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Mike Segar / Reuters What the Waiting List for Legal Residency Actually Looks Like
Politicians argue immigrants should just “get in line” if they want to live in the United States. But the process itself can take decades.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'Nothing Will Be Official, Until It's Official'
DACA recipients are hopeful about the possibility of Trump signing a bill to grant them legal status, but skeptical about whether it’ll come to fruition.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Immigration Restrictionists Are Disappointed by Trump
Leading opponents of amnesty are waiting warily for details of Trump’s arrangement with Democratic congressional leaders.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters Borrowed Time
The president’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program leaves its beneficiaries in fear of losing their work permits.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Immigration Hardliners Praise Trump for Ending DACA
Advocates of reduced immigration welcomed news of the program ending Tuesday, but expressed concern over what comes next.
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Richard Vogel / AP Trump Ends Obama-Era Protection for Undocumented Immigrants
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Obama-era program shielding nearly 800,000 people brought to the U.S. as children from deportation is being rescinded.
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Spencer Platt / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Trump Prepares to End DACA
The administration may undo the program shielding unauthorized immigrants who arrived as children, rolling back a signature Obama-era initiative.
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Evan Vucci / AP Can a Decades-Old Immigration Proposal Pass Under Trump?
The RAISE Act, with the backing of the White House, represents the best opportunity for immigration restrictionist groups in 20 years.
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Steve Helber / AP To Trump, All Protesters Are Alike
The president blames “many sides” for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Steve Helber / AP Car Strikes Charlottesville Crowd, 1 Dead
Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas said the crash claimed the life of a 32-year-old woman.
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Steve Helber / AP A State of Emergency in Charlottesville
University of Virginia students are being instructed to shelter in place amid protests, a professor says.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Could Trump’s Immigration Agenda Ever Get Through Congress?
Even groups supportive of the president’s plans have their doubts.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP House GOP Budget Plan Cuts Medicare and Social Security
The spending proposal is likely to receive pushback from Republicans wary of cutting into popular entitlement programs.
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Timothy D. Easley / AP DHS Provides Additional Foreign Worker Visas on ‘Made in America’ Week
The decision appears to conflict with the president’s often-heated rhetoric on immigration.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Trump's Incredible Shrinking Border Wall
The president said Thursday that he wouldn’t pursue sealing off the entire border as he had pledged to do on the campaign trail.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Donald Trump Jr.'s Email Exchange With Rob Goldstone
The president’s son coordinated with the music publicist last June to arrange a meeting with a “Russian attorney,” who had potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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Eric Gay / AP Court Says Undocumented Minors Have the Right to a Bond Hearing
A three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that immigrant children held in detention are entitled to present their case before an immigration judge.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Once More Unto the Beach
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was pictured on a public beach that was among those closed over the weekend by the government shutdown.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Immigration Allies Are Growing Frustrated With Him
The president was supposed to be their champion, but he’s failed to act on some of his key campaign promises.
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Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters Trump Ditches His Promise to 'Terminate' DACA
The president had repeatedly pledged to end the Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation.
