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Jeff Sessions Is Quietly Transforming the Nation’s Immigration Courts
The attorney general has stepped up the hiring of immigration judges, ordered them to hear more cases, and shown a preference for those who’ve previously been prosecutors.
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Rebecca Blackwell / AP Trump’s Deal With Mexico Could Make Asylum Next to Impossible
Which might be the point.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Don’t Bet on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the New Congress
Even with a Democratic House majority, the most plausible immigration deal might only help the “Dreamers” and those with temporary protected status.
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Steve Helber / AP What a New Crop of Veteran-Lawmakers Means for Democrats
They could be the start of a redefined party that’s more closely associated with national security.
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These Counties Kicked Out Republican Incumbents
They fueled the victories of Democratic challengers such as Colin Allred in Texas and Lucy McBath in Georgia.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Latest Target of Trump's Immigration Attacks
In an address Thursday, the president criticized U.S. asylum policy and threatened to detain those who credibly claim the protections.
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These Counties Could Determine Control of the House
Four types of American counties could play an outsize role in whether Democrats regain power in the lower chamber.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship Takes Direct Aim at the Constitution
The president said he intends to remove the right through executive order—a move that would reignite a long-standing debate over the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Rodrigo Abd / AP Why Migrant Caravans Keep Forming
Just days after a group of Hondurans began their trek to the U.S.-Mexico border, a second caravan began to gather. It could signal a trend toward more people traveling in groups.
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Moises Castillo / AP There Is No Easy Way for Trump to Stop the Latest Caravan
The president tried prosecuting migrants and separating families but so far hasn’t been able to deter the latest migrant caravan from heading north.
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Reed Saxon / AP Will Kavanaugh Finally Cast the Vote That Ends DACA?
The Justice Department has warned that if the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t rule on the program, it’ll take it up to the new conservative Supreme Court majority.
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Moises Castillo / AP What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Central American Caravan
Attempts to discourage migrants from journeying to the U.S.-Mexico border often don’t take into account the conditions they’re fleeing from.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Trump’s Immigration Agenda Takes Another Hit in Court
A federal judge in California blocked the administration from terminating temporary protected status for four countries, citing racial “animus.”
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Gabriella Demczuk / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Historic Hearing
During a tense hearing on sexual-misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor, delivered an emotional testimony detailing the night she says she was sexually assaulted by the Supreme Court nominee.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The U.S. Sends an Unwelcoming Signal to Refugees
By dramatically reducing the admission cap for the upcoming fiscal year, the administration seems to be abandoning the country’s long-standing commitment to helping those fleeing war and persecution.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Canada May Soon Outpace the U.S. in Refugee Admissions
For years, America has led the world in admissions, but under the Trump administration, it’s relinquishing that role.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic America’s System for Resettling Refugees Is Collapsing
National resettlement agencies are closing offices and laying off staff in response to the decline in arrivals, leaving the future of the program in the balance.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP George W. Bush’s Eulogy for John McCain
During a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral, the former president delivered a tribute to the late Arizona senator, whose bid for the presidency he blocked in 2000.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Immigration Fight That May Soon Land in the Supreme Court
A DACA ruling from a federal district judge in Texas could conflict with previous orders that have allowed the program to proceed, and, as a result, bring the issue to the Court.
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Brennan Linsley / AP 'How Much More Merit Do You Need Than Saving American Lives?'
In the past year, there’s been a sudden drop in arrivals under the special-immigrant-visa program for Afghan and Iraqi citizens, many of whom served alongside U.S. soldiers as battlefield translators.
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John Moore / Getty How Will Detained Children Find Their Parents?
President Trump is ordering an end to the separation of families at the border, but the fate of thousands of children already in government custody is uncertain.
