Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, Aug. 15, 2024 "Chicago’s top migrant official is walking back a prediction from city leaders last month that tens of thousands of migrants would arrive by bus...
USCIS, Aug. 16, 2024 "On Aug. 19, USCIS will begin accepting requests for, using a new electronic form, Form I-131F, Application for Parole in Place for Certain Noncitizen Spouses and Stepchildren...
ABA Journal, Aug. 1, 2024 "Immigrants coming to the U.S. face legal uncertainties along with difficult living conditions and the pain of family separations. Yet a hope that opportunities will outweigh...
Jorge Loweree, Aug. 14, 2024 (free link) "[T]he reality that is all too clear to immigrants navigating our byzantine system, and the lawyers and advocates who try to help them, is that there is...
Cornell Law "Cornell Law School is seeking to hire a staff attorney to collaborate with and contribute to Path2Papers , a new deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) project at Cornell Law...
"Referring to immigrants as “aliens,” when “alien” is commonly understood to be derogatory (whether because it means foreign, or strange, or brings images of extraterrestrial space creatures to mind), not only reflects immigrants’ place in American society, but in a very real way it enforces it. And be honest, now: which of the following is closer to what comes to mind when you hear the term “illegal alien” or “undocumented alien”—a German graduate student who has overstayed her visa, or a Mexican laborer who has illegally crossed our southern border? I think it’s a safe bet that, whatever your political persuasion, you were more likely to think of the Mexican." - Careen Shannon, June 3, 2013.