extended Thursday to three Muslim men placed on a no-fly list as punishment for refusing to become government informants. ...
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A federal court just reinstated DACA, and the implications go far beyond immigration
Late Friday afternoon, a federal district judge ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came ...
Flaws in Census Count Imperil Trump Plan to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants
WASHINGTON — Census Bureau experts have uncovered serious flaws in a section of the 2020 head count that potentially affect the enumeration of millions, according to people familiar with the census operations, delaying s ...
Business Leaders Urge Trump to Leave DACA Alone After Court Ruling
Executives with companies including Target, Apple, Google and Facebook warned the president that any actions related to DACA would disrupt the economy and affect the battle against the coronavirus. ...
Trump expected to refile paperwork to end DACA this week
If the Trump administration files this week, the new DACA policy will coincide with an official visit from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, the country of origin for a majority of DACA recipients. ...
A Dreamer hero whose life story tells us a lot
As a pandemic threatens our public health and economy in unimaginable ways, these Dreamers have stepped up in our time of great need. It's about time we did the same for them. ...
Five DACA Recipients on What’s Next
On the court’s decision: I’m obviously happy with the outcome, it is a win for our community, but we also know that it is temporary. As we have seen these last few years, and immediately following the decision, the attac ...
Supreme Court rules asylum seeker cannot challenge removal
Traditionally, the justices would celebrate birthdays with a toast at their regularly scheduled private session at the court. But with the coronavirus pandemic shutting down the courthouse, justices are meeting only by t ...
Five Years Later, How Obergefell Paved the Way for Bostock and the DACA Decision
The freedom to marry campaign and the epic transformation it engendered proved that—individually and collectively—we can still be engines of liberty. On the fifth anniversary of that triumph, it is heartening to see acti ...
“I Would Be Lying if I Said That I Wasn’t Scared”
Luis Cortes-Romero, a lawyer and DACA recipient, on his team’s Supreme Court victory. ...