I was born in L.A. but my mom is from Ecuador. She came here on a tourist visa, which she “absent-mindedly” let expire. I was just a toddler when, as she puts it, “two polite men in black suits” came…
A mobile fingerprinting app U.S. immigration agents use to run remote ID checks in the field has become a core tool in President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown, a pair of immigration rights groups say in a new report based on…
Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Latino chosen for President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet, will head a Department of Homeland Security that is expected to drastically overhaul President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, as well as put Mayorkas at the forefront of the…
Immigration lawyers call it the ”no-blank-space policy.” In 2019, the Trump administration imposed a rule requiring immigrants seeking asylum or other humanitarian relief to fill in every space on the application, even if the question doesn’t apply to them. If…
In his weekly Global Public Square ABC television program, Fareed Zakaria recently underlined the great contribution that immigrants have been making to America. After pointing out that the search for a new vaccine to defeat Covid-19 has been led by…
On the rare occasions that President-elect Joe Biden emerged from his basement into the daylight in the run-up to the election, he touted his roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden’s tone was along the lines of, “Hey, it’s me, plain old…
An official at the agency that oversees US immigration and naturalization services told employees not to communicate with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team until a Trump appointee “deems the results ‘clear’” and recognizes the winner, according to an internal email…
Everyone who lives in the Americas has immigrant ancestors, even if they wandered across the land bridge between Asia and North America during the Ice Age. Many among those of us who have European ancestors automatically think of Ellis Island…
US immigration officers are reportedly visiting the homes of H1B visas holders working remotely. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing much of the US workforce into remote working, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agents are making home visits to…
President Donald Trump ran his first presidential campaign on the promise to overhaul U.S. immigration, and for the most part, he kept that promise. Month after month, from the very start of Trump’s term, immigration policy changed rapidly, from the…
