WASHINGTON — Congress moved on two fronts Thursday to test the limits of presidential authority, with a surprising maneuver in the Senate to begin debating President Obama’s war powers against the Islamic State and a vote in the House to prohibit him from enforcing his executive action on
For the immigrant advocates who for years have been calling on President Obama to curtail deportations, the Secure Communities program symbolized what was wrong with the nation’s immigration enforcement strategy.
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Whatever the details of President Obama’s planned immigration overhaul, the stakes are particularly high for California.
The state has the largest number of people who are in the country illegally, and many have especially deep roots.
The changes could bring some form of legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants here and benefit two of the
Every time Berzabeth Valdez heads out to work from her mobile home on the outskirts of Houston, it crosses her mind that she might not come back.
Ms. Valdez, 48, is a Mexican immigrant who has been living in Texas for 11 years without legal papers, and
WASHINGTON — Millions of undocumented immigrants who are set to be granted a form of legal status by President Obama as early as this week will not receive one key benefit: government subsidies for health care available under the Affordable Care Act.
Sara Martinez never wanted her two daughters to grow up poor and anxious about life, the way she had in Ecuador. But that is what happened.
Ms. Martinez lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, with her younger daughter, a United States citizen who was born not long after
EL PARAÍSO, Guatemala — The smugglers advertised on the radio as spring bloomed into summer: “Do you want to live better? Come with me.”
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If elected lieutenant governor in November, State Senator Dan Patrick, a Republican, has vowed to work to repeal the law that allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at Texas community colleges and universities.
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WASHINGTON — The crisis on the border with Mexico is rapidly overtaking President Obama’s plans to use executive action to reshape the nation’s immigration system, forcing him to confront a new set of legal, administrative and political complications.
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OYSTER CREEK, Tex. — A shelter for Central American children who crossed the border illegally opened behind Gregg Griffith’s house here a few months ago. The children are quiet. No one has hopped over the fence that separates his backyard from the shelter, a once-vacant youth home. But when Mr. Griffith looks at the brightly
