By Eshani Pandya, Immigration Impact The backbone of a functioning justice system is due process. Yet over 1.25 million immigrants are fighting for their right to survive in an immigration court syste...
Refugee Resettlement Organizations Win Lawsuit Against Trump Administration
Baltimore, MD – The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled against a Trump administration executive order requiring state and local governments to issue explicit consent in order to continue ref...
Bergen lawmaker’s bill would bar new immigrant detention contracts with ICE
ICE Protest outside Bergen County Jail – “Free Them All” Banner on the fence outside Bergen County Jail. – Hackensack, New Jersey, USA – November 27th, 2020 (Shutterstock...
Chinese Students in the US Caught Up in Geopolitics and Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
By Rong Xiaoqing, Documented NY On a chilly day in November, Bill was sitting in a cafe, doing his homework after taking his morning classes. This would be routine for many Chinese students in the U.S...
Extended Rent Relief for New York Tenants and Immigrants
By Documented NY The new year brings some promising news for tenants economically slammed by the pandemic in New York: another shot for an extended rent relief for tens of thousands. How Did It Happen...
A New ICE Policy As Trump Is About To Leave Office Could Make It Harder For Immigrant Children To Get Asylum
A young Central American boy migrant who, with his family, is seeking asylum from poverty and gang violence, waits to board a bus to his Immigration hearing sponsor. – McAllen, Tx/U.S. – A...
Miami immigration court ruling could mean green cards for large number of Cubans
Elderly Cuban men play dominoes at Gomez Park, on Calle Ocho (8th Street), the heart of Little Havana. (Shutterstock) By Monique O. Madan, Miami Herald In a surprising court decision this week, a Miam...
‘I can’t believe this is happening to our country’: Minnesota immigrants watch with alarm as Trump insurrectionists attack U.S. Capitol.
Trump supporters rioting at the US Capitol. – January 6, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Hibah Ansari and Joey Peters, Sahan Journal Urged by outgoing president Donald Trump, a mob of insurrectionists st...
Remain in Mexico policy needlessly exposed migrants to harm, report says
A group of migrants eat cookies while waiting their turn to be served by Mexican immigration authorities to apply for asylum on December 3, 2018 in Mexicali, Mexico. (Shutterstock) By Tom Phillips, Th...
Nebraska governor says citizens, legal residents will get vaccine priority over undocumented immigrants
By Teo Armus, Washington Post Asked Monday if undocumented workers at Nebraska meatpacking facilities would be getting vaccinated in the state’s upcoming distribution efforts, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R)...