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Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students

July 14, 2020 Comments Off on Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, pedestrians walk through the gates of Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, July 8, 2020, challenging the Trump administration's decision to bar international students from staying in the U.S. if they take classes entirely online this fall. Some institutions, including Harvard, have announced that all instruction will be offered remotely in the fall during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the ...

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Supreme Court to weigh move to end program for young immigrants

November 5, 2019 Comments Off on Supreme Court to weigh move to end program for young immigrants

The Supreme Court is seen under stormy skies in Washington, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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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DHS gives Frederick County nearly $5.5M to hire firefighters

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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More immigrants sue US over end to protected status

February 11, 2019 Comments Off on More immigrants sue US over end to protected status

The Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington, Friday, June 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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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Federal team finds no intrusion on Maryland election systems

November 30, 2018 Comments Off on Federal team finds no intrusion on Maryland election systems

A voting location at Jacksonville Elementary School in Baltimore County in 2018. (The Daily Record file)

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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Federal team evaluating Maryland’s election system

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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DHS: Most state election officials lack clearances needed

March 21, 2018 Comments Off on DHS: Most state election officials lack clearances needed

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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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US ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants

January 8, 2018 Comments Off on US ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants

FILE- In this Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, right, speaks during a meeting with Republican Senators on immigration in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. The Trump administration faces a Monday, Jan. 7, deadline on whether to extend protections that would allow nearly 200,000 Salvadorans to stay in the U.S. legally. Nielsen, who is tasked with making the decision, told the Associated Press last week that short-term extensions are not the answer. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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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Salvadorans in US fear roll back of immigration program

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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Face scans for US citizens flying abroad stir privacy issues

July 18, 2017 Comments Off on Face scans for US citizens flying abroad stir privacy issues

U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor Erik Gordon, center, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. The Trump administration intends to require that American citizens boarding international flights submit to face scans, something Congress has not explicitly approved and privacy advocates consider an ill-advised step toward a surveillance state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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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