Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Dara Lind
They have to put their lives on hold for six months — and their hopes in Congress.
Trump’s decision to wind down DACA unless Congress acts doesn’t just threaten 800,000 immigrants. It threatens America’s immigration legacy.
If Trump ends DACA but doesn’t explain how, he could plunge immigrants into panic.
DACA is in jeopardy thanks to a lawsuit threat issued in July ... by officials including Tennessee’s attorney general.
The law, which attempted to force city police to help federal immigration agents, would have gone into effect Friday — as the state struggles to recover from Hurricane Harvey.
It’s the city’s third “500-year” flood in the past three years.
Some sheriffs were wary of joining Trump’s deportation dragnet. Trump’s response: don’t worry about the courts.
Both Trump and Arpaio believe that maintaining “law and order” is more important than adhering to the technicalities of actual law
The rise, fall, and resurrection of “America’s toughest sheriff.”
The government is keeping Border Patrol checkpoints open during the evacuation.