Homeland Security reinstates protection status for over 300,000 immigrants
The Biden administration is protecting some nationals from El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua from potential deportation.
By Oliver Willis - June 15, 2023The Biden administration is protecting some nationals from El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua from potential deportation.
By Oliver Willis - June 15, 2023The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border for the past three years.
By Associated Press - May 14, 2023The new House majority leader broke campaign promises and has authored just one minor law.
By Josh Israel - December 23, 2022WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled a regulation aimed at fending off legal challenges to a decade-old program that shields immigrants from deportation if they arrived as young children. The rule isn’t scheduled to take effect until Oct. 31 and its fate is tied to a lawsuit by Texas and other Republican-led […]
By Associated Press - August 27, 2022In announcing the new policy guidelines, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said agents and officers should consider ‘broader societal interests’ and the impact of their activities on communities.
By Associated Press - October 31, 2021Attacks on ‘amnesty’ from Republican lawmakers have not swayed most voters.
By Josh Israel - September 21, 2021President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan enjoys broad support in key states.
By Josh Israel - September 14, 2021Congressional Republicans continue to fearmonger about ‘amnesty’ for undocumented people.
By Josh Israel - July 29, 2021More than 700,000 immigrants have been deported from the U.S. in the last three fiscal years.
By Associated Press - June 01, 2021Sen. Chuck Grassley and other Republicans insist there’s a ‘crisis’ at the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Josh Israel - May 24, 2021Experts say words matter in the push for humane treatment of immigrants.
By Amy Lieu - April 12, 2021The proposal includes $861 million to address the root causes of immigration from Central America.
By Amy Lieu - April 09, 2021‘This continues to have a devastating impact on people in dire need of humanitarian protection,’ families of refugees wrote in a letter to the White House, citing the Trump-era ceiling that’s still in place.
By Amy Lieu - April 07, 2021One expert calls it a ‘good first step,’ but says more needs to be done.
By Amy Lieu - March 11, 2021The program could help reunite some 2,400 children with their families.
By Amy Lieu - March 11, 2021Passing the NO BAN Act would prevent future presidents from banning people on the basis of their religion under the guise of national security, experts say.
By Amy Lieu - March 03, 2021They are against reform when schools are open too.
By Josh Israel - February 18, 2021Now that Biden has moved to reform immigration, Senate Republicans are retaliating.
By Donna Provencher - January 29, 2021Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to stop the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing the ban.
By Associated Press - January 26, 2021Joe Biden said he wanted to unify that nation. Some GOP lawmakers think that means he can’t do anything they oppose.
By Josh Israel - January 22, 2021Right-wing news outlets are spreading the story of caravans of immigrants supposedly threatening the United States.
By Donna Provencher - January 22, 2021President-elect Joe Biden has also detailed a $1.9 trillion plan to address COVID-19.
By Josh Israel - January 18, 2021Biden will likely use executive orders to reverse some of Trump’s most controversial actions.
By Associated Press - November 14, 2020Stephen Miller is spending the final days of the election pushing for even more extreme immigration policies.
By Daniel Boguslaw - October 29, 2020McConnell has blocked everything from legislation to help unemployed workers to a bipartisan background check bill for gun sales.
By Emily Singer - September 22, 2020An executive order Trump is expected to sign Wednesday will still allow hundreds of thousands of temporary workers into the country, despite Trump’s claim that the ban is to protect American jobs.
By Associated Press - April 22, 2020Detainees in at least four states say they have been denied masks, even as the White House has urged face coverings in public.
By Associated Press - April 14, 2020The administration is ignoring decades-old national and international laws to block all asylum-seekers from entering the United States.
By Associated Press - April 09, 2020Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy forcing asylum seekers to await their court dates outside the US was blocked in Arizona and California by a federal appeals court.
By Associated Press - March 05, 2020A watchdog report said faulty data collection suggests there may be many more than 2,500 children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Associated Press - March 05, 2020