Source: NPR Last week, Trump announced that the U.S. and Mexico have agreed to temporarily close the border to “nonessential travel to curb the spread” of COVID-19. This includes anyone attempting to claim asylum at the U.S.…
Source: WHYY Detained settings, under the best of circumstances, are dangerous to immigration detainees. COVID-19 could mean a death sentence for someone detained on a civil immigration violation. As a question of basic human rights, ICE should…
Source: ICE.gov On Monday, March 16, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) sued ICE on behalf of immigrants detained at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. The organizations…
Source: USCIS To anyone worried about recent stringent changes to the public charge rule, please be assured that corona virus COVID-19 testing and treatment will NOT count as a negative factor in making a public charge determination.…
Source: NPR On February 28, 2020, the Ninth Circuit ruled to block the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” (aka “Migrant Protection Protocols”) program that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims process in…
Source: NPR In 2010, 15-year-old Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca was shot and killed by an on-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent while Sergio was playing with his friends on the southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border. Sergio’s parents…
Source: Immigration Impact In an attempt to force state and local governments to cooperate with its immigration policies, the Trump administration has announced that it plans to deploy “immigration SWAT teams known as the Border Patrol Tactical…
Source: Immigration Impact An internal memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) gave Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) a protected status that allows the agency to withhold all names of CBP employees in response to FOIA…
Source: Immigration Impact In the summer of 2017, four humanitarian aid volunteers from a group called “No More Deaths” were driving on a restricted access road to leave food and water for migrants when they were arrested…
Source: Immigration Impact On February 6, 2020, a federal district court stopped USCIS from changing the definition of “unlawful presence” for students and exchange visitors in the United States. While students and exchange visitors are in school…