Biden administration moves to safeguard DACA program for "Dreamers" as court ruling looms
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The Biden administration on Friday announced it will issue a rule to protect an Obama-era deportation relief program from a court challenge that threatens the legal protections of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
Citing instructions in an executive order signed by President Biden on Inauguration Day, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said his department will publish a proposed rule to "preserve and fortify" the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. While the DACA program withstood a years-long Trump administration effort to end it, it is currently facing its most imminent and potent legal test yet. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen is set to issue a ruling in a lawsuit filed by Texas' Republican attorney general, who is seeking to have the Obama-era program declared unlawful and gradually terminated.Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is facing backlash for allegedly sharing remarks that audience members found sexist, homophobic and generally offensive at a Q&A event over the weekend tied to a Massachusetts theater's screening of "Jaws." Dreyfuss starred in the 1975 blockbuster that was filmed in Massachusetts and screened Saturday night at The Cabot, a performing arts center in the coastal community of Beverly.
Another American who was arrested in the Turks and Caicos Islands for possessing ammunition was sentenced to time served and a $9,000 fine on Tuesday, local media reported. Tyler Wenrich was facing a potential mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years in prison for ammunition charges in the British territory.