Baton Rouge, La., Nov 19, 2019 / 10:00 am (CNA).- Pro-lifers are hopeful that the re-election of Democrat John Bel Edwards as Louisiana governor could turn the tide in a party whose leadership has grown increasingly more pro-abortion with each election cycle.
John Bel Edwards was re-elected as governor of Louisiana on Saturday by a 40,000-vote margin, winning more than 51 percent of the state’s vote.
A Catholic, Edwards first ran for the office in 2015 on an explicitly pro-life platform and won more than 56% of the vote. His campaign aired a TV ad revealing that Edwards and his wife, then 20 weeks pregnant with their daughter, had discovered she had spina bifida in utero. They couple faced down encouragement from a doctor to abort their child.
Anxiety rises over continuing deportations and swift-changing immigration policies
Among recent deportees is a Mexican woman who witnessed the El Paso massacre in 2019.
President Joe Biden’s hundred-day moratorium on deportations was supposed to ease anxieties in immigrant communities after four years of harsh crackdowns by the recently ended administration.
But across the nation, deportations continue at about the same pace as before Biden was inaugurated Jan. 20. That’s because the Texas attorney general sued to stop the policy change, with a judge issuing a temporary injunction on the moratorium through Feb, 23.
The fight over deportations in the courts and the halls of Congress signals the difficulty the Biden administration will have in changing immigration policy. Immigrant families are feeling increased anxiety and fear as they cope with a changing landscape.
Reunited families separated again, a challenge for Biden task force washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Separated at the border, reunited, then separated again: For migrant families, another trauma Kevin Sieff EL PROGRESO, Honduras Thirty days after they were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, held on opposite sides of the United States, Antonio and Maily were reunited at midnight in the parking lot of a South Texas detention center. Antonio looked at his 7-year-old daughter and thought: “They are returning all of my happiness in a single moment.” Agents and social workers watched as they hugged. It was July 2018 days after the Trump administration’s family separations policy was halted. The reunion seemed permanent, a bookend to the most controversial U.S. immigration directive in decades.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 6,700 Syrian citizens currently in the United States, allowing them to remain in the country through September 2022.
TPS is granted to those who come to the US following wars, natural disasters or other events making them unable to return to their home countries. In addition to extending the status of those Syrians, DHS also allowed an additional 1,800 Syrians to apply for TPS. The Syrian civil war continues to demonstrate deliberate targeting of civilians, the use of chemical weapons and irregular warfare tactics, and use of child soldiers, DHS said in a news release on Friday.