Source: Politico Attorney General William Barr has quietly reopened an asylum case that was closed almost 15 years ago. The case involves a former military officer from Bangladesh, Rashed Chowdhury. After Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan…
Source: International Refugee Assistance Project Immigrant advocacy organizations, including CASA, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), Centro Legal de la Raza, Oasis Legal Services, and Pangea Legal Services, filed a lawsuit to stop the government from implementing…
Source: The Hill Today, Trump issued an executive order that blocks undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census. This is an attempt to exclude immigrants from being counted when apportioning congressional representation. Last summer, Trump…
Source: NPR A federal court in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to accept new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications. After the Supreme Court ruled last month that the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA was…
Source: Immigration Impact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently stopped printing documents that immigrants need to prove that they are legally residing and working in the U.S. In mid-June, USCIS ended its contract with a third-party…
Source: North Jersey The Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, NJ may be closing in the near future. Most immigrant detention centers are owned by private companies that lease out their spaces to the U.S. Immigration and Customs…
Source: Immigration Impact “Even as President Trump downplays the threat of COVID-19, the Trump Administration is using the pandemic as a pretext to bar more people from the United States.” Most recently, the Trump administration proposed a…
Source: New York Times Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sued the Trump Administration over the new international student rule. ICE announced this new rule on Monday, stating that international students will have to…
Source: VICE The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the federal agency that administers the nation’s immigration system. USCIS’s budget is largely made up of the fees immigrants pay to process their immigration applications. But due…
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer Last Wednesday, immigration judges across the U.S. have sued the Trump administration to overturn a rule that bans them from freely voicing their opinion on law and policy. The rule allows for immigration…