Immigration rights groups are slamming the ruling by a federal judge in Texas who has ordered a preliminary injunction against a set of immigration policy changes put forth by the Obama administration in an executive order last year. In a ruling handed down late Monday, Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville,…
President Barack Obama’s long awaited executive action on immigration was unveiled Thursday night. Local immigrant rights activists cheered the decision to extend relief to an estimated 4 million undocumented immigrants. The actions will defer deportation for immigrants who have been in the US for more than five years and have children who are either US…
President Barack Obama announced Thursday a plan to reform an immigration system that he says “is broken and everybody knows it.” The president’s plan calls for cracking down on illegal border crossings, prioritizing the deportation of felons rather than families, and expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program known as DACA. “There are actions…
