By Kate Melloy Goettel and Juan Avilez | Immigration Impact A Texas law that allows local law enforcement to arrest migrants, state court judges to issue removal orders, and state officials to remove ...
Memo: Making Sense of Latest Immigration Polling and Public Opinion
By America’s Voice While the salience of immigration has increased, and Americans are concerned about maintaining an orderly border, the majority of the public is open to a “both/and” approa...
The Importance of Going on Offense in the Immigration Discourse
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Maribel Hastings | Latino Los Angeles While rumors circulate that President Joe Biden plans to issue executive orders to deal with the border, in the con...
The State of Texas Isn’t Just Creating Chaos and Cruelty at the Border—It’s Trying to Break the Things That Work
Editorial credit: David Peinado Romero / Shutterstock.com By Dara Lind | March 1, 2024 | Immigration Impact For decades, the Catholic nonprofit Annunciation House has worked to support migrants in El ...
Refugees and Asylum Seekers Generate Billions of Dollars More Than They Cost the U.S. Government
By Karen Aho | Immigration Impact A report released this month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that refugees and asylees have generated tens of billions of dollars mo...
Trump’s Plan for Massive Immigration Purges and Detention Camps Promises Chaos for All
Editorial credit: Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 21, 2024 Vanessa Cárdenas on a new WaPo mass-deportation article and Niskanen Center analysis of Heritage Projec...
The Cost of US Citizenship is about to Rise
By Lauren Villagran | USA Today The cost of applying for U.S. citizenship is about to rise. More than 9 million legal permanent residents in the United States are eligible to apply for U.S. citizensh...
Completing an Unprecedented 10 Million Immigration Cases in Fiscal Year 2023, USCIS Reduced Its Backlog for the First Time in Over a Decade
Editorial credit: Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is releasing end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrate the agency’s prog...
Experts Wrap Busy Immigration Week with Lessons for Political and Policy Debate Moving Forward
By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 Washington, DC —On a press call held today, leaders from immigration and Latino-focused organizations joined with the Congressional Integrity Project to ...
Senate Deal Would Significantly Transform Border Policy
By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact The “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024” was released on February 4. For months, a bipartisan group of senators negotiated th...