Unlike previous studies that have concentrated on census statistics, the study used fresh federal data on border arrests, visa overstays, illegal crossings and voluntary emigration. The statistics were used to create a n ...
Daily Archives: September 25, 2018
Migrants Get a Second Chance at Asylum. But It’s Still an Uphill Battle
Although the president and the American Civil Liberties Union have come to an agreement giving migrant families separated at the border this summer a second chance to make their case for staying in the country, immigrati ...
Health advocates decry funding transfer over migrant children
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday notified Congress that it intends to transfer up to $186 million from elsewhere in the agency to pay for housing a growing number of migrant children. ...
Skyrocketing citizenship backlog — politics at play?
In 1952, at the height of McCarthyism, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld legislation that rendered deportable former members of the Communist Party. The plaintiffs at the center of the case, Peter Harisiades, Luigi Mascitti ...
Hearing Set for Man Seeking Sanctuary in Michigan Church
U.S. District Court records show a Nov. 13 hearing on the government's request to dismiss Ded Rranxburgaj's petition to stop a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement order for removal after his legal status expired. ...
Deported Mexican Mother of 4 Citizens Back to Pursue Asylum
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a judge last week allowed Maribel Trujillo Diaz (MAHR'-uh-behl TROO'-hee-yoh dee'-AHZ) to return to the Ohio city of Fairfield after family members paid her $1,500 bond while she awaits he ...
Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees
It was a tugboat dragging a barge that had been carrying an LED screen through New York City’s waterways for four days. The project is called “Night Watch,” and the screen on top of the barge — 20 feet across, 12 feet hi ...
An Unhealthy Plan to Drive Out Immigrants
On Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule that would enable it to deny green cards and visas to immigrants here legally who have used public health and nutrition assistance, including Medicaid and ...
How Trump Can Use Welfare To Stymie Immigration — And Vice Versa
″It’s an opportunity to fuel the nativist fire and scapegoat immigrants as a drain on our economy,” said Wendy Cervantes, senior policy analyst for the Center for Law and Social Policy, a nonpartisan organization that wo ...
If You Care About Immigrants, Prove It In The Midterm Elections
This election year, however, things are poised to be different ― and I am not just talking about the expected “blue wave” that many are so desperately working toward. Many people who didn’t before understand just how bad ...
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