New Delhi, India-Aug 24 2021: Afghan woman crying during Protest outside at UNHCR, afghan family protesting and demanding to be given refugee status in India. (Shutterstock) By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick,...
TPS Extension Offers Only a Temporary Fix
Washington, DC – May 11, 2022: TPS activists rally at Union Station to call on the Biden administration to make good on the promise to continue the program along with creating a path to citizenship....
How Did a State Known for Its War on Immigrants Approve In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students?
Tempe, Arizona – August 4 2019: Arizona State University (Shutterstock) By Isabela Dias, Mother Jones Jose Patiño remembers how his mother cried when the acceptance letter from Arizona State ...
Investigation Confirms Immigrant Women Held by ICE Underwent Illegal Medical Procedures at Georgia Facility
By Linda Nwoke, A Journal Exclusive In September 2020, the news broke on a class-action lawsuit filed by former detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, against several parti...
Are You in an Abusive Relationship? You Can Get a Green Card Through VAWA
By Mary Campbell In 2021, the United Nations published the report “Measuring the Shadow Pandemic: Violence Against Women During COVID-19.” It said that since the pandemic, violence against women h...
The Supreme Court Takes on Enforcement Priorities and Other Immigration Questions in its 2022 – 2023 Term
By Emma Winger, Immigration Impact The Supreme Court will tackle more hot button immigration issues in its 2022 – 2023 term. Front and center is the Biden administration’s effort to set immigratio...
Congress Proposes the Case Backlog and Transparency Act to Tackle USCIS Backlogs
Washington, D.C., United States – June 14, 2018: Official American government website of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS. (Shutterstock) By Raul Pinto The backlog of pendi...
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 180
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 180 (Highlights) Investigation Confirms Immigrant Women Held By ICE Underwent Illegal Medical Procedures at Georgia Facility Are You in an Abusive Relationship? You...
USCIS is Expediting EADs for Healthcare and Childcare Workers
By Linda Nwoke The Autumn/Fall season brings a lot of noticeable changes – changing colors, shorter days, and lower temperatures. The progressive reduction of the hours of light also affects our bod...
Undocumented and Homeless: “We are the City’s Dirty Little Secret”
By Rommel H. Ojeda, Documented NY For the new people that are arriving, the Mayor [Eric Adams] likes to show off like he is doing something because he only cares about his image. As long as they keep ...