by Priyanka Godbole | Feb 14, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Ending a program that provides temporary legal immigration status for Salvadorans could have massive economic impacts on the U.S., immigration experts and advocates said Wednesday. “We have had a fruitful and very close relationship with the...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — “Dreamers” – the young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and now face deportation – have valuable skills and should be eligible to enlist in military service, three retired military officials said in a press conference call...
by Stavros Agorakis | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, SOTU2018
WASHINGTON — During his first State of the Union address, several of President Donald Trump’s remarks Tuesday were met with silence or lukewarm applause from Democrats. None of them appeared to divide the House chamber more, though, than his immigration reform...
by Syd Stone | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON—Young immigrants known as “dreamers” expressed their disappointment with the Senate Democrats’ actions to end the government shutdown Tuesday. Several dozen activists from Make the Road Pennsylvania and “dreamers” who receive protection...
by Erica Snow | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON—The number of anti-Muslim hate groups and crimes in the United States have increased dramatically in recent years, experts told reporters in a conference call. Organized by legal and educational group Muslim Advocates, the call highlighted the one-year...
by Caroline Vakil | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – A group of university presidents united with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called on Congress Wednesday to pass a bill to protect “dreamers” from imminent deportation with the expiration of temporary visas provided by the Obama...
by Paola de Varona & Rachel Frazin | Jan 16, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of “dreamers” and supporters swarmed a Senate office building Tuesday, blocking the doors to a number of the senators’ offices and occupying others as the chanted “Dream Act now” and demanded that Congress pass legislation this week to let them...
by Erica Snow | Jan 16, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — After the Senate bipartisan effort to protect “dreamers” from deportation became mired in accusations of racist remarks by the president, three House members said Tuesday they have a solution that would extend protections to the 700,000 young immigrants...
by Mila Jasper | Jan 16, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, National Security
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that she did not hear President Donald Trump call Haiti and African countries “shithole” or “shithouse” nations during a White House meeting last Thursday on an immigration deal....
by Jason Mast | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Little over two weeks after president-elect Donald Trump declared he would deport an unprecedented number of immigrants, the Supreme Court Wednesday hears oral arguments in a case that could limit the federal government’s ability to detain...
by Ross Krasner | Nov 28, 2016 | Featured, Immigration
There are over 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Here is one of their stories.
by Anna Waters | Oct 25, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the end of its first official visit to the United States, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said the United States should close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and end mandatory detention of asylum seekers, undocumented...
