NEW YORK — Two members of the U.S. bishops’ conference migration committee called on Congress to “stop kicking the can down the road” on immigration reform after a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that immigrants who receive Temporary Protected Status (TPS)…
Item 40 encourages federal lawmakers to pass legislation working to keep immigrant families together and provide a clear path to citizenship. AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin City Council passed a resolution in support of federal legislation on immigration reform at…
Rose Tilus was 17 when her family sent her from Haiti to live with a relative in Florida. Tilus’ parents feared for her safety because of political and civil unrest in Haiti at the time. She left behind four siblings.…
On June 7, 2021, a Supreme Court ruling found that many TPS holders are ineligible to apply for permanent residency. César Magaña Linares is a committed immigration activist, whether he’s attending rallies or in his law school classes studying to…
Prosecutors can now dismiss cases for immigrants who have been longtime green card holders, are pregnant or elderly, have a serious health condition, or have been in the US from a young age. After years of being told by the…
An immigration court system that swelled with fresh cases under former President Trump is threatening to stall a Biden administration determined to reform U.S. immigration. The number of migrants awaiting court hearings more than doubled under the Trump administration as…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits…
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday over whether the sheriff of metro Phoenix, like his predecessor Joe Arpaio, should face a contempt of court of hearing in a longstanding racial profiling case against the sheriff’s…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a rule used by the 9th Circuit Court in California that presumed immigrants seeking asylum were telling the truth unless an immigration judge had made an “explicit” finding that they were not credible.…
In unanimous decisions, the justices refused to suppress evidence found by a tribal officer and rejected a presumption in favor of immigrants’ credibility. WASHINGTON — In a pair of unanimous decisions, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that tribal police officers…
