Jeanne Batalova, MPI, Oct. 2024 "With immigration a central focus in the public and policy conversations in the United States, it is important to have a solid understanding of the immigrant population...
American Immigration Council, Oct. 8, 2024 "The upcoming presidential election has propelled immigration and border policy to the forefront of the debate including calls for the mass deportation...
DOL, Oct. 8, 2024 "The U.S. Department of Labor has debarred a Kennewick farm labor contractor from participating in the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program for three years after finding...
Arun Venugopal, Gothamist, Oct. 8, 2024 "The Biden administration's announcement on Friday that it will end an immigration parole program that gave legal protections to migrants from four countries...
USCIS, Oct. 8, 2024 "On Oct. 8, we introduced a PDF filing option for certain applicants seeking an Employment Authorization Document (EAD). Eligible applicants now may upload a completed Form I...
Melissa del Bosque, The Intercept, Nov. 1, 2020 - A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation
“Can you imagine having your child taken away from you in the middle of the night?” Garcia wondered aloud to his wife over dinner after being assigned the case in late October. He had a daughter from his first marriage, and Jayne had three children, whom Garcia helped raise and thought of as his own. His wife, whose Midwestern pragmatism he’d always admired, put down her fork and looked at him with an expression of alarm. “If somebody took away my children, I would be destroyed,” she said. “I would not let it happen.” But as Garcia sat in the courtroom with his clients, not even the judge could get any information from the federal prosecutors about where the five children had been taken."