The Keeping Families Together program — which allows undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens to apply for citizenship — has been permanently halted. That’s after a district court in Texas ruled against it.
The program uses parole in place to allow undocumented spouses to apply for permanent residency without having to leave the country and face potentially years-long bars on re-entry.
Applicants were required to have been in the U.S. for at least a decade and have no criminal record. Roughly 500,000 people were likely eligible.
District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker issued his ruling just days after a hearing on Election Day, saying the program’s use of parole in place was illegal. It’s permanently shuttered now, but applications had been on hold for months since Texas and other states first filed suit. The Biden administration has not yet said whether it’ll appeal the order.
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The Florence Project says they’ll continue to represent the migrant children as long as they can. And, the groups that could be getting those contracts instead are raising eyebrows. -
Appointed by George W. Bush, Judge Richard Leon in D.C. ruled last week that granting an injunction is “unwarranted” — writing he expects the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will “follow through on its guarantees of consultation.” -
Humane Borders maintains water stations in Arizona’s vast desert borderland and also works with the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office to document migrant deaths. -
The tool, originally reported by Axios, uses data from a July spending report that shows Congress or other federal agencies have put more than $268 billion in federal funds toward powering the Trump administration’s deportation agenda until 2029. -
Andrés Manuel López Beltrán says the revocation of his U.S. visa was politically motivated.
