by Jenny Huh | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Amid Afghanistan’s growing humanitarian crisis, lawmakers are brainstorming ways to ensure humanitarian aid reaches the Afghan people, while not empowering the Taliban. “The worst case scenario of all would be if humanitarian aid were...
by Ali Bianco | Feb 2, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Three years ago in Iran, Marziyeh Ehtesab won the Diversity Visa lottery, a U.S. government program that grants recipients permanent U.S. residency. But after paying all the necessary fees and filing for a visa, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was...
by Ali Bianco | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — The merits of overhauling the U.S. immigration courts into an independent system, removed from the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, divided lawmakers and witnesses at a virtual hearing on Thursday. “Our country deserves an immigration court...
by Ali Bianco | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – After 394 days, President Biden earned praise for lowering interior deportation cases but criticism for failing to improve the humanitarian crisis on the southern border and reverse Trump-era policies, immigration experts and government officials said in...
by Jenny Huh | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured, Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – Lower financial literacy among Americans, especially those 65-and-older and those with disabilities, creates challenges for long-term money management, experts and nonprofit leaders told lawmakers on Thursday. “Seniors end up as greeters at Walmart when...
by Christina van Waasbergen | Dec 8, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has increased the threat to LGBTQ Afghans, according to several human rights groups who are urging the Biden administration to act quickly to allow more LGBTQ refugees from the country into the United States. Dire...
by Ali McCadden | Nov 16, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Republican senators grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, criticizing the department’s handling of migrants at the southern border as well as its handling of Afghan evacuees. Iowa Sen....
by Christina van Waasbergen | Nov 3, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the constitutionality of federal immigration bond proceedings in Maryland. In Miranda v. Garland, Marvin Dubon Miranda and two other men who had been held by federal immigration authorities in Maryland...
by Henry Rogers and Yiming Fu | Oct 28, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Two Maryland candidates for public office were among 30 demonstrators arrested outside the Capitol building Wednesday as hundreds rallied to demand that Congress pass the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan with provisions including...
by Ali McCadden | Oct 21, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — In a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, leaders from humanitarian nonprofits and resettlement agencies asked the House Homeland Security Committee to pressure the Biden administration to do more to help resettle evacuated Afghans into U.S....
by Ali McCadden | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Gabriel Madison began advocating for immigration reform a few years ago in support of a friend who is undocumented. On Thursday, as part of a demonstration in front of the White House, he and 50 other protesters — in a heightened display of communal...
by Ali McCadden and Mikayla Denault | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Activists and progressive Democrats including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush protested on the Capitol lawn Thursday, demanding that Congress include immigration reform in the $3.5 trillion social spending bill and connect it to the $1...
