By Ted Hesson, Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. immigration enforcement directive issued on Thursday calls on federal officers to ask immigrants about their parental status during arrests, ...
USCIS Restores Pathway to a Green Card for TPS Holders
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....
Biden Extends Deportation Relief For Over 300,000 Venezuelans—But Not For Recent Migrants
Caracas, Venezuela. June 19. 2017. People in an act to support President Nicolás Maduro. (Shutterstock) By Joe Walsh, Forbes Federal immigration officials on Monday extended a set of temporary protec...
Border Patrol Agents on Horseback Used “Unnecessary” Force Against Haitian Migrants Last Year, Investigators Find
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 05-12-2021 – Haitian migrant family crosses the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juárez to surrender to the border patrol in the United States with the intention of requesting a...
Administration Seeks Supreme Court OK on Deportation Policy
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico 11-12-2021 – A woman from El Salvador crossed the border between Mexico and the United States with her two sick daughters to request humanitarian aid. (Shutterstock) T...
Biden is Facing Another Major Immigration Decision. The White House is Still Weighing What to Do.
By Sabrina Rodriguez, Politico The Biden administration is facing a major deadline to decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan exiles living in the United States. But with days to go for...
Immigrant ‘Dreamers’ Face Severe Disruption If Court Wrecks DACA
By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Ellen M. Gilmer, Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Advocates for more than 600,000 undocumented immigrants who entered the US as children told a federal appeals panel in New Orl...
Mayorkas Calls for New Immigration Law Amid Renewed Scrutiny, Tragedy at the Border
New York, NY – September 10, 2021: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during 911 security briefing at One Police Plaza. (Shutterstock) By ABC News Congress “must pass” new...
This Independence Day, Local Communities Lead on Celebrating Immigrants
By Mo Kantner, Immigration Impact As communities across the United States came together this past weekend to commemorate and reflect upon our country’s independence, the holiday holds special signif...
USCIS Celebrates Independence Day 2022 and Continues its Commitment to Naturalization
WASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will celebrate Independence Day this year by welcoming more than 6,600 new citizens in more than 140 naturalization ceremonies between J...