The benefits of the expanded child tax credit — which some experts have deemed the largest anti-poverty program in decades — will extend to certain unauthorized immigrants and their families. Starting Thursday, most U.S. families began receiving monthly payments from…
Immigrants rights groups were out in force demanding measures be included in President Joe Biden’s upcoming infrastructure bill. The United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world, according to 2020 data from the Pew Research Center.…
WASHINGTON—Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced an 18-month extension and re-designation of Somalia for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This extension and re-designation will be in effect from September 18, 2021, through March 17, 2023. “Through the extension…
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — In a packed camp for migrant families on Mexico’s side of the busiest U.S. border crossing, Nelson Membreño has lived through a chickenpox outbreak, people’s heavy drug use and night prowlers wielding knives. But he isn’t…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says requests for drivers’ personal data aren’t related to immigration enforcement. Experts worry that’s not true. As Mayra Raymundo drives to work each evening, she obsessively checks her rearview mirror. She’s terrified a cop will pull…
The news over the past months has been saturated with stories about another “surge” of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border of the U.S. In March 2021, the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended in the U.S. reached an all-time monthly…
On June 22, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in Behring Regional Center LLC v. Wolf, 20-cv-09263-JSC, vacated the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization Final Rule. While USCIS considers this decision, we will accept petitions…
Cases of COVID-19 are surging in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, as detainee populations have soared over the past few months. An analysis by The New York Times found that more than 7,500 cases have been detected since…
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A former senior U.S. Border Patrol agent is on a one-woman mission along the U.S.-Mexico border to dispel immigration myths. “You can actually have security on the border and also have a humane asylum,” Jenn…
A growing number of South American migrants and nationals from distant countries such as Romania have been arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. The U.S. government released an online tool…
