Immigration reform

Thousands of people took to the streets of Los Angeles on Sept. 10 to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to rescind a program that deferred deportations of immigrants who had arrived illegally as children.

"No Trump, no KKK, no racist USA!" demonstrators chanted as they gathered in a park before marching through a Latino neighborhood in the California metropolis.

The U.S. House on Jan. 15 defied President Barack Obama by adopting Republican measures blocking his controversial immigration reform efforts, but the bill is unlikely to survive in its current form.

Lawmakers voted 236 to 191 to fund the Department of Homeland Security through September 30, the end of fiscal year 2015.

President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Nov. 20, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans who vow to fight his moves.