Trump’s Justice Department Is Moving to Make It Easier to Deport DACA Recipients

The Trump administration is continuing its attacks on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, that has given deportation relief and work permits to immigrants who came to the United States as children. The Board of Immigration Appeals — an administrative court within the Justice Department — recently ruled that DACA status is not enough to spare someone from deportation…
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Judge Orders Release of Mother and 5 Children Held in ICE Jail for Nearly a Year

A lawyer for a family that has spent close to a year at an immigration detention center in Texas at the insistence of the Trump administration demanded the family’s release late Monday after a federal magistrate judge found that “requiring them to endure further detention… risks compounding the constitutional violation.” “A federal court has determined [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement]’…
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