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Baltimore considers lawyers for immigrants facing deportation

March 7, 2018 Comments Off on Baltimore considers lawyers for immigrants facing deportation

Baltimore's spending panel is set to vote on funding that would allow the first lawyers who will represent immigrants facing deportation to start within weeks.

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‘Bump stocks’ draw more ire from states than Congress

February 12, 2018 Comments Off on ‘Bump stocks’ draw more ire from states than Congress

The gun right group maintains that the state’s ban on bump stocks and other “rapid-fire trigger activators” devices amounts to a “taking” of private property for which “just compensation” is constitutionally owed. (AP Photo/Allen Breed, File)

Immigration, criminal defense, law review round out roundup.

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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

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

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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Immigrants’ Oct. 5 deadline nears to reapply for DACA

October 3, 2017 Comments Off on Immigrants’ Oct. 5 deadline nears to reapply for DACA

Immigrants at CASA in Langley Park, Maryland, on Saturday, September 30, 2017, to complete their DACA renewal applications. (Chris Miller/ Capital News Service)

LANGLEY PARK — After President Donald Trump’s decision in early September to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, immigrants who need to reapply for DACA protections—in the form of two-year renewable work permits—are quickly ...

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Hogan says Congress must act on immigration program

September 8, 2017 Comments Off on Hogan says Congress must act on immigration program

Gov. Larry Hogan (The Daily Record / Bryan P. Sears)

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says Congress needs to act on immigration reform in light of President Donald Trump’s plan to phase out a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The Baltimore Sun reports the Republican governor gave his ...

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Ocean City businesses fear losing seasonal workforce

September 6, 2017 Comments Off on Ocean City businesses fear losing seasonal workforce

Crowds walking along the boardwalk in Ocean City, Md., on Sunday, September 3, 2017. (Capital News Service / Chris Miller)

OCEAN CITY — As the summer tourism season comes to a close in Ocean City, Maryland, many businesses fear they may soon lose much of their seasonal workforce if the Trump administration cancels the J-1 visa program. The White House ...

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UMD’s Loh critical of Trump’s DACA decision

September 5, 2017 Comments Off on UMD’s Loh critical of Trump’s DACA decision

University of Maryland, College Park, President Wallace Loh. (File)

University of Maryland President Wallace Loh Tuesday criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to end the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, calling it contrary to American values. Trump’s administration announced that the deferred action program would end in ...

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Baltimore business officials concerned after immigration inquiry sends employees packing

July 5, 2017 Comments Off on Baltimore business officials concerned after immigration inquiry sends employees packing

The Boathouse Restaurant in Canton. (The Daily Record / Maximilian Franz)

Hispanic and other Maryland business leaders are expressing concern after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement inquiry led 30 employees of The BoatHouse in Canton to resign last month. ICE requested the restaurant’s I-9 forms, which require employees to provide identification ...

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Do you really want to be a Sunday-morning news guest?

June 19, 2017 Comments Off on Do you really want to be a Sunday-morning news guest?

(Screenshot of Washington Post video of Sunday morning news shows)

Welcome to Monday, the 152nd anniversary of Union General Gordon Granger’s announcement in Texas that the Civil War was over and slaves were now free. Here are some news items to get your week started. — This is what happens ...

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