October 04, 2024

Expert: No "Immediate" Deportation

Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Oct. 3, 2024 "Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole do not provide people a pathway to citizenship. So, people with humanitarian parole or Temporary Protected Status must use another avenue — such as asylum, marriage or employment — to gain legal permanent residence. That leaves people who have these protections in a "precarious non-permanent status"...

October 03, 2024

The Untold Story: Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond (Free Webinar)

CMS: The Untold Story: Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond October 16, 2024 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (ET) The Journal on Migration and Human Security will soon release a special edition issue, “ Forced Migration, Deterrence, and Solutions to the Non-Natural Disaster of Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond .” Authors of this special edition will discuss their articles and findings...

October 03, 2024

Planning for post-election immigration outcomes in a Harris-Walz v. Trump-Vance presidential race

Angelo Paparelli, Manish Daftari, Oct. 3, 2024 "Recent developments have upended many of our earlier predictions of the likely post-election immigration landscape in the United States. These include: Former President Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as running mate. Mr. Vance has supported restrictions on legal and illegal immigration. Mr. Trump’s announcement that he is not...

October 03, 2024

The Case for Open Borders: Author Q&A with John Washington

Reece Jones, Oct. 2, 2024 "“Open borders” has become an epithet that Republican use to attack Democrats, blaming many problems in the United States on the lack of attention to the border. However, rather than countering with a more humane policy on the border, the Biden Administration maintained and even expanded many of the Trump Administration’s strict immigration policies, including a June...

October 03, 2024

Immigrant Leaders at the University of California Sue School for Discrimination

UCLA Law, Oct. 1, 2024 "Today, a UCLA alumnus and a university lecturer, represented by attorneys from the law firm of Altshuler Berzon LLP, Organized Power in Numbers , and the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law , filed a lawsuit against the University of California (UC) for discriminating against undocumented students enrolled at the institution. The lawsuit alleges that...

October 03, 2024

Reshaping Futures: How the New D3 Waiver Guidance is Unlocking Opportunities for Dreamers in the Workforce

Krsna Avila, Dan Berger, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, Oct. 2024 "It’s been just three months since the Biden-Harris administration launched clarifying guidance for certain waivers designed to clear the path for Dreamers seeking work visas, and we’re already seeing the results. We’re excited to share two success stories: one from a DACA recipient and another from an undocumented individual, both of...

October 02, 2024

Mass Deportation - Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy

AIC, Oct. 2, 2024 "In recent months, leading politicians and policymakers have renewed calls for mass deportations of immigrants from the United States. While similar promises have been made in the past without coming to fruition—during the 2016 presidential campaign, for example, Donald Trump pledged to create a “deportation force” to round up undocumented immigrants —mass deportation now...

October 02, 2024

Explainer: How Immigrants End Up on ICE’s Non-Detained Docket

Sandra Sanchez, Border Report, Oct. 1, 2024 "Recent reports that over 435,000 convicted criminals are on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s non-detained docket (NDD) — meaning they are not detained by the agency while they await immigration proceedings — has spurred much criticism and confusion. ... Border Report spoke with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration...

October 01, 2024

Experts: Trump's Mass Deportation Would Be Difficult

an Gooding, Newsweek, Sept. 30, 2024 "Experts and lawmakers are skeptical of his ability to do such a thing, just as they have been of the mass deportation promise laid out in the GOP's 2024 platform. "In general, deportation is for people who lack immigration status," Stephen Yale-Loehr , an immigration law professor at Cornell Law School, told Newsweek. "People here on parole or temporary protected...

September 30, 2024

Did Elon Musk Violate U.S. Immigration Laws?

Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, Sept. 29, 2024 "At the 2013 event, the brothers also touched on a topic they’ve discussed less frequently in public: their immigration status during the company’s founding. In early 1996, their startup, an early online city guide and mapping tool, got a $3 million infusion from venture capitalists. The investors soon found themselves surprised, according to Kimbal Musk’s...

September 27, 2024

Second Border Nonprofit Sues Paxton

Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times, Sept. 26, 2024 " Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center is the second El Paso immigration nonprofit to sue Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , accusing him of violating the nonprofit's constitutional rights in an effort to shut down the organization. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, Sept. 25 , in U.S. federal court and asks a judge to issue a temporary restraining order stopping...

September 27, 2024

Talking Immigration in Cars with Coffee

CILP, Sept. 2024 You’ve heard of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but what about immigration nerds in cars getting coffee?? As we’ve carpooled with our colleagues to the UCLA Law School over the past couple of years, we often found ourselves holding video work meetings and talking about the complexities of immigration law while navigating L.A. traffic. Now, we are inviting YOU to join us and eavesdrop on...

September 27, 2024

Cornell Student Faces Deportation

Matt Dougherty, Ithaca.com, Sept. 24, 2024 "Cornell University has become the first university to suspend a student for pro-Palestinian organizing this semester, putting them at risk of deportation. The suspension was in response to a student-led protest organized by the Coalition for Mutual Liberation (CML), which shut down a career fair at the Statler Hotel attended by defense contractors Boeing and L3 Harris...

September 27, 2024

Despite Sharply Different Immigration Rhetoric, Democrats and Republicans Now Have a Similar Approach to the Border

Muzaffar Chishti and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, MPI, Sept. 27, 2024 "The Democratic Party’s approach to the U.S.-Mexico border has fundamentally shifted, as was illustrated most clearly at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. While the 2020 convention was sprinkled with condemnations of the Trump administration’s border restrictions, the former president’s immigration record was invoked at...

September 25, 2024

Snapshot of ICE Detention: Inhumane Conditions and Alarming Expansion

NIJC, Sept. 20, 2024 "The U.S. government spends over three billion a year on the largest immigration detention apparatus in the world to detain and deport people who have lived in the U.S. for decades or who arrived recently seeking safety or a better life. People in detention experience inhumane conditions and rights abuses that include medical neglect , preventable deaths , punitive use of solitary confinement...

September 25, 2024

Judge Denies Access to Prince Harry's Visa Files

Heritage Foundation v. DHS "In this Freedom of Information Act case, Plaintiffs seek the disclosure by the Department of Homeland Security of certain immigration records relating to the Duke of Sussex, a member of the British Royal Family known popularly as "Prince Harry." The government argues that the Duke has a privacy interest that outweighs any public interest in those records and has therefore withheld...

September 25, 2024

USCIS Affirmative Asylum Case Backlog: 1,252,235 Cases

In pending litigation in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, USCIS Asylum Division Chief John L. Lafferty provided this sworn declaration dated July 26, 2024.

September 24, 2024

Chronicling 25 Years of Violations: ICE Detention at Plymouth County Correctional Facility

IRHTP, PLS, Sept. 2024 "Consistent complaints over the last twenty-five years reveal a disturbing pattern of systemic abuse and mistreatment of ICE detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility. Drawing on formal and informal investigations and inquiries, reviews by outside agencies and documented internal grievances, this report by Boston University School of Law’s Immigrants’ Rights and Human...

September 24, 2024

DHS, DOS Announce Designation of the State of Qatar into the Visa Waiver Program

DHS, Sept. 24, 2024 "Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, in consultation with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, designated Qatar into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The collaboration and information sharing at the core of the VWP will significantly enhance the security interests of the United States in addition to encouraging legitimate travel and commerce between the two nations. ...

September 23, 2024

ACLU Sues ICE for Records Regarding Potential Expansion of Immigration Detention

ACLU, Sept. 23, 2024 "The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain records regarding the agency’s potential plans to expand immigration detention across the country. The ACLU submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in August 2024 in response to ICE’s contract solicitations to “identify possible detention facilities”...

September 20, 2024

NEW REPORT EXPOSES CRUELTY OF SECRETIVE U.S. DETENTION OF REFUGEE FAMILIES AT GUANTANAMO BAY

IRAP, Sept. 19, 2024 "Today, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) released a new report detailing the U.S. government’s practice of interdicting refugee families at sea and detaining them indefinitely in inhumane and unlawful conditions at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Offshoring Human Rights: Detention of Refugees at Guantánamo Bay compiles testimony from refugees formerly...

September 20, 2024

Venezuelan Migrants Sue for Release from Immigration Jail

Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 16, 2024 "Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, and the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the federal district court of New Mexico on Friday on behalf of four Venezuelan migrants who face indefinite detention in ICE custody at the Otero Processing Center in Chaparral, New...

September 19, 2024

They fled violence and poverty. Now, in Florida, asylum seekers face an endless wait

Nancy Guan, WUSF, Sept. 19, 2024 "Maria and her family arrived in the U.S. in December of 2021 — the tail end of a year where encounters at the southern border reached record highs. Many of them, like her, fled a mix of violence, poverty and political instability, risking their lives to come to the U.S. to apply for asylum. The protection allows them to stay in the country and opens up a pathway to citizenship...

September 18, 2024

Over 75 Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Implement Protection Measures for CBP One Users, Changes to CBP One, and Restore Asylum

Human Rights Watch, Sept. 18, 2024 "Dear President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken, We, the undersigned human rights, humanitarian, civil society , and faith-based organizations, are writing to you in response to the recent announcement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that—as of August 23—non-Mexican individuals will be able to request appointments through the CBP One mobile...

September 18, 2024

New York – Varick Immigration Court to Host Live MHP Event

EOIR, Sept. 16, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) invites interested stakeholders to participate in its live Model Hearing Program (MHP) event on Sept. 30, 2024. The event will be held in person at the New York – Varick Immigration Court, and it will also be offered via Webex. This live MHP event will provide substantive law training pertaining to Asylum, Withholding of Removal, protection...