A recently published article from The Huffington Post provides an autobiographical glimpse into the life of a woman who fell in love with an undocumented immigrant and the fear she says they live in on a daily basis. Sarah and Javier – pseudonyms granted by The Huffington Post to preserve the author’s anonymity – met
An undocumented Mexican immigrant who requested to seek a special visa for being a victim of a crime in the United states has been held up by U.S. Attorney General William Barr and the Board of Appeals. Both were berated by federal appeals court for thwarting its efforts in securing a special visa for the
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it will reopen some cases for those applying for relief from deportation. This comes after a move to end deferment requests received major backlash from Democcratic lawmakers and concerns of those who are seeking medical treatment in The United States Earlier this month, USCIS sent letters
To support new policies on deporting illegal migrants back to their countries, the Trump administration plans on shifting over 155 million dollars from the Federal Emergency Management Agencies disaster relief fund. The Department of Homeland Security has informed Congress of its efforts to reappropriate 271 million dollars in total to ICE. The move comes as
The Department of Homeland Security has blocked individual House Oversight Committee staff members from visiting detention facilities on the Mexico and United States border. Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Representative Elijah Cummings, sent a letter to the acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, requesting his decision be overturned and allow
Effective next Monday, The Department of Justice, executive office for immigration review will implement a new rule which takes steps aimed at limiting the powers at dismantling immigration courts. “By collapsing the policymaking role with the adjudication role into a single individual, the Director of EOIR, an unconfirmed political appointee, the Immigration Court system has
Last week’s announcement by the Trump administration on limiting pathways to citizenship for certain immigrants has come to a crossroad with three northeastern states. Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, announced that Connecticut, Vermont, and New York had filed a lawsuit against the federal government and the agencies that would be enforcing the new rule
