Posted by Adriel Orozco | Oct 25, 2023 On October 20, the Biden administration renewed its request for emergency supplemental funding for border management from Congress. This new $14 billion requ...
Unrealistic Immigration Demands Complicate Treacherous House Budget Talks
Posted by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Oct 20, 2023 Unless Congress can come to an agreement on the budget by November 17, the government will shut down, forcing tens of thousands of federal employees ...
New Board of Immigration Appeals Decision Sets Roadblock for Cubans, Others Seeking Green Cards
By Emma Winger | September 28, 2023 A recent Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision bars certain recently arrived noncitizens from becoming lawful permanent residents. In Matter of Cabrera-Fer...
Urban Matters | If We’re True to Our Better Selves We Can Meet the Migrant Challenge
By Ruth W. Messinger | September 27, 2023 We are at a challenging moment in the ever-unfolding story of our city. But it’s actually a place we have often been before. The immediate challenge is, of ...
Extension and Redesignation of Afghanistan for TPS
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the extension and redesignation of Afghanistan for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months from Nov. 21, 2023, through May 20, 2025. DHS al...
The Ghost of Public Charge Keeps Scaring Immigrant Families Away from Public Benefits
By American Immigration Council Staff | Aug 25, 2023 When the Trump administration proposed an overhaul of federal policy regarding when immigrants could be denied green cards or visas based on use ...
New Complaint Shows ICE’s Use of Solitary Confinement Is Excessive
El Centro, California, USA – May 27, 2022: Afternoon light shines on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center. (Shutterstock) By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact ...
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...