Recent Articles from Meghan McCarthy, Cronkite News Service
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August 13, 2012
Deferred deportation program begins accepting applications next week
Up to 1.76 million illegal immigrants could be eligible for a two-year reprieve from deportation under an Obama administration program that begins accepting applications Wednesday.
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July 16, 2012
‘Prosecutorial discretion’ barely dents immigration case backlog after a year
WASHINGTON – A year after federal officials announced a program of “prosecutorial discretion” aimed at reducing nearly 300,000 pending immigration cases, only 1.5 percent of the backlogged cases have been... […]