Immigration Policy and Reform in United States

1. ICE will stop arresting and detaining most pregnant and nursing people (Julio 2021)

2. Biden Will Admit Asylum Seekers Ordered Deported Under Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols (June 2021)

3. Collecting DNA From Asylum Seekers at the Border Raises Privacy Concerns (June 2021)

4. As US Birth Rate Declines, Programs Like Social Security Need Immigration to Survive (May 2021)

5. Biden administration begins reuniting the first of thousands of migrant families still separated (May 2021)

6. All Immigrants and Undocumented Can Get the COVID-19 Vaccine (Abril 2021)

7. New exceptions for visa procedures in the United States (April 2021)

8. Explaining Title 42 Expulsions at the Border (April 2021)

9. Which Countries Could Get Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Next? (Mach 2021)

10. The Plan to Process Asylum Seekers Subject to the Migrant Protection Protocols (February 2021)

11. New Leadership Strikes a New Tone for America (January 2021)

12. What is the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) (Decembre 2020)

13. Your COVID-19 Vaccine Was Likely Made by an Immigrant (Decembre 2020)

14. Why Don’t Immigrants Apply for Citizenship? (December 2020)

15. What are so-called “sanctuary” policies? (November 2020)

16. USCIS’ Changes Make It Harder for Americans to Sponsor Immigrant Family Members (October 2020)

17. The Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship Is An Opportunity Of A Lifetime (September 2020)

18. Deaths In Immigration Detention Are At A Record. ICE Can Prevent The Next One (Agosto 2020)

19. COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc On Immigration Courts With No Clear Plan To Stop Spread (Agosto 2020)

20. What You Need To Know About The Partial DACA Rescission Memo (July 2020)

21. USCIS Upends The Lives Of Immigrants By Refusing To Print Their Work Permits And Green Cards (July 2020)

22. ICE Says International Students Must Take Classes In Person Or Leave The Country (July 2020)

23. What You Need To Know About President Trump’s Ban On Immigration (April 2020)

24. USCIS’ Change to How ‘Unlawful Presence’ Is Calculated Is Defeated in Court (February 2020)

25. Cultural Exchange Visitor J1 Through The American Immigration Counciltates (January 2020)

26. USCIS Formally Announces Implementation of Electronic H-1B Registration Process (January 2020)

27. Update On Travel By Temporary Protected Status Beneficiaries In Removal Proceedings (December 2019)

28. USCIS Plans Massive Fee Hike For Access To Genealogical Records (December 2019)

29. Immigration Courts Further Limit Legal Help Available To People Facing Deportation (December 2019)

30. Stephen Miller‘s Racially Motivated Animus Toward Immigrants Is Revealed (November 2019)

31. Trump Administration Begins Sending Asylum Seekers To Guatemala (November 2019)

32. Immigration Agencies’ Intrusive Searches Of Cell Phones, Laptops Are Ruled Unconstitutional (November 2019)

33. Summer 2020 White House Internship Program (November 2019)

34. USCIS Proposes Increased Fees For All Immigration-Related Applications (November 2019)

35. The Supreme Court Heard A Major Case On DACA. Here’s What You Need To Know (November 2019)

36. USCIS Implements $10 Fee For H-1B Visa Registration (November 2019)

37. What Is Next For Trump’s Health Care Ban? (November 2019)

38. USCIS Changes Policy On Fee Waivers, Potentially Deterring Thousands Of Citizenship Applications (November 2019)

39. The Trump Administration Wants To Return To A Pre-Civil Rights Immigration System (October 2019)

40. New Process In El Paso Seeks To Deport Asylum Seekers In Less Than 10 Days (October 2019)

41. USCIS Begins Producing Security-Enhanced Travel Documents (October 2019)

42. USCIS Updates Fee Waiver Requirements (October 2019)

43. Immigrants Waiting For Their Immigration Records Can Now Challenge Agency Delay (October 2019)

44. Which Immigration Cases Will The Supreme Court Rule On This Session? (October 2019)

45. USCIS Clarifies Special Immigrant Juvenile Classification To Better Ensure Victims Of Abuse (October 2019)

46. Federal Court Blocks Error-Prone ICE Deportation Program (October 2019)

47. Trump New Healthcare Ban Threatens The Legal Immigration System (October 2019)

48. Federal Judge Says DHS Must Keep Its Promise To Protect Children In Immigration Detention (October 2019)

49. USCIS Announces New Locations for Onsite Overseas Military Naturalization Services (October 2019)

50. Refugee Admissions To Hit 40-Year Low Under Trump (Octubre 2019)

51. Instructions For The 2021 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program DV-2021 (October 2019)

52. How The Immigration Court Reached A Record One Million Case Backlog (Septiembre 2019)

53. Winners & Losers In Immigration Grading Of Presidential Candidates (Septiembre 2019)

54. US Visa Policies Prevent Tech Startups From Hiring Foreign Workers (September 2019)

55. USCIS Wants To Make It Harder For Asylum Seekers To Get Work Permits (September 2019)

56. Welcoming Week 2019 Showcases America’s Inclusive Spirit (September 2019)

57. Chaos And Dysfunction At The Border: Remain In Mexico Program (September 2019)

58. Investigation Demanded As Medical Care For Detained Immigrant Children Worsens (September 2019)

59. Which Military Construction Projects Are Losing Funds to Build Trump’s Wall? (September 2019)

60. ICE Manipulate The Appropriations Process To Increase The Incarceration Of Immigrants (September 2019)

61. DOJ Moves To Further Politicize Immigration Court System (September 2019)

62. Tent Immigration Courthouses Are Being Built At The Texas Border (August 2019)

63. Immigrant Children With Cancer, HIV, Cerebral Palsy Threatened With Deportation (August 2019)

64. Immigration “Restrictionists” Hitting Their Stride Under Trump, But We Can Stop Them (August 2019)

65. What We Know About The Harms Of Public Charge So Far (August 2019)

66. New Rule Ends Flores And Permits Indefinite Detention Of Immigrant Children (August 2019)

67. USCIS Visa Petition Denials On The Rise (August 2019)

68. USCIS Issues Guidance On Discretionary Employment Authorization For Parolees (August 2019)

69. Trump Administration Moves To ‘Disband and Destroy’ Immigration Judges Union (August 2019)

70. USCIS Announces Final Rule Enforcing Long-Standing Public Charge Inadmissibility Law (August 2019)

71. Rushing Immigration Court Cases Through ‘Rocket Dockets’ Deprives Families Of Due Process (August 2019)

72. Global Human Rights Movement Issues Travel Warning For The U.S. Due To Rampant Gun Violence (August 2019)

73. Syria Is Not Redesignated For TPS, Despite Ongoing Armed Conflict (August 2019)

74. USCIS To End Certain Categorical Parole Programs (August 2019)

75. US Citizens Caught In Immigration Dragnet As Enforcement Gets More Aggressive (August 2019)

76. USCIS Rejecting Form I-129 Petitions That Lack Required Name and Address (August 2019)

77. A Primer On Expedited Removal (August 2019)

78. Attorney General Barr Rolls Back Asylum Protections For Families (August 2019)

79. The Institutional Hearing Program (IHP): An Overview (July 2019)

80. No Freedom, Education, Or Privacy: Over 2,000 Immigrant Children Detained (July 2019)

81. Appeals Court Decision Means Hundreds Of Migrants Were Unlawfully Convicted (July 2019)

82. New Rulemaking Brings Significant Changes To EB-5 Program (July 2019)

83. U.S. Citizen Children Impacted By Immigration Enforcement (July 2019)

84. Census Bureau Asked 250,000 Households About Their Citizenship Status (July 2019)

85. Information About A Secretive Program That Fast-Tracks Deportations (July 2019)

86. USCIS Announces Plan To Improve The Naturalization Test (July 2019)

87. President Trump Redefines ‘White House’ (July 2019)

88. ICE Quietly Expands Immigration Detention In The Deep South (July 2019)

89. A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children (July 2019)

90. Executives Of Staffing Companies Charged With Visa Fraud (July 2019)

91. Trump Administration Rejects More Student Visas From Muslim-Majority Countries (July 2019)

92. What Happens To Dreamers Now That The Supreme Court Is Hearing The DACA Case? (July 2019)

93. U.S. Supreme Court Temporarily Halt Citizenship Question In 2020 Census (July 2019)

94. Certain Detained Asylum Seekers Must Receive a Bond Hearing Within 7 Days (July 2019)

95. More Women And U.S. Citizens Impacted By Immigration Enforcement Actions (July 2019)

96. The Government Ended An Effective And Less Costly Alternative To Immigration Detention (July 2019)

97. The Potential Of The DACA/TPS Workforce For Employers (June 2019)

98. USCIS Expands FIRST: A Fully Digital FOIA System (June 2019)

99. USCIS Aims To Decrease Processing Times For N-400 And I-485 (June 2019)

100. ICE Deported Hundreds Of Immigrant Veterans (June 2019)

101. Presidential Memorandum On Enforcing The Legal Responsibilities Of Sponsors Of Aliens (June 2019)

102. Dream Act And DACA Policies Designed To Protect Dreamers (June 2019)

103. Cap Reached For Additional H-2B Visas For FY 2019 (June 2019)

104. USCIS Processing Delays To Be Investigated By Government Accountability Office (June 2019)

105. Temporary Protected Status: An Overview (June 2019)

106. Premium Processing Begins For Remaining H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions (June 2019)

107. The Trump Administration Continues to Attack Low-Income Immigrants (June 2019)

108. USCIS Releases 2018 Statistical Annual Report (June 2019)

109. Texas Service Center To Begin Accepting Form I-129 For Certain H-1B Petitions (May 2019)

110. Serving Our Country Is No Longer A Way For Immigrant Soldiers To Gain Citizenship (May 2019)

111. UnidosUS Supports New DACA/TPS Holder Relief Legislation (May 2019)

112. USCIS Accelerates Transition To Digital Immigration Processing (May 2019)

113. USCIS Completes Data Entry Of Fiscal Year 2020 H-1B Cap Subject Petitions (May 2019)

114. White House’s Misguided Immigration Reform Plan Is Set for Failure (May 2019)

115. More Immigrants Requesting To Return To Their Countries Of Origin Under Threat Of Deportation (May 2019)

116. Federal Court Stops USCIS Policy Harmful To Students And Exchange Visitors (May 2019)

117. Immigrants Who Use Legal Marijuana Can Be Denied Citizenship For Lacking Good Moral Character (May 2019)

118. Tuition Equity Policies for Immigrant Students Continue to Advance at the State Level (May 2019)

119. Closing USCIS International Offices Will Leave US Citizens, Abroad Without Help (May 2019)

120. Why The White House’s Measures To Curb Visa Overstays Are Inadequate (May 2019)

121. HUD Proposes To Evict Citizens And Immigrants From Public Housing If They Have Undocumented Family Members (April 2019)

122. CBP Announces Retention Incentive For United States Border Patrol Agents (April 2019)

123. Israeli Nationals Eligible For Treaty Investor Visas(April 2019)

124. Immigrants’ Taxes Help Save The Social Security System (April 2019)

125. USCIS Commemorates Second Anniversary of Buy American and Hire American Executive Order (April 2019)

126. United States Strengthens Guidance For Spousal Petitions Involving Minors (April 2019)

127. USCIS Hits H-1B Cap Within Days, Showing America Needs Foreign Workers (April 2019)

128. USCIS Completes The H-1B Cap Random Selection Process For FY 2020 (April 2019)

129. Certain Detained Asylum Seekers Must Receive a Bond Hearing Within 7 Days, Judge Orders (April 2019)

130. How The El Paso Immigration Court Fails To Uphold Due Process (April 2019)

131. Re-Registration Period Now Open with Temporary Protected Status under South Sudan’s Designation (April 2019)

132. USCIS Reaches FY 2020 H-1B Regular Cap (April 2019)

133. Making Sense of the Rising Number of Families Arriving at the Border (April 2019)

134. Immigrants Are Regularly Kept Locked Up For Months After Deportation Orders (March 2019)

135. Statement of Donald Kerwin, Executive Director of the Center for Migration Studies, on the US Border and Border Wall (March 2019)

136. Taking H-4 Spouses Out Of The US Workforce Would Hurt Women The Most (March 2019)

137. Appeals Court Says Asylum Seekers May Now Challenge Their Deportation in Federal Court (March 2019)

138. Families Hit Hardest By State Department Visa Denial Uptick (March 2019)

139. The Demand For Highly-Skilled Foreign Workers Is Undeniable (March 2019)

140. Number Of Undocumented Immigrants In US At A 25-Year Low (March 2019)

141. Congress Members and Others Argue Against Turning Back Asylum Seekers (February 2019)

142. Workers Detained In Massive Tennessee Immigration Raid Sue ICE (February 2019)

143. Border Towns Are Among The Safest In The United States (February 2019)

144. Immigrants and Their Descendants Are Patriotic and Trust America’s Governing Institution (February 2019)

145. How the United States Immigration System Works (February 2019)

146. USCIS Processing Times Get Even Slower Under Trump (February 2019)

147. The Landscape Of Immigration Detention In The United States (January 2019)

148. Promise to ‘Build the Wall’ Hurts Businesses and Residents Along the Border (January 2019)

149. The Judicial Black Sites the Government Created to Speed Up Deportations (January 2019)

150. With Comment Period Expired, Uncertainty Remains About H-1B Registration Process (January 2019)

151. 2018 Closes On a Week Filled With Immigration Victories and New Challenges (December 2018)

152. USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for First Half of FY 2019 (December 2018)

153. USCIS Proposed H1-B Registration Rule Creates More Uncertainty for Employers (December 2018)

154. How States Took Action on Immigration in 2018 (December 2018)

155. Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony (November 2018)

156. President Trump's Asylum Ban Is Illegal And Solves Nothing (November 2018)

157. Ending Birthright Citizenship Could Put All Americans’ Nationality in Jeopardy (November 2018)

158. 5 Ways to Prevent the Next Migrant Caravan (October 2018)

159. New Court Filing Highlights the Government’s Official “Turnback Policy” for Asylum Seekers (October 2018)

160. The United States Must Embrace Global Talent, As High-Skilled Foreign Workers Go Elsewhere (October 2018)

161. Surprise Government Inspection Finds Nooses in ICE Detention Center, Doctors Refusing to Treat Immigrant Detainees (October 2018)

162. This Citizenship Day Marred by Government’s Focus on Stripping People of Their Citizenship (September 2018)

163. Two Border Patrol Agents Charged With Murder Highlights The Need For Robust Hiring Standards (September 2018)

164. Rural Communities Get Boost From Growing Immigrant Population (September 2018)

165. Medical Neglect And Abuse Reported At Atlanta Immigration Detention Center (September 2018)

166. USCIS’ Wait Times For Citizenship Have Doubled (August 2018)

167. Students And Exchange Visitors At Risk Of Being Barred From U.S. Under New USCIS Policy (August 2018)

168. Immigration Services Available For Those Affected By California Wildfires (August 2018)

169. DHS To Restart Deportation Cases For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Immigrants (August 2018)

170. How Long Does It Take USCIS to Issue a Green Card? (August 2018)

171. It Is Legal to Seek Asylum (July 2018)

172. USCIS Is Slowly Being Morphed Into an Immigration Enforcement Agency (July 2018)

173. Nationwide Protests: ¿Pro-Immigrant or Anti-Trump? (July 2018)

174. Residents on Both Sides of the Border Try to Help Asylum Seekers Illegally Turned Away by U.S. Gov’t (June 2018)

175. SAVE Goes Completely Paperless (June 2018)

176. Asylum Seeker Files Lawsuit After CBP Officers Falsify Paperwork And Then Deport Him (June 2018)

177. What Happens When Migrant Children Are Taken Into U.S. Custody? (June 2018)

178. Immigrants Create Jobs for American Workers, Boosting the U.S. Employment Rate (May 2018)

179. Family Unity Is Threatened By This New Immigration Enforcement Policy (April 2018)

180. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Regularly Detains Children for Months at a Time (March 2018)

181. How Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Hurts America’s Schools (March 2018)

182. When Detention Is a Death Sentence (March 2018)

183. USCIS Changes to Asylum Interview Scheduling Allows Long-Pending Cases to Languish (February 2018)

184. USCIS Strengthens Protections to Combat H-1B Abuses (February 2018)

185. Employment Authorization For Haitians With TPS Automatically Extended Until July 21, 2018 (January 2018)

186. Countries Eligible for the H-2A and H-2B Visa Programs Year 2018 (January 2018)

187. Immigrants and Their Children Founded More Than Two-Fifths of All Fortune 500 Companies (December 2017)

188. Judge Rules That Foreign Entrepreneurs Can Come to the United States to Grow Their Businesses (December 2017)

189. Immigrants And Refugees Are Among America’s 2017 Nobel Prize Winners (November 2017)

190. The Military’s Strategic and Recruitment Goals Fail When Immigrants Can’t Serve (November 2017)

191. Refugee Admissions Resume But Government Will Still Restrict Some Countries (Octuber 2017)

192. Tell Congress: Stand up for Dreamers (September 2017)

193. Trump Administration’s Anti-Immigrant Hate (August 2017)

194. Pentagon May Deport Immigrants Who Have Served in the Military (July 2017)

195. The Government Continues to Ignore the Rights of Children in Detention, Court Finds (July 2017)

196. Parents Risk Prosecution for Helping Children Seek Safety in the United States (July 2017)

197. The Perils of Expedited Removal How Fast-Track Deportations Jeopardize Asylum Seekers Part III (May 2017)

198. The Perils of Expedited Removal How Fast-Track Deportations Jeopardize Asylum Seekers Part II (May 2017)

199. How Fast-Track Deportations Jeopardize Asylum Seekers Part I (May 2017)

200. It’s Not up for Debate: Immigrants Invigorate the Economy (April 2017)

201. The Sad State of Atlanta’s Immigration Court (March 2017)

202. Trump’s Immigration Remarks at Joint Address, Debunked (March 2017)

203. Immigration Enforcement in Schools, Churches, and Courts: What the Government Can (and Can’t) Do (February 2017)

204. Nazis Once Published List of Jewish Crimes, Trump Now Pushing to Do the Same for Immigrant Crimes (February 2017)

205. The Outlook for DACA (December 2016)

206. Robots, Not Immigrants, Are Replacing U.S. Manufacturing Workers (December 2016)

207. Colleges Rally to the Defense of Undocumented Students (December 2016)

208. History Shows That Border Walls Don’t Work (November 2016)

209. Reason For Reform (August 2016)

210. Undocumented Immigrants Pay Billions in State and Local Taxes (January 2016)

211. Travelers: Be Aware of the Zika Virus (January 2016)

212. Scholarships Available for DREAMers! (September 2015)

213. Video: USCIS Director León Rodríguez Discusses His Family's Immigration History (August 2015)

214. Video: Mass Graves of Immigrants Found in Texas, But State Says No Laws Were Broken (July 2015)

215. Australia vs. United States (June 2015)

216. New Study Finds Systematic Bias in Labor Certification Process (January 2015)

217. Graphics of Unauthorized Immigrants Today (September 2014)

218. Border Children: ‘They Don’t Speak English, but They Understand Hate’ (August 2014)

219. Upscale Latinos: A Renewed Outlook For High-End Marketers (May 2014)

220. Labor Shortages Increase U.S. Reliance on Imported Foods (April 2014)

221. Broken H-1B Program is Costing American Jobs (March 2014)