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Battle to Legalize ‘Dreamers’ Hits New Snag in Congress

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An obscure Senate procedure known as “budget reconciliation” could determine the future of millions of immigrants brought to the U.S. The strategy could undermine two decades of efforts to win a path to citizenship for “Dreamer” immigrants. as children this year by attaching their potential citizenship to a $3.5

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Mexican Cartel Territory Wars Force Thousands Towards the U.S. Border

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As criminal groups battle for control over Mexican territory, an estimated 20,000 people have fled violence in the past year in Michoacán state, roughly the size of West Virginia — with thousands more abandoning their homes in other states like Zacatecas and Guerrero and heading north to the U.S./Mexico

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Young Advocates Lead Effort to Curb Campus Suicide

The Crime Report

Louis University , West Virginia University , Vanderbilt University and others, have stunned the country. When Varma was first diagnosed with anxiety and depression, her immigrant family had a difficult time understanding her diagnosis and treatment. There isn’t even a word in Hindi for ‘stigma,’” she said.

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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Garland is an immigration case. An immigration judge rejected Abdulla’s arguments, and the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected his appeal as untimely because it had been filed beyond the 30-day appeal deadline and had failed to demonstrate exceptional circumstances warranting certification of the appeal out of time.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. The West Virginia majority opinion suggests a two-prong framework for the major questions doctrine. (A Env’t Prot. On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court applied the major questions doctrine in Biden v.

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Climate change and immigration policies headline February argument calendar

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The justices will tackle a wide range of issues, from the Environmental Protection Authority’s power to regulate greenhouse gases to an effort by a group of states to defend a controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration declined to do so. 28 in West Virginia v.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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DHS had waived the requirements of NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and other laws pursuant to Section 102 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. West Virginia Court Dismissed Defamation Suit Against John Oliver Brought by Coal Executive and His Companies.

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