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The fight around birthright citizenship was at the Supreme Court, where justices on Wednesday heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the case around the Trump administration’s blatantly un-American effort to terminate this constitutional right – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – through an executive order. Inside...
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This is a guest post by David Leopold, America’s Voice Legal Advisor and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The debate over birthright citizenship is no longer a theoretical exercise confined to campaign trail rhetoric. What was once a fringe proposal championed by restrictionists in Congress has...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Although it is evident that ICE uses racial profiling in its immigration raids in Los Angeles, the Supreme Court...
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Hundreds rallied outside the Supreme Court this week, where the Trump administration demanded that justices nullify the kinds of the lower court orders that have blocked its unconstitutional and outrageous effort to terminate birthright citizenship – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – via executive order. Outside...
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling with an unmistakable message: the Trump administration must follow the law and return Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego García back home. In the decision, the majority stated that the administration must “facilitate and effectuate” the return of Abrego García, who was disappeared...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish: The Supreme Court ruling that extends immunity to President Donald Trump for acts committed in his official capacity, during the attempt to impede the certification of Joe Biden’s victory...
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Mar 14, 2024
Read the first half of this post (explaining DACA and Dreamers) here. WHEN TRUMP ENDED DACA Since DACA was created through an executive order, presidents after Obama technically had the authority to rescind the program at any time. On September 5, 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-President Donald...
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Washington, DC – The following is an assessment from David Leopold, Legal Advisor to America’s Voice, past president, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and Immigration Group Leader, Ulmer & Berne LLP, previewing the Supreme Court and 2023: “Today, the United States Supreme Court will hold its first arguments of...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week. One of the many lessons of the Supreme Court decision to overturn federal legal protection for abortion is that...
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Today, President Biden nominated Federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. This comes a month after Justice Stephen G. Breyer announced his retirement. She would be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court and is considered by Biden to be “one of the nation’s...
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