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Month: January 2021

DHS pauses some deportations for 100 days

The Department of Homeland Security is pausing deportations for 100 days, the department announced late Wednesday, with some exceptions. The announced pause on deportations joins a list of sweeping changes made by President Joe Biden only hours after taking office, including halting border wall construction, drawing down the controversial “remain in Mexico” policy and revoking

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Amanda Gorman calls on Americans to ‘leave behind a country better than the one we were left’ in powerful inauguration poem

Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, challenged Americans Wednesday to unify and “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” as she delivered a stirring inauguration poem. Speaking at a US Capitol that just two weeks before was the site of a harrowing attempt to overthrow American democracy, Gorman bridged

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‘This is monumental’: Valley residents react to historic Inauguration Day

Like millions of other Americans, Becki Robinson in Cathedral City watched President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris being sworn into office from right at home in her living room. “I got up, set my alarm before 7 a.m. so I wouldn’t have to miss one minute of the inauguration today,” Robinson said. “I have laughed; I have cried; I have clapped. I stood during the

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Security unlikely to return to pre-riot form in a post-inauguration Washington

As crews in Washington, DC, started dismantling some security fencing within hours of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, it remained clear that security in the nation’s capital will likely never return to its pre-insurrection form. It’s unclear what security changes, if any, made across Washington in preparation for the inauguration will remain permanent, or to what

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Biden firma decretos clave en cuanto a la pandemia, la inmigración y la equidad y comienza a revertir las acciones de Trump

(CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden firmó 17 decisiones ejecutivas, entre varios decretos, apenas unas horas después de su toma de posesión el miércoles, actuando más rápido y de manera más agresiva para desmantelar el legado de su predecesor que cualquier otro presidente moderno. Biden firmó una serie de decretos, memorándums y directivas para agencias,

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Biden toma acciones rápidas en inmigración sobre DACA, muro fronterizo, prohibición de viaje y más

(CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden comenzó su mandato con la firma de varias acciones ejecutivas sobre inmigración. Así avanza rápidamente para deshacer muchas políticas de la administración Trump y para poner fin a la emergencia nacional que desvió millones de dólares al muro fronterizo. Biden describió una ambiciosa agenda de inmigración durante la campaña

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Trump lays last-minute land mines for Biden on immigration: ‘Anything to make it difficult’

Days from the end of Donald Trump’s term, his administration rushed to push through possible legal land mines to make President Joe Biden’s goal of immigration reform more difficult. Biden has outlined an ambitious immigration agenda that would reverse the actions of his predecessor, vowing, for example, to undo policies that largely sealed the US

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Last-minute Trump appointee at NSA put on administrative leave due to inspector general probe

National Security Agency General Counsel Michael Ellis, who was installed by former President Donald Trump during his final days in office, was put on administrative leave Wednesday because his appointment is now the subject of a Department of Defense inspector general investigation, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on

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