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 ...
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...