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How to watch the CNN Biden-Trump presidential debate

By Joshua Barajas

The presidential race will kick into a new gear when Joe Biden and Donald Trump face off in their first 2024 debate Thursday.

How Biden’s recent actions on immigration could address a major issue voters have with him

By Will Weissert, Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press

Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. while also offering potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country.

Biden’s expansive move toward citizenship brings joy to immigrant families, though some remain excluded

By Valerie Gonzalez, Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out.

How Biden’s immigration order shields undocumented spouses and children of citizens

By Laura Barrón-López, Shrai Popat, Ian Couzens

President Biden unveiled an executive action that offers protections to undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens. At a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of DACA, the Obama-era action that protects young undocumented immigrants, Biden laid out his…

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Here’s what’s in Biden’s plan to offer some migrants a pathway to citizenship, and how it will work

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

It is one of President Joe Biden's most sweeping immigration policies and one that migrant advocates had been heavily lobbying the administration to undertake.

WATCH: White House holds briefing ahead of Biden announcement on relief for some undocumented immigrants

By News Desk and Associated Press

President Joe Biden is taking an election year step to offer relief to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S.

WATCH: Biden announces most expansive federal protection for immigrants in over a decade

By Seung Min Kim, Associated Press

The White House says the Biden administration will allow certain spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship.

Biden to announce protections Tuesday for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens and ‘Dreamers’

By Laura Barrón-López

The president’s executive action will shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation, allow them to obtain work authorization, as well as ease their path to permanent resident status, the three sources told PBS News.

Exclusive: Biden expected to announce protections for certain undocumented immigrants

By Laura Barrón-López, Amna Nawaz, Geoff Bennett

The executive action is expected to protect undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation and allow them to work legally in the country. An announcement could come as early as next week.

Biden’s new asylum crackdown at the southern border faces lawsuit

By Seung Min Kim, Associated Press

A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups sued the Biden administration on Wednesday over the recent directive that effectively halts asylum claims at the southern border, saying it differs little from a similar Trump move that was blocked by the courts.