A bipartisan bill called the Dignity Act of 2025, introduced by Reps. Salazar and Escobar, aims to provide legal status for certain undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who arrived before 2021, allowing them to work legally for up to seven years without a path to citizenship, while also increasing border security and employer verification measures, as a response to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Two Latina congresswomen, Rep. María Salazar, R-Fla., and Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, proposed a bipartisan immigration bill called "The Dignity Act" that would create a 12-year, two-part path to legal status and require the border to be declared secure before anyone on the path is granted legal status. The bill would allow people in the country illegally to work and not be deported, speed up the asylum process, and dock the pay of people without permanent legal status to fund border infrastructure. The bill has tougher measures and higher penalties than a Republican border security bill approved by the House on May 11.
The New York State Department of Education has banned public school districts from using nicknames tied to Native American culture, including Liverpool and Westhill, which will be forced to change their team nicknames. Schools risk the removal of school officers and the withholding of state aid if the order is not followed. The ban also applies to schools with less obvious Native American connotations. An exemption to the order is included for federally- or state-recognized tribes to use the banned names, mascots and logos for sports teams comprised of their tribal members.
