Wednesday 6 September 2017

Wednesday's Headlines: With DACA move, Trump and GOP face a crossroads on immigration

 
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With DACA move, Trump and GOP face a crossroads on immigration
The president has temporarily placed in the hands of Congress the fates of roughly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. It now falls to congressional Republicans to navigate a thicket of political interests and charged emotions as they try to keep the party's base from revolting and yet still appeal to Hispanic voters. Whatever they decide, it could have long-term ramifications for the Republican Party.
'We are America': DACA recipients say they're not going anywhere
"Dreamers" staged protests at the White House and at Trump Tower in New York City. "If the president thinks this announcement is going to make us go away, it's going to do the opposite," one said.
 
Florida officials begin ordering evacuations as massive Hurricane Irma intensifies
The monster storm, registering as a Category 5 with winds in excess of 180 miles per hour, could hit Florida by the weekend. Officials in the Florida Keys, which is in the direct path of the storm as currently forecast, announced mandatory evacuations in advance of what could be the most powerful hurricane to strike the Atlantic coast in more than a decade.
 
'May God protect us all': Puerto Rico, tiny islands in Irma's path fear for the worst
Residents of the islands that Hurricane Irma is set to strike fear that damage inflicted by the storm will result in a long, painstaking journey back to normalcy. Irma is predicted to become the strongest hurricane on record to hit the Leeward Islands.
 
For residents of Houston neighborhood, Harvey brought a 'disaster on top of a disaster'
In one predominantly black and Latino neighborhood, working-class tenants have few options to escape their flood-damaged apartments, where mold is growing on the walls and where TV sets, soggy sofas, mattresses, clothing and piles of torn-up carpeting sit rotting at the curbside. Some are undocumented immigrants who have no outlet to seek relief from FEMA and little power to challenge landlords who refuse to repair the damage.
 
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"If Congress doesn't want to do the job that they were elected to do, then maybe they should get out of the way and let someone else do it," the press secretary said.
 
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In the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, two young women are among the 5,000 applicants for a scholarship in Canada that includes citizenship for the students — and eventually their families. The women both made it to the final round of interviews. One of them will leave. The other will stay in the camp and hope for another way out.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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