by Naomi Taxay | Dec 2, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court wrestled Monday with how much power federal appeals courts should have to review asylum denials, pressing both sides on whether findings of persecution are legal matters that federal courts can independently (de novo) review or factual...
by Aanika Sawhney and Naomi Taxay | Nov 20, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) walked out of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday after calling the hearing – titled “ICE Under Fire: The Radical Left’s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement” – an exercise in Republican political theater. At the...
by Isabella Jacob | Nov 11, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – On March 1, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the United States’ official language. Since then, some federal agencies, like the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing & Urban Development, have...
by Naomi Taxay | Oct 15, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
As President Donald Trump ordered federal troops into Chicago to assist with deportation efforts, immigrants and their advocates found an ally in Pope Leo XIV. A native of the city, the new pope urged U.S. bishops to confront the government’s escalating targeting of...
by Naomi Taxay | Oct 3, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The White House on Wednesday accused Democrats of forcing a government shutdown over “free health care for illegal aliens,” echoing Republican lawmakers. But the Affordable Care Act subsidies at issue have never been available to undocumented immigrants,...
by Isabella Jacob | Oct 2, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – On Sept. 28, hundreds marched down 16th street from one church to another to stand in solidarity with the migrant community. The procession comes amidst a sharp increase in ICE arrests in D.C. In response, the Jesuit Refugee Service and the Archdiocese...
by Naomi Taxay | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced updates to the naturalization civics test last Thursday, focusing questions on American values and principles. The move is part of the agency’s larger overhaul of American citizenship standards....
by Katareena Roska | Sep 25, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – When news of President Donald Trump’s latest proclamation regarding the H-1B visa broke, Sydney rushed to check on her close friends. Sydney, an H-1B visa holder from Taiwan, requested that her real name be withheld to protect her privacy. “One of my...
by Jiah Choe and Norah D'Cruze | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
Sara arrived in the United States as a 7-year-old refugee when her family fled religious persecution in Bangladesh. Eleven years later, Sara now calls Montgomery County, Md., home. But if the Trump administration has its way, she would be immediately deported because...
by Samanta Habashy | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Three days before Arab America’s Empowerment Summit, co-founders Warren and Amal David received a shocking setback: their venue, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando, abruptly canceled, citing security threats. Devastated, the Davids scrambled to...
by Norah D'Cruze | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured, Immigration, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON– As Illinois and the Midwest’s first Latina congresswoman, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said she feels a responsibility to uplift immigrant communities like those she came from. This has meant protesting President Donald Trump and his administration’s attack...
by Samanta Habashy | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Despite the Trump administration’s threats to withhold funding, four Democratic mayors defended their cities’ sanctuary policies before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, New York City Mayor Eric Adams,...
