Source: Immigration Impact A new report from the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) discusses current issues with the US immigration system and proposes changes to solve those issues. CMS found that although “about 1.2 million undocumented residents…
Source: Syracuse TRAC Center Report This year, ICE’s arrest strategies included arresting parents as they dropped their children off at school, raiding businesses, and creating a fake university to recruit hundreds of students with the intention to…
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer GTH’s, Brennan Gian-Grasso, was quoted in this Philadelphia Inquirer article discussing the issues of splitting up families at detention centers, such as the Berks County Family Detention Center. “This is part and parcel…
Source: Immigration Impact A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the Presidential Proclamation from October 4th that would have required individuals seeking admission to prove they would either be covered by US health insurance within their first…
Source: Immigration Impact The Trump administrative began yet another asylum program on October 7 called “Prompt Asylum Case Review” (PACR) in the El Paso, Texas Border Patrol station. The program “seeks to speed families through the asylum…
Source: American Immigration Lawyers Association In September, the DHS and DOJ opened tent facilities that operate as secretive courts at the Laredo and Brownsville, Texas ports of entry. In this letter addressed to the DHS and DOJ,…
Source: The New York Times On October 4, 2019, the White House issued a proclamation ordering consular offices to bar immigrants seeking to live in the United States unless they can prove that they “will be covered…
Source: Immigration Impact A new study from University of California Davis’ Institute of Labor Economics found that heightened immigration enforcement did not decrease crime rates for “violent offenses or property offenses.” The program “Secure Communities” that was…
Source: NPR On Monday, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan announced that starting next week, DHS will be ending the “catch and release” policy, which allows families apprehended at the border to enter the United…
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer This article discusses the ramifications of ending medical deferred action by telling the story of a family of undocumented parents and two American citizen children with mental and physical medical disabilities. Through the…