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...
New Complaint Shows ICE’s Use of Solitary Confinement Is Excessive
El Centro, California, USA – May 27, 2022: Afternoon light shines on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center. (Shutterstock) By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact â€...
Biden Administration Will Allow More Families Stuck in Visa Backlog to Reunite in US
August 17, 2017 – McAllen, Texas, USA – A volunteer with a Catholic Charities’ Humanitarian Respite Center leads a group of Central American refugees to the center to wait for buses ...
Family Reunification Parole Processes
WASHINGTON—On June 28, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services launched a new self-service tool allowing benefit requestors, and their attorneys and accredited representatives, to reschedule most ...
Governor Hochul Announces Implementation of Federal Measures to Protect Undocumented Workers During Labor Investigations
By governor.ny.gov Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that the New York State Department of Labor has implemented a new process to shield undocumented immigrant workers from retaliation and removal...
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 195
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 195 (Highlights) Law Criminalizing ‘Encouragement or Inducement’ of Immigrants to Live in the US Unlawfully Is Upheld in SCOTUS Case Governor Hochul Announces I...
Supreme Court Refuses to Narrow Criminal Grounds of Removability
By American Immigration Council Staff, Immigration Impact In a split decision issued on June 22, the Supreme Court ruled against two noncitizens seeking to overturn agency findings that their state ...
DeSantis and Trump: Anti-Immigrant Figures cut From the Same Cloth
MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA – MARCH 27, 2019: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visits 2019 Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Shutterstock) Washington, DC – Below is a co...
Biden’s Asylum Transit Ban – Where Are We Now?
San Diego, California, USA – May 12 2023: Migrant woman holding her crying infant child at the San Diego, CA and Mexico international border wall after title 42 policy has expired. (Shutterstock...