Search Results for: daca

Last Friday, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he will immediately pursue immigration legislation upon his inauguration.

With the election this past week of President-Elect Joe Biden, any changes made to immigration via executive order by President Trump could be quickly reversed by a new executive order.

There has been an extraordinary level of important immigration news surfacing over the past week or so, much of which can have a direct effect on anyone attempting to navigate the U.S. immigration system.

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.