This is a big week for Ozzie Vazquez, the young whiz kid and Chinatown resident who hit the books hard in both Mexico and Los Angeles. He is packing for college. “I leave Thursday,” said Ozzie, whose many years of…
During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. without exceeding the nation’s existing quotas. The primary mechanism that kept them out: the immigration law’s “likely to become a public charge” clause. Consular…
MIAMI — After finishing a particularly satisfying dinner at a Coral Gables restaurant with his wife, Pedro Martinez quietly slipped around to the back alley where the kitchen is. “Whatever you’re making, I’ll give you a raise,” Mr. Martinez whispered…
This month, the Trump White House unveiled a new policy it had aggressively pushed through the regulatory process that makes it much harder for low-income immigrants, especially those who had used public benefits, to come to or remain in the…
DONALD TRUMP launched his presidential campaign four summers ago by raising fears of criminals, drug dealers and “rapists” entering America “from all over South and Latin America”. Since inauguration day, cracking down on immigration has been one of Mr Trump’s…
The Trump administration’s top official for legal immigration said Thursday that former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is responsible for congressional inaction on immigration reform. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) acting Director Ken Cuccinelli blamed Ryan for not ensuring passage…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to “encourage” or “induce” immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional. KCUR-FM reports that U.S. District Judge…
An email sent from the Justice Department to all immigration court employees this week included a link to an article posted on a white nationalist website that “directly attacks sitting immigration judges with racial and ethnically tinged slurs,” according to…
From fiery protests outside detention centers in Texas, New Jersey and Rhode Island to a sit-in that blockaded an Amazon store in New York, a fledgling coalition of liberal Jewish groups is increasingly making itself heard as it fights the…
Teresa Galindo, 72, a native of Mexico, has lived in the U.S. without legal status for nearly 30 years. Like many other undocumented immigrants, one of the most painful aspects of her situation has been the inability to visit loved…
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