UN rights boss ‘disturbed’ by US shift on immigration, urges Congress to protect ‘Dreamers’

Thomson Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) – The top U.N. human rights official voiced concern on Monday at the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA program for immigrants who arrived illegally as children and urged the U.S. Congress to give them lasting legal status in the country. Referring to a move to end the Deferred Action […]

From Apple to Y Combinator—tech sector denounces new “Dreamers” plan

Enlarge / WASHINGTON—US Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks on immigration at the Justice Department September 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sessions announced that the Trump Administration is ending the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—which protected those who were brought to the US illegally as children—with a six-month delay for Congress to put […]

DREAMers Deferred

On a Friday in the summer of 2012, in the midst of his reelection campaign, former President Barack Obama spoke of “young people who studied in our schools, they play in our neighborhoods, they’re friends with our kids, they pledge allegiance to our flag. They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every […]

‘Dreamers’ may lose DACA deportation relief, Homeland chief warns Democrats

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is advising Congressional Hispanic Caucus Democrats to work on immigration reform, as deportation protection for undocumented immigrants who illegally entered the US as minors may not survive a court challenge. Read more Kelly’s spokesman, David Lapan, told CNN and Politico on Wednesday that Kelly has been informed by legal experts […]