By Gianna Borroto | Sep 14, 2023 The Department of Justice has proposed a new rule to protect immigration judges’ ability to administratively close removal proceedings and control their ever-expan...
Biden Administration Fights to Keep Private Immigration Jails Open, Despite Promises
By Suchita Mathur | Sept. 8, 2023 “There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. And we are working to close all of them.” Those are the words of President Joe Biden in April 2021, wh...
USCIS Updates Key CSPA Interpretation to Protect Some Immigrant Youth, But Backlogs Continue to Cause Hardships
Editorial credit: Mehaniq / Shutterstock.com By Adriel Orozco | Sep 5, 2023 On August 24, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new update to its policy manual clarifyi...
Feds Seek Fix to Speed Work Permits to Thousands of Migrants in NYC
Editorial credit: Ajdin Kamber / Shutterstock.com By Julia Preston, THE MARSHALL PROJECT | SEP 8, 2023 The Biden administration has begun using a pathway called humanitarian parole to sidestep the asy...
Adams: Cost of migrants ‘will destroy New York City’
Mayor Eric Adams helps distribute donated food and clothing to families of asylum seekers housed in the city at public school 20 in New York on February 11, 2023 (Photo: Shutterstock) By Jeff Coltin...
The Ghost of Public Charge Keeps Scaring Immigrant Families Away from Public Benefits
By American Immigration Council Staff | Aug 25, 2023 When the Trump administration proposed an overhaul of federal policy regarding when immigrants could be denied green cards or visas based on use ...
Ukraine and Sudan Receive TPS Extensions, Redesignations as Global Displacement Continues to Rise
By Adriel Orozco | Aug 24, 2023 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Sudan and Ukraine las...
“Trump’s Sickening Plans for an All-Out War on Immigrants”
By Vanessa Cárdenas Yesterday, Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacted to the details and larger implications of the Trump and Miller immigration plan. Read her comments...
Biden Keeps Ties with Billion-Dollar Business of Immigration Detention, Despite Reports of Serious Abuse
By Emma Winger | Aug 17, 2023 On Thanksgiving Day 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested Kamyar Samimi—a lawful permanent resident with a decade-old conviction for ...
Fortune 500 Companies with Immigrant Roots Generated More Money Than the GDP of Most Western Nations
Editorial credit: Primakov / Shutterstock.com By Steven Hubbard | Aug 29, 2023 When Fortune released this year’s Fortune 500 list—the magazine’s iconic ranking of the year’s top-grossing Am...