By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Sep 14, 2023 Since President Biden took office, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been escalating both rhetoric and action in response to a rise in migration across the Rio ...
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...
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...
DHS Policy Encouraging Discretion in Deportations Blocked by Judge
By Caroline Vakil, The Hill A judge in Texas on Friday threw out a policy instituted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last year that directed border officials to exercise discretion in dep...
Over 250,000 Young People are at Risk of Deportation When They Turn 21
By Katy Murdza, Immigration Impact A lesser-known group of young people who grew up in the United States with immigration status—typically the children of noncitizens who entered the U.S. on tempora...
Groups Call for Transparency Regarding Abuse and Mistreatment of Black Immigrants in Detention
By Tsion Gurmu, Legal Manager and Staff Attorney at the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and Emily Creighton, Legal Director of Transparency The public watched in horror this September as U.S. Bord...
Del Rio Migrant Camp Shows how Biden Administration is not Living up to its Promises
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 asylum. – Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 05-1...
‘Cruel, Unfair and Racist’: Black Immigrants Whose Fathers Are U.S. Citizens Push to Overturn Law That Keeps Them From Obtaining Citizenship
By Liz Vinson, SPL Center Behind the steel gates of a remote immigrant prison in Georgia lies a visitation room where detained people speak to visitors through a plexiglass window. There are messages ...
High Court Ruling Gives Immigrants Facing Deportation Hope
Woman holds a sign that reads ‘Return the Children You Stole” at the demonstration against children in immigrant detention at City Hall in Downtown – Los Angeles, CA / USA – Ju...
Getting Your Marijuana Record Expunged
By Norma Lewis, JD There was quite a bit of excitement, relief, and joy, and a few spiffs smoked when New York legalized recreational marijuana. Several advocates and lawmakers welcomed it as one of t...