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For Vanessa Crdenas, executive director of Americas Voice, an immigrant advocacy group, what we have seen from Biden lately has been really, really disappointing. Biden came to the White House after campaigning on one of the most, if not the most, progressive immigration platforms that we have seen, Crdenas said. She told me in an interview that many of her fellow immigration advocates describe that time as thrilling. I think he wants to be a transformational president when it comes to this issue because he cares about his legacy, Crdenas told me.

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But it has been quite frustrating that Biden has reneged on his promise to restore asylum at the border, Crdenas said Monday. Biden was such a defender of asylum and so eloquently spoke about why [Trumps former anti-asylum policies] were against our values and who we are.

Two years and change into his presidency, Biden has not been transformational on immigration. For one, it appears that who we are is a nation that balks at international asylum obligations, with some Senate Democrats claiming some of Bidens current policies ongoing restrictions at the border to limit arrivals in light of a surge in migrant flows to the United States violate US law.

As an advocate who has worked on these issues for a couple of decades, I really wanted more, said Jennie Murray, president and CEO of the National Immigration Forum, another immigrant advocacy nonprofit, Its half good and half concerning. Murray pointed to family detention, and a focus on deterrence and enforcement at the border, as part of the concerns. It was shocking because [those policies] have never been successful, she said.

It seems like Biden has used a two steps forward, one step back type of approach to immigration policy. In terms of successes, both Crdenas and Murray pointed to the massive expansion of humanitarian parole programs to help Afghan evacuees, Ukrainians, and, most recently, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. According to the New York Times, as of mid-April, roughly 300,000 Ukrainians had come to the United States and, by the end of 2023, some 360,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans are expected to be authorized to move here in what the Times called a new back door on immigration that Biden opened.

Indeed, this administration has led an impressive scaling up of humanitarian parole, an underrated discretional tool from the federal government. On one level, its a testament to our governments capacity to be creative. On another, according to Crdenas, its consistent with research that shows Americans support for a compassionate immigration system. Americans are stepping up and saying, yes, we want to sponsor folks; yes, we want to help people; yes, we want to help them integrate. And thats reflected in surveys, said Murray. Last month 79 percent of Evangelicals said they want humane and orderly opportunities for folks that are fleeing violence and other factors, she said.

Biden will reportedly name Julie Chvez Rodrguez, the daughter of late labor leader Cesar Chavez, as his campaign manager, which is regarded by Latino and immigrant advocates as a great move. Will Biden try a Hail Mary like Obama did in 2012? The political landscape probably wont allow it. We were divided then, but this is divided, Murray said, referring to current polarization levels. If Biden does something, it would be something pragmatic, not sweeping, such as expanding TPS, the temporary protected status extended to certain nationals of countries in distress, Crdenas said.

If Biden moves forward with a plan or executive order, it may help his 2024 reelection bid, but it will be greeted by the Republican reflex reaction of fear and loathing. Thats what makes common-sense immigration reform so difficult: In a country of immigrants, newcomers are treated like political pawns.

Marcela Garca is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at marcela.garcia@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @marcela_elisa and on Instagram @marcela_elisa.

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Barack and Michelle Obama return to White House for portrait unveiling

More than five years after Barack and Michelle Obama left the White House, the couple returned for the unveiling of their official portraits.

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An April 12 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a tweet and several photos of a passport belonging to a man named Barack Obama.

"Many of us already knew and have been saying that hes an ILLEGITIMATE president…. Well heres his brother dropping some Proofs!" the post reads.

The post was shared 20 times in six days. A similar claim was made in an April 12 Instagram post that was liked more than 1,000 times in three days before being taken down after the social media user was contacted by USA TODAY.

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The passport shown in this post belongs to Barack Obama Sr., the former presidents father. President Obama was born in Hawaii.

The photos in the social media post originated inApril 11 and April 12 tweets by Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama.

But he never claimed the photos showed the passport of the former president.His posts indicated he wanted the former president to keep the passport in his presidential library.

Malik Obama did not respond to requests for comment from USA TODAY, but he told Reuters the passport belonged to their father.

Its my fathers passport, Malik Obama told Reuters via email.

The photos in Malik Obamas tweets include several pieces of identifying information that show the passport belonged toBarack Obama Sr. Among the clearest indicators is that the man pictured in the April 12 tweet appears to be the elder Obama, pictured on the cover of a biography,and not the 44th president.

The passport also shows it was issued in 1959 in Kenya, which was a British colony at the time, and lists June 18, 1934, as the birthday of its bearer. President Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961.

Fact check: Claim Obama is moving to Kenya started as April Fools' Day joke

The passports bearer was born in Alego, Nyanza Province, of Kenya.

USA TODAY has previously debunked the claimthat Obama was born in Kenya, noting that the White House released both a standard birth certificate and the long-form version of the document that demonstrated he was born in Hawaii.

When the younger Obama became the first sitting American president to visit Kenya in 2015, he commented on the importance of visiting and appreciating his familys history.

I traveled to Alego, the village where my family was from, he said. I saw the graves of my father and my grandfather. And I learned things about their lives that I could have never learned through books.

USA TODAY reached out to the Instagram and Facebook users who shared the claim for comment.

The Associated Press and Lead Stories also debunked the claim.

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In November 2018, when then-president Donald Trump challenged a federal judges impartiality by calling him an Obama judge, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was indignant. He insisted, We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.

I wanted to believe him. It was right to criticize the actual rulings of Trump-appointed judges, just as you might do so with a judge appointed by any other president, but it was wrong to label them Trump judges, as if the appointing president defined their judicial philosophy. True, prior to the Trump presidency, political scientists tried to match the ideology of judges with that of the appointing president, with varying success; at best, research showed that most judges ranged from the moderate right to the moderate left. The Senate confirmation process with some exceptions selected judges in proportion to their not taking extreme positions earlier in their judicial careers.

Take Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As a District of Columbia Appeals Court judge, she wrote narrow decisions, hewing closely to precedent. Jill Lepore (writing in The New Yorker) described Ginsburgs circuit court years as something like a decontamination chamber, in which Ginsburg was rinsed and scrubbed of the hazard of thirteen years as an advocate for womens rights. By 1993 she was sufficiently depolarized to be appointed to the Supreme Court. And the depolarization was not a ruse. She was the same on the Supreme Court, while the press labeled her a liberal.

District court judges were even more constrained, no matter who had appointed them. In the 1990s, the predominant approach was managerial judging, a phrase coined by Yale Law Professor Judith Resnik. Lower court judges were supposed to focus on being efficient, encouraging settlements, alternative dispute resolution, not writing opinions unless absolutely necessary, and only then on narrow grounds. (I described it as the pressure to duck, avoid, and evade.)

Recent events have proven Roberts (and me) wrong. There are no Obama, Bush, or Clinton judges, (or Reagan and Carter) but there are Trump-era judges. Not all of Trumps appointees fit the pattern, nor do they behave as Trump appointees in every case, but there are clear patterns.

Trump judges were appointed at a time of dramatic change at the Supreme Court; doctrinal flux was the euphemism that Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan labeled it in the talk he intended to make at Stanford Law School (the one interrupted by student protests). What is doctrinal flux? Its a fancy way of saying that to this conservative Supreme Court, all precedents are up for grabs. It is not just well-known constitutional precedents. This court has changed settled procedures (like accepting direct appeals from the district court to the Supreme Court during the Trump administration) and softened the rules on standing (which require parties to have a direct interest in the case outcome). As Slates Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern said: One case after another blew up decades of existing precedent and tests and doctrine and replaced them with Rorschach exams that transformed contemporary Republican policies into constitutional law.

How does this affect the district court? While district court judges dont have the authority to reconsider precedent, some Trump judges didnt get the memo. The constitutional ceiling that constrained all judges has been weakened, if not shattered.

Judge Aileen Cannon tried to stop an ongoing criminal investigation of Trump for which she had no constitutional authority. A Trump appointee in Arkansas ruled in February that the Voting Rights Act cant be enforced by private individuals or groups, despite more than five decades of such litigation. In May, another Trump appointee in Florida canceled scheduled arguments in a challenge to the federal mandate for mask use in transportation, then rushed out a decision striking down the requirement days before it was to expire.

Now comes Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. He ruled that mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medical abortions, is unsafe, although it has been used for more than two decades. He granted standing to an organization formed a month before in Amarillo, Texas, where Kacsmaryk is the only federal judge. He tapped into the skepticism of some Supreme Court justices about administrative delegation, even with an agency long recognized for its expertise. And he indulged in old tropes about womens psychological reactions to abortion because some justices parroted them in an earlier case.

With the weakening of that constitutional ceiling, nothing stops conservative litigants from making totally unprecedented arguments and finding a Trump judge who is happy to indulge them. Kacsmaryk obliged.

Nancy Gertner is a retired federal judge in Boston and a law professor at Harvard Law School.

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Barack Obama clinched the presidency in 2008 and knocked down the racial barrier to the nations highest office vowing to unite Red and Blue America and enact once-in-a-generation policy shifts: universal health care, closing the military detention camp at Guantnamo Bay, creating a path to citizenship for immigrants living illegally in the United States.

Yes, we can, Obama promised.

It didnt all go as planned.

A conference that began Wednesday and continues Thursday and Fridayat Hofstra University examines the Obama presidency what went right, what went wrong and the44th chief executiveslegacy.

Obamas road to the White House was unexpected. His victory marked a historic moment in American politics the election of the nations first African American president," said Meena Bose, Hofstras executive dean for public policy and public service programs,who'shead of the conference."Obama was elected on a platform of moving beyond traditional political debates and differences to build unity to move past red and blue divisions. But putting that into practice proved to be much more difficult than anticipated."

Bose, also a Hofstra political-science professor,added: And so I think that the Obama presidency really illustrates the promise of hope for change in America, as well as the difficulty of achieving that change.

Among those speaking at the conference The Barack Obama Presidency: Hope and Change are administration alumni, academics and journalists: former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett; former White House chief of staff and U.S. treasury secretary Jacob Lew; formerWhite House director of legislative affairs Philip Schiliro;presidential historian Douglas Brinkley;former U.S. Rep. Steve Israel;former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes; and Tina Tchen, Michelle Obama's chief of staff from 2011 to 2017.

The conference is Hofstras 13th on presidents.Previous such conferences have covered every chief executive sinceFranklin D. Roosevelt.

Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clintoncame to the conferences about themselves, Bose said; Obama isnt expected to.

The Obama conference was supposed to be in 2021, but the coronavirus pandemic forced a postponement.

Obamas campaign promises yielded mixed results:He kept a promise to order thekilling of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But Obamadidn't keep hispromiseto bring U.S. troops home from two major wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, leaving office with U.S. forces still involved those conflicts. He promised single-payer health care but signed Obamacare, the nation's biggest expansion of health insurance since Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. Guantnamo Bay remains open. And no path to citizenship was created; he didenact, by executive action, a contested program to legalize the immigration status of foreign-born immigrants who were brought here illegally as children.

Among the Hofstra faculty scheduled to present is Alan J. Singer, an education professor, historian and former high school social science teacher.

Singer will be speaking about Obamas education policy, as carried out largely by his secretary of education, Arne Duncan.

In many ways, the Obama-Duncan educational record was a continuation of initiatives that began during the Bush presidency the Common Core testing, the focus on data to evaluate teachers and schools and districts, Singer said.

Nevertheless, Singer said, Obamas policy modified expectations set out during the Bush years, and provided grants to districts as a carrot to get them to adopt the testing policies, said Singer,a critic of the Obama administrations focus on testing.

Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.

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