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The United States House of Representatives passed the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, an updated version of the DREAM act, last Tuesday. 

Immigration law has been front and center in the news again this week.

Numerous provisions affecting immigration have made it in to Congress’ 1.3 trillion spending bill, but the most glaring omission is the lack of any new laws protecting recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

After a few days of debate and failed votes on four different immigration plans, the Senate is unlikely to pass any legislation addressing the status of nearly 700,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The short federal government shutdown in January only ended after Senate Leader Mitch McConnell promised Democratic senators a debate on immigration.  Tonight, that promised debate will begin.

The pace of immigration news this week has been overwhelming, contradictory, and consequential, but ultimately provides more questions than answers.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In September, President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, impacting about 800,000 immigrants commonly referred to as Dreamers.  DACA allowed these young immigrants, brought to the United States when they were children, the ability to work and go to school legally without fear of deportation.  With the program rescinded, about 100 […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents announced that an immigration sweep targeting so-called sanctuary jurisdictions was conducted over the previous few days. According to ICE, 167 immigrants were arrested in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. The target of the raids were purportedly undocumented immigrants with criminal records or who had been identified as […]

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, allows for undocumented immigrants who were illegally brought to the United States as children to avoid deportation and obtain work permits.  DACA is popular, with a recent poll showing that 73 percent of voters believe DACA recipients, commonly called Dreamers (a reference to the DREAM Act), […]