So apparently not satisfied with egging on the attack on the U.S. Capitol this month, Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley blocked the quick confirmation of Alejandro Mayorkas, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Trump administration has signed agreements with Arizona, Louisiana, Indiana, and one lone sheriff’s office in North Carolina that state any future immigration changes made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) first have to be run by the localities before the federal government can act, BuzzFeed News reports. If that sounds like a bunch of bull to you, you’re not wrong.
Next week will mercifully mark the end of twice-impeached president Donald Trump’s term, and that of his political appointees. But not all of them. U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham was picked by Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate two years ago to a term that’s not scheduled to end until the end of 2021.
Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro said this week that undocumented immigrants who have served as essential workers amid the novel coronavirus pandemic should be put on an expedited path to citizenship. Currently, there’s no way for millions of undocumented families to “get in line” to even begin the naturalization process.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the recently finalized Trump administration rules that advocates have previously said “all but gut” the U.S. asylum system, ruling that unlawfully appointed acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf lacked the authority to implement the anti-asylum changes that were set to go into effect just days before President-elect Biden’s inauguration.
The office of Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts was forced to clarify remarks made by the Republican on Monday stating that undocumented workers at the state’s meatpacking plants wouldn’t be eligible for COVID-19 vaccine distribution at facilities because I guess he thinks they don’t exist there or something.
The office of Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts was forced to clarify remarks made by the Republican on Monday stating that undocumented workers at the state’s meatpacking plants wouldn’t be eligible for COVID-19 vaccine distribution at facilities because I guess he thinks they don’t exist there or something.
Border Patrol yet again targeted the humanitarian group that provides lifesaving aid to migrants in the desert along the southern border, No More Deaths said in a statement received by Daily Kos. The humanitarian medical group, which provides water and other help to migrants in crisis, said that border agents on horseback surrounded the camp on the day before Christmas Eve to harass volunteers and tell them that they were obtaining a warrant to again raid the medical camp.
Thousands of Liberian immigrants who are otherwise eligible to apply for permanent status in the U.S. through a law passed last year but faced immense difficulties largely due to intentional sabotaging by the Trump administration will now have one more year to complete the application process.
“Tucked inside the $900 billion spending deal passed by Congress on Dec. 21, 2020 and signed by the president on Dec.
A new law last year allowing thousands of Liberian immigrants who faced separation following loss of their temporary protections to apply for green cards should have brought some much-needed relief. Should have. Instead, ProPublica reports that the Trump administration has largely undermined the application process, leaving advocates “surprised by how many hoops immigrants were being asked to jump through” as the deadline to apply quickly approaches.
A new law last year allowing thousands of Liberian immigrants who faced separation following loss of their temporary protections to apply for green cards should have brought some much-needed relief. Should have. Instead, ProPublica reports that the Trump administration has largely undermined the application process, leaving advocates “surprised by how many hoops immigrants were being asked to jump through” as the deadline to apply quickly approaches.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has had every power and ability to release detained immigrants—including parents and their children—amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the government agency has refused. Inside one migrant family jail in Texas, like at other adult detention camps across the U.S., it has continued to result in the inevitable (and preventable): outbreaks.
Tony Pham, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the soon-to-be-ending Trump administration, is reportedly set to resign from the agency by the end of the year. If he feels better thinking it’s somehow his decision, sure, whatever, adiós. What’s for sure is that Pham was a complete disgrace during his handful of months in the unconfirmed acting position.
BuzzFeed News reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has backpedaled from its attack against the outlet for its egregious crime of factually reporting on the out-of-control agency’s policies, saying it won’t try to enforce its subpoena demanding it reveal its sources. For now.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency isn’t spending its final weeks under the Trump administration releasing detained people—including children and their families—as an emergency health measure amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, but instead issuing a subpoena attempting to force BuzzFeed News to reveal its confidential sources. Priorities.
The solution to reaching Indigenous farm workers in the U.S. who are unable to fully access novel coronavirus pandemic information due to language barrier issues may start as simply as turning on the radio.
CNN reports that a pair of radio hosts in California have used their show to help educate Indigenous migrants who make up part of the state’s farmworkers about the pandemic. Radio Indígena 94.
Two U.S.-born Latinas who were racially profiled, harassed, and unlawfully detained by an out-of-control Customs and Border Protection agent for speaking Spanish while shopping at a Montana convenience store in 2018 have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the Trump administration, legal advocacy groups announced.
The settlement includes an undisclosed monetary sum, advocates said.
The Desert Sun reports that as essential workers, farmworkers will likely have earlier access than most of the public to the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available for distribution. However, a coalition of California farmworker and health advocacy groups including the UFW Foundation (UFWF) say that farmworkers should be prioritized for vaccination at the same time as healthcare workers, who’ll likely be first.
Agencies that have typically worked with the federal government to resettle refugees in the U.S. have welcomed the pledge from President-elect Joe Biden to raise admissions to 125,000 annually. I wrote “typically worked” because the outgoing administration has decimated the resettlement program, reducing admissions to record lows and leading to the closure of some agencies.
Ana Cajigal Adan was given just a couple days reprieve before federal immigration officials again tried to deport her. Vice News reported earlier this month that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was set to deport Adan, one of the immigrants who may serve as a key witness in the abuses allegedly carried out by a notorious Georgia gynecologist, until a Democratic legislator stepped in.
Internal documents released in litigation against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) following the detention of U.S. citizens and permanent residents of Iranian descent at the U.S.-Canadian border earlier this year reveal that officials not only detained far more people than previously known, they actively misled the public in an effort to cover up their unlawful and discriminatory actions.
A George W. Bush-appointed federal judge has for now blocked Border Patrol agents from stalking a federal courthouse in southern California in order to detain immigrants who are appearing for their hearings, writing a “strongly worded opinion” that “[t]he court is not an ‘arrest pad’ nor will it ever be,” The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Many immigrants have already been essential workers—that role has become clearer than ever as the novel coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the U.S. But for immigrants who lack legal status, every day becomes risk on top of risk. Not only does their status as an essential worker leave them vulnerable to contracting COVID-19; driving as part of being an essential worker can also leave them at greater risk of being turned over to federal immigration authorities.
Impeached president Donald Trump lost the election (it feels great to write that), but his stupid and racist border fencing construction continues (it doesn’t feel great to write that). In fact, NPR reports that not only is construction continuing, the administration is rushing to build as much as possible before Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20. The president-elect has vowed to end construction.
Voters in a number of key battleground states including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin not only overwhelmingly support humane approaches to immigration, they’re repudiating impeached president Donald Trump’s treatment of immigrants, Immigration Hub and Civiqs find in polling released just days away from the end of voting in the 2020 election.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) failed to disclose information as required by law regarding its deployment to national protests following the police killing of George Floyd earlier this year, so a coalition of leading civil and immigrants’ rights organizations have now sued the out-of-control federal immigration agency in order to force it to release the records.
Leading House Democrats have called on the United Nations (U.N.
Teddy’s two older sisters aren’t eligible to vote in this year’s election, but he is—and he’s going to cast his ballot to protect his family from deportation. “If DACA were to end,” he says, “I have a chance of losing my family.
The Supreme Court isn’t finished possibly issuing another devastating ruling in the 2020 census count. Just days after issuing a brief, unsigned order allowing the U.S. Census Bureau to end data collection early, the court last Friday agreed to fast track impeached president Donald Trump’s discriminatory order seeking to erase undocumented immigrants from the count in order to affect apportionment of House seats.
A federal judge put Trump administration officials through the wringer this week, calling them liars and ordering them to start reducing the detainee population at a notorious immigration prison devastated by the novel coronavirus pandemic by at least 50 people per day. The judge first issued a ruling in April, but the administration has fought it as more at the notorious California prison have gotten sick.