Federal judge decision puts thousands of lives on hold as many people can’t work or access student loans or scholarships. For Kimberly, an undocumented 20-year-old in Missouri, last week’s decision by a Texas judge to not allow immigrants to file…
San Antonio activists and immigrants are heading to Washington D.C. days after a federal judge in Texas ruled the Obama-era program illegal — and they’re encouraging others to follow. The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)…
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack batted back attacks from Republicans on the Biden administration’s border policies while discussing migrant farmworker programs at a Wednesday hearing, where Sen. Ted Cruz called Vilsack’s view on immigration “fertilizer.” During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing…
Immigrant rights advocates in California and nationwide will focus on pushing the Biden administration and Congress to enact immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship, after a judge last week declared DACA unlawful. Thousands of high school and college…
The party has a prime opportunity to go around Republicans, but it involves another battle with the Senate rulebook. Exhausted by years of sputtering immigration talks with Republicans, Democrats plan to try their luck with the Senate’s byzantine rulebook instead.…
The policy details unveiled Wednesday are a meaningful spotlight on the scope of the party’s spending ambitions. Senate Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package will unleash a gusher of hundreds of billions of dollars for progressive priorities, from climate programs to…
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday sought to recapture visas that would be lost due to coronavirus delays and Trump administration policies as it pushed forward the broader Department of Homeland Security funding bill. The bill provides $52.81 billion in…
Democrats are trying to jam in as many priorities as they can as they write the blueprint for their last shot at a partisan bill. Top Democrats are finalizing the bones of a multitrillion-dollar partisan spending plan designed to ride…
Illinois Rep. Jesús García (D) said Tuesday he will support a budget reconciliation package only if it includes provisions to grant a pathway to citizenship to a broad spectrum of the country’s undocumented population. García’s position is notable because Democrats…
Congress legalized millions of undocumented immigrants in 1986 — and it could again. Among President Joe Biden’s key campaign promises on immigration was to create an eight-year path to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in…
