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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tim Balk, NY Daily News, Aug. 31, 2023
"Mayor Adams on Thursday urged the federal government to “stand up” and expedite work authorizations for asylum seekers pouring into New York, continuing calls that he began a year ago as relations between New York leaders and the White House remain tense. ... Asylum seekers must wait for months to get their work papers approved: the standard 150-day gap between when they submit asylum papers and work permit applications is complicated by a backlogged work authorization system, creating extensive delays. The federal Citizenship and Immigration Services agency was gutted under former President Donald Trump and has worked to catch up under President Biden, said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law at Cornell University. The 150-day delay between asylum applications and work permit requests cannot be changed without an act of Congress, Yale-Loehr noted — a step considered highly unlikely in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The federal government reported it is processing 80% of asylum seekers’ work authorization submissions within two months. The waits pose a headache for local officials who are working to get tens of thousands of migrants out of the shelter system and integrated into the workforce."