Source: The Hill Federal Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a nationwide injunction against the Administration’s recent asylum rule. The rule requires migrants to apply for asylum in “the first safe country” they arrive in before they are…
Source: Immigration Impact A new Trump Administration policy goes into effect today. This policy will expand “expedited removal” – “a provision of the law that permits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to rapidly deport certain individuals…
Source: Immigration Impact ICE began using three privately-run jails in Louisiana and Mississippi last month to hold immigration detainees. This expansion is troubling given the remoteness of these areas that would make it difficult for detainees to…
Source: Immigration Impact Before the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship question was “a pretext” for an attempt to intimidate immigrant families into not answering the Census, the Census Bureau sent out versions of the 2019 Census…
Source: ProPublica This article looks at the crisis happening at the border from the perspective of a border patrol agent who just wants to keep his head down. The agent, who did not want to reveal his…
Source: The New York Times President Trump has decided to abandon his attempts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. In an effort to show he has not entirely given up, he has stated that…
Source: Immigration Impact The Kettering Foundation hosted 86 conversations across 58 towns and cities in the US to report on public opinion of immigration issues. These public forums provided a space for individuals with seemingly divergent views…
Source: Immigration Impact The Trump Administration aims to cut back on programs that protect military families from deportation, such as Parole-in-Place (PIP) and Deferred Action. The policy behind these programs was to ensure that soldiers, sailors, airmen,…
Source: The New York Times The Congressional Hispanic Caucus visited two Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) facilities in Texas yesterday. The visits shed light on both the conditions of the facilities and a secret Facebook page called…
Source: Immigration Impact A new report by the American Immigration Council analyzes immigration enforcement trends from 2016 to 2018 through ICE enforcement data. Although President Trump’s executive order (“Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United…