Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the ...
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November 5, 2019
Comments Off on Supreme Court to weigh move to end program for young immigrants
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is due to hear arguments next week over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s decision to terminate a program that protects young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers, 165 educational institutions (including ...
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September 23, 2019
Comments Off on DHS gives Frederick County nearly $5.5M to hire firefighters
Frederick County is set to receive a nearly $5.5 million federal grant to hire more firefighters.
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February 11, 2019
Comments Off on More immigrants sue US over end to protected status
Immigrants from Nepal and Honduras — including a Baltimore man whose 9-year-old daughter wants to be president of the United States when she grows up — have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets ...
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November 30, 2018
Comments Off on Federal team finds no intrusion on Maryland election systems
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security team found no evidence of intrusion on Maryland's election system after a company hosting elections systems was acquired.
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August 22, 2018
Comments Off on Federal team evaluating Maryland’s election system
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security team is in Maryland this week to evaluate the state's election systems
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March 21, 2018
Comments Off on DHS: Most state election officials lack clearances needed
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said only about 20 out of a targeted 150 state officials have full security clearances needed to receive classified information on cybersecurity threats to their elections, with the midterm congressional primaries already underway. Nielsen, under ...
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January 8, 2018
Comments Off on US ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants
The Trump administration faces a Monday deadline on whether to extend protections that would allow nearly 200,000 Salvadorans to stay in the U.S. legally.
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November 13, 2017
Comments Off on Salvadorans in US fear roll back of immigration program
About 20,000 people from El Salvador who are living in Maryland fear they'll have to move back to Central America.
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July 18, 2017
Comments Off on Face scans for US citizens flying abroad stir privacy issues
HOUSTON — If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. The Department of Homeland Security says it’s ...
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