Photo: The Rev. Noel Andersen, a former resident of Arizona, joined protesters in Washington on Monday The Rev. Noel Andersen calls it the “horrible Title 42 policy,” a Trump-era rule that has been used to turn away more than 1.7 million asylum-seekers since it began two years ago Monday as a COVID-19 precaution. Andersen, a
The on-again, off-again fight to end the Trump-era “remain in Mexico” policy is on again, after the Supreme Court said it will review lower court rulings that have forced the Biden administration to keep the program in place. The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the Biden administration’s appeal of the policy, which forces migrants to wait
Of more than 3 million DACA applications since 2012, about 900 were referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement – still too many for advocates who said they were promised no information would be shared with enforcement agencies. The numbers were contained in a recent Government Accountability Office report that said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Gilbert resident Jose Patiño remembers the moment he knew he wanted to work in Congress: It was 2018 and he had just spent months in Washington lobbying to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. “That’s where I saw how impactful it was to have people there,” Patiño said. “While I was not directly
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