New immigrants wait on a rainy Monday morning to get into 26 Federal Plaza. Gabriel Poblete/THE CITY | Sept 18, 2023 By Gabriel Poblete | SEP 20, 2023 Only 600 people a day can be served by ICE at 26 ...
‘No hate; no fear: Immigrants are welcome here.’ Pro-migrant rally held on Staten Island
Editorial credit: Leonard Zhukovsky / Shutterstock.com By Scott R. Axelrod, Staten Island Advance Sep. 19—STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Several dozen people from Staten Island and other boroughs gathered ...
City Hall About to Put Migrants in Shelters on Shorter Clocks
Migrants outside of a shelter in Brooklyn. Alex Krales/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | Sept. 19, 2023 Adults who reapply for shelter will have just 30 days, and families with children may be given their ow...
“Cruel, Unworkable and Extreme” – Assessing House Republicans’ Proposed Immigration and Border Package
Vanessa Cárdenas: “To the extent that this is a policy discussion at all, the immigration policies they propose are a perfect encapsulation of the GOP’s ongoing descent into extremism” Washingt...
Five Key Immigration and Border Dynamics to Know
Washington, DC – The Republican push to shut down the government, including over the border and immigration, is the crescendo of their relentless focus on anti-immigrant themes during the Biden adm...
On Press Call, Advocates, Legal Experts, and Impacted Individuals React to Latest on DACA
Washington, D.C. – Today, on a press conference call at 11 AM Eastern, a group of advocates, experts, and litigators reacted to the latest ruling from Judge Andrew Hanen in the U.S. District Cour...
Biden Administration Fights to Keep Private Immigration Jails Open, Despite Promises
By Suchita Mathur | Sept. 8, 2023 “There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. And we are working to close all of them.” Those are the words of President Joe Biden in April 2021, wh...
USCIS Updates Key CSPA Interpretation to Protect Some Immigrant Youth, But Backlogs Continue to Cause Hardships
Editorial credit: Mehaniq / Shutterstock.com By Adriel Orozco | Sep 5, 2023 On August 24, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new update to its policy manual clarifyi...
“Trump’s Sickening Plans for an All-Out War on Immigrants”
By Vanessa Cárdenas Yesterday, Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacted to the details and larger implications of the Trump and Miller immigration plan. Read her comments...
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 ...