Name: White House preps ‘dreamers’ celebration while President Biden eyes new benefits for immigrants
Uploaded: 2024-06-13T16:56:56-04:00
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Description: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an Obama-era directive that offered deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, as his own administration prepares potential new benefits for others without legal status but with long-standing ties in the United States. White House officials are closing in on a […]

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White House preps ‘dreamers’ celebration while President Biden eyes new benefits for immigrants

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an Obama-era directive that offered deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, as his own administration prepares potential new benefits for others without legal status but with long-standing ties in the United States. White House officials are closing in on a […]

Dreamers, DACA recipients are left out amid rightward shift on immigration

Young undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers” once had the political leverage to force a vote on a bill that would help them earn citizenship. But in the now-defunct Senate bipartisan immigration proposal, Dreamers were ignored altogether, a casualty of the rightward shift on immigration. This is true despite poll after poll over a number of […]