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Biden admin. releases revised DACA plan, seeks to surmount court ruling

In this June 18, 2020, file photo, people hold signs during a vehicle caravan rally to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), around MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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The Biden administration revealed its plans for an updated DACA program Monday, looking to overcome a court ruling that struck down the original program this summer for not going through the full regulatory process.

In this April 6, 2021, file photo, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker speaks to reporters after receiving a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Gov. Baker is facing increasing criticism of his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, with calls mounting for a legislative response to the deaths, which claimed the lives of 76 veteran residents last spring. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

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In this May 6, 2021, file photo, Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool) ** FILE **

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined at left by Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., holds a rally in support of President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" for women agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi’s backroom arm-twisting ratchets up on Dems ahead of votes on big spending bills

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In this photo taken March 18, 2015, visitors walk to the Governors palace along Duke of Gloucester street in the Colonial Williamsburg area of Williamsburg, Va., John Hinckley, the last man to shoot an American president now spends most of the year in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated community in Williamsburg. An almost three-hour drive south of Hinckley's institutional home of St. Elizabeths Hospital in the nation's capital, Williamsburg is both a tourist destination and a retirement mecca. (AP Photo/ Steve Helber)

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