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SCOTUS Rejects Trump Administration Request to Review DACA
On Monday, February 26, the Washington Post reported that the Supreme Court declined to take up the Trump administration’s request to review a decision made in a lower federal court to maintain the DACA program (read more about DACA here). This decision means that the Trump administration is not constitutionally permitted…
Temporary Protected Status Extended for Syrians
On Wednesday, January 31, the New York Times reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to an estimated 6,900 Syrians living in the United States under the program. Extending the Syrian community’s TPS will enable those individuals to legally work and live…
White House Proposal for Dreamer Path to Citizenship Comes with Some Caveats
On Thursday, January 25, The Washington Post reported that the White House is proposing a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million Dreamers (DACA recipients). In exchange for sparing young undocumented immigrants the hardships of deportation, the proposal calls for a $25 billion trust fund for a border wall and additional…
Trump’s Derogatory Comment Curtails Immigration Efforts
On Thursday, January 11, President Trump reportedly asked during a bipartisan meeting on immigration reform, “Why are we having people from all of these shithole countries here?” in reference to Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries. Trump would later go on to say that Haitians should be left out of any future immigration…
Federal Judge Blocks DACA Phaseout
On Tuesday, January 9, US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate DACA. Alsup quoted the President himself in his 49-page court order. The quote came from Twitter of course, which Trump had composed less than two weeks following the Department of Homeland…
Trump Administration Ends TPS for 200,000 Salvadorans
On Monday, January 8, the Trump administration announced that it would be ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some 200,000 Salvadorans living in the United States. This decision comes just weeks after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ended the TPS program for recipients from Nicaragua and Haiti. Those from…
Trump Administration Asks Congress for $18 Billion for Border Wall Construction
January 5, 2018 Policy Summary On Friday, January 5, the Trump Administration announced that it would be seeking $18 billion from Congress over the next ten years for border wall construction. This price tag is estimated to cover an additional 316 miles of new fencing...
Supreme Court Upholds Travel Ban 3.0
On Monday, December 4, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the third revision of the Trump travel ban could lawfully take effect. Travel Ban 3.0 had previously been blocked by Judge Derrick K. Watson, a federal judge in Hawaii, the day before its provisions were set to be implemented. While this is a major victory…
DHS Ends Temporary Protected Status Ended for Nicaraguan and Haitian Communities
On Monday, November 6, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it would end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 2,500 Nicaraguans living in the United States. Temporary Protected Status is a program enacted by Congress in 1990 in which the Secretary of Homeland Security grants foreign-born…