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Maria Gabriela Pacheco is the new CEO and president of the prominent organization TheDream.US. She began advocating on the issue two decades ago while attending Miami Dade College as an undocumented student. Her family moved to Florida from Ecuador looking for a safer life.
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The U.S. district judge agreed with nine states suing to stop the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The ruling means the program's fate will likely go to the Supreme Court a third time.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said "Illinois is now letting illegal aliens become police officers." The statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts.
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The Fifth Circuit said a federal district judge in Texas should take another look at the program following the revisions adopted by the Biden administration, leaving the future of DACA up in the air.
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A federal judge in Texas last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program dead but left it intact while his order is appealed by the Justice Department and advocacy groups.
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Ten years ago, the Obama administration announced the DACA program to protect certain young immigrants in the U.S. from being deported. Two Dreamers reflect on the years since.
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One day after a federal district judge in Texas ruled against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, President Biden said the Department of Justice intends to appeal the decision.
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When President Trump repealed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, during his term, many immigrants were left in limbo about their immigration status. Even now that the policy is back, a chilling effect that struck immigrants has not fully dispelled.
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Santiago Potes was the first Latino DACA recipient among 32 Americans to receive the Rhodes Scholarship last year — one of the oldest and most prestigious international scholarship programs in the world. It allows college students to study at Oxford University in England.
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Hundreds of thousands of children of undocumented immigrants will be protected from deportation following a recent federal court ruling. Self-driving cars are delivering produce from school gardens to children learning at home in Miami-Dade. And the duo Black Violin are defying stereotypes, mixing classical music with hip-hop.
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Hundreds of thousands of children of undocumented immigrants will be protected from deportation following a recent federal court ruling. Self-driving cars are delivering produce from school gardens to children learning at home in Miami-Dade. And the duo Black Violin are defying stereotypes, mixing classical music with hip-hop.
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As a 2021 Rhodes Scholar, Potes will study at the University of Oxford. His parents settled in Miami after fleeing Colombia when he was 4. He is a new graduate of Columbia University in New York.