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August 8, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: Immigrants in The U.S.Tags: #AttackOnDemocracy, #DefendTheConstitution, #DemocracyUnderSiege, #DeportationNation, #DueProcessMatters, #EndTheICEState, #FederalOverreach, #FreedomNotFear, #HumanRightsNow, #ICEAbuse, #ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights, #JusticeForImmigrants, #MassDeportation, #NoOneIsSafe, #NoZoneOfException, #ProtectImmigrants, #ResistICE, #RuleOfLawUnderAttack, #SanctuaryNotSurveillance, #StopICERaids, #StopTheSilencing, #TrumpTargetsDemocracy, #UncheckedPower, #WelcomingCommunities

Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Is the Tip of the Spear for His Attack on Democracy

By: Dara Lind| americanimmigrationcouncil.org |Editorial credit: Michael Candelori / Shutterstock.com The American Immigration Council’s new special report, Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Ad...

August 8, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: Immigrants in The U.S.Tags: #170BillionForWhat, #AbolishPrivatePrisons, #AmericaDeservesBetter, #CareNotCages, #ClimateJusticeNow, #DefundDeportation, #EducationNotIncarceration, #EndHomelessnessNow, #EndMassDeportation, #FamiliesOverFortunes, #FeedOurKids, #FundCommunitiesNotCruelty, #HeadStartMatters, #HealthcareForAll, #ICEAbuse, #InvestInPeople, #NoMoreICE, #PeopleOverProfits, #ProtectImmigrants, #StephenMillerAgenda, #StopPrivatePrisons, #TrumpBudgetCuts, #TrumpDonorPayback, #TrumpFailsAmerica

Stephen Miller Is Getting $170 Billion To Build His Own Army To Target Our Immigrant Neighbors. Here’s What That Funding Could Do Instead

By: Gabe Ortiz | americasvoicecnn.substack.com |Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Just think of how much our country could get done with $170 billion in federal funding. Hungry schoolkids...

August 8, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: Immigrants in The U.S.Tags: #AmericanImmigrationCouncil, #BorderSecurity, #CriminalJustice, #DataNotFear, #DEA, #DrugPolicy, #FentanylCrisis, #FentanylFacts, #FentanylLegislation, #ImmigrantRights, #ImmigrationFacts, #MigrantMyths, #Misinformation, #PortsOfEntry, #PublicHealthCrisis, #ScheduleIDrugs, #SmartBorderSecurity, #StopTheStigma, #TrumpPolicy, #USCitizensSmuggleFentanyl

US Citizens—Not Migrants—Smuggle the Majority of Fentanyl Into the United States

By: Melissa Cruz | americanimmigrationcouncil.org President Donald Trump signed The Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act into law on July 16, 2025, aimed at strengthening prison sentences for ...

August 8, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: Immigrants in The U.S.Tags: #AsylumLaw, #AsylumReform, #AsylumSeekers, #BIADecision, #DeportationDefense, #ElSalvador, #GenderBasedViolence, #HumanRights, #ImmigrantRights, #ImmigrationJustice, #ImmigrationLaw, #LoperBright, #MatterOfKESG, #ParticularSocialGroup, #ProtectWomen, #RefugeeProtection, #SaveAsylum, #UnitedNations, #WomensRights, DACA

For Victims of Gender-Based Violence, Getting Asylum Just Got Harder

By: Sam Poyer |americanimmigrationcouncil.org | Editorial credit: Mamunur Rashid / Shutterstock.com A new decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) will make it harder for people fleeing gend...

DACA Recipients Will Lose Health Insurance This Month: What You Need to Know

Editorial credit: Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.com Updated August 6, 2025 — Across the U.S., including California, New Jersey, Oregon, and Minnesota, DACA recipients are set to lose their Afford...

August 8, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: Immigration ReformTags: #AdjustmentOfStatus, #DeportationRisk, #FamilyBasedImmigration, #FraudPrevention, #GreenCardInterview, #GreenCardPetition, #ImmigrantRights, #ImmigrationChanges, #ImmigrationLaw, #ImmigrationProcess, #ImmigrationReform, #ImmigrationUpdate, #KnowYourRights, #LegalRepresentation, #MarriageBasedGreenCard, #MarriageVisaScrutiny, #NoticeToAppear, #SpousalVisa, #USImmigrationPolicy, USCIS

USCIS Enacts Stricter Marriage-Based Green Card Rules, Makes Interviews Mandatory

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has introduced sweeping updates to marriage-based green card policies—effective August 1, 2025—mandating in-person interviews in nearly all sp...

August 8, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: Immigrants in The U.S.Tags: #DeportationRisk, #DueProcess, #FamilyImmigration, #FamilySeparation, #GreenCardPolicy, #ImmigrantRights, #ImmigrationAdvocates, #ImmigrationBacklog, #ImmigrationLaw, #ImmigrationLawyers, #ImmigrationPolicyChange, #ImmigrationReform, #ImmigrationUpdate, #KnowYourRights, #LegalStatus, #MarriageBasedGreenCard, #NoticeToAppear, #RemovalProceedings, #StopDeportations, USCIS

USCIS May Place Green Card Applicants into Removal Proceedings Under New Policy

Washington, D.C. – August 6, 2025 – In a major policy shift, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is now warning that individuals applying for family-based green cards—particula...

August 5, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: U.S CitizenshipTags: #AfroyimvRusk, #BrianFigeroux, #Citizenship, #DualNationality, #ForeignPolicy, #GlobalCitizenship, #ImmigrationLaw, #InternationalLaw, #LegalAnalysis, #LegalRights, #NationalSecurity, #PassportRules, #SEAD4, #Taxation, #USLaw, #USSupremeCourt, #VancevTerrazas, Immigration, naturalization, USCIS

A Legal Analysis of Dual Nationality in the United States: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibilities

By Brian Figeroux, Esq. Dual nationality, the status of being a citizen of two countries simultaneously, presents a complex legal and political question within the United States. The inquiry into whet...

August 5, 2025falawNo CommentsCategories: U.S CitizenshipTags: #AfroyimvRusk, #AskTheLawyer, #BrianFigerouxEsq, #CitizenshipLaw, #CitizenshipRights, #DS4079, #DualCitizenship, #DualNationality, #ExitTax, #FigerouxAndAssociates, #GlobalCitizenship, #ImmigrationLaw, #INA, #KawakitavUS, #KnowYourRights, #LegalAnalysis, #LegalGuide, #LegalIdentity, #MilitaryService, #Nationality, #Renunciation, #SecurityClearance, #SupremeCourtCases, #Taxation, #USCitizenship, #USImmigration, #USLaw, #USPassport, #USStateDepartment, #VancevTerrazas

Does the U.S. Government Recognize Dual Citizenship? A Legal and Practical Analysis

By: Brian Figeroux, Esq. The concept of dual citizenship—also known as dual nationality—raises a complex set of questions about legal identity, allegiance, and rights. For many immigrants, expat...

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Educated Abroad, Excelling at Home: Why More American Citizens Are Seeking Superior Pre-College Education Overseas

By Esther Claudette Gittens In recent years, a growing number of American citizens—many of them children of immigrants, middle-class families seeking value, or globally mobile professionals—have t...

Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Is the Tip of the Spear for His Attack on Democracy

Stephen Miller Is Getting $170 Billion To Build His Own Army To Target Our Immigrant Neighbors. Here’s What That Funding Could Do Instead

US Citizens—Not Migrants—Smuggle the Majority of Fentanyl Into the United States

For Victims of Gender-Based Violence, Getting Asylum Just Got Harder

DACA Recipients Will Lose Health Insurance This Month: What You Need to Know

USCIS Enacts Stricter Marriage-Based Green Card Rules, Makes Interviews Mandatory

USCIS May Place Green Card Applicants into Removal Proceedings Under New Policy

A Legal Analysis of Dual Nationality in the United States: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibilities

Does the U.S. Government Recognize Dual Citizenship? A Legal and Practical Analysis

Educated Abroad, Excelling at Home: Why More American Citizens Are Seeking Superior Pre-College Education Overseas

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